From Bay of Prigs to Sergeant de Pfepper: Newsbiscuit remembers the 1960s

1963. Fab groovy Tory party gears up for Swinging Sixties by picking 14th Earl of Home as leader.

1963. JFK assassinated by kook hiding in Dallas's famous kook depository.

1964. 19 years after WW2, name rationing finally ends, just in time for birth of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

1967. Harold Wilson devalues Monopoly pound to help struggling young couples get on Mayfair property ladder.

1967. Britain cautiously decriminalises homosexual acts "between consenting adults named Jeremy and Edward" Later extended to Raymonds and Jonathans.

1968. Robert Kennedy decides to get assassinated in desperate act of sibling rivalry.

1968. Private Trump returns from Vietnam, begins 50-year struggle to wash Agent Orange out of hair.

1969. Apollo 11 a disaster. Major jazz concert cancelled after Louis Armstrong sent to moon due to clerical error.

Cutting down from 7 bins? Where to throw the unused ones

After Rishi Sunak's announcement, a team of philosophers and dustmen are working on the best way to dispose of the unused bins.

A spokesman explained, 'As you know, before Sunak (BS) we had seven bins and these were used for metal, food, plastic, cardboard, clothing, government pledges and broken Brexit dreams.'

The government has released guidance suggesting that food and cardboard can be combined as by 2028 they'll be the same thing anyway, having clothing to recycle will be a distant dream, so that won't be necessary. Finally, the plastic bin should be put into itself for recycling.

KFC confuses Alabama city with bankrupt backwater metropolis

A branch of KFC in Birmingham, Alabama has egg on its face after showing pictures of Birmingham, Englandshire, in its restaurant.

Diners in the thriving Alabama city seemed amused by the confusion with its quaint European counterpart which became bankrupt after being obliged to pay its female serfs at the same rates as the male ones.

The company is looking into how the mistake happened and thinks its new AI restaurant décor system may need a few tweaks.