8 June 2007: Peter Pan to the rescue

Carter's Steam Fair was having a problem with youths, who were being a nuisance at their funfair.

Attempts to get the trouble makers to go away had failed until the organisers tried a new tactic. They started playing Cliff Richard records.

Playing tracks such as "Living Doll" on all their rides did the trick better than security guards could, without any danger of violence.

The trouble makers just vanished. "It was just like the film 'Mars Attacks'" said a spokesman, referring to the part in the film where the alien invaders are chased away by playing Country Music to them.

Cliff Richard is sometimes known as the Peter Pan of Pop, because he has been making records for nearly fifty years.