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Weird Stories
Wanted: missing vulture called Baldrick
By Epping Guardian
A YOUNG vulture is flying round the Fyfield area after escaping its tether.
Mushroom marauders face fines in the fores
By Epping Guardian
FOREST bosses are introducing a licence scheme to stop the widespread removal of fungi from Epping Forest.
Great escape for tame ferrets
By Wanstead and Woodford Guardian
ESACAPED pet ferrets have been running wild around the back gardens of Woodford Green.
Moving the goalposts
By Enfield Independent
THIEVES have stolen two sets of goalposts from an Enfield school.
Dress flasher
By Enfield Independent
A BIZARRE incident in Southgate has been reported to the police.
Bog standard Tories
By Enfield Independent
PLANS to re-open public toilets in the borough have gone down the pan.
Shoplifter wanted some Ooh La La
By Enfield Independent
AN OPTIMISTIC shoplifter was left red-faced after he was allegedly caught stealing 21 packets of condoms from an Enfield supermarket.
Pain in the backside
By Enfield Independent
A WOMAN was shot in the bottom with an air pellet as she was browsing the rails outside an Ponders End clothes shop.
Residents want rid of rat pack
By Enfield Independent
RESIDENTS of a Palmers Green road are calling for action after finding that their road is infested with rats.
"Batty boy" groom's bottle attack
By Haringey Independent
A MAN smashed a bottle over a groom's head on his wedding day.
Members accused of breaking law
By Enfield Independent
THREE Labour councillors face lengthy bans from public life if they are found guilty of breaking election law.
No gnome motive
By Enfield Independent
THREE gnomes were stolen from the front garden of an elderly woman's house.
Little shop of horrors
By Walthamstow Guardian
A VILE sight greeted health officers when they inspected a butchery in Walthamstow High Street.
Our Paul did nothing dishonest, says family
By Chingford Guardian
FRIENDS and family have leapt to the defence of the man at the centre of a £1 million insider-dealing investigation.
BMW goes like a bomb
By Haringey Independent
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a freak accident in Hornsey last week when the engine of a driver's BMW exploded while he was still in the car.
Man loses sex claim case
By Wanstead and Woodford Guardian
AN ABBEY National bank worker has criticised the legal system after losing an employment tribunal in which he was forced to represent himself.
Snakes alive in capital
By Walthamstow Guardian
SNAKES are on the loose in London and the RSPCA is warning residents to be on the look-out after a number have been rescued in the capital.
Biblical tree chopped
By Walthamstow Guardian
A TREE of biblical proportions has been felled in the former grounds of Essex Hall, Walthamstow.
Rats in play area
By Walthamstow Guardian
RATS have been spotted at the council-owned children's play area next to Selborne Walk shopping centre in Walthamstow.
A nasty smell
By Chingford Guardian
CHILDREN will be invited to make their own bubonic plague quack doctor's masks on Thursday at Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, Rangers Road, Chingford.
Wanted: man to join list for dating agency
By Graeme Culliford
FOR some women the easiest way to find the man of their dreams is to go through a dating agency.
A case of haunting
IN late August 1977, a semi-detached council house in Enfield became the centre of intense poltergeist activity focussed on the family of Peggy Harper and her daughter Janet and Rose.
The road to fear
A murder that took place in 1832 is said to be the cause of the haunting that now takes place along Barnet Road in Enfield.
The Enfield Flyer
The phantom stagecoach called the Enfield Flyer has often been seen travelling at speed some five or six feet above the Bell Lane road surface.
No release for Castle prisoner
TThis is the former home of Rowland Hill, founder of the Post Office and the Penny Post. The building dates back to Elizabethan times, and is on the site of an older house constructed by the father of Robert Bruce.
A knight to remember
Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, seems to have been a wholly unpleasant individual who built up his fortune by preying on the very people that he had been charged to protect by the king.
Ghost pub
The Crown and Horses pub in Enfield has been the site of at least two sudden deaths, one in 1816 and the second in 1832. On one occasion witnesses saw the apparition of an old woman pass one of the windows.
Ghost spotted in legion
The apparition of a man wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a black tie has been seen standing in the corner of the cellar in the Royal British Legion Headquarters in Enfield .
Oak Avenue presence
One of the houses at the top of the hill on Oak Avenue, in Enfield is said to have a ghostly presence in one of the bedrooms.
The woman in black
In 1622 a witch was blamed for much of the suffering that went on in and around the area now known as Hadley Wood, Enfield, particularly illnesses that occurred.
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