... and finally, here’s the latest news from 1898

Paul came across the fragment while working in the roof space of a house he was renovating in Rushams Road.

“It dropped down on top of me,” he said. “There’s one part readable, about a bloke sleeping in a barn shed.”

The paper says that the man was sentenced to one day in prison after he admitted sleeping in a cow shed near Warnham, scaring away the farmer’s cows.

Paul said: “It was a bit of a shock. Doing what I do, you do find old newspapers, but not normally one that’s that old, or that parts of it are still readable.”