Shifting sands: who needs oil when you can make £400 selling sand? These arabs, more usually members of Port Talbot Rotoract Club, were undeterred when they could not obtain a licence to collect in the street for The Mumbles lifeboat appeal.

Given permission to sell something, they ordered five tons of sand and sold it in children's buckets to passersby for unspecified amounts.

Purchasers deposited their merchandise into the back of a lorry and by the end of the day the sand bank had produced a tidy profit..