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Freddie Mercury’s cats have left their mark on some of his treasured possessions which are to be auctioned at Sotheby’s. The Queen frontman’s feline companions – including Miko and Delilah – left scratch marks on some of the furniture items which will be going under the hammer, but Sotheby’s said…

BBC radio is to re-broadcast a play for a listener who missed the ending in 1978. Sue Reilly was “gripped” by The Gazebo, a comic murder mystery by Alec Coppel, when she first heard it on the World Service in August 1978, said The Telegraph, but she missed the closing…

Rishi Sunak has ordered a review of low-traffic neighbourhoods in England in the latest of a series of pro-motorist moves being seen as a bid to shore up Tory support among voters.

A 90-year-old woman is winning fencing matches against teenage opponents, said The Telegraph. Joy Fleetham “dons her breeches, body protector, jacket and mask” for weekly sessions against younger opponents, said the paper. She has beaten a 17-year-old Japanese boy. “He was astounded and so was I,” she said.  Fleetham has…