Stuck on the top level
Pensioners at three-storey Crofton Court in Stubbington, Hampshire, have been unable to leave upstairs flats after the building's lift broke.
Warden Jill Dawkins said: "Some of the ladies on the top floor can't leave that level at the moment, so we came up with this idea where I stand in the garden shouting out the numbers while someone else writes them down on big cards for the hard of hearing."
If anyone on the upper floor calls "bingo", they send their cards down for checking via a basket attached to a washing line.
Daily Telegraph (Tim Hopkins)
Fitness first!
Reading Crown Court heard that Shaun Thomson, 18, had done the basic fitness instructor's course during his 45 days awaiting trial and desperately wanted to stay inside to get his advanced Level 2 NVQ. Granting his wish with a nine-month sentence, Judge William Stevenson told Thomson, from Reading: "It seems you are using your time at the remand centre profitably."
Daily Mail (David Harling)
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