Podcast Edition 1

Owing to the grievous and small-minded abrogation of our printed newsletter budget we have been reduced to publishing by podcast. Nevertheless please find all regular newsletter features enclosed, including Parish Notices, Council Watch, and Crime Figures. This edition of our Local Lives section is recorded at the home of Jonathan Schweppes.

Facts

 * Despite the claim, this edition was not recorded at the home of Jonathan Schweppes.
 * There is a stain on Malcolm's ceiling from an encounter between a Pidgeon, a squash racket, and his son Paul.
 * Malcolm owns a gong.
 * Susan Pellington is a Nobel Prize winner. No context for this is provided.

Plot

 * Mark Canning has been declared missing after never showing up in Perth, Australia for his mining job.
 * There is an proposed sale of The Mt Ludford Lawn (an "urban greenspace" owned by the "special needs" school) to Cranford Luxury Real Estate. [Admin's Note: the term "special needs" is an outdated term. It's only used here because that's the language used in the podcast.]
 * There's been "protest vandalism" against the school as a result of the proposed sale.
 * Paul Durridge's vaping is mentioned.

Local Lives

 * Jonathan Schweppes talks about his interest in psychogeography.
 * He was accused of trespassing when he followed a bee through someone’s backyard. No charges were filed but he has a “couple of things pending”.
 * He sprained both his ankles jumping out of the second floor window of Dr. Shilton's practice.

Spoilers
This part of the page includes plot points from later episodes.
 * The vandalism is later revealed to be the work of Sandy Knowles.