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  • Dracula's coming home - and other true stories

    Tales you may have missed from Britain's regional papers
  • Day of the donkey - and other true stories

    Tales you may have missed from Britain's regional papers.
  • Crying over spilt milk

    Toxic milk, wild parrots and long lost library books.
  • Potted history

    Toilet tales, parish polls and a shotgun wedding.
  • No shotgun wedding for Wiltshire couple

    Gun shy in Wiltshire, herd times for farmers, and the return of flower power
  • 'E's no pigeon, me old China

    A flyaway budgie, an overflowing postbox, the signs that don't work and the press officer's dictatorial insult
  • Scourge of the litterbug

    The dustcart bandit, the bank-manager vulture and an alien invasion.
  • Slap and tickle

    A fan kept from his team, a stripper kept in her clothes, a groom kept from his bride and a man who kept going in a charity shop.
  • Gran goes off the rails

    An OAP who's all steamed up over railway modernisation; a Yorkshire town gets a new lease of nightlife; a councillor gets in a flap over holiday flats and a tale of sewing woe
  • Ma'am before the storm

    Royal special: a crazy collection, a quiet town crier, a clock fit for a king and her Majesty's secret service

  • A bird in the hand

    A feathered fugitive, unusual livestock, gnome conspiracy and the phantom school.
  • Trash wars

    Bitter about litter, soaring on sea air, showing their steel and a sordid secret in the shed
  • Morals and molluscs

    Teetotal traps, pigeon-fanciers on parade, a principled player and a hostile hotel.
  • Something fishy

    A shark in the middle of a British high street? Impossible!

  • Cherubs stripped for cash - but is it art?

    Valuable masterpieces rubbished, drinkers slate art sale, soccer fans drive on by and something ratty amid the white high heels
  • Time for churches to throw in the towel?

    Faithless thieves, passengers with a pasty passion, a buzzing town centre and a trip down libbers' lane.
  • Unhappy shoppers

    Pioneering research from Sussex has at last confirmed what most of us already suspected but have never been able to prove scientifically - that shopping is bad for your health.

  • Naked ambition

    An extraordinary tale of courage and determination from Huddersfield this week, when 200 nudists stripped off their clothes and cavorted in the altogether, braving freezing winds and driving rain.

  • Blast from the past

    Dramatic events in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, this week when explosives experts were called in to defuse a large bomb dating from the second world war.

  • Booked by the KitKat cop

    Quick snacking, kissing birds and toilet trauma
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