Nottingham Post published Plea for help to trace lost holiday romance among time-wasting...

A plea for help to trace a lost holiday romance and a request to re-home a nuisance cat were just some of the time-wasting calls received by Nottinghamshire County Council in the past 12 months.Council call centres handle more than 50 million calls each year, usually about council tax and parking, but they also receivemore bizarre queries that leave staff baffled.The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, has revealed some of the...