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Rumour Monger...a sideways look at Five Valleys life

STROUD'S peacenik mayor believes he may have beaten the Americans to tracking down Osama bin Laden.

According to Cllr John Marjoram, the terrorist could be hiding out in Painswick. Clearly thwarted in his efforts to find Stroud MP David Drew in the SNJ's Spot the MP competition (SNJ, December 26), Cllr Marjoram reckons he saw bin Laden hiding in the Painswick Millennium picture.

"I admit to being unable to spot David Drew but do I detect seeing bin Laden? In Painswick of all places," he wrote.

And he asked for a bigger prize than a bottle of champagne. Does he mean the £17 million tag on bin Laden's head?

Even the Stroud News & Journal gets it wrong sometimes, as Private Eye pointed out recently.

After many years of trying to merit a mention in the satirical rag, we have succeeded after a News in Brief item was sent in by an eagle-eyed SNJ reader.

"Police in Gloucestershire are to introduce a new number for non-emergency situations" was mistakenly headlined "New emergency number introduced". For the record, the new non-emergency number for the boys in blue is 0845 090 1234.