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The plan was simple.

Inspired by Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets, a Scottish craft brewer ordered a batch of "golden beer cans", and hid them in cases of beer to be sent around the UK.

James Watt, CEO of craft-beer company BrewDog, advertised the prizes as "solid gold cans" and hoped to wow customers with the eccentric offer.

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But when the winners got their hands on the golden cans, some were disappointed to discover the cans were only gold-plated – and worth significantly less than they thought.

To settle complaints from some of the unhappy winners that followed, the craft-brewer was forced to pay out $828,000, and was slapped with sanctions by the UK's advertising agency over the misleading promotion.

Watt has since owned up to the expensive blunder and admitted, "I got so carried away in the excitement of the project that I made some costly mistakes".

"I falsely thought the cans were made from solid gold when they were indeed only gold plated," he said.

In a Linkedin post, the Scottish businessman explained how he tried to recover from the scandal that followed.

"I got in touch with all 50 winners and let them know that if they were unhappy with their prize I would personally offer them the full cash amount as an alternative," Watt said.

Additionally, Watt promised to fund this himself so his business did not have to suffer financially from the mistake.

"All in all, it ended up costing me around £470,000 ($828,000) – well over two and a half years salary," he wrote.

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It's not the first viral-marketing stunt from the craft beer company.

Brewdog made headlines in 2022 for their protest against human rights abuses in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA world cup.

Proceeds from their promotional "Lost Lagers" line of beer were pledged towards fighting human rights abuses in the Middle Eastern country.

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However, the company attracted criticism and claims of hypocrisy, when it came to light that Brewdog beers were being sold and distributed in Qatar throughout the duration of the tournament. 

Defending his business decision, Watt argued: "if we are only prepared to accept ethical stances from businesses or individuals who have no conflicts, we'll be waiting forever."

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A former US military pilot has criticised an extradition bid as arbitrary and political, saying he was unfairly singled out.

Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, has been accused by the US government of providing military training to pilots working for China.

Outside Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, his lawyer slammed the extradition bid as an arbitrary prosecution brought about at a time when the US administration had entered into a geopolitical contest with China.

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"He's clearly in our view been singled out in circumstances when the Department of Defence has admitted that it has known of many Australian citizens who have performed foreign services in other jurisdictions with foreign states of a military nature," solicitor Dennis Miralis said.

He questioned why Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus had chosen to accept the US's extradition request for this one pilot but had taken no action against others.

"We are concerned that this does highlight the political nature of what's occurring here," he said.

The pilot denies the allegations brought against him by the US and will fight the extradition process at every step of the way, his lawyer said.

"We have allegations and assertions which Mr Duggan contests and denies," Miralis said.

"It should be remembered that Mr Duggan is presumed to be innocent under US law.

"He's presumed to be innocent under Australian law."

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The 54-year-old was not eligible for surrender because of the political nature of his prosecution, Miralis said.

He said the conditions his client faced in Silverwater prison were inhumane and completely unacceptable as he had been designated as an extreme high risk inmate and placed with convicted felons.

"Mr Duggan remains under extraordinary stress as a result of the current restrictions imposed on him in custody," he said.

"Being placed in that type of environment naturally and logically creates an immediate risk to all persons in custody and of course this is something that weighs on him."

As well as the psychological consequences that his jail time had wrought, the former pilot also was concerned for his family, Miralis said.

"Mr Duggan in particular has expressed his grave concern about the ongoing impact this will have on his family, in particular his six children who he has not been able to see since he was taken into custody on the 21st of October last year."

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Dreyfus approved the US extradition request on December 22.

The case will now proceed through the Local Courts where a magistrate will decide whether Duggan is eligible for extradition.

It will then be up to the attorney-general to make the final call.

Miralis said that he continued to talk with the attorney-general through open lines of communication, was co-operating fully with the Inspector General of Intelligence, and was conducting his own investigation.

"We will continue to engage on all fronts in order to protect Mr Duggan's legitimate interests and to ensure that his rights are properly observed and protected during this process."

In court earlier on Tuesday, the US's lawyer Trent Glover said the US was ready to set a hearing but agreed to give Duggan more time.

The case will next come before the court on February 13.

