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<strong>11 April 1922</strong>: Occasionally detected during the spawning season, the smelt is an anadromous fish that has changed its habits

AN APPLICATION to convert a pub in Cheshire for housing has been deferred for a second time.

Eileen Gallagher relates how a friend of hers – named Janice – underwent, decades ago, some sort of very traumatic, late-night encounter with a British man-beast in the picturesque village of Child’s Ercall. Found in north Shropshire, Child’s Ercall has origins that date right back to Celtic times and its church – St. Michael’s – to the 12 th Century. But, in all of its many years, the village surely never before, and maybe never since too, encountered such a strange beast as that in the tale told to Eileen by her childhood best friend. So the story went, it was back in 1971, Ja...

Country Life Trending: Murmurations of starlings — the vast clouds of thousands of birds, flocking and swooping through the sky — are one of nature's great displays. But how do the birds do it? Martin Fone investigates. There is something mesmerising, but profoundly disturbing, about watching humans moving in synchronicity, whether it be swimmers or those massed marches of service personnel that certain countries seem to specialise in on high days and holidays. The participants seem content to subvert their individuality to the common weal, but I cannot help thinking that impressiv...