• ASBO pheasants and exploding batteries
    Apr 5 2021

    ► A postman has had to overcome an unexpected obstacle as he delivers letters in a Norfolk village - an angry pheasant.


    ► Driver attempts 30-mile journey with 'shed' perched on car roof.


    ► A bin wagon blaze has led to a plea from council bosses for people not to throw batteries in the bin


    ► 80 metre ship stuck at Littlehampton Harbour



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    10 mins
  • Britain's Suez crisis, the power of high-viz jackets and rampant birds
    Mar 28 2021

    In this week's edition of All News is Local:


    ► Britain tells the Suez canal to 'hold my beer' as residents are stuck in homes after a bus is held up on narrow roads


    ► Up to 20 rhea birds have been giving police the run around after they were spotted charging through housing estates and near the M25


    ► The gym accused of sneaking people in wearing a disguise of high-vis jackets


    ► Grit bin thieves roam Stoke-on-Trent's streets in 'crime against the community'


    ► Old Debenhams mannequins find new lease of life as ‘police officers’ in Aberdeenshire


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    13 mins
  • Rogue swan, human traffic cones and stolen milk
    Mar 21 2021

    ► A swan has been spotted rattling letterboxes on Billing Road in Northampton. The RSPB say the swan could have been doing it for territorial reasons or to get food.


    ► How a Primary school in Corby deployed human traffic cones to solve traffic problems as pupils come back to school.


    ► Fourteen houses in East Dorset reported having their milk stolen from the doorstep shortly after it was delivered.


    ► The owner of a burger company says he will not apologise for using a picture of disgraced mum Karen Matthews to promote Mother's Day as he believes he has "done nothing wrong".


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    13 mins
  • Trailer 2: Salacious village libraries and cardboard police officers
    Mar 14 2021
    In this week's edition of All News is Local we discuss the salacious content in a village kiosk library, the mum who accidentally ordered just ketchup and cheese for her child, cardboard police officers in Dundee and why children in King's Lynn are late to school.

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    8 mins
  • Trailer: Kleptomaniac crows and stolen paving slabs
    Mar 9 2021
    In a concept trailer for 'All News is Local' recorded live on national broadcast station talkRADIO, Gareth Milner and Mark Dolan discover the mysteries of kleptomaniac crows, question whether paving slab thefts are down to the Grand Designs production team and why a man in Watford held a birthday party for some abandoned bins.

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    13 mins