The 27-year-old Kilkenny local scooped the prize, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend the Oscars in Los Angeles in March.  

‘I was taken by surprise when I was told I’d won,’ Mr Glendon told the Sun.

‘There’s been a lot of debate since about whether I look like him. But someone thought I did, so I’ll take the good with the bad.’

But his physical likeness to the Clooney has been called into question by some on Mr Glendon’s local newspaper website the Kilkenny People.

One commenter wrote: ‘What criteria was used? Possibly just one? That he be male and have hair?’

Another, slightly cruelly, said: ‘Who judged this? Stevie Wonder?’

The thug, from Peckham, initially denied setting fire to the premises. But officers arrested him at his home, not far from the scene, on October 24 after sifting through hours of CCTV footage.

Acting Detective Sergeant Jim Woods, from Southwark Police, said: “You can see on the video that he is cross-eyed. It was one of the strands I used to identify him.”

Burls at first denied arson but changed his plea to guilty at Inner London Crown Court on Monday after police found evidence to prove an alibi was false. No further details were tendered.

Burls, who was remanded to remain in Brixton Prison, will be sentenced to two counts of “arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered” and a further charge of burglary.

Another two counts of burglary are to lie on file. He will be sentenced later this month.

Southwark Council are understood to be pursuing moves to have him evicted from his flat. A spokesman for the council has not commented.

Peckham was one of the worst hit areas during last year’s riots as hundreds of youths ran through the high street wrecking shops, starting fires and pelting police officers with missiles. Tens of millions of pounds damage was caused by rioters.

But critics stated many household names given contracts because of their British heritage had wasted the chance to showcase local craftsmanship.

A spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses told the newspaper: “This was the perfect opportunity to champion the country’s manufacturing industry and show off the ideal of British and it has been thrown away.

“We have expertise across the UK in every area of manufacturing, from T-shirts to toys, which could have been utilised.

“At a time when the economy is suffering, this would have been a very welcome boost. It is bitterly disappointing.”

On Friday night a Locog spokesman dismissed the claims, which have reported before, insisting that the majority of licensees were “British companies”.

“In the licensing and manufacturing industry, many products supplied and sold by British companies are made overseas,” he stated in a statement.

“90 per cent of our licensees are British companies and those which aren’t UK companies all have UK offices, employing UK staff.

“All London 2012 products have their design, development and creative work done in the UK and as a result of winning these licenses, companies are employing more staff in the UK.”

In 2010, when the similar claims were raised, Lord Coe, the London 2012 Chairman said: “Where it is at all possible to procure British manufacturing, we will.

“Those licencees, where they have a domestic output potential – we will encourage that.”

The economy brand card in green and brown costs just 7p but features a most unromantic ‘Smart Price’ logo from seller Asda. As if to make up for that detail, the words ‘Be My Valentine’ feature on the front, and the ‘Smart Price’ logo is inside a heart shape.

The amazingly low price means that those with more than one special someone in their lives can send six of the cards for the price of a first class stamp.

But the cut-price cards proved a huge hit on world wide web forum hotukdeals.com, where one user wrote: ‘I think it should come with a warning on the packet – guaranteed to get you a quickie divorce.’

Another user wrote: ‘Excellent, now purchase myself as many as I like – never get any! Best begin practicing writing left-handed!’

This is not Asda’s first foray into bargain items, with the supermarket chain coming under fire for selling Budweiser at just 50p a bottle, and whole wild salmon for a snip at £3 each

The retired pharmacist then opted to get the lard tested by food safety experts due to the debate over expiry dates and decided to tuck in after it was given the all clear.

Frerk Feldhusen, a food expert, stated that the lard would be tasteless and hard to dissolve, but essentially ok to eat.

‘All in all, given its level of freshness and its material composition, the product is assessed as satisfactory,’ he told the AFP.

The tin of Swift’s Bland Lard did not have an expiry date and Mr Feldhusen stated he hopes the story makes people think about throwing food away simply because the date on the label states it has expired.

When questioned about why he had kept the lard so long, Mr Feldmeier told reporters that he ‘just did not want to throw it away’.

Recent data from the European parliament showed that food waste in the EU amounts to around 89 million tonnes a year.

He calmly swats the balls back at his father and trainer, pausing only to regain his Zen-like composure.

On 44 seconds he displays a wholly unconventional backhand before gleefully launching into a series of powerful smashes aimed straight at his dad.

In fact so efficient is Jamie in his Forrest Gump-esque whiff waff skills that his father has to refill the box of table tennis balls half-way through.

While most of the praise on-line has understandably been reserved for Jamie, one commenter on YouTube remarked on his father, saying ‘that is an awesome dad’.

