Hopscotch named top playground game ever

Hopscotch has been named the greatest playground game of all, by people who are too old to play it.

The simple game – in which players hop between chalk squares – was voted top in a poll of over 3,000 UK adults.

Hopscotch, which has originates from Roman military training exercises beat off competition from Hide and Seek, Conkers and British Bulldog.

Other popular pick included, Kiss Chase, Skipping, Chinese Whispers and What’s the Time Mr Wolf?

Asked if they still played hopscotch at school, one child said: “I don’t, but I think my friend has got in on the Nintendo Wii.”

56-year-old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.

Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean — a dream she’d had since the early 1960s, when a stormy trans-Atlantic flight got her thinking she could don a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.

The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa’s western coast on Jan. 12, swimming 19 out of 25 days battling waves of up to 30 feet. The distance from Cape Verde to Trinidad is roughly 700 miles. Crewmembers are still computing exactly how many miles she swam.

The original plan was for her to swim to the Bahamas — a distance of about 2,100 miles (3,380 miles) — but inclement forced them to change their plans and she arrived at Trinidad on Feb. 5. She now plans to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands, ending her odyssey at the Bitter End Yacht Club in late February.

Her journey comes a decade after French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo trans-Atlantic swim, covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days. No woman on record has made the crossing.