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I've bean had says customer

HOW many beans make 2.50? That's the question an irate customer at Sarni's sandwich shop in Aldine Court off Sheffield's High Street asked the other day.

He grumped about the cost of his beans on toast and pushed an anonymous printed letter through the door.

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It reads: "How can you charge 2.50 for beans on toast when two slices of toast cost 55p? That's 1.65 for 20 beans.

"Even Dick Turpin wore a mask."

Owner Peter Gregory was so tickled he pinned the letter up over the counter for all to see.

"Of course it's not 20 beans. It's two and half ladles full," he says.

"It's not about the number of beans, is it? We have a good idea who it is."

Must-have item if that's your bag

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THIS year's must-have bag is not some expensive little designer item but a Radio Sheffield Summer of Love shopping bag.

They were being dished out in Fargate this week by Jim Haley and his helpers.

Some 7,000 have been shifted – to mark the 40th anniversary of Flower Power in 1967 and the station's own 40th birthday this year.

"All made of recyclable material, even the ink," says Jim, who drives the station bus.

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So have the bags – each comes with a couple of packets of wild seeds – cost the licence payers? "We get a lot of help from people who are very kind," says Jim.

Gorman book on sale in Atkinson's

TERRY Gorman's prints - a book of his paintings was featured in the Diary this week – are available to buy in Atkinson's furniture department.