A peacock is tormenting residents by ravaging their vegetable patches and waking them with its 5am mating calls. The delinquent chook, nicknamed Percy, has precipitated mayhem in Marlborough, Wiltshire. “It acts prefer it owns the place,” mentioned Carolyn Nicholls, 75. “I’ve discovered peck marks throughout our courgettes.” One other native mentioned Percy is “so tatty he’ll by no means entice a mate”.
Bristol Stay (Amanda Welles)
Taking the biscuit
It may very well be described as a storm in a teacup, however the humble Jaffa Cake is as soon as once more on the centre of controversy after McVitie’s requested a biscuit museum to tug the snack from a show. The producer took situation with its deal with being showcased amongst biscuits as a result of, for VAT functions, it’s formally a cake – a debate that was settled way back with the taxman. Days after the Peek Frean Museum in Bermondsey, London, unveiled the show, McVitie’s despatched it a cease-and-desist-style letter requesting “the speedy removing of Jaffa Truffles out of your biscuit exhibit”.
Guardian (Kate McIntosh)
Rest room-rolling again the years
A message written on a toilet-roll tube within the Eighties was discovered by a pair shifting into a brand new house. A teenager had penned her title and birthday on the tube, including: “Hope you get pleasure from staying right here, love from a buddy.” Charlotte England-Black discovered the message in her loft on shifting in to the home in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. She subsequently tracked down the be aware’s writer, Emma Smith, now 43, who known as it “a humorous blast from the previous”.
Adam Robertson (BBC Essex)
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