Long road home

Two men and their dogs walked 50 miles along the hard shoulder of the M4 in an attempt to get home to Wales after finding themselves stranded in Buckinghamshire. Magistrates at Chippenham, Wiltshire, were told that Bryan Powell, 28, and Terry Wright, 19, of Varteg, Gwent, were stranded without money after a business deal involving hare-coursing dogs fell through. Both were fined pounds 60 for walking on a motorway.