ASTON — About seven years ago, Francis and Clare, a pair of budgie parakeets, were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston, by a visiting ...

If you’d tuned into the BBC on this day in 1958, you’d have come across something quite remarkable - Sparkie the talking budgie. But if, like my own childhood pet budgies, yours didn’t utter a dicky ...