All-singing nappies to taxi-style toilets: the best April Fools pranks

In an era when legitimate news stories range from US officials adding a journalist to a group chat planning a war to a miniature dachshund running feral on an Australian island for 16 months, it is increasingly hard for media outlets to invent ridiculous but plausible hoax stories for April Fools' Day.

- Martin Belam

Nevertheless, the tradition persists, and brands have been more active than ever in leveraging the one day of the year when outlandish boasts about their products might raise a smile rather than ire.

The nappy brand Rascals claimed to be launching a new range that would play a jingle every time it sensed a tinkle of a different kind. Parents will be well aware that most humans already come equipped with a highly attuned detection system, in the shape of olfactory organs.

Birds Eye, meanwhile, offered to solve one of life's great mysteries - namely, what happens to the bits of potato discarded when making the holes in potato waffles? The answer: from 1 April, they became their own spin-off product, Potato Waffholes.