From the Ravengate Chronicle

“No significance whatsoever” should be attached to the recent appearance of a vulture on the roof of Old Lady McGrady’s bungalow, says an ornithological expert.

Facing huge bills and growing apathy, Ravengate’s populist insurgency movement WeCan has disbanded, with organisers admitting, “We actually can’t.”

Young frogs urged to use designated chilling zones as promising student misjudges temperature and joins the growing toll of victims of social media craze.

In a startling new discovery that could rewrite the natural history textbooks, scientists have revealed that the stegosaurus, believed extinct 150 million years ago, ultimately evolved into Ravengate resident Murray “Minty” Muirhead, a part-time guitar teacher....

Relentlessly upbeat Ravengate teenager Kyle Vaster-Tail says he thanks his lucky stars every day despite a series of misfortunes that have dogged his short life. In his latest setback, Kyle has gone blind after staring at the sun for too long. “I was told that it...

Maths wonderkid Gary Fosdyke has shaken the normally sedate world of mathematics with his discovery of a new prime number "somewhere between 3 and 11". The maverick numbers guru has been searching for the elusive prime for five years. He left Cambridge University in...

Under pressure from public transport campaigners, rolling stones will in future gather moss – but only at designated pick-up points across Ravengate village. The change of heart comes after new figures released by Transport for Ravengate showed the innovative mass...

Market watchers have expressed astonishment that the International Bank of Bad Debt and High Risk collapsed on Friday, with billions wiped from its asset sheet. “No-one saw this coming,” said Jez Foresight, editor of the Financial Foresight newsletter. Problems...

Recalling his remarkable transformation, overweight actor Burden Brinks says his marathon make-up sessions for The Thin Man were “a huge ordeal”. “Totally worth it though,” the 68-year-old said, referencing his recent Oscar nomination. “The thin suit mechanics were...