6+ hour, 45+ min ago  (222+ words) Survey finds Brits overwhelmingly prefer nostalgic return to imagined 1980s MODERN DAY, UK " A new nationwide survey has found that 99% of people in the UK would willingly return to the 1980s if the option were available, citing what researchers described as "an…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (151+ words) Artemis II image suggests Button Moon characters living on moon. By Our Security Correspondent: Ben Twarters KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE, "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL " NASA officials have confirmed that astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission have transmitted what is being described as…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (318+ words) Man invents tiger scare to skip work, arrested hours later. By Our Norfolk Reporter: Ian Bred IPSWICH AIRPORT " A Suffolk man has been arrested after inventing a story about an escaped tiger near his workplace in an attempt to avoid…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (438+ words) This has created understandable confusion in villages where the phrase "taking in boarders" was once associated with spare bedrooms and a light breakfast, rather than tactical inspections of skirting boards by officers from a converted business park outside Bury St…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (706+ words) By Our Norfolk Reporter: Ian Bred For balance, we sent no reporters anywhere and simply stared meaningfully across a field. What emerged was a picture of a county long reduced to one tired punchline by people who think regional wit…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (641+ words) Residents of a market town that would rather not be identified in case it ends up on a lifestyle supplement have warned the London mayor that any further expansion of metropolitan influence into East Anglia will trigger an immediate congestion…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (974+ words) By the time somebody at the bar says, "I still don't really know what brexit means," three things usually happen. First, a bloke in a fleece says it means sovereignty. Second, somebody else says it means forms. Third, the pub…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (199+ words) LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK " A devastated family has confirmed the death of Cookie, a Dalmatian dog, following what officials are describing as a "tragic garden incident" involving a domestic wood-shredding machine. By Our Security Correspondent: Ben Twarters Cookie (a Dalmatian dog), one…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1166+ words) At 7. 43am on Tuesday, a seagull landed on the roof of a chip shop in Lowestoft, looked directly into the middle distance, and by 8. 10 was widely understood to be in charge. Witnesses describe a level of confidence rarely seen outside county…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (900+ words) The best funny local newspaper stories understand that comedy lives in contrast. You need the grave tone of a council statement describing something fundamentally ridiculous. You need a quote from a resident called Barry, 68, who speaks as if the hanging…...