A ball game first played by Viking invaders using the severed heads of their enemies is under threat from councillors who say that it has become too violent.

The Times.

Mrs. Tomsit was born in Sevenoaks in Kent. She met her husband in Eastbourne in 1928 when she was the manager of an underwear shop and Mr Tomsit operated sightseeing tours.

Hertfordshire Mercury.

The Mirror.

Marcus Walsh, the proprietor of Stirling Vehicle Auctions was found guilty of misrepresentation in the sale of 18 cars and vans, fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £85,000 in compensation. Before being sentenced he had told the court “When I started out in the used car business 40 years ago all these things were normal practise” to which the magistrate replied “It just goes to show you can’t turn the clock back”.

Kilburn Times.

My wife came on all the expeditions for a great many years but stopped when she fell in love with Aberdeen Angus cattle. I was a lot happier when she was with us now I worry that she might have some mishap with one of the bulls.

Interview with Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wyckham-ffeines.

1992 Toyota Enema diesel automatic. Silver, seven-seater, excellent condition both inside and out.

Slough Observer.

In the first issue of Glamour Magazine, Simon, 27, from Buxton, admits to being besotted with radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green. “Her voice” he says “Sounds as if she might want to lick warm honey off your naked body.” He wrote in for a picture of her but they sent him James Naughty instead.

The Guardian.

The car in which Anne Widdecombe was pictured on page 4 on Saturday was not a Ford Cortina but a P100, a model based on the Cortina. Production of the Cortina stopped in 1982. There is no information on when production of Anne Widdecombes was halted.

The Mirror.

Nasa recently invented a particularly interesting gun. It fires dead chickens. The purpose is obvious: one of the biggest threats to aircraft is the effect of bird strikes, so what better way of testing equipment safely on the ground than by firing a large piece of poultry at it. British engineers developing a high speed train realised this was ideal for testing windscreens and borrowed a gun from Houston. But amazement turned to horror as the chicken hurled from the barrel smashed the shatter proof shield to splinters, blasted through the control console snapped the drivers back rest in two and embedded itself in the rear wall of the cabin. In panic the engineers sent the results of the test together with the windshield design to Nasa and begged for their suggestions. Nasa responded with a one line memo: Thaw the chicken.

Voices of Shooting Magazine.

A new slimming consultant is taking over at Wareham with ambitious plans to double the size of the group.

Wareham and District Advertiser.

The article in our Educational Supplement pages 10 and 11 yesterday does make sense but only if the columns are read in the following order: 1,4,2,3,6,5,7. Apologies.

The Guardian Corrections and Clarifications.

Playtime. Specialised girls. Toys, uniforms, etc., different girls daily. Discreet rear entrance.

Romford Yellow Advertiser.

Health and safety and members items. Maureen Moses contracted gastro-enteritis twice due to insanitary conditions on film and TV location shoots and she told Equity all about it. Arising from this the chairman allowed her motion.

Minutes of North and East London branch of Equity meeting.

Thanks to this type of metal strings it has been possible to achieve both the switness of sound and the softness to feel that one can recall the bowel strings of the past. But this type far better than the latter owing to the promptness in emission.