BBC dig out Sooty and Sweep for World’s Most Dangerous Locations road trip

In its desperation to combine celebrities with overseas road trips, the BBC have announced children’s favourites Sooty and Sweep will feature in a new six part series, filmed in some of the world’s most dangerous locations.

Whether it’s cooking up a mess in a Guatemalan meth lab, or trying their hand at a drive-by water pistol shooting in Mexico, the game-for-a-laugh pensioners certainly threw themselves into the adventure.

When asked what they enjoyed most, Sweep confirmed it was definitely looking for sausages in Gaza. On the other hand, Sooty found Somalia an eye opener after whipping out his wand in Mogadishu and waving it about. Sadly, “Izzy whizzy let’s get busy” didn’t work its magic as it used to, and the British Embassy had to help the little scamp out of jail.

Both furry friends agreed that Belarus was definitely one to visit and somewhere they felt right at home in a puppet state, while things didn’t go quite as smoothly in Afghanistan where the art of the custard pie in the face was lost on the Taliban. Sweep explained they had to escape in a car hidden in the glove compartment.

If this series proves popular with viewers the Beeb have more former children’s entertainers lined up for overseas jollies, with Muffin the Mule tackling U.S. Customs, and Bill and Ben chasing Weed in Canada.

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Supervet Storm: 'Your cat craps in your neighbour's garden deliberately.'

TV Supervet, Sean Flaherty, has ruffled the fur of the nation's cat lovers by insisting their beloved moggies are 'sly, sneaky, self-centred little feckers that love to shit in your neighbour's flowerbeds just for the craic.'

'Cats are genetically programmed with an inbuilt sense of malice,' explains Flaherty, 'only responding to humans when their owners stand banging a can of cat food with a spoon, shouting the cat’s name in some stupid high-pitched voice they imagine is endearing.

'But once they have eaten the food, with no more to gain by even so much as acknowledging anyone’s existence, they pull the drawbridge up. Arrogant bastards. That's what they are.

'They fully understand the minefield of inter-neighbour politics and really get off on upsetting this dynamic by never shitting on their own doorsteps, but by doing their business on next door's instead.'

We spoke to Tiddles, one malicious moggy who purred, 'I love the buzz of getting my owner into trouble, by pissing in anyone else's garden but his, for example.

'Last week I caused quite a scene when he came out shouting the odds at the new next-door neighbour who had tried to shoot me with a BB gun after I shat all over then dug up his prize geraniums.

'How was I to know the neighbour is a professional wrestler and would end up knocking seven bells out of my poor ickle-wickle owner?'

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