Baffling local news stories

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bilky asko
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Alexia wrote:Cracking headline in today's Liverpool Echo:

BOY, 5, HIT BY CAR IN HOSPITAL
It still doesn't beat one I spotted a few years ago in the Scarborough Evening News - "DOORBELL CAUSES FAINTING FITS".
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woah
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I can hardly wait!

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/ ... -1-4956880
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dosxuk
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Saw this on Twitter today:

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Alexia
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I didn't think they allowed people from Norwich to be train drivers....

All those extra fingers must get in the way of the controls sometimes....


:twisted:
(my apologies)
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Jenny
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I live in a very quiet town and you can tell the local newspaper struggles to fill its pages. I love the fact that the "News In Brief" section invariably includes a two-sentence story which is just a local pensioner saying what he's seen in his garden. (This week: a red admiral butterfly.) Last week, so little happened generally that the editor chose to lead with a story about her own wedding.
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rts
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Snow regularly falls at 11 degrees I have you know... (what a prat)

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/ ... 112012.htm
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fusionlad
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http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Urinati ... story.html
A MAN urinated over flower beds in front of shocked shoppers, while making a noise like an elephant, a court heard.
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woah
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I still think this is a contender for non-story of the year:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/ ... -1-4956880

The Star yet again getting us the top breaking news with expert journalists getting the gritty detail of every story. They even managed to find out how old the escalators are because that's what the readers really want to know (and it of course wasn't based on the fact that the shopping centre opened 25 years ago)
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Alexia
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Comments on that Plymouth piece are quite good!
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marksi
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http://www.spectatornewspapers.co.uk/ne ... sp?id=2055

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THE music is over for a Bangor landmark inspired by global pop sensation Rihanna.

For the striking lone tree at the centre of the Rihanna-gate ´cover up´ controversy is now literally dead wood.

Just two years ago the landmark tree enjoyed world-wide fame after popular farmer Alan Graham asked Rihanna to stop filming during a Grammy award winning video shoot in his field.

The lone tree, easily visible from the Bangor to Belfast dual carriageway, was handpicked as a backdrop location for Rihanna´s music video ´We found love´.

At the time the controversy broke the local councillor denied telling the sex symbol to ´cover up´ but simply called time on the video shoot in September 2011.

See this week´s Spectator for more details
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bilky asko
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bilky asko wrote:
Alexia wrote:Cracking headline in today's Liverpool Echo:

BOY, 5, HIT BY CAR IN HOSPITAL
It still doesn't beat one I spotted a few years ago in the Scarborough Evening News - "DOORBELL CAUSES FAINTING FITS".
Months after remembering this old headline, I've found the person it refers to in a Daily Mail article:

The man who 'died' every time his alarm clock went off
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