Many of the top scoring articles on this site fall into the category of weird, strange, odd or just plain daft.

Here are the 20 most usual stories which received the most hits in 2007.

McFly Halifax gig cancelled: Video - see the reaction of the fans outside the Victoria Theatre
Teenage pop fans were left stranded in Halifax after boy band McFly suddenly cancelled their sell-out Victoria Theatre gig.
Our video crew got in among the crowd to capture the mood of anger and disappointment as the groupies let their feelings known and even treated us to renditions of McFly hits.
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Twister whirls through district - readers send in their pictures
During one of the wettest summers on record a tornado passed over Calderdale as heavy rain battered the district - and several readers answered our on-going plea to see it, snap it, send it!
They sent in their photographs, taken from places right across the district, of the twister as it passed overhead.
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Group stage Halifax protest against smoking ban
Britain became smoke-free on July 1 - a move that was met by a backlash of grumbling from most smokers.
But a group of Halifax smokers chose a more proactive approach as they staged a five-man protest in the town centre and used a banner reading "No smoking, burn down Parliament", to get their message across.
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Free condoms for dogging couples using Calderdale beauty spot as sex den
The problem of couples meeting for outdoor sex at a scenic lagoon got so bad a health group began targeting the area to encourage safe sex.
But their tactic of taping condoms to trees did not meet with the approval of people using the area for more wholesome activities.
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Big Brother star Chanelle attacked at Halifax club
When Posh Spice wannabe Channelle Hayes made a guest appearance at a Halifax nightclub, she received more than just the adulation of her fans.
The Big Brother Star from Wakefield was left shaken after someone in the crowd threw a beer bottle at her.
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Woman glued to airport
Hebden Bridge eco-warrior Penny Eastwood was back in trouble with the long arm of the law after her latest glue-related publicity stunt.
This time the green activist stuck herself to the entrance of Leeds-Bradford airport in protest at the growth of air travel.
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He'll be buried with can of Stella Artois
In a tribute to Dominic Ogden, who took his own life on his 21st birthday, his distraught family told how he would be buried with a ring his granddad intended to give him as a gift.....and a can of Stella Artois.
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'Screaming fights of the vice girls'
A community plagued by prostitutes spoke out about the neighbourhood's red-light girls.
Residents of the Lightowler Road, Gibbet Street area of Halifax complained of women roaming the streets and swearing and shouting at each other and clients.
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Cannabis medicine gran prepared to go to prison
A gran who suffers from a muscle disease vowed to keep growing and smoking cannabis to ease her pain – despite being warned she would be sent straight to prison.
Goanita Jacques, 48, was given a two-month suspended sentence for producing the drug when she appeared at Bradford Crown Court and warned she would be jailed if caught again.
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Glue prank causes Saturday havoc for Halifax town centre shops
Dozens of Halifax shop workers were left sipping tea outside their stores after vandals went around the town during the night super gluing door locks.
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52-year-old councillor becomes Muslim and marries 25-year-old woman in Gambia
A love-struck councillor celebrated St Valentine's Day with a telephone call to his new wife 6,000 miles away in Gambia.
Bob Thompson went on holiday and within days met and married a woman half his age and became a Muslim.
But red tape meant Fatou Jammeh and her eight-year-old daughter, Sira, could not join Coun Thompson in Elland.
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Bob and Fatou were finally reunited in Elland on their first anniversary - click here to read the full story)

Picture gallery of Calderdale's freak floods
Back to the wettest summer in recent memory and a rain-lashed Calderdale, counting the cost of freak floods which caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The Courier photographers got out there and captured the scene of devastation.
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MI5 cover-up claim over Robin Hood in Yorkshire
Robin Hood is buried in Calderdale and MI5 are keeping the truth secret to allow a multi-million pound Midlands tourist industry to flourish.
Those were the astonishing claims of a society set up to discover what really happened to Britain's most famous outlaw.
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Fag's your lot, folks! Smokers brave the rain as ban comes in
Smokers across Calderdale were lighting up in doorways in July after the nationwide smoking ban came into effect.
And as most meekly accepted the new rules, the Courier video crew went out to the pub to capture some of their views.
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The man who had two screwdrivers in his underpants
When police searched a suspect who had been spotted climbing out of a window, they found something unusual in his underpants.
Calderdale magistrates heard how Richard David Bull had two screwdrivers with blue handles stuffed down them.
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Have you seen mystery lights above Halifax?
A mysterious light was spotted in the skies above Halifax back in August.
An eyewitness told the Courier she had seen the strange moving light at 9pm on two separate nights in the same week.
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Here at last: a pool for stripping and dipping
Skinny dipping became a reality for naturists in Calderdale this year as an Elland naturist club opened a pool for its 140 members.
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Cop cake!
When a police officer virtually wiped out crime at a troubled Calderdale garage, the staff presented him with a cake to say thank you.
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Halifax Town player's girl hopes to be High Street Honey!
Forget boardroom takeovers and disappointing league positions, Halifax Town fans finally had something to cheer about.
Kerry-Ann Booth, the stunning girlfriend of now former defender Greg Young, was selected for the finals of a national beauty competition.
She pledged to fly the club's colours throughout her campaign.
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7 out of 10 are baffled by 'quarter' signs
Seven out of ten people questioned in a Courier survey did not understand most of the signs in Halifax town centre.
68 per cent could not grasp the colour-coded 'quarter' signs directing residents and visitors to different areas of the town
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