How macabre! It's something you might expect in revolutionary France - but surely not in Grimsby!

 

Off with their heads! The guillotine 

A GUILLOTINE has been the surprise arrival of the summer at Grimsby's community recycling centre.

The device, which has baffled the team at the centre, appears to be blade-free and is (or was) operated by electricity. It is not known where it was manufactured.

Says a spokesperson for North East Lincolnshire Council: "We don't know anything about its origins or for what purpose it might have been used - hopefully nothing too grisly.

"The thought that it might actually have removed heads is too grim even to contemplate."  

Subject to no objections, the beheading device will be used in a spook-tacular display to be staged at the centre in the run-up to Halloween next month.