Lost dog found by micro-chip…

January 24th, 2008 flowercarole

For eight weeks Mr Mark Dunning pounded the streets, shouting for his missing dog Misty.

He often walked to the spot in Rochdale town centre where he had bought the Bedlington terrier three years earlier and shouted for her in the streets around his Whitworth home. But after a while Mark and his family came to terms with the fact that Misty may not be coming home. Read the rest of this entry »


Chocolate Squasher

October 24th, 2007 flowercarole

The man described as the “Willy Wonka” of Britain’s chocolatiers has resigned after engaging in an “act of truffle-squishing” in a rival store.

Barry Colenso, the master chocolatier at Thorntons, was watched by baffled staff as he roamed the Hotel Chocolat store in Nottingham, handling various truffles.

When they inspected his handiwork after he left, it was discovered that he had mutilated £63.50’s worth of chocolates.

Read the rest of this story at the Telegraph website.