Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings.

The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis. It is suggested this unusual position means he could have been murdered or executed. … We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.

On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

The Maniats, in particular, had never paid any taxes to the Ottomans, and refused to do so now to the agents of Kapodistrias.