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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 →

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 Colin Petts · Read more →

Village fete cancelled for ‘excessive normality’

By Marion Yew · Read more →

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 Priya Shah · 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 →

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 Priya Shah · Read more →