Soft crocodile with one leg missing otherwise excellent condition. Swap for set of bagpipes.

Advertisement in the Maidstone, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and Westerham Advertiser.

We are told that water levels in many reservoirs are dangerously low. I just cannot understand what all the fuss is about. Why not simply fill these reservoirs up from the mains.

Letter in Poole Daily Echo.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

A flasher who for sixteen years exposed himself to women on the London Underground was spared a gaol sentence yesterday after an Old Bailey judge was told his wife would stand by him.

The Guardian.

This afternoon we’ll be meeting in the south and north ends of the church. Children will be baptised at both ends.

Wantage church magazine.

Just six weeks after her second hip replacement operation at the grand age of 97, the Queen Mother is planning her first day out from recuperation and I can reveal she hopes to be racing at Sandown Park on Friday.

Daily Mail.

Daily Mirror.

The Anti-Smoking International Award went to Texas for banning convicts from having a last cigarette before the electric chair. The authorities said it was bad for their health.

Daily Mail.