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These black bears wasted no time clambering on to a swan pedalo when it appeared in their enclosure at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire.

The glory of 2019 is an outlier - a bright light in a dark tunnel of pedalo misadventures, shock defeats and general incompetence.

And Labour's shadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry posted pictures of her and her sister looking delighted to be on a pedalo in France.

At times like these tournament football can feel a bit like a doomed holiday romance, a World Cup group stage version of the broodingly handsome Spanish waiter who’ll take you for a pedalo ride, wave goodbye and never write, but who will remain forever a fond, cologne-drenched summer memory.

An Italian priest has upped the ante in his annual blessing of his local port and beach by taking to the waters with a statue of the Virgin Mary atop a pedalo.