A coroner in Cheshire has become suspicious of a string of murder/suicides which seem to have started in 1996 with two similar cases in Wilmslow. Both couples were described by their families as devoted and they couldn’t understand how it came about. The police at that time deduced that the husbands had murdered their wives and then committed suicide. The couples didn’t know each other and in both cases the murders were quite ferocious. Three other similar cases have since been identified by investigators, two in Manchester and one in Cumbria. In all five cases the women had been hit over the head several times with a blunt instrument and then stabbed in the neck. The coroner’s office has handed a report to the Cheshire police who are reviewing cases across the UK and Europe for similarities. It is feared there may be a serial killer who has gone unchallenged.
Tower Bridge got stuck today, it wasn’t open and it certainly wasn’t closed. It had opened to let a boat pass underneath and then when it started to close to let the traffic cross over, well, it got stuck. Police tweeted that travellers would have to find an alternative route and that mechanics were working on the problem. Good work by the said mechanics as the bridge was back in working order after just one hour. Takes some people longer than that to change a light bulb.
It’s been reported that the PM was not happy that his holiday hideaway in Scotland was leaked to the public and that he had to cut short his break away from office. Well, I’ve got news for Mr BoJo, he can have another holiday, in fact many more holidays but the kids who have lost their place at Uni due to his ministers’ incompetence over A level results, may not get another chance. So suck it up Prime Minister and start acting like one.
An auctioneer found an envelope sticking out of the letter box when he turned up for work one Monday morning. Inside he found a pair of wire rimmed spectacles with a note claiming they had belonged to Mahatma Ghandi and that if they weren’t worth anything to bin them. The auctioneer spoke to the writer who said they had been passed down through his family since the 1920s. A relative had been working in South Africa at the time and met Ghandi who gifted them to him. Sounds like a strange story to me, why would someone give their glasses to a stranger or did the relative steal them? Or maybe it’s all a load of tosh and they’re just a pair of old specs? Still someone believed it as they sold for £260,000, very nice too.
A man believed to be the oldest man in the world has died aged 116. Fredie Blom was born in May 1904 in South Afrika. He seems to have had a hard life working as a labourer on a farm and later in the construction industry. He hadn’t drunk alcohol for years but was still an avid smoker although due to lockdown he was unable at the end to buy his tobacco. RIP Fredie. and good night to everyone else.😴💤😴