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Illegal tiger removed from garden shed after WiggyTinkles staff member kept it as a ‘personal project’

Colleagues say they had assumed the smell was ‘to do with the badgers’
By Mike Gerch · Read more →
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Horticultural Society exposed as front for ayahuasca ceremonies, committee insists minutes ‘strictly for members’

A four-month undercover investigation uncovers tribal drumming, ceremonial nudity, and a raffle, held the same evening, for a hanging basket.
By Our Investigations Correspondent (name withheld · Read more →
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Thame Delegation Cycles To Twin Town, Arrives In Wrong Country.

A nine-strong civic party set off for Saint-Pelage-sur-Ouche and held a full ribbon-cutting ceremony in a retail park outside Ghent instead.
By Phil Prentice - Thame Expert · Read more →
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Village's only coffee shop closed Mondays and Tuesdays, Thames Valley Police ‘on high alert’ for civil unrest

Two consecutive mornings without coffee is, officers confirm, well within the threshold for a Public Order Support Unit
By Mike Gerch · Read more →

Village Votes On Leaving Buckinghamshire, With One Councillor Demanding A Wall To Keep Aylesbury Out

Haddenham will go to the polls on a proposed secession to Oxfordshire and a single member proposed fortifications.
By Phil Prentice · Read more →

Study Finds Haddenham's Neatest Lawns Belong To People Who Have "Never Once Forgiven Anybody"

The Centre for Applied Behaviourism spent eleven days in the village.
By Nigel Fanshawe · Read more →

Monarch To Personally Fry Breakfast For 14,000 At Thame Food Fair, Palace Insists He "Has The Time".

The Crown's kitchen office confirms one pan, one spatula, an eleven-hour standing commitment and a persistent rumour about the Sovereign's hands.
By Laurence Murray · Read more →

Village Declared Officially Too Quiet, Baby Group Ordered To Keep Up The Good Work.

The Chiltern Bureau of Ambient Volume has found Haddenham "dangerously peaceful" on weekday mornings.
By Mike Gerch · Read more →

Village Film Night Descends Into Schism After Projector Declared "Too Wide"

Rival factions in Haddenham now hold separate screenings eleven feet apart in the same hall, and both insist the other is watching it wrong.
By Mike Gerch · Read more →

Village Mansion For Sale At £4.1m, Comes With Butler Who Cannot Legally Be Removed

Estate agents confirm the covenant on Nethercombe Warren transfers the basement servant with the deeds, and requires the buyer to bury him in the herbaceous border when the time comes.
By Nigel Fanshawe · Read more →

Residents ‘spiritually exhausted’ as nobody can remember which week is recycling

Collection remains Monday, as it has for eleven years. Which Monday is another matter entirely.
By Nigel Fanshawe · Read more →

Ferry terminal ‘on track’ for 2056, council insists

Over budget, landlocked, and thirty years late, but ready, we are assured, for when the sea finally arrives.
By Nigel Fanshawe · Read more →