DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same plastic tab.

"Meet Clackers the class bear, Gabriel’s got him for the weekend,” said my friend Amanda, as we trudged up the hill to the Iron Age fort with the kids early on Sunday morning. Ah, I thought, that ...

Grim findings surface after a clackers safety test conducted by British publication, "Which? Magazine," in 1971 evaluated the toy's components based on American safety standards. In recent months, ...

Ah, the early 1970s. A time when cars may or may not have had seat belts, and there were certainly no car seats for the little ones to ride safely. A time when one of the hottest toys were the ...

Modern kids: you can keep your Pokémon, your wi-fi devices and your 'video' games. Back in the day all they had were Clackers. Good, old-fashioned, potentially deadly Clackers. This clip is from ...

PESHAWAR: A new fast spreading clacker balls game, posing serious threat to children’s lives, has alerted rights activists and parents as almost every nook and cranny is found with the cracking sounds ...

We officially started watching Christmas films this weekend gone (alright, three weekends ago). One of them was the hilariously awful Jingle All the Way, starring Schwarzenegger, Sinbad (the comedian, ...

Thur 25 Sept 2.45pm • Clackers involved two balls on a string and were later taken off the market for safety reasons. Our reporter Ken Rees had a look at the appeal of the toy.