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Six roadside oddities that have no business existing and every reason to. A tour of concrete livestock, Victorian dinosaurs, oversized furniture and at least one thing nobody can explain — complete with locations and entirely arbitrary detour verdicts.
Charity shop paperbacks are arriving home with someone else's opinions still inside them — and a growing corner of TikTok can't get enough. We went digging through the pencil marks, the furious capitals and the biro hearts to find out why other people's marginalia has become Britain's most soothing scroll.
Rogue road signs, furious residents, escaped animals and one deeply contested bench. A fond round-up of the year's most gloriously absurd local newspaper stories — each with an entirely serious adaptation potential rating.
Across the country, screens are going up in village halls, back rooms and on top of multi-storeys — and they're selling out. Here's why a forty-seat cinema with wonky chairs and a Powerpoint intro now beats the multiplex for anyone under thirty-five, plus how to track one down near you.
Britain's charity shops are an accidental museum of local life, where you can buy a commemorative plate for a defunct car park and a VHS of a stranger's wedding. Here are 12 weirdly specific finds that deserve their own exhibition.