April fools of 2022: Gareth Bale Bridge and the hunt for the wild haggis

From Sunday roast spaghetti to royal superyachts, the highs and lows of this year's UK bandwagon of deception

For most people April Fools' Day is either a bright spot in grim times, or a tedious parade of poor jokes we could all do without, with nothing in between. With a pandemic and a global focus on conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, judging the tone of a decent April Fools' gag has become much harder for companies, and even more so for news organisations battling a rising tide of disinformation on social media.

For the Telegraph, the big news on April Fools' Day was a plan by the England and Wales cricket board to drop the dreary and unsuccessful England men's cricket team defeated in the West Indies and replace them wholesale with Heather Knight's World Cup finalists.