The number of hot-cross-bun specialists who, since Easter, have been in receipt of unemployment pay has not yet been disclosed for publication.


A dog has returned to its home at Walsworth after being absent for two months. It is feared that he has been leading a double life.


"Throughout the country," says a well-known daily paper, "the hedges and trees are now budding forth into green leaves." This, we understand, is according to precedent.


"Is your rent raised?" asks a contemporary. With difficulty, if he must know.


Newcastle Justices have extinguished eight licences for redundancy. There is no reason for supposing that the offence was intentional.