CITY NEWS
Bell Street Watchmaker Sells Clock With Two Minute Hands; Buyer Calls It ‘Flexible’
A repaired novelty clock has found an owner who sees options where others see duplication.
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Latest reports, incidents and everyday peculiarities from across the City of Ventorn.
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City Gardeners Plant Winter Cabbages; One Bed Already Labelled ‘Experimental’ by Child
An unofficial sign has created expectations the vegetables did not request.
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Foundry Lane Tests Quiet Hammering Hour; Nobody Agrees What Quiet Hammering Is
A neighbourly workshop experiment encountered a problem of definition.
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Monday Market Scales Inspected; One Is Accurate Only When Nobody Is Looking
A sticky needle has encouraged several traders to assign personality to a weighing instrument.
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Orwin’s Measuring Tape Retracts Across Workshop and Rings Tea Spoon
A harmless tool malfunction has produced one precise note and several unnecessary experiments.
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Reading Room Receives Book Returned 23 Years Late; Fine Waived for Excellent Excuse
A missing local history volume has returned with an explanation involving three moves and one attic.
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Mechanical Street Sweeper Collects Twelve Leaves and One Entire Scarf
The autumn cleaning programme has confirmed that scarves are larger than expected debris.
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Pumpkin Competition Ends in Tie; Judges Measure Stem Curvature
Two enormous pumpkins have forced Copper Market to discover how seriously it takes vegetables.
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Night Watch Reports Bell With No Rope; Bell Reports Nothing
A newly installed decorative bell briefly entered an official incident log by existing too convincingly.
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Friday Parcel Rush Slows When Clerk Discovers Twelve Boxes Labelled MISC
A popular description has proved less useful than its authors hoped.
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Boiler Street Soup Contest Requires Written Clarification: Steam Is Not an Ingredient
Judges have amended the rules after one competitor became too literal about local identity.
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City Archive Finds Map Showing Street That Never Existed
An old planning sheet has introduced historians to a road Ventorn apparently considered but never built.
