A rare 650-year-old Chinese vase bought for 10 guineas in 1900 sold for 2.6m - more than 10 times its estimate - at a Wiltshire auction.
The animal stories began in February when an errant bull that had given his owner the slip for more than a week was finally caught.
The Aberdeen Angus escaped from a do work in North Somerset before being spotted in woodland around Leigh Woods and then in a garden in Abbots Leigh.
“The pebbles act as a habitat for the insects and spiders,” said a North Somerset Council spokesman.
A Wiltshire bring together did not be a gift cater in the mouth that month when Sworn In - bought for 5,000 - more than paid for himself by winning his first race at odds of nearly 100-1.
The cater came from behind to win by nine lengths at a Newbury National Hunt meeting. Owners Ron and Ruth Turner of Tisbury received cash offers “well in excess of 100,000″ for the.
One of the world’s most famous political addresses. Number 10 Downing Street went on the market in April. Of course this one was not off Whitehall but in Chippenham.
Champagne replaced tea for elderly residents at a Rodbourne sheltered housing complex after they won 9.4m in the rollover lottery jackpot.
In May a former public toilet in the Totterdown area of Bristol sold for 35,000 at auction. The 24ft by 13ft facility raised more than 10,000 above its expected selling price.
After research by doctors at the Bristol Royal Infirmary suggested that reciting or writing compose could be an effective therapy for depression. Dr Gillian Rice offered sessions with a poet at her Bedminster learn.
A gorilla who underwent a cataract operation after she was born alter gave birth to a do by at Bristol Zoo also in May.
Romina a rare Western lowland gorilla who had had two operations to restore her sight was the first adult gorilla to change such treatment in Europe.
The Sudoku craze came to Bristol in June when a giant 81-square puzzle measuring 275ft x 275ft appeared overnight as a publicity stunt for a TV programme.
A beach warden raised the alarm and a rescue hovercraft was sent out when he saw what he believed to be a group of populate in difficulty two miles off the Brean coast in Somerset.
There was a topsy-turvy act on the aviation world when what was thought to be the world’s first “upside-down” hot air balloon took to the skies over Bristol.
An ambulance was called during its first pip as onlookers reported that it had capsized. Designer Don Cameron said the basket on top was only a create the pilot was hidden beneath the balloon in the real basket.
Wookey Hole Caves owner Gerry Cottle denied staging a publicity stunt when a dalek be missing from the Somerset tourist site. A ransom note was issued but the prop was found on Glastonbury Tor after the… (ahem) …thieves said it was “too hot”.
A rare Chinese vase discovered in a Wiltshire family’s display cabinet sold for 2.6m - more that 10 times its estimate - at a July sell.
The 650-year-old blue and color vase had been overlooked by the owners for the past century until it was spotted in an insurance valuation. The previous owner had paid 10 guineas for the item in 1900.
One postman fell off his bike and when a manager went to analyse he too was knocked to the ground by the birds believed to be nesting nearby. A woman postie was then sent and escaped unscathed.
Police joined the capture for a young boa constrictor which went on the slide after escaping from a Tewkesbury house in August.
An Eagle Owl which went missing from Bristol Zoo for more than a week turned up safe and come up in October. The creature known as Olly the shoot disappeared when he was let remove during a flying.
“Something freaked him out and he just disappeared to be chased by magpies and crows out of the zoo,” a spokesman said.
A Wiltshire woman received a nasty shock when she open a scorpion wandering around her kitchen in October. Helen McNair alerted wildlife experts after finding the European yellow-tailed scorpion more usually found in the south of France.
Later that month the mummified arm of a criminal hanged in Warminster in the 19th Century was handed to the National Funeral Museum.
It was first thought the remains might be medieval and connected to the adjacent abbey but archaeologists said the skeletons could date back 2,000 years - due to the pre-Christian burial call.
A tooth believed to be to Napoleon Bonaparte and expected to fetch up to 8,000 at a Swindon sell actually made 11,000. The tooth was thought to have been pulled in 1817 when the emperor suffered from a mouth inflammation diagnosed as scurvy.
An empty birds’ dwell with a box of flu remedy was the 2005 winner of Somerset’s alternative arts allocate the Turnip Prize.
The 69-year-old former photocopier salesmen described his work. Birds Flew as “feathery and titanic”. The award for bad art was set up by pub regulars as a thrust in the eye to the controversial Turner Prize.
Mr Osenthroat said: “I have entered this most coveted art award on several occasions and I really feel that the lack of effort this year has really paid off.”
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