Back for moreToday is the 10-day anniversary of our potentially ongoing series of goat news, so what better way to celebrate than by offering the chance to win a goat? Not that the Poorhouse has one, and moreover actually it's too late. Nonetheless had you been a) a bit earlier, and probably b) a bit better at rugby, you could have joined Scottish "stars" Chris Paterson and Marcus Di Rollo at a charitable rugby tournament - first prize being a herd of goats.

The Scots aren't the only ones to fancy a bit of goat. Last month saw the coronation of King Louis. Now, it's not what you're thinking, the French Sun King has not been reborn 300-odd years after saying his final goodbyes. Rather, Louis is a wild mountain boy-goat from Ireland's highest mountain, Carrauntoohill. As part of the Puck Fair (we said 'Puck' - although to be fair the festival is thought to have "fertility" connotations) a goat is regularly crowned as being the King of Ireland.

The goat then gets stuck up a 50-foot pole for a few days, from where he gets to rule over the townspeople of Killorglin's heads for an admittedly short period of three days. Incidentally, this is the same length-of-kinghood as humanoid King Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal had in 2001. Admittedly the latter was mortally wounded and comatose before he actually began his reign, following a drinking binge where he murdered half his family.

Moving from goat worshipping to tragic death stories. Don't worry, it's only a human being murdered this time - or is it? Now not only are goats to blame for a motorist's speeding, but now they cause man-to-man murder apparently.

Over in Lagos, Nigeria, a gentleman had an interesting excuse after being accused of hacking his dear brother to death with an axe in the nearby village of Isseluku.

Apparently a stack of rogue goats appeared to be invading his farm, and one in particular stridently stood there, infringing his personal liberty. He therefore took the still-rather-unacceptable option of attacking it with an axe. Imagine his shock when it apparently suddenly "magically" metamorphosed into his very own brother…but sadly a chopped-up-brother is apparently as dead as a chopped-up-goat - so the murder charge stays.

Today's news was of course bought to you by our regular goat correspondent Kat.