The calls to the 999 emergency number included a man reporting that "someone robbed my marmalade", a woman saying her sister had brought a stray dog into her house and a man stating that he had seen "a chicken walking down the road".

BBC: Marmalade

Two days later, outside the Northwest Folklife Festival in the city centre, a man carrying a book was shot in the leg by stray gunfire.

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