Hidden cameras set up to catch fly-tippers have instead been triggered by a feathery intruder.

As part of a crackdown on illegal waste dumping, Durham County Council installed a series of CCTV cameras at known hotspots.

But after the team was alerted to possible criminal activity being caught on camera, they instead found footage of an inquisitive pheasant having a look down the lens.

Long-lost rabbit cartoon on show

A “lost” film featuring Disney’s first animated character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, has been unearthed in a British archive and will be shown for the first time in 87 years.

A print of the cartoon, called Sleigh Bells and produced in 1928, was rediscovered by a researcher browsing the BFI National Archive’s online catalogue.

Walt Disney Animation Studios has restored the cartoon, which is around six minutes long, and it will have a world premiere next month. The BFI said while other Oswald cartoons survived, Sleigh Bells had been feared lost and had not been seen since its original release.

‘Emergency’ call over dinner

A question about what temperature to oven-cook a chicken and requests for taxi numbers are just some of the 999 “emergency” calls a UK police force has received.

Cumbria Police have launched a campaign to raise awareness of the different policing services available to ensure people get the right response and information for the right situation.

Chief Superintendent Steve Johnson said: “This may seem amusing, but it could have prevented us from speaking to someone who required an urgent response.”

Bieber graffiti ban is denied

A Boston city councillor said he was being sarcastic when he tweeted that he would introduce an emergency ordinance prohibiting Justin Bieber-inspired graffiti.

The pop singer asked artists around the world to paint murals inspired by tracks from his upcoming album. The singer posted a photo of a mural on a Boston pizza shop, prompting a joking response from councillor Matt O’Malley saying he planned to file legislation to keep such murals off city walls.

But not everyone grasped the intended humour and the tweet garnered a range of responses, including calls for Mr O’Malley to focus on things like crime and poverty. Mr O’Malley said he has nothing against Bieber, but that he was not a fan of his work.

Candidate’s briefs go on sale

Employees of a Vermont company have launched a side business selling underwear featuring a black-and-white drawing of the face of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

The underwear, which features the message “Feel the Bern”, is available for men and women and costs $15. The three workers with KSE Partners, a strategic communications and government affairs firm, say they created Bernie’s Briefs as a fun side business.

The Vermont senator has said recently on late-night TV and talk shows that he prefers briefs over boxers. The start-up’s founders called Mr Sanders’s passion for serious issues admirable, with one saying the political process has benefited from his campaign.

Store ‘sleeper’ had a rope ladder

A man has been arrested on charges that he broke into a Pennsylvania supermarket using a rope ladder – then claimed to merely be sleeping on the store’s roof when he was caught.

Thomas Beal, 48, is awaiting arraignment on burglary, criminal trespass and other charges. A security guard inside Peachin’s Supermarket in Dunbar Township called police when he saw Beal enter the store through an air-conditioning vent and lower himself with the ladder. Troopers surrounded the building and found Beal on the roof.