LOGIC BRAINTRAINER

It was a slow news day at the local gazette and the editor had to dip into her files to fill the front pages. From the clues, can you tell on which page each story appeared, its length and how long ago the story was originally filed?

CLUES

1. The front-page story was the shortest and the oldest of the three yarns.

2. The story about the local church’s charity book sale was filed four days ago.

3. The journalist who filed the story about the lost cardigan had managed to spin it into a 500 word opus.

4. The page-3 story isn’t 400 words.

Each time you rule out a match, put a cross where the vertical and horizontal squares meet in the grid. When you find a match, put a tick in the grid. Also put a cross in the other two squares horizontally and vertically in the same line, as no other combinations can be true. By doing so, you’ll gradually be able to solve the puzzle.