A couple in Merthyr transformed their front room into a shop selling cannabis and diazepam in order to pay off a loan on a mobility scooter. The woman was jailed for 10 months; the man, whose scooter it was, for 15. (South Wales Echo)
An allotment-holder in Stourbridge has grown a 25lb cabbage. The secret, he says, is feeding them with liquid comfrey – and adding urine to the compost. (Express and Star, Wolverhampton)
A six-year-old girl from Rushey Mead, Leicester, has received a B in maths GCSE. A girl of five took the same examination in east London, but she only managed an E. (Leicester Mercury)
A 33-year-old man from Barrow-in-Furness has told magistrates that his cry of ‘Come back, you fat bitch!’ was directed at his dog, a pregnant Staffordshire bull terrier, and not at the woman whose cat it had just mauled.
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