Hull: An unemployed man has been fined £75 after putting up 200 posters asking for work. The posters did bring him a job, however – with Mecca Bingo, which has agreed to pay his fine.
Wolverhampton: A man who called police to a domestic dispute has been jailed for six years after asking an officer to fetch his hat, which turned out to contain £4,000 worth of drugs. A subsequent search of his flat also found a safe containing £12,000 in cash.
Dartington: Two sheds were set ablaze by an electrical fault in a home-made sauna. When the fire was put out, at 3am, it was spreading towards a third shed where a man was asleep.
Stockton-on-Tees: A 61-year-old man has admitted feeding a greyhound Viagra in order to fix unlicensed dog races. The Viagra was part of a cocktail of drugs that he would give the dog when he wanted it to win.
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