Two horses have been recaptured after escaping from the Magic Millions beach race on the Gold Coast.

The cheeky thoroughbreds took to the streets of Surfers Paradise for about 20 minutes as onlookers watched on.

At least 10 people tried to capture the horses, which travelled about 10 kilometres up the Gold Coast Highway.

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No one was injured and the horses were quickly retrieved.

Hundreds of people gathered on Surfers Paradise beach this morning to watch the barrier draw unfold.

This is ahead of the annual race day at the Gold Coast Turf Club this weekend.

Prince Harry has added to his allegations about British royals in his memoir Spare, setting the stage for an explosive week for the estranged family as they navigate his highly publicised disclosures.

The Duke of Sussex has also spoken about his disdain for the British press; his anger over the treatment of his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and the subsequent fallout with his family since their marriage, in two interviews with British and US networks ITV and CBS.

In the novel, Prince Harry has issued his account of the text exchange fight that took place between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton in the lead up to his wedding.

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He has said the highly-publicised upset stemmed from an issue over Princess Charlotte's ill-fitting flower girl dress.

Harry says Meghan received a blunt message from Kate asking that the flower girl dresses be entirely re-made, while Meghan was in the midst of a fight with her father, Thomas Markle.

"Charlotte's dress is too big, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on at home," Kate's first message allegedly read.

"Right, and I told you the tailor has been standing by since 8am,'' Meghan allegedly replied. "Here, at KP. Can you take Charlotte to have it altered, as the other mums are doing."

Kate allegedly responded: "No, all the dresses need to be remade", to which Meghan said, "I'm not sure what else to say. If the dress doesn't fit then please take Charlotte to see Ajay. He's been waiting all day."

Kate responded with: "fine", according to the messages in Harry's book.

"Meg didn't reply to Kate straight away. Yes, she had endless wedding-related texts, but mostly she was dealing with the chaos surrounding her father. So the next morning she texted Kate that our tailor was standing by," he wrote.

"Meg asked if Kate was aware of what was going on right now. With her father. Kate said she was well aware, but the dresses. And the wedding is in four days!"

Harry said the conflict had left Meghan on the floor "sobbing" just days before their royal wedding.

He said he was "horrified" at Meghan's response but said the argument was cleared up when Kate arrived the next day with flowers and an apology.

Camilla, Queen Consort accused of leaking stories to the media

Speaking to CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview to promote his book, Prince Harry accused Camilla, Queen Consort, of leaking stories about the family to the British media as part of her campaign to "rehabilitate her image."

His mother Diana famously referred to Camilla as the third person in her marriage to then-Prince Charles.

He said he hadn't spoken with his brother, Prince William, and his father, King Charles III, for "a while," adding the "ball is very much in their court" when asked about the possibility of a reconciliation.

In a subsequent interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" broadcast on Monday, Harry also shared that it's been "a long time" since he's spoken to his stepmother.

"I love every member of my family, despite the differences, so when I see her, we're perfectly pleasant with each other," he said. "She's my stepmother. I don't look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image, for her own sake."

Buckingham Palace has repeatedly declined to comment on the contents of Prince Harry's forthcoming memoir, which has been the subject of leaks detailing some of his most controversial claims.

Prince Harry and Camilla, Queen Consort

Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, who also appears as a regular correspondent on CBS' 60 Minutes, Prince Harry said both he and his brother, Prince William, had asked the King not to marry Camilla.

"We didn't think it was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that – surely that's enough."

But he said the brothers eventually came around to the idea: "We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her."

However, the Duke of Sussex added that Camilla was "dangerous" because she'd been cast as a "villain" by the press for her role in the collapse of his parents' marriage and needed to "rehabilitate her image."

"That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information.

And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen Consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that," Prince Harry said.

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The CBS interview included a reference to Harry's memoir when he reportedly wrote about being "sacrificed" on Camilla's "personal P.R. altar."

By way of explanation, the duke told Cooper: "If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that's what you're gonna do. "

Camilla married then Prince Charles in 2005, eight years after the death of his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales.

The two had been involved romantically on and off for decades, and Diana had once famously referred to Camilla as the third person in their marriage.

