Boy only ate Heinz Peppa Pig pasta for 12 years - and five more local stories you missed last week
A boy who only ate Heinz Peppa Pig shaped pasta for 12 years features in one of our best local stories of the week.
Stoke-on-Trent Live reported how 14-year-old Curtis Maxwell was finally weaned off the pig-shaped pasta with the help of a hypnotist.
Elsewhere, a man in Preston has been using his own weather station in his back garden for more than 60 years and a church in Wales is finally getting a toilet - after 700 years.
You can read the full version of each of our selected articles through the links under each story – or read more top headlines from around the UK's regions on the Yahoo UK local news page.
A schoolboy who only ate Heinz Peppa Pig pasta shapes for 12 years has finally had a proper meal – thanks to hypnosis.
Curtis Maxwell, 14, would gag if he was forced to eat anything other than the tomato-sauce pasta.
The teen would trough up to five cans of the novelty-shaped pasta every day – costing mum Kylie more than £100-a-month in food bills.
Read the full story from Stoke-on-Trent Live
An amateur meteorologist has been taking daily weather records in his back garden for more than six decades - and says it is handy for knowing when to put the washing out.
Jim Lawson, from Preston, began keeping hand-written records as a 14-year-old schoolboy in 1958 when encouraged by his mother.
Since then, the 80-year-old has kept old-school, paper records and each day notes the max temperature, rainfall amount, relative humidity, and air pressure.
Read the full story from Lancashire Live
A dad saves £200 a month on groceries - by foraging for ingredients in meadows, forests and along coastlines.
Joshua Lawrey, 36, began his journey 15 years ago, after working in a high-end restaurant where their menu featured wild ingredients which had been foraged.
He did plenty of research and visited woodlands, meadows and coastlines around his hometown of St Austell, Cornwall, to see what he found.
Read the full story from Cornwall Live
A medieval Welsh church is set to undergo a major refurbishment which will finally see it get a toilet after more than 700 years.
St Nicholas Church, in the Vale of Glamorgan, is set to benefit from a funding payout worth £584,081 from the National Churches Trust.
Read the full story from Wales Online
A budding architect who recreates iconic landmarks using Lego has built a model of Colchester's famous Jumbo water tower.
The publicity-shy modeller has been dubbed the "Lego Banksy" and would only reveal his first name as Robert.
But he runs an Instagram page under the name of "minibrickarchitecture" where he shows off his skills by recreating some of the most notable landmarks the country has to offer.
Read the full story from Colchester Gazette
A Cotswolds village was given a new name as part of an April Fools' prank today (Tuesday, April 1). The village of Crudwell near the Wiltshire border with Gloucestershire was renamed Currywell with new road signs put up as part of the stunt.
The village of Crudwell gained its name and derives from the stream flowing through it, or from, a mineral spring south east of the church.
However, as part of the April Fools' prank, villagers were told suggestions had been made to the local council to rename the village to Currywell.
Read the full story from Gloucestershire Live
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