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Bookie offers odds on UK shark find

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 28 December, 2006 : - - A bookmaker is offering odds of 25-1 that a great white shark will be caught off Britain's shores in 2007. Totesport, which has come up with a series of `global warming wagers', is also offering odds of 50-1 that the Thames Barrier will be breached in London over the next decade. And the company is offering odds of 4-1 that 2007 will be the hottest on record.

Totesport's Damian Walker said: "Global warming has led to so many long-standing weather records being broken and we've been inundated with requests for unusual weather bets for 2007. "We've taken professional advice and the experts believe the possibility of a great white being caught off the shores of Britain is not as far fetched as it first sounds. "In the summer of 2003, the National Geographic reported a credible sighting of a great white shark off the coast of Devon."

The bookmaker is also offering odds of 7-1 that 2007 will be the wettest year since records began in 1659, 16-1 that it will be coldest year ever and 7-1 that the hottest temperature ever recorded - 38.5 Celsius in Faversham, Kent on August 10, 2003 - will be beaten next year. People can also place their bets on any month to be the hottest, coldest, driest or wettest on record.

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Source - Evening News

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