I'm not really nosy but...............

We had a police helicopter hovering last week, mst unusual in our very rural spot.

Turns out a 20 year old driver had decided to ignore the flashing lights and warning signs at the unmanned level crossing (no gates) and got hit by the train on passenger side. He was so lucky a) the train just damaged the car and didn't run over it, and b) car then alight and he was trapped in it and man in crossing house had a fire extinguisher to put out fire.

We also get local RAF practising very low night flying with hardly any lights on, before they go to Afghnaistan etc.

My mum used to say... "I am not being nosy just interested!

We get quite a lot of emergency vehicles going through our "village". Living near to an M6 junction does not help. When there is a big incident the local roads get impassable.

We are on a sort of promontory between two river valleys so we hear sirens coming for ages. By the time the pompiers arrive the whole village has assembled in their respective doorways to see who it is for. Mind you, it only happens about once a year.

Most of the helicopters over our house are RAF trainee pilots but local farmland round us is also a favoured area for hare coursing and some nights we get helicopters with search lights flying low over head.

We had morning and evening helicopters for weeks, a couple of years back. Turned out it was a very high security criminal being transferred to long court hearing. Also a big police escort (cars) - apparently the accused was involved in the kind of people who use machine guns and they feared and attack on the prison van. Must have cost an absolute fortune.

Our local paper is very quick to report online anything that happens in the vicinity. Our usually very quiet the town is reeling from several incidents just recently: a man went berserk with an axe and injured someone about ten days ago, around the same time there was a random stabbing incident (the same culprit?), yesterday a campervan crashed into a group of teenaged holiday makers, and also yesterday it seems a woman killed herself by jumping off the cliffs. The air ambulance and emergency services (including coastguard) response was duly noted by residents and a search of the local paper revealed the 'story'. The campervan story made the national news as one of the girls was very severely injured.

- not like some suburban areas we can think of?

Think it was quite serious as we had police cars nee nahing all over the place!

GM - nothing like that happens here - I'll have you know that this is a really classy place to live

The police take thermal images of rooftops and if one is suspiciously warm, it often signifies the presence of a cannabis 'farm'.

I was the same when dense black smoke started billowing across the fields last week. A warehouse two miles away had caught fire and I found out by going on facebook - DD's page was full of info!!

Probably a drugs bust, kitty!!!
We had a helicopter over the village recently getting lower and lower - quite scary. It turned out to be the Air Ambulance which then landed in front of the farmhouse behind our house to reach a woman with a heart problem round the corner. Such excitement!