Prince Harry's relationship with the Palace and the British press

In the interview and in excerpts from his memoir shared by ITV, the Duke of Sussex referred to the British press as an "antagonist" that wanted to "create as much conflict as possible."

"The saddest part of that is certain members of my family and the people that work for them are complicit in that conflict," he added.

He stated that the "leaking" and "planting" of "a royal source" to the press "is not an unknown person, it is the palace specifically briefing the press, but covering their tracks by being unnamed."

Prince Harry added that he thinks "that's pretty shocking to people. Especially when you realise how many palace sources, palace insiders, senior palace officials, how many quotes are being attributed to those people, some of the most heinous, horrible things have been said about me and my wife, completely condoned by the palace because it's coming from the palace, and those journalists have literally been spoon-fed that narrative without ever coming to us, without ever seeing or questioning the other side."

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Prince Harry echoed those sentiments with CBS' Cooper, adding even at the young age of 12, he felt resentment toward the British media.

"It was obvious to us as kids the British press' part in our mother's misery and I had a lot of anger inside of me that luckily, I never expressed to anybody," he said.

"But I resorted to drinking heavily. Because I wanted to numb the feeling, or I wanted to distract myself from how… whatever I was thinking. And I would, you know, resort to drugs as well."

Prince Harry's grief after his mother's death

In both interviews, Prince Harry spoke about how his mother was hunted by paparazzi, recalling the traumatic night his father told him Princess Diana had died from injuries sustained in a car crash.

"I really think about how many hours he'd been awake. And the compassion that I have for him, as a parent having to sit with that for many, many hours, ringing up friends of his, trying to work out, how the hell do I break this to my two sons?"

Harry said he never wants to find himself having to do the same.

"I don't want history to repeat itself. I do not want to be a single dad. And I certainly don't want my children to have a life without a mother or a father," Prince Harry told ITV's Bradby.

Diana was killed in 1997, when the car she was traveling in crashed inside a Paris tunnel. Prince Harry was 12 years old at the time.

He told Cooper his memories of the days that followed are blurry, but recalls seeing the throng of people outside Buckingham Palace who came to offer their condolences.

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"I think it's bizarre, because I see William and me smiling," he said. "I remember the guilt that I felt … The fact that the people that we were meeting were showing more emotion than we were showing, maybe more emotion than we even felt."

Prince Harry told Cooper he "refused to accept she was gone" and for "many years" believed she had decided to disappear.

The Duke of Sussex said he only cried once his mother's coffin went into the ground. "That was the first time that I actually cried… there was never another time," he said.

The Queen's death

Prince Harry also recalled the events around the death of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle. The duke was at a charity event in London when the palace announced that the Queen was under medical supervision.

"I asked my brother — I said, "What are your plans? How are you and Kate getting up there?" And then, a couple of hours later… all of the family members that live within the Windsor and Ascot area were jumping on a plane together, a plane with 12, 14, maybe 16 seats," he said. "I was not invited."

He recalled spending time with the Queen in her bedroom after she had died.

"I was really happy for her. Because she'd finished life. She'd completed life, and her husband was waiting for her. And the two of them are buried together," Prince Harry said.

Prince Harry and Prince William's relationship

Despite the fractured relationship between the two brothers, Prince Harry told Cooper he loved William "deeply."

"My brother and I love each other. I love him deeply," the Duke of Sussex said. "There has been a lot of pain between the two of us, especially the last six years."

He added that nothing he has written is "ever intended to hurt my family."

"But it does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up, and also squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers," Prince Harry said.

The book's title of "Spare" is a reference to an "heir and a spare," a saying in the United Kingdom that refers to the need to have a child to inherit an aristocratic title. Harry was next in line to the British throne after William until William's children were born — now he's fifth in the line of succession.

The strained relationship between the brothers has been a common theme in leaked excerpts from the book and Harry's media interviews, which revealed deep divisions between the siblings.

Perhaps the most incendiary revelation to emerge was Prince Harry's claim of a scuffle with the Prince of Wales during an argument over his wife in 2019, as he described while reading in an excerpt of his memoir on ITV on Sunday.

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Prince Harry said his brother never tried to dissuade him from marrying Meghan, but expressed some concerns and told him, "'This is going be really hard for you,'" Prince Harry recalled during his interview with Bradby.

