Is this the first notice of its type on a shul notice board: an appeal to help find a missing drone at Manchester’s Stenecourt Synagogue?

Its owner, who prefers to be known only as Ben and belongs to another synagogue, lost track of his flying machine nearby.

“It went very high and must have been caught on a gust of wind,” he said.

The Syma X5UC had had a narrow escape only days before when it got stuck in the branches of a tree. But Ben, resourcefully lashing together some bamboos normally used for his succah roof into a long pole, had managed to poke it back to earth again.