I didn’t know the lion had a name, says dentist

THE US dentist who killed Cecil the lion has said he would not knowingly have targeted an animal with a name.

Fearless tooth fixer Walter Palmer said: “When the guides said that lion was called Cecil, my heart sank. I had very specifically asked for a nameless lion.

“Or if the lion must have a name, it could ask least have been ‘Fang’ or ‘Night Shadow’, rather than sounding like an old, friendly, gay music hall entertainer.

“I feel terrible now, whereas I would otherwise had felt justifiably heroic in getting some people to point at a completely oblivious animal, firing a crossbow at it and then giving them some cash.

“It’s a complex issue that few people understand, but that’s actually conservation.”

Palmer added that he had since cancelled a planned hunting trip, and would instead be paying $50k to slash the Mona Lisa with a carving knife.

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Dear Holly,

The past five years I was living a lie: constructing music out of tin foil, beef dripping and sometimes even my own faeces, just for the sake of making millions as a slave to the record label. But now I am free from 1D and all that fakery is behind me. Now I’m keeping it real on the bass clef. What I wanted to know was, should I be worried about a retrospective investigation by trading standards, and are the fans’ statutory rights affected in any way?

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