Now you’d have thought that if you’d done anything as daft as this, that you would have admitted it – but no.

Surgeons at the ASWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL in the South of Egypt responding to a man suffering from abdominal pains, carried out an X-Ray only to discover that the cause of the man’s pain was a mobile phone, which he subsequently admitted to having swallowed 6 months earlier.

Apparently he had been too embarrassed to admit himself to hospital hoping perhaps to be relieved by a call of nature!

Wishful thinking indeed as he finally needed emergency life-saving treatment.

Mohamed El-Dahshoury, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aswan University Hospitals, said it was the first time they’d encountered such a case in which a patient had swallowed an entire phone.

There is no update on the man’s condition, but it’s believed he will make a full recovery.

It’s still unknown why or indeed how he managed to swallow an entire phone.

Maybe he just got fed up waiting to get through to a help line!

Later today we heard from Margaret Mills about a somewhat colourful Essex clergyman, who rejoiced in the name of HENRY BATE DUDLEY who lived for a time during the late 18th/early 19th century in Fambridge.

You can listen again here to what Margaret had to say about this “worthy”: –

Hope to catch you again next week,
Scott