Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

A woman whose baby got trapped in her ...

“Welcome to the 19th century,” began Jeremy Harte, introducing the Folklore Society’s Legendary Weekend examining ‘Lying in Legend and Tradition’. Gathering at Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum over 6-7

Sajid Javid on his childhood Sajid Javid was ...

COUNTRY LIFE

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up