Could you be breaking one of these bizarre and little known laws?
A light covering of snow over the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Parliament Square, London, England. The British legal system is a strange beast. Our laws have been formed of a patchwork of rules brought in bit by bit for the past 800 years.
Some seem bizarre because they haven't been updated for more than a century, while some are very new charges that catch people unawares.
We reveal seven of the strange laws that could catch you out when you're doing anything from household chores to commuting.
1. Defacing currency
A report from The Daily Mail this morning revealed that if you write, draw or scribble on any note, under the Currency and Bank Notes Act of 1928, you could be fined £1 a time. It's not exactly a rigorously-enforced rule, but might make people think twice ...