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Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Mon 24 Sep, 2012 13.42
by bilky asko
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".
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Tue 25 Sep, 2012 11.05
by woah
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Sun 07 Oct, 2012 18.54
by dosxuk
Saw this on Twitter today:
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Sun 07 Oct, 2012 19.16
by Alexia
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....
(my apologies)
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Sun 14 Oct, 2012 12.28
by Jenny
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.
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Wed 14 Nov, 2012 12.04
by rts
Snow regularly falls at 11 degrees I have you know... (what a prat)
http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/ ... 112012.htm
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Fri 28 Dec, 2012 21.08
by fusionlad
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.
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Fri 28 Dec, 2012 22.57
by woah
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)
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Fri 28 Dec, 2012 23.01
by Alexia
Comments on that Plymouth piece are quite good!
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Thu 14 Feb, 2013 21.27
by marksi
http://www.spectatornewspapers.co.uk/ne ... sp?id=2055
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
Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Fri 22 Feb, 2013 02.58
by bilky asko
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