Sad news

The flat above the hairdresser's in Lion Street is being refurbished, after the sudden and unexpected death of the tenant.
It's the sort of thing that can happen even in a community like Hay, where everyone knows everyone else's business. He lived alone, and no-one noticed that he wasn't around for a few days.
He had two cats, Popeye and Olive Oyl. His daughter came to collect Olive Oyl, but Popeye, a ginger tom, was missing. At about the same time, a ginger tom appeared in the gardens behind Broad Street, and no-one was sure whether it was Popeye or Bruce, who has also gone walkabout again. Eventually, the cat rescue people caught him - and it was Popeye - but the following morning, he had to be rushed to the vet's, where he died a couple of days later. The post mortem revealed that he had been poisoned - a terrible thing to happen at any time, and a big worry in an area with so many pet cats.