When Jodie Brown buys an instant camera from a charity shop, she finds it can sometimes take photographs of the future. But she soon realises this power has to be used with care.
Laura Patterson’s modelling career is on the line because success has gone to her head and made her arrogant and badly behaved. When Laura’s misbehaviour causes an accident that damages her face, her younger sister Amy agrees to pretend to be her in the modelling assignments until her face heals. It is vital that the deception is not discovered because it would definitely destroy Laura’s career after her misconduct. Amy is also using her pose as Laura to convey the image that Laura has reformed and thus saving her career. Privately, though, the real Laura is proving slow to reform.
Cheryl is being fostered by the Dysons. She is naturally shy and quiet, but then she stands up to a bully, winning admiration from her foster sister and friends. Cheryl then decides that the way to go in not being pushed around is to go all out to get anything she wants, regardless of anyone else.
Liz Ryan tells the story of what happened when there was a thief in the class, and she and her best friend Sally turned detective to find the culprit.
After much detective work the evidence points to Lynne. Following this, a stolen bracelet is found on her. But Sally believes Lynne’s protests of innocence because she found the other stolen property hidden in Liz’s bedroom. Confronted, Liz admits she is the thief. Liz is spared expulsion, but she finds expulsion would have been better than being the school outcast, which she is now. And of course she has lost her best friend.
When old Mrs Perkins wrongly accuses Julie Bates of breaking a street light, she puts a curse on her. The curse causes an evil double, Shadow, to appear whenever Julie is in the dark or dim light, and Julie keeps getting the blame for the trouble Shadow causes.
When Lee sees a shooting star, she wishes for a boyfriend to take her to the disco. She gets her wish in a most unexpected manner – the shooting star is a starship crashing, and the alien, from the planet Blupo, assumes human form to take her to the disco!
Special complete story. Rachel Ward wants to get Jake to notice her. Fate, in the form of accidents for both Rachel and Jake, gets them together.
Bunty had a number of complete one-off text and picure stories, over the years. It also sometimes had short humour strips. In later years it also had complete photo stories. Some stories included:
Two Little Piggies Went to Market
When Pam Wilson’s two pigs, Wilf and Simon, are stolen by some crooks they aren’t expecting her to be able to prove their hers, but they did not know they were performing pigs. Pam is able to prove they are hers by showing them dance.
Bess and her Pup
A humour strip about Bess and her pup Pooch.
“I Don’t Like Dogs!”
Special complete story. Mrs Kemp has terrible cynophobia (fear of dogs) and this fear passes on to her daughter Helen. After Mrs Kemp dies, Dad finds a new girlfriend, Rowena, but when Helen sees she has a golden retriever, Benji, her cynophobia starts causing problems with the new relationship. It gets to the point where Helen tries to deliberately lose Benji in the hope Rowena will leave. But when a mugger attacks Helen and Benji comes to the rescue, everything changes.
Rosie’s Return
A girl goes back to her old house in Kinley and ends up wishing she hadn’t. She had a quarrel with her friend Carol before she moved, and when she meets Carol again, she is freaked out by Carol having a ghostly encounter with a girl named Rosie.
Misty
Sara has an encounter with a rider on a white horse that she cannot explain.
Ghosthunters
Jilly, Sue and Natalie decide to go ghost hunting, and their hunt takes an unexpected turn.
Puppy Love
Lauren Dean has always wanted a pet, but it was not possible as her family live in an apartment block. Then Dad changes jobs and the family move into a cottage, where Lauren can have a pet at last. A stray dog adopts Lauren, and Lauren names her Spot. Spot dies, but not before she has given birth to three puppies, who become Lauren’s new pets.
Liz Miller has taken a job as companion and help to Miss Danby. Her sole companions are eight dolls: tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man and thief. Liz thinks Miss Danby is fantasising when she talks about the dolls as if they were alive – but then strange things start happening that suggest they are.
Twins Sammy and Susie Wainwright are both standing for School Captain, and this is causing discord between the twins.
