More random news than you can fit on a biscuit and dunk in your tea
A public toilet in Sheringham, Norfolk sold for £104,000 today, doubling the auction estimate. With property prices on the decline a loo with a view is clearly the thing to invest in. The Victorian convenience was overlooking the sea. The auctioneer clearly undervalued the demand for something interesting to look at
In today’s local news there were two seemingly unrelated horse stories. In Derbyshire Macdonald’s refused to serve a horse drawn carriage; claiming health and safety concerns. In other news in Liverpool a funeral was disrupted when a horse drawn hearse went out of control, injuring the horses’ handlers and damaging two
Or it could be in six months. Despite being a cutting edge news reporting organisation no-one told us that the world was due to come crashing to an end at 18:00 on Saturday. In point of fact the first we heard about it at 18:07 when we read the SaturdayGuardian. By
On the 11thof May 2011 the Daily Mail reported the brutal murder of Claude the Cockerel in the small North Yorkshire Village of Bishop Monkton. According to the Mail the brutal slaughter was preceded by a number of poison pen letters about the noise of Claude’s dawn chorus, and a hennapping.
On Saturday May 14ththe Guardian reported that “David Cameron’s adviser says health reform is a chance to make big profits”. The report asserts that one of the prime minister’s senior advisers suggests that the NHS could be significantly improved by charging patients for healthcare, in a kind of “state insurance”
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders are not just reserved for teenagers and old people who have their televisions too loud. In January this year Charlie the cockerel from Shropshire was issued with an ASBO when his early morning calls disrupted neighbours’ sleep. The latest member of the animal kingdom to be threatened with
On the 7thof May this year the BBC reported a fire at a potato factory in Norfolk. Ninety fire fighters worked to tackle the blaze which started at 18:00 hours on Friday. Although around fifty five people were working when the fire broke out, they were all successfully evacuated. No-one was
North Yorkshire Police are currently appealing for witnesses to an incident at the Sea Life Centre in Scarborough that occurred in the early hours of the morning on the 25th of April 2011. CCTV images captured an intruder breaking into the penguin enclosure. The centre manager, Mike Salt told the BBC
On the 3rdof May this year six sheep that had been stranded on a cliff in the Trossachs (Scotland) for a fortnight were finally rescued. Farmer Alisdair Bain, (who also seems to have a band…) called in Trossachs Search and Rescue when it became clear the sheep were not going to rescue themselves. The
On the 29thof April 2011, BBC Sussex reported the successful rescue of a badger from an empty swimming pool on a farm in Hailsham. The successful rescue of the badger from the pool was carried out by East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service using a dog catcher (a long pole
