Wham, Bam, Thank-You, Clam

Scientists from Bangor University have discovered the world's oldest living animal; a 405 year old clam which they dredged up just off the coast of Iceland (nothing to do with the 405 year old fish fingers found in the Iceland car park). Unfortunately it did not survive the journey to the surface so was declared DOA.

Now, I kid you not, on the basis of this, Help the Aged have given the University a £40k grant to further research into longevity! So, coming to a retirement home near you, the Bangor University Longevity Research Team ~ they'll study how the older residents have managed to last for so long, then kill them.

As they say, you couldn't make it up!

Being in that area when the news broke, I had assumed that it was the Welsh Bangor, but perhaps it was the Irish one.

Ed.