Old Hardy reels wanted urgently. I am a generous buyer , one owner showed me his superb tackle and I gave him £4,217 for it.

Trout and Salmon Magazine.

Councillors Andrew Milton and Chris Tossiano with local children Kirsty and Rachel Elston enjoy a slash in the re-vamped pool.

Picture caption in the Sheffield Trader.

British Airways has added more seats to its Southampton to Edinburgh service, leaving Southampton at 10.50am and returning from Edinburgh at the beginning of March.

In flight magazine British Regional Airlines.

A special anti-streaker squad will be part of the security arrangements for England’s World Cup game against Kenya. Six of the one hundred and fifteen stewards on duty for the match at Canterbury have been given a special brief to stop streakers

Ceefax

Jacket and trousers leather £75 may split.

Advertisement in Loot.

After the match which Stourbridge won 3-0, the manager of Shepshed Dynamo said he was disappointed to lose the last game of the season and said apart from the goals Stourbridge never looked like scoring.

Loughborough Echo.

I recently read the letter from the gentleman who wrote about poor behaviour on the course. He should realise that his Victorian values are of an age long past and woman have equal rights on the course to men. Indeed I look forward to the time when there is no such thing as sex on Goodwood golf course.

Letter in Goodwood Golf Club Newsletter.

An especial welcome opportunity for those members without cars or without easy access to a life.

Evergreen Social Club advertisement in local Witney paper.

Two years after Albert’s death however the Queen’s spirits seemed briefly to lift when in 1863 the Prince of Wales married Benjamin Disraeli.

Book review in Lady

17,000 time wasting emergency calls were received by Durham police last year including a woman who dialled 999 to report that her pizza had been delivered with the wrong topping.

Birmingham Evening Mail.

A roadside traffic survey to explore ways of beating jams had to be abandoned yesterday after it caused a tailback 13 miles long.

Daily Mail.

The world famous author and trustee of the Orang-utan Foundation, Terry Pratchett, has drawn attention to the animals’ plight using the Indonesian legend that orang-utans can talk but keep quiet about it in case people put them to work. The money raised will be used by the Orang-utan Foundation, a registered charity, to help fund their conversation programme in Indonesia.

Yeovil Times.

In the scuffle he kicked one officer in the groin and bit another officer’s finger so hard he could not prise it from his mouth. Miss Teresa Evans defending said ‘Mr Curran had not intended to assault the officer. In the interview at the Police Station he said he had come into contact with the finger and thought it was a kebab’.

Reigate and Redhill Independent.

For Sale: push bottom telephone full working order guaranteed clean must be seen.

Bracknell News.

A woman seen sitting in a parked car with both hands behind her head told paramedics she’d been shot and had been holding her brains in for an hour. When they checked 23 year old Linda Burnett from San Diego, California, they found she’d been hit by dough which had exploded from a tin in the back of the car. When Miss Burnett reached back she felt the dough, which she thought was her brains.

Sunday Mail.