Best-Sellers: Top 10 most unusual bets for 1994

1 Extra-terrestrial beings will take over Planet Earth on or before 18 Jan - 10,000/1

2 A Southend clairvoyant will lose six stone by 1 Feb - 25/1

3 Mr Blobby will be appointed England Manager during 1994 - 100,000/1

4 A three-month-old girl will win a National Beauty Contest by the age of 21 - 250/1

5 The Moa bird, presumed extinct, will appear in 1994 - 100/1

6 The Archbishop of Canterbury will confirm the Second Coming - 1000/1

7 A Worcester man will win a prize for childrens' literature before 2000 - 66/1

8 Michael Jackson and La Toya will be proved one and the same - 500/1

9 The Loch Ness Monster will turn up by September - 250/1

10 A Dorset woman will lose nine stone by 12 June - 50/1

Chart supplied by William Hill