A chicken has been reunited with its owner after apparently hitching a lift for about 25 miles (40km) on the spare wheel on the back of a Land Rover. Dave Jacobs found the chicken wandering around ...

Booming car ownership, cheaper air travel and a handful of isolated horror news stories contributed to its demise. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, hitching a lift had become a fringe activity; by ...