  THE BEAST OF HAMMERSTRIKE Hammerstrike, a small town on the very edge of Southern England. Not much happens here. The residents of this town that time forgot live in harmony. Crime hasn't been invented yet. The villagers simple lives are detached from the hussle and bussle of the city. This is a town where everybody knows everybody. Hammerstrike has recently been won The Utopia Award for the tenth year running. Hammerstrike is a town of peace....that was until this week. Where harmony was barged aside by the large and disturbing shoulder of fear. The Beast Of Hammerstrike, first captured on shaky camcorder by some old woman filming couples on the Beden Meadow.
It has sent shockwaves of fear down the naive spines of the residents and brought unwanted attention from the worlds media. The footage shows a large cat like animal prowling the moors possibly looking for a man/woman/woodpecker to feast on. Boffins claim that the beast is nothing more than an escaped puma called Percy who fled his captors at Drayton Manor some months ago. Horrice Morris, 34 says otherwise. He, like a growing number of smalltown simpletons, has claimed to have seen the beast first hand. I probed him about this and the following words tumbled from his mouth. HORRICE: 'I was making good with my legs a few days ago across Gormless Creek when a large, shadow crossed my path.
I thought nothing of it until it emerged a few moments later and stopped right in front of me. I just froze. I didn't know what to do. I remained calm and tried not to startled it. It was a magnificent thing, very graceful and big. It walked on all fours at first but after a while it stood on its back legs and extened itself to about six feet.
I think it was trying to establish it's territory. ' INTERVIEWER: 'What did you do then? ' HORRICE: 'I, uh, regret to say that I wet myself. That seemed to scare it off. You're not going to mention this are you? ' Beast or no, Hammerstrike is hot right now. Papers are running wild with the story and the mystery deepens. More soon 
