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Mystery as two police cars crash head-on – with no one else around

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Police chiefs are puzzling over how two police cars crashed head-on into one another, with no other cars around. The marked police Vauxhall van and the Ford Kuga patrol car were left facing each other after the crash which blocked the road. Two officers sustained minor injuries – as the vehicles also demolished a Victorian post box which had been in use for 120 years at Penpont, near Brecon, mid-Wales. One motorist who arrived on the scene minutes afterwards said: ‘I can’t understand how it happened. It was a clear day on a straight stretch of road. ‘The vehicles hit each other head-on and it caused a lot of damage. It was fortunate no-one was killed. ‘But the van must have been travelling at some speed because it was very badly damaged and looked like a write-off.’ A Dyfed-Powys spokeswoman said: ‘The circumstances are being investigated and both vehicles are non-operational.’

Have you ever seen a two-foot-tall dog squeeze through a 9 inch cat flat?

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Houdini dog’ squeezes through tiny cat flap to escape the kitchen  A family set up a camera to try and figure out how their dog kept escaping the kitchen recently and only upon viewing the footage did they realise their pet had quite an unusual talent. It turns out five-month-old Dash is something is an amateur contortionist, after he was seen squeezing his body through a tiny cap-flap, much to the amazement of owners Paul Groves and Nicky Gilligan.   The greyhound lurcher is 2 foot tall, however he manages to fit through the tiny gap, which is measured at just 7 x 9 inches, in his home on Newport, Wales. Paul said: We have two cats and one of them can barely squeeze through it, so it’s amazing that Dash can. Dash is a beautiful dog and he has a really good temperament. He’s playful and we’re delighted we have him.    ‘He likes to run around like mad for ten minutes and then sleeps the rest of the time. ‘He is still growing though so eventually I do...