Frustrated Ramsden Street resident Alistair Fitton said: "One night mine, the landlady’s and another man’s car just wouldn’t start. The immobiliser on all three cars had mysteriously frozen.

"Ever since then pub regulars and six of my neighbours have been having the same problem."

They have now come up with a back-breaking solution – a free push into the corner of the car park, where a bottle bank just happens to be in line with the mast.

Mr Fitton is unable to park near his home and now leaves his car at the bottom of East Street.

He said "I was driving my father’s MG and I completely forgot about the problem.

"I then had to push the heavy car down the street to get it to start – I nearly put my back out. As I’ve been doing it for the last 18 months, I am getting used to it."

A spokesman for Orange said: "The Orange mobile phone network operates at a frequency of between 1800 and 2100 Mhz and no other technology is permitted to operate at that frequency.

"My advice to the drivers is for them to take the cars to the garage and get the immobiliser checked out.

"The answer to the mystery may lie elsewhere."

Technical whizz, Howard Stapleton, thinks the solution may lay with an amateur radio enthusiast or the new Tetra police communications system.

Telecommunications regulator Ofcom said that every so often this type of problem emerges with immobilisers and electronic key fobs.

Spokesman Simon Bates said: "The new mast may or may not be the cause, but it’s likely the immobilsers are of an inferior quality and can’t cope with the interference.

"We advise anyone affected to call Ofcom on 020 7981 3000 and we will be happy to investigate the matter.

"We may find that we can explain the problem and take action."

Capers runs the Temple Of Divine Prophecy Church, an international ministry that is based in San Diego, and he has an international media presence thanks to his unusual predictions and paranormal solutions to problems.

“Curses are very real,” he insists. “Especially when you have a multitude of people wishing ill will on one athlete. For instance, a person can focus their energy on John Doe the skier and say, `I don’t want them to win’ and walk through a complete scenario where they picture exactly how the athlete will lose the contest, such as a broken leg.”

Capers has been on the metaphysical map since 1990 but he says his psychic powers were given to him in the womb and then nurtured by his great aunt, Dr. Grace Valentine.
“In our family, every seventh child who was a girl had the gift.” Despite being all male, Capers was also a seventh child and apparently has developed the nine gifts of psychic ability.

“Those gifts are: faith; speaking in tongues; discernment of spirit; prophesizing; healing; powerful words; knowledge and wisdom. How many is that?”

Eight.

“Oh, did I say prophesizing?”

Yes.

“Oh, well, there’s knowledge.”

You said that.

“Oh my goodness, the devil must have taken control! I can’t figure out that ninth gift. Wait! It’s faith.”

Capers’ gift as a paranormal researcher has taken him many places and many worlds. Back in 1995, at the height of the O.J. Simpson trial, he spoke with Ron Goldman’s ghost, who told him O.J. was innocent and that he and Nicole were killed by two black men, one short and the other, a tall fat man.

Another time, he attended a Hollywood gala and saw Whitney Houston sing—but only after hubby Bobby Brown performed a voodoo ritual on her.

And when Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, Capers publicly defended him by using his amazing mental abilities to travel back in time and witness the alleged incident. His professional opinion: The sex was consensual but Kobe was “…a mule if you know what I mean.”

Capers is, admittedly, a different kind of religious figure than, say, the Pope, but he believes everyone is drawn to mentors for different reasons.

“Billy Graham attracted some people who appreciated his humility but there were others who weren’t into his message.”

He must be doing something right. Capers hosts a weekly public access program on Cox cable called “A Prophet Among Us” and he says, “I’ve been told it’s the number one show on Sundays.”

Although he has been asked to run the show on other cable networks across the country, so far he’s declined. “If you run those shows, you’re recruiting and I don’t want to get out of control.”

Currently, Capers is promoting a new DVD, “Learn How To Defend Yourself Against Psychic Attack, Witchcraft And Sorcery,” and is working on his pet project, an actual church of his own.

“Before Joan Kroc died, she was supposed to donate some money for a church.”

That hasn’t happened but Capers vows he will have a real-life temple for his Temple of Divine Prophecy and says he doesn’t want it to be just a black church.

“I want Asians, whites, blacks, Hispanics and every race and creed so they can all get healed.

“I want it to be a place where the psychic gifts are so developed that a minister can tell a mother to be sure to walk her child to school on Monday in order to prevent a car accident that is prophesized to happen.”

"It was about 11:30, we stepped outside and saw a big triangle outside a Baptist church," said Tony Pratt.

Pratt uses his video camera to document UFO's. He claims if you point the camera toward the sun, then block out the sun itself, you can see something flying in the sky.

The cat's owner said it has no interest in eating fish but prefers to eat six pounds of chicken and pork each day.

This fat cat is not alone in his weight problem, according to the report. Obesity has become a serious problem for the modern cat, primarily due to a lack of exercise and a richer diet.

Cats are susceptible to a range of illnesses including kidney trouble and diabetes, if they are allowed to remain overweight.