April / May 2002

Death Trap Bridge Rapped

(Evening News January 1977)

Reach mothers are uniting to press for the rebuilding of a bridge which they say is a potential death trap. It spans the disused railway line on the only main road into Reach from Swaffham Prior.

Twenty feet below are the remains of the parapets , demolished by hooligans over the last two years. A water main had burst on the bridge, which has subsided, the solution would be to demolish the bridge and level the road, but they were unable to make funds available.


Answers to sequences
  1. N for Nine – initial letters of one two etc 
  2. X The letters used as Roman numerals 
  3. 28 add 2 to the first number then 3 to the second etc
  4. D for Decagon where T stands for triangle , P for pentagon etc 
  5. A for April they are the initial letters of the months of the year backwards 
  6. 4 one has 3 letters two has 3 letters three has 5 etc 
  7. 29 the prime numbers 
  8. P for pawn—chess pieces in order of importance 
  9. Y for Year divisions of time 
  10. J the sequence of consonants 

  11. 34 each number is the sum of the two previous 
  12. N convert each number to it’s Roman numeral equiv
  13. X letters with a horizontal axis of symmetry
  14. S for Sagittarius the initial letters of the zodiac
  15. 7 the digits arranged in alphabetical order
  16. 1904—leap years
  17. S for spades the suite of playing cards
  18. S for Seven Playing cards where A=Ace K—King etc
  19. N these are the final letters of 1,2,3, etc
  20. R for Ruth initial letters of the books of old testament

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