As runners prepared for tomorrow’s London Marathon, they were being warned that they will be named and shamed if they are beaten by someone wearing fancy dress. The Bugle understands that organisers have lost patience with overweight and unfit competitors lumbering around the course at a snails pace, and being overtaken by Gorilla’s, Pantomime

  The unseasonably hot weather finally took its toll yesterday as a pensioner was forced to leave the house without her overcoat. As the mercury touched 27 degrees centigrade, Gladys Watts, 85, from Rotherham took the unprecedented step of venturing outside without her full length Crombie,  gloves, and scarf. “Me homies at the bus stop