Baffling local news stories

gottago · Sat 16 Mar, 2013 11.36

Man tried making love to an ambulance in Barnstaple bus station

he was then spotted on CCTV in a phone box setting light to a packet of peanuts while also punching them.

The court heard Ward also approached members of the public who were forced to turn their backs on him and walk away. He then approached a nearby ambulance and spread himself in front of it.

Alexia · Sat 16 Mar, 2013 14.11

I think the BBC may have got a few comments about their "Jockey in Stable Condition" headline and have now renamed the story "Injured jockey has spine operation"

Alexia · Tue 16 Apr, 2013 13.17

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/1 ... e_carpark/

My local rag trying to employ the "live event" method for their website and coming up somewhat short.

scottishtv · Tue 16 Apr, 2013 18.57

Pete wrote:http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... 972t0.shtm

OAP loses £6000 during trip to supermarket
A Dundee pensioner has been left broken-hearted after she lost £6000 during a trip to the supermarket (writes Debbie Kerr).

What is it with Scottish old people and cash in supermarkets???!

Pete · Tue 16 Apr, 2013 21.35

scottishtv wrote:
Pete wrote:http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... 972t0.shtm

OAP loses £6000 during trip to supermarket
A Dundee pensioner has been left broken-hearted after she lost £6000 during a trip to the supermarket (writes Debbie Kerr).
What is it with Scottish old people and cash in supermarkets???!

to be fair, at least he had an excuse to have the money having just had it changed from euros.

cdd · Wed 17 Apr, 2013 09.21

I have to say this site is nothing short of a goldmine for furious local news stories and (more importantly) photos:

http://apiln.blogspot.de/

Pete · Thu 30 May, 2013 20.49

Tea sorted thanks to the Tele!

I hope this poem makes your readers smile.

When I was in the Wellgate jist the other day,
I stopped and had a thought: “What will eh get for tea?”
I turned around and there I saw the ladies from the Tele,
I bought the paper happily and went to walk awa’,
“Stop, come back and dinnae be sae silly” I heard the lady say. “Please.......
“Tak a tin o’ beanz meanz Heinz on us and hae them wie some cheese!”
Kind regards. Wendy Smith.

The Tele was offering a tin of Heinz Beanz to readers who purchased the paper in the Wellgate on Monday.

scottishtv · Tue 27 Aug, 2013 21.50

Chip shop makes ketchup free after racism claims

“I don’t know how the guy can cry racism because I ask for 25p for Heinz off all my customers, not just those from Glasgow.”

Pete · Tue 24 Sep, 2013 21.19

Fresh ideas to help bring city to life

While having lunch recently with family members we got talking about the regeneration of Dundee and what can be done to bring more jobs and tourism to the city.

We came up with a few ideas that our city fathers may find interesting.

Here are some of them —

a bowling alley with a fairground / slot machine area;

tours of the old city under Dundee; [this doesn't exist]

a sea life centre;

a Madam [sic] Tussauds, as the city has so many famous people past and present;

a millennium wheel;

a Dundee dungeon focusing on the city’s violent past;

an eatery at the redeveloping Stack Leisure Park; [for reference: this is the stack leisure park. its two previous eateries closed 20 years ago and its bowling alley five years ago. the "redevelopment" is that home bargains has opened in the old bowling alley.]

moving HMS Unicorn, to be berthed alongside the Discovery.

We know all this will no doubt be seen as fanciful but we had to have our say! M. Anderson.

adamcobb55 · Wed 25 Sep, 2013 07.54

A recent highlight from Stirling. That place where so much happens