Fruity mystery drives residents in Nottinghamshire street bananas

Residents on a Nottinghamshire road have been left perplexed as to why a mysterious plate of bananas keeps appearing on their street corner once a month.

- Jessica Murray

The bananas, which are always whole but peeled, have been showing up regularly for more than a year, residents say, and people are keen to find out who is leaving them there.

"I think it has been happening for at least a year. I see them all the time, it's difficult to remember exactly when," said Claire Fenwick, who lives in Beeston, a town about three miles south-west of Nottingham and where the bananas are left. "I've never seen anyone leaving them. They could be for animals but I've never seen a peck taken out of them.

"My friend will message me to say, oh, the bananas are back today. But we have no idea where they're coming from, or who is doing it."

The bananas, of which there are usually 15-20, are placed on a plate opposite a church on the corner of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue.