A SLAP IN THE FACE IN THE STATES

In a bizarre new sports league, contestants take turns to slap one another as hard as they can across the face, sometimes completely flooring each other. For example, at a recent Las Vegas event Kortney Olson was walloped with such power by Sheena Bathory that Kortney could not remember what day of the week it was and had trouble getting up off the floor.

It’s a simple sport, but it has already attracted quite a lot of criticism from people within combat sports as well as neurologists. Chris Nowinski, who is an exwrestler and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, said that the footage emerging from the Power Slap League is ‘so sad’ and constitutes ‘pure exploitation’.

Tagging the company, he wrote: “You should be ashamed. Pure exploitation. What’s next, ‘Who can survive a stabbing?’”

MAN ‘SWALLOWED’ BY WHALE SPAT OUT WITHOUT A SINGLE SCRATCH

A man who got swallowed whole by a whale… didn’t.

Wildlife photographer Rainer Schimpf had been filming in the water off the South African coast and said that he hadn’t even realised he was being eaten until everything went dark around him.

Snorkelling in the sea just off Port Elizabeth Harbour, Schimpf ended up being gobbled up by a Bryde’s whale as he tried to capture the sardine run in all its glory. Fortunately he survived the whole thing without even so much as a scratch, but had the whale decided to dive down while he was still stuck inside its mouth he would most likely have died.

PAM GORDON Franchise Consultant at The Franchising Centre and Franchisee of Rise.Life

Pam has a background in finance and business development. After university she worked for four years for HSBC Asset Finance in business development and account management.

She began her franchising career over 20 years ago, with Carewatch Care Services, and grew the franchise network from 60 franchisees to 120 in just four years.

Since then, through a variety of roles and challenges, Pam has been able to apply all of her experience, skills and passion for franchising to provide advice to existing businesses as well as working with franchisors on franchisee recruitment strategy.

Allegra Chapman

Co-Creator of Watch This Sp_ce

Allegra Chapman is Co-Creator of Watch This Sp_ce, a multiaward-winning diversity and inclusion consultancy helping organisations to reimagine the world of work. They have helped a wide range of clients begin and make tangible progress on their inclusion journeys. Allegra is also a Trustee of Enterprise Junction, a charity supporting people facing additional barriers to start businesses, a campaigner for parent’s rights, a writer and mum to two young children.