And finally… batty

The advert from outdoor equipment firm Boating Camping Fishing store (BCF) has been viewed more than 250,000 times on YouTube.

In it, a man jokes that the pandemic was caused by someone eating a bat.

While early COVID-19 cases emerged from a live animal market in Wuhan, China, there has been no definitive proof it was how the virus originated and spread.

A spokesman for the Advertising Standards Bureau told the BBC: “Ad Standards has received a number of complaints about the BCF summer campaign commercial and is in the process of assessing these complaints to see if they raise an issue.”