The government could be heading towards a new scandal tonight after it emerged it had failed to adequately inform and protect residents of a small Cheshire town from a series of unexplained happenings.
An area known as the Lostock Triangle has seen a succession of mysterious events and disappearances but despite local residents complaining over a long period it was only this week that there was official confirmation that all was not normal, fuelling speculation of a cover-up by both national and local government.
The latest incident has seen the complete disappearance of a partly built football stadium and all its associated diggers and equipment. Residents say it is as though nothing was ever there as the site has miraculously reverted back to green fields overnight. Owner, designer, funder and builder of the ground, Stephen McSmellie stood on a carpet of lush green grass and rather pretty bluebells and said “This is amazing, yesterday there was a nearly complete 7,000 seater stadium and today – dandelions. I want an answer”.
Police confirmed a complaint had been received by an un-named member of the public but declined to link the disappearance with other similar events saying only ‘We are investigating’.
Residents have told me they first became alarmed over 3 years ago when two men entered the Lostock Triangle in separate cars and were never seen again. The men, Nick Bone and Ian Campbell travelled regularly through the triangle and knew it well.
Further mystery ensued when Basil B Rushe, owner of the nearby Northwich Vics Football Club deposited nearly a million pounds in the triangle (due to be paid to the tax authorities and local businesses) and that too vanished without a trace. The biggest victims, so far, appear to be this football club. Over the last 3 years they have lost half their crowds, their credibility, good name and lots more money.
The government, it appears, were made aware of the risk several months ago as one of the local MP’s is no less a person than Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. He made reference to the previous government’s record of mismangement and assured locals there was nothing more to worry about. However, the disappearance of a nearly completed football stadium overnight and without trace has seriously undermined the government’s position. In a separate statement Cheshire West council confirmed that it had instructed all its drivers needing to leave the town through Lostock to divert through Wincham and Pickmere to the north or Middlewich to the south. There will be no bin collections until further notice.
Further revelations tonight suggest that a team of scientists from Florida, experts on the Bermuda Triangle, have been secretly flown in to help with investigations. Several men in white coats wearing glasses and carrying clipboards have been seen in the area accompanied by several tall fit looking men in smart suits with crew cuts, very dark sunglasses and holding one hand inside their suit jackets.
The British scientific community is also involved and Stephen Hawking told me earlier
“IT.....IS......POSS.....I.....BLE......THAT.....WE....ARE.....SEE....ING....THE.....BIRTH.....OF...A....BLACK....HOLE....HERE....IN......THE.....LOS.....TOCK.....TRI.....ANGLE..... THE....FOOT.....BALL......CLUB....NEED...TO.....BE.....CARE....FUL....THAT....MORE....OF.....THEIR ASS....ETS....DO.....NOT.....DIS.....APP.....EAR.....DOWN.....IT”

Another leading scientist in the field of astro-physics , who wished to remain anonymous, told me it is theoretically possible that there is a sort of teleport link between the Bermuda and Lostock triangles that is able to suck in both material and sound waves and make them reappear elsewhere in a totally different form. I showed him a picture of Basil B Rushe returning from the Lostock Triangle earlier and he looked at me and rather seriously said “Well, it is life but not as I know it”
A local resident put it in a much simpler way when she saw Basil B Rushe and Stephen McSmellie returning from Lostock “Look, luv, its just like Close Encounters of the Turd Kind”

Kate Adie
BBC News in the Lostock Triangle