14 July 2009 10:31
French holiday makers are being offered insurance against too much rain
14 July 2009 09:40
A new exhibition this summer at Buckingham Palace highlights some of the Queen's remarkable wardrobe
18 November 2008 18:42
There's nothing new under the sun. A joke book from Greece that's 1,600 years old features the prototype of the famous Dead Parrot Skit:
A man complains that he's just bought a slave that's died. The seller answers 'By the gods,when he was with me, h
27 October 2008 21:07
Local Artist Alan Oliver has designed this year's Rotary Club of Stamford St Martin's Christmas cards - money raised from sales are going towards Teenzone, a Stamford youth group and a young people's project called Lifestraw, which filters water in depr
30 September 2008 22:00
After buying a pet rabbit, a woman realised that it didn't have floppy ears as the newspaper ad promised, so she called 999 to complain!
Other nuisance calls include two people who dialled 999 after being splashed by cars in wet weather.
After bei
26 September 2008 15:18
I found these interesting bits of useless information whilst trawling the net:
1. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
2. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair than other people
3. The names of the three wise monkeys a
06 September 2008 10:18
Lunch at the Fine Food Store.
Popped in to the Fine Food Store in St Mary's the other lunchtime and was pleasantly surprised.
It's got a lovely atmosphere and had plenty of customers. We dedided to try the 'secret garden' so went down the cobbled
31 August 2008 23:07
Three crashes over the bank holiday weekend on local roads have caused firefighters to warn drivers to take more care on the roads.
9.30pm on the Friday night saw a crash between Manton and Edith Weston, with a silver BMW crashing into a tree, leavin
31 August 2008 22:58
Stamford's Red Lion Square could be a slipping hazard, says a report by the county council's highways comittee. The controversial £1.4m 'facelift' for the square, which was carried out last year, had an assessment carried out recently.
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