English Villagers Buy Their Own Grass Verges, Endangered Lemur Has Four Pups, Mystery Motorbike Returner, Tourist Mauled After Feeding Bear & Volunteer Firefighter's 30-Hour Arson Spree

In Chartham near Canterbury, residents are spending thousands of pounds to buy up tiny grass verges and roadside strips next to their homes — fearing that if they don't, the land could be seized in unauthorised grabs. At Shaldon Zoo in Devon, a critically endangered red-ruffed lemur named Eka gives birth to four healthy pups — an extraordinary litter for a species that rarely produces more than one or two at a time. A man operating outside law enforcement has quietly built a reputation for tracking down stolen motorbikes through online listings and community tips, then returning them to their owners. In Romania, a man named Georgi Bizhev stops on a mountain road near the Vidraru Dam and throws food to a mother bear and her cub — the bear turns on him immediately and tries to drag him from his car, all of it caught on video. And in Pennsylvania, a volunteer firefighter is arrested after going on a 30-hour arson spree — deliberately setting multiple fires across several locations before police notice the pattern and take him into custody.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.