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Ghost signs are one thing, but here's a ghost post box (on he wall of the former post box in Lauder, Berwickshire)

It's good that this is meant to be approached at a local level, but it's not just about encouraging schools and local employers to work together. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needsPM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs marketwww.theguardian.com

The Edinburgh University Press ebook sale offers a number of intriguing titles, among them "Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream - Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media"...

It appears that OfCom are treating "balance" in the same way the BBC did during both the Scottish independence and Brexit referendum campaigns - anyone can say anything, however remote from the facts, as long as someone says the opposite at some point in the programme.

YOU can always rely on German news for an off-beat story.. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/.... Bones in the garden is really stretching the envelope, though!

Mehr als 1.000 menschliche Knochen - Gruselfund im eigenen GartenWas als Gartenarbeit begann, entwickelt sich zu einem gruseligen Fall: Eine Familie aus Braunschweig entdeckt bei der Gartenarbeit menschliche Knochen. Die Polizei ermittelt - ein Verbrechen schließt ...www.ndr.de

Sometimes headline writers are grateful for headlines that write themselves! (Especially when the story turns out not to be very exceptional) www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Ausgerechnet in der Rattenfänger-Stadt: Anwohner klagen über Rattenplage in HamelnIn Hameln gibt es seit einigen Wochen offenbar ein Problem mit Ratten. Besonders viele sollen es in einem Bereich der Innenstadt sein. Anwohner haben die Stadt eingeschaltet.www.ndr.de

Sometimes the answers to word games have a mad logic. This morning the last four answers to one of the ones I like offered the sequence "sorry, bride, twice, madly" - which sounds like a brief plot summary of a Victorian novel, possibly by Wilkie Collins

Scots can make humour out of anything, even the midge!