1.   Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.

2.   Local villagers claimed the three men killed were collecting scrap metal left by previous bombings.

3.   Near the city of Pandaan, for example, villagers claimed they saw two ninja who, when chased, turned themselves into cats.

4.   Villagers claim that Macedonian Special Police forces entered the village and shot the men.

5.   Police denied the abduction was the action of Muslim militants as villagers had first claimed.

6.   A villager claimed he was beaten by Russians.

7.   Another group from the central province of Suphanburi called on the government to stop construction of a provincial administration on land the villagers claim is their own.

8.   Another four men, who villagers claimed belonged to the same criminal gang, escaped.

9.   But villagers claim one more pachyderm remains at large, he said.

10.   But the villagers claimed Serb police wait until foreign observers and journalists have left the areas before reappearing.