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Village WI hope poll dancing will bring out voters in spite of bad weather

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Fortnum & Mason sells out of left-handed Christmas crackers in 2 days

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New ‘Apostrophe Intervention Kit’ will help preserve punctuation standards

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M&S suspend AI clothes-fitting technology to ‘make small tweaks’

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University forced to allow one-handed clapping after student revolt against ‘jazz hands’

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Health & Sport

Report warns excess salt poses ‘a serious health risk for the over 95s’

20/07/2019
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New 99p coin ‘makes 1p coin completely redundant’

16/07/2019
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Public to be advised how many times food should be chewed

14/07/2019
Security & Crime

Prisoner awarded £14,000 compensation for late catalogue delivery

12/07/2019
Science & Technology

New self-defence selfie stick for ‘active oldies’

10/07/2019
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Trump told Secret Service: “let down British Ambassador’s bike tyres”

09/07/2019
Living World & Environment

Postman attacked by pet budgie blames rise in on-line deliveries

08/07/2019
Media & the Arts

Artist unveils ‘Toilet Orchestra’ at Tate Modern

04/07/2019
Living World & Environment

Villager wins planning battle to keep rescued rhinoceros in back garden

01/07/2019
Religion

Pope sells Pokemon collection for record £13 million at Sotheby’s

26/06/2019
Health & Sport

Frustration as Primark sells out of Michael Gove’s £3 shorts

20/06/2019
Living World & Environment

Snails get a safer trail across busiest roads

19/06/2019
Security & Crime

Police AI system generates suspect photos from a single hair’s DNA

18/06/2019
Media & the Arts

Absent Boris furious after TV debate uses the wrong Homer cut-out

17/06/2019
Transport & Tourism

Virgin Trains providing ‘privacy bags’ to avoid speaking to strangers

15/06/2019
Science & Technology

AI system predicts where leaves will fall onto tracks

14/06/2019
Media & the Arts

Keith Richards’ dog dies at the age of 68          

13/06/2019
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BBC launches free TV channel for the ‘Over 75s’

12/06/2019
Family & Education

Asylum scam: “Please help me, I’m a teenager,” said grandfather, 87

11/06/2019
Commerce

Scotland prepares to defend Rockall against illegal Irish fishing

10/06/2019
Commerce

Huawei UK – we are all connected

09/06/2019
Politics

Corbyn: I took caviar but it was a mistake

08/06/2019
Health & Sport

New fridge door guide will reduce wasted food

06/06/2019
Living World & Environment

Wales to have its own time zone: DST (Daylight Shearing Time)

05/06/2019
Politics

Donald Trump’s custom Twitter keyboard revealed

03/06/2019
Politics

Trump’s armoured car specially re-equipped for London

02/06/2019
Security & Crime

Plan to allow future convicts to serve time before they offend

28/05/2019
Health & Sport

‘Easier’ golf course closes after claims that it’s a death-trap

27/05/2019
Politics

Village forced to use toilets as polling station after Scout hut burns down

23/05/2019
Security & Crime

Police admit facial recognition system ‘does not recognise thieves’

22/05/2019

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Dark short stories by Tim Neill

  • ‘You will remember me’
    The phone on Dan Benson’s desk rang once and stopped. He drained his coffee mug and scooped up the receiver. ‘Benson’. He already knew who …
  • Bog Patrol
    Steven Collins is a plump, unremarkable, middle-aged man. He lives in a 1930s semi, with a trimmed hedge, neat flower borders and net curtains at …
  • Inside Information
    Winston Trenneman teased the last traces of tumour from the patient, then collapsed. Within the hour, neurosurgeon James Lovatt had raced from home to operate …
  • The Downing Street Cook
    ‘Like a favourite aunt’, that’s how people remembered Lizzie Gould. ‘Sweet lady, heart of gold’. For nineteen years Elizabeth Gould worked in the kitchens at …
  • The Pool
    ‘The buggers are in our pool again, look.’ He steered his wife to the villa window and stood behind her, arms crossed, anger seething. ‘Every …
  • The best Pork Stiffado in the world
    The tiny island of Stiapos, a crooked finger of rock barely three miles long, lies in the deep azure of the Ionian sea. Too small …
  • That special courage
    A pearl of sweat swung from the tip of his nose, glistening in the early morning rays and dripped onto the brass terminal. He froze …
  • The Great Escape
    It was Boz’s idea to break out of Milton House. Boz who’d slipped a Stanley knife and a screwdriver from the workshop down the back …
  • Teacher’s pets
    Ten treacherous, worn steps led from the quiet Camden backstreet down into the damp gloom of Rose Porter’s basement flat. Decades of garbage lay packed …
  • Bill Jarvis
    In his youth his strength was legendary, some called him the ‘iron man’. Bill Jarvis was the small-time farmer who could lift a calf above …
  • Sunday
    They’d say he was a fine man, a hero. Lucky too. A finger lost at Tobruk, a shard of Panzer shrapnel on a Normandy beach, …
  • Tea with Aunt Ada
    Bill Parson’s hand shook as he stirred a level teaspoon of pesticide into Aunt Ada’s little bowl of Demerara sugar. Her special souvenir pot she …
  • The Tattoo
    He waited until breakfast before telling his wife. As he’d feared, she was livid. ‘Jesus, Gavin … a three day conference in Bangkok and you …
  • The Coat
    Charles Frensham was reading in his study at just after 8pm when the knock came. Three sharp, urgent raps. ‘I’ll get it!’ called his wife, …
  • The Camera
    She tugged the gilt-edged tickets from his hand and spread them across the breakfast table. ‘The Goodwood Revival – lucky you!’ His wife cocked her …
  • The language student
    ‘She’s staying for how long?’ A pendulum of yolk swung from her teaspoon, dangling en route to an unsmiling mouth. Her husband struggled to reassure …
  • The Collector
    She woke with a start, jolted from dreams of a better life in a better place and reached to silence the 5.30 alarm. The rays …
  • A Greek Tragedy
    We bade farewell to our conference colleagues and set off for the harbourside apartment we’d rented for the following two weeks. For seven years, Philippa …
  • A life
    Sirens wail in a nearby street as a running man stumbles and collapses in the gutter. A woman’s scream splits the damp night air and …
  • The Lift
    ‘Going down?’ asks pinstripe, mischief in his smile. The pretty PA blushes and presses 86. In the greasy darkness two hundred feet above, a rifle …
  • Breakfast in paradise
    Breakfast in paradise
  • Together
    She bends over the coffin, gently strokes the cold wax forehead with a fingertip. For thirty years he’d loved and cherished her. Other men held …
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