"I still to this day don't truly understand which part of what he was talking about," Prince Harry continued. "Maybe he predicted what the British press's reaction was going to be."

The decision to write the book and the family fallout

The Duke of Sussex also told ITV's Bradby about his decision to write the book, saying, "38 years of having my story told by so many different people, with intentional spin and distortion felt like a good time to tell own my story and be able to tell it for myself. I'm actually really grateful that I've had the opportunity to tell my story because it's my story to tell."

Prince Harry pointed out that he has tried over the last six years to resolve his concerns with his family privately.

"It never needed to get to this point. I have had conversations, I have written letters, I have written emails, and everything is just, 'No, you, this is not what's happening. You, you are imagining it,'" he said.

"That's really hard to take. And if it had stopped, by the point that I fled my home country with my wife and my son fearing for our lives, then maybe this would have turned out differently. It's hard."

The duke said he wants "reconciliation but first there needs to be some accountability," with respect to his family.

Prince Harry has previously blamed the constant media intrusion as a critical stressor for him and his wife that ultimately led to their decision to step down as working members of the royal family in 2021.

In a six-part Netflix documentary released last month, the couple said press attacks, the lack of action from the palace to prevent them and the couple's increasing suspicions that the royal household was actually feeding the media pushed Meghan to a dark place.

"You can't just continue to say to me that I'm delusional and paranoid when all the evidence is stacked up, because I was genuinely terrified about what is going to happen to me," Prince Harry told ITV's Bradby.

"And then we have a 12-month transition period and everyone doubles down. My wife shares her experience. And instead of backing off, both the institution and the tabloid media in the UK, both doubled down," he added.

Still, the duke said, "forgiveness is 100% a possibility."

"There's probably a lot of people who, after watching the documentary and reading the book, will go, how could you ever forgive your family for what they have done? People have already said that to me. And I said forgiveness is 100% a possibility because I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back. At the moment, I don't recognize them, as much as they probably don't recognise me," Prince Harry said.

On Monday, the duke's interview with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan will air on the ABC show, followed in the evening by a half-hour special on ABC News Live.

And to top things off, the duke will make an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" after his book is released.

A boat full of New Zealand whale watchers were shocked to see a shark leap out of the water in front of them like a dolphin – and one of those on board managed to get the perfect shot.

Andrew Williams was on the Auckland Whale & Dolphin Safari on December 22 – a day before his wedding – when the boat pulled along Waiheke Island where bronze whaler sharks had been spotted.

The school of sharks were hanging around a small fishing boat, and everyone onboard was thrilled to get a close-up look.

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Williams had his iPhone poised – he didn't quite know what for – when all of a sudden one of the sharks leapt out of the water.

There was a sharp intake of breath, "and I just put my thumb on the photo button."

To his shock, after it was over, he glanced at his phone to realise he'd caught the shark mid-air.

The crew on the trip were marine scientists, and had never seen anything like it, explained Williams.

Some passengers on the boat initially thought it was a dolphin.

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Sharks sometimes breach to catch prey, most famously the great white shark – but it's rarely caught on camera because it happens without warning.

NIWA explains on its website "The bronze whaler is one of the largest reef shark species and one of the most abundant large shark species in New Zealand coastal waters."

"They are not normally aggressive towards humans, although spear fishers have been bitten by excited sharks. However, they are opportunistic eaters which mean that they will eat live or dead animal matter," the website explains.

Williams was also lucky enough to see two Bryde's whales in the distance, and two pods of dolphins.

"It was just a perfect day," he said.

Asked if it was the highlight of his trip, Williams laughed "I couldn't say that, because I got married to my partner the day after.

"It was the highlight of my life as an unmarried man," he said while chuckling.

While Williams – who lives in Bangkok – loved the boat trip, he also went white water rafting, zorbing, and sky diving and now can't wait to move to New Zealand later this year.

Asked if he has any advice for catching the perfect shot, Williams said his photo was "a total fluke", but he did have the patience to keep his camera focused on the fishing boat for a long time because he felt like he was "lined up for something."

This story originally appeared on Stuff and has been reproduced with permission.