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In a meeting held on the 13th at the Upper Puckering Parish Church hall, Wendy Smith formalised her animal rights group under the acronym PCRUP (Promotion of Creature Rights in Upper Puckering). Miss Smith acknowledges that animal rights are clearly a global issue, but wants to focus the group on matters that directly affect animals in the village. Current membership stands at 57, though it is expected to grow with the impending birth of Puddles's kittens. (Membership, of course, is not limited to humans.)

Current topics under debate include the recent suggestion by the RSPCA that animals should wear seat belts while travelling in cars. Miss Smith, speaking for the group, said, "Whilst we recognise that this is ultimately a safety issue, we feel that the decision to belt up should be left to the individual animal. We will, of course, be encouraging our members to wear seat belts and will aggressively pursue those humans who do not provide the choice for their pets."


Reports that both Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley recently turned out in a village cricket eleven have raised hopes that one of the celebrity couple may be the mystery owner of the Grange. Since their recent split, it seems unlikely that the Puckering Irregulars could gain two new members, and opinion has been divided over which one would be the preferable addition. Despite the excellent performances of female players Travers and Burns in this season's Irregulars team, Captain Nigel Morcombe is unconvinced about having women in the team. "I can’t help it," he noted sourly. "In my day the women made the teas." Still it seems that other team members are likely to go to bat for Hurley despite Grant’s evidently decent cover drive and a engaging performance in Notting Hill.


Pressure is building on the Puckering police to re-open a celebrity murder from the past. Another story from our man in the West Indies suggests that Fanny Blake may have been responsible for not only the murder of her husband, but also that of her daughter's fiancé Edward Morcombe.

The Gazette contacted the West Sussex coroner's office directly but, in his opinion, the chances of exhuming the grave of a man who died of a fever nearly 200 years ago were "remote." Descendant Nigel Morcombe seemed unwilling to dig up old news and labeled the story a dead issue.


Archaeologist Evelyn Prosser announced the unexpected discovery of a fragmented Roman amphora during her recent excavations at Stoney Grove.

"Although Sir Edmund Orbis was little more than a glorified grave robber, he did find evidence of Roman occupation in Upper Puckering," notes Prosser. "My recent find, although out of context, suggests that Stoney Grove may sit on the site of an outlying villa."

Prosser  found the amphora shards mixed in the fill of a water pipe trench just south of the mansion while looking for evidence of a Georgian garden pavilion.


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Week Ending: July 16, 2000
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