A Dutch town has officially opened a 'silly walks' road crossing, in honour of a classic sketch from the 1970s BBC comedy programme Monty Python's Flying Circus. Spijkenisse near Rotterdam has ...

They'll peck the ground, have a mud bath, go to the toilet or just sit there. Monty Python's "silly Olympics" sketch featured a chicken race "The crowd go wild if they run... It's just dead good fun." ...