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As whodunits go the disappearance of a blue plaque from the wall of an old pub is hardly a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

But the case of the vanishing nameplate commemorating England' s oldest surviving charitable society is still puzzling the villagers of Broughton three years after it went missing.

The historic pub, best-known as the Golden Ball, but later the Touch of Spice Indian restaurant, has now bitten the dust - flattened to make way for two blocks of retirement homes.

Hunt is on near Preston for missing blue plaque unscrewed from wall of village pub