BBC Odd News

• Council replaces real Christmas tree with £14,000 fake
  A Dorset council replaces its traditional town centre fir Christmas tree with a £14,000 fake one.
• Jail boss scuppers freedom raffle
  A raffle prize of a day's freedom offered to prisoners at a Lancashire jail is withdrawn after the governor finds out about it.
• Jetman Africa-Europe flight fails
  A Swiss man fails in his attempt to become the first person to fly solo across the Strait of Gibraltar using a single jet-propelled wing.