Health and safety joymongers strike again...

Students celebrating graduation have been told they can't follow the tradition of throwing their hats in the air because someone may get hurt.

Anglia Ruskin University, which has campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford, Essex, said the corner of the mortar board may hit someone as it falls.

University officials are making the request in a statement on the university's website.

Metro, today

So... When d'ya reckon we'll read the first story about the bride banned from throwing her bouquet, in case it impales a poor single girl - possibly through the heart - before she has a chance to find true love?

Actually, that would be quite funny - I'd love to read that story...