Balloon sent to Cat Heaven, Kiwi angels reply
"A month ago we had a very sad, upset little girl," writes a reader. "Her Nana's cat Mousey had died and our daughter Bella was heartbroken. We told her she could write a letter and we would tie it to a balloon and send it into the sky in the hope it would reach Mousey in Cat Heaven. A month passed and two envelopes arrived at our door, one for us and one for Bella. She opened her envelope to find a beautiful card with a cat on it. She read the card from Mousey, half laughing, half crying. We want to thank Paul and Barbara from New Zealand, on their travels here in Britain, who found our balloon at the Yorkshire sculpture park and took the time to help a little girl get through her grief."
Unusual things that come across journalists' desks
• Got a bag of green grapes once from a woman who claimed they had fixed her high blood pressure and asked us to test them in our "lab". I tested them in my mouth and they were delicious.
• A Bridgecorp-branded tape measure "Bridgecorp Measures Up!"
