Today we heard the extraordinary news from the West Sussex village of Storrington, that someone has half-hitched the pavement!
The question is what would anyone want with a load of paving slabs, apart from re-laying them elsewhere?
It can’t have been easy work or achieved without making some noise.
And incredibly this may not be such an isolated incident as it has now emerged that a similar incident took place last month in the nearby town of Steyning.
Obviously the police will be expected to leave no stone unturned in their efforts to trace the perpetrators and cobble together a solution in order to curb this criminal activity before it paves the way to yet more theft!
No Dancing in the streets there then!
In the second hour of today of today’s programme, Margaret Mills related the story of of the Essex tornado which took place on the afternoon of Thursday, June 24, 1897 – a special day as people were getting ready to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
The storm, about 9 miles wide, appeared almost from nowhere.
Some places like Ilford and Romford stayed fine and clear but just to the north of Brentwood, there was a scene of total devastation and many farmers were bankrupted.
Twenty four hours after the storm, there were still hailstones a foot deep in Ingatestone with one hailstone measuring over four inches across.
Chelmsford looked like it had been through a war and the strawberry crop at Tiptree was totally destroyed, whilst the storm had completely blown itself out by the time it reached Colchester.
Listen here to Margaret’s description: –
I’ll see you again next week,
Scott