Jamie’s father may have his work out however in coaching him to greatness, however; since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988 Chinese athletes have dominated, winning 20 out of 24 gold medals available.

US Federal Aviation officals later confirmed the bright light was a meteor

The light was seen by witnesses in Texas and, to the north, in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas.

A meteor is a particle broken off from an asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun that burns up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere, creating the effect of a “shooting star”.

One quipped: “Hilarious, Norfolk the new London”. Another wrote: “Special relationship? CNN thinks London is in Norfolk…”

Nikki Godden, posted the image on her Facebook page, with the phrase: “I am truly speechless”.

In a message posted on its official twitter feed, CNN executives stated an inquiry had been launched to pin-point how the gaffe occurred.

“#CNN apologises for a map error which shifted London from its correct location! We have corrected this & are looking into how this occurred,” it read.

Matthew Chance, CNN’s senior international correspondent, who was delivering the news added in Twitter: “We’ve corrected it and are looking into how it happened.”

It is not the first time such blunders have been made by US networks. CNN placed Cannes in north-west Spain last November when it broadcast a story about the G20 summit in the French-Riveria.

A few weeks ago Fox News managed to delete Croatia completely from its map of Europe.

The U.S National Assessment of Education Progress recently found that only one in four American schoolchildren were “proficient” in geography.

A similar survey found one in 10 young people aged between 18 and 24 could not find America on a map with half being able to find New York.

The video ends with Lola hugging her mom in a photograph taken when she had full-length hair and a message urging viewers to donate to cancer charities.

Mrs Duncan, who was diagnosed with the illness in September last year, said: “Your hair is your identity.

“I went from having lots, to a bob, and when I started to slowly lose it I relied on Craig [her husband] and the kids to tell me when it needed to go. For a while they stated ‘no mum it’s ok’, but then Craig told me it was time.

“Lola slicing my hair off was very cathartic. We were both laughing. We made it into a happy, giggly positive thing.

“After it had completed it was sheer relief – one it was a decision made, and also it was not as bad as I thought and the dread was over. All my friends stated really positive things, giving me confidence.”

Mr Duncan, 40, added: “They were both laughing because Lola stated ‘you are going to look like daddy when I am completed – two baldies’.

Mrs Duncan, a breast feeding support worker at Tameside Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, first felt a hard, pea-sized lump in her left breast in July last year.

She visited her GP who referred her to the hospital for a mammogram and a biopsy and she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The couple, who have six kids – Lola, six, Finn, nine, 16-year-old twins Charlie and Rory, Jake, 18, and Oli, 22 – decided to be open with their kids about her condition.

Mr Duncan said: “The natural reaction is to burst into tears but having got over the initial shock you have got to focus and be positive. Sara has smiled her way through it all and the biggest thing that is kept her going are the children.

“They are the reason to get up in the morning and keep fighting. The hardest thing to do was tell them.

“We’ve kept nothing a secret. That way it’s become part of their lives and they comprehend it a bit better.”

Mrs Duncan had a mastectomy on her left breast in October and also a reduction on her right breast. She began losing her hair after beginning chemotherapy in December.

As her hair became thinner, Mrs Duncan resolved to cut it off and asked Lola if she would be willing to help.

Mrs Duncan, who has a degree in photography, set up the shoot, while her husband, a former sound engineer and producer, filmed the sequence.

Mr Duncan, an IT manager at a primary school, said: “She wanted to keep this moment – to her it was a very special moment. It had been a big anxiety eating away at her.

“After it was done Sara was bouncing all over the place. She stated she felt exhilarated.’All the anxiety about losing it had gone.

“I put it all together and realised the impact it could have. It’s a very personal moment and it was very brave of Sara to let it go but we thought we might be able to do some good with it so put it on You Tube.

“We were trying to help Lola comprehend what it all means. At first it was difficult for her to watch the video without getting upset but she now knows it’s for a good cause.”

The family hope to raise £100,000 for ten different cancer charities, including the Macmillan Cancer Support, Breast Cancer Care, The Blossom Appeal, Cancer Research UK and The Christie hospital, where Sara is currently undergoing treatment.

Mrs Duncan is now half way through her chemotherapy and is due to undergo three weeks of daily radiotherapy, followed by five years of hormone treatment.

Star player Alexander Radulov whacks the face of his goal coach Ilari Nackel during a Kontinental Hockey League match

IT'S what you've always dreamed of doing to your boss.

A player from Russia’s notoriously pugnacious ice hockey league did not take too kindly to being sidelined, and unleashed the fury in the most unimaginable way.

The most surprising bit? The coach’s reaction.

Unsurprisingly, Alexander Radulov is on the look-out for a new job.