Leeds: A giant woollen bobble hat has been stolen from a traffic-light junction box, where it was placed as part of a public art project. A man was later captured on CCTV wearing the hat:
Jarrow: A 70-year-old man has been fined £250 after he continued to claim council-tax benefit, housing benefit and pension credit following a £225,742 win on the national lottery. Magistrates were told that he had already repaid the £6,126 he owed.
Edinburgh: The girls’ football team of St Luke’s Primary School, Mayfield, has won 50 successive matches without conceding a goal.
Newquay: Police have promised to take action against visitors who wear T-shirts bearing swear-words or carry suggestive inflatable toys. ‘I recently saw a guy who was stark naked, hanging out of a window waving a sex toy and shouting at women going past in the street,’ the chairman of the town’s residents association told the Western Morning News.
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