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Tool mystery deepens

It's a 'saw set' - or is it?

Last week the Goole Times printed the two pictures below of the mystery tool (left) being used as a saw set.

However, two readers have contacted us to say it is definitely an imperial measurement standard wire gauge.

One of those was Kevin O'Connor, of Hook Road, who said the the gauge was mainly used in aircraft engineering.

He is pictured (right) with his own model, which bears the inscription Bob and Kelly Son, Manchester.

(26-04-43 GT)

Goole was probably the same as any other place in those days.

Howden MP David Davis has hit out at the Government for refusing to meet the costs of the Normandy Veterans' final trip to northern France.

Parishioners have bid a tearful farewell to St Mary's Church in Old Goole, which is closing after 70 years.

A man has been banned from holding a driving licence for 20 months after he was caught drink-driving.