In the past 12 months an astonishing 75,000 teddy bears were forgotten at Travelodge’s 452 locations and their survey has found 51 per cent of Britons still own a childhood teddy bear and 25 per cent of blokes take one on holiday with them.

We find this hard to believe and think on a stag weekend you are more likely to find a creature of a blow-up variety than a teddy bear, but who are we to argue with Travelodge.

By Rob Hogley

If that wasn’t bad enough road and rail chaos is predicted as up to 52% of the population plan to make some kind of trip, many of whom will be heading abroad and those that haven’t will be wishing they had.

Travel organisation Abta said around 1.8 million Britons would leave the country between Friday and Monday.

The weekend is also exceptionally popular with stags ahead of Autumn weddings so expect the coastal resorts to be full up with lads deciding the best place to be on a wet day is in a bar and who could blame them.

By Rob Hogley

The suggestions are that millions of Brits are to take to the roads this weekend for a long weekend in the sun (if we are lucky) and a large number of these are sure to be stags, who will want to be doing lots more exciting things than sitting in a traffic jam.

Friday is predicted to be the busiest day on the roads, with one survey finding that a staggering 41% of 18-25 year olds say they have organised a day trip over the weekend.

The areas to avoid may possibly be Leeds and Reading where music festivals will be adding to the chaos on the motorways.

Esure’s Mike Pickard said: “Travel delays are standard fare for any bank holiday weekend but this week we’re facing a perfect storm for delays on the road. Millions will opt for the car and a large percentage will not prepare properly.”

Our advice is, well, to take a train as nobody wants to be driving on a stag weekend.

The groom was and Jack Sparthe bride was Marie Antoinette in what will make one of the strangest set of wedding pictures.

The collected guests included Popeye, the Wicked Witch of the West and SpongeBob SquarePants.

After Elliot McDonough was offered a job in Saudi Arabia he decided to merge his and his girlfriend Angela’s leaving do into a wedding to avoid difficulties in the religious Middle Eastern nation.

Angela explained: “Elmo was offered a job in Saudi Arabia, so we arranged a fancy dress leaving do.

“But then we found out, if we weren’t married, it would cause difficulties for us in Saudi, so we decided to tie the knot at the party – but kept it a secret.

“It was such a big surprise for our guests, but they loved it and really helped us have such a memorable party.”

By Paul Kelly

Hen and stag weekends in Blackpool have always been popular, but the Lancashire destination has seen an overall dip of visitors from 1998 and 2008 from about 13 million a year to 10 million.

However, Blackpool’s council has reported that following an increase in 2009 there has also been a surge in visitors this year with a particular rise in short stay visitors.

In June, Blackpool was named as the UK’s favourite seaside resort by consumer organisation Which?.

By Paul Kelly

However, a British researcher has been applying science to the myth in an attempt to make sense of it.

Professor Lewis Halsey tested the theory during a trips to a local pub near his office at Roehampton University – not a bad job eh.

Halsey and two colleagues interviewed students, some of whom had been drinking, some of whom were sober. They divided the group with a breathalyzer and tested them with a photo of the same person, but in one the picture had been slightly distorted to make the face less symmetrical.

Halsey found that as we drink, we lose our ability to perceive asymmetry, so as you get drunk you fail to see symmetrical imperfections.

“All people have some asymmetry,” said Halsey. “Therefore they’re all going to tend to look more symmetrical to people who are drunk, because they can’t see the asymmetry, and therefore they’re going to tend to look a little bit more attractive.”

Simple.

By Rob Hogley

Brand is due to marry US singer Katy Perry and his stag do has been the talk of the tabloids and gossip columns for many weeks with former Oasis frontman Noel one of the celebrities taking part in the secretive party.

He told Talksport radio: “I’ll be the token northerner. I have no idea who is going. I imagine me and him, his mate Matt, all the people that work for him and his comedian mates.”

Brand has earlier described his stag do as being a Robin Hood outdoors affair with white-water rafting and archery among the activities he will be getting involved in.

By Nancy Brown

Psychologists believe this is because people who take the mini-breaks have more happy memories than those who holiday for an extended period of time.

Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist, who teaches at Duke University in North Carolina, said: “On a long vacation, day seven is less good than day one because it’s not as exciting. That’s why in general, going away four times [a year] provides more benefit than you would expect, and going away for one week provides less benefit than you would expect.”

It is believed that your holiday enjoyment diminishes as you grow accustomed to your surroundings and this certainly would be the case if you were one a two week long stag do, while your liver would also be far from happy too.

Newspapers have reported that the Tottenham player paid over £800 for a fling with 19-year-old Algerian prostitute Monica Mint during the weekend away last month for a mate’s stag do.

The tabloids have since been speculating on what this will mean for his long-term releationship with stunner Abbey Clancey with reports the tall striker has been begging the model, who has fled to Spain to be with her mum, not to dump him.

At The Stag Company we can offer plenty more Madrid stag party ideas that won’t get you in trouble.

An air rescue crew called in to check on a suspicious vessel at sea discovered the lads, who drew attention to themselves with a cheeky wave at the chopper, were all found to have their choppers out.

However, unknown to the group from Bristol, who were on a stag weekend in Swansea, were also filmed by a BBC cameraman who happened to be on board following the rescue crew’s activities.

“A search and rescue Sea King helicopter was returning to base at RAF Chivenor, in Devon, when Swansea Coastguard asked it to check a suspicious boat,” an RAF spokesman said.

“As they approached they soon realised all the anglers aboard the vessel were completely naked.

“It transpired they were a stag party having a bit of fun in the ocean. They were running no risk – apart from catching a cold.

“They (the helicopter crew) were on their way back from another search and rescue mission and they were just asked to fly over this boat and let the coastguard know what was going on.

“I’m sure there were a few giggles going on in the cockpit at the time.”

The best man Nick Woore, 25, explained that there were no regrets: “What started off as a quiet fishing trip with a few beers turned into naked madness. It was one of the best fishing trips we have ever had and we have some very memorable moments.”