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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-womans-pavlova-plans-ruined-1475899
Woman's strawberries go mouldy. She tweets Waitrose. They apologise and offer replacement.
My local paper has gone mad....
You are very lucky that you live in an area where things like that are considered newsworthy. Better than reading about violent crime!
Our local rag ran a story a while ago in the court pages about a Mum who was in court for pulling a duvet off her teenage daughter and shouting at her when she wouldn't get out of beds for school!
I opened this expecting to see a story about a man who was swallowed by a Hippo.
Ahhh... Wouldn't it be nice if this kind of thing was all the BBC had to report about of an evening.
Mate from Bournemouth's favourite from his local rag was "Cow escapes after gate left open"
Loving the headline, "Bath womans pavlova plans ruined...."
It's shit anyway, go and buy a chocolate fudge cake!
The Shetland Times , out each Tuesday, had a front page headline about 14 years ago about a drunkard that stole a dvd and a bottle of vodka from the Co-op in Lerwick.
He wasn't a local though ...
Loving the headline, “Bath womans pavlova plans ruined….”
It’s shit anyway, go and buy a chocolate fudge cake!
I love that that's what you took from it.
They should have told her to do one for buying the essentials range and not the proper stuff, a proper Waitrose customer would have just binned them and sent the butler back out for some more!
This is a proper Waitrose customer
The Shetland Times
its a long time since I was up there, but I distinctly remember a lead story on the evening news on the radio that some poor chap had had his bike pinched from outside the chippy in Lerwick. It must be good to live in a place where bike theft is about the worst crime imaginable.
Hold on to your hats, shit's about to get real...
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/public-notice-board-lock-change-row-erupts-1-8211714
My antivirus is blocking a few things in that first link from the OP, be warned.
Still one of my favourite films - am I allowed to say that about a Kevin Spacey film:-
Are you sure the two holding pastry products haven't escaped from a Bob and Vic sketch?
Things do get a bit dull down here in Somerset (I started [url= https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/in-character-local-news/ ]a thread[/url] a while back prompted by a report of the theft of a prize cheese from local show.)
From the same source as the OP's - https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/jd-wetherspoon-issues-apology-after-1438340
Love the Morrisons one.
“I wanted eight large sausage rolls and two steak bakes,” said Linda, 62, from Thorntree.
That Wetherspoons manky bogs story is solid though. Could've gone national!
The best Portsmouth can do today -
"Mum’s disgust after girl, seven, is sold penis-shaped sweets at Portsmouth shop"
Selected quotes: 'My girls thought they were innocent sweets.' ‘Seeing them come home with them was really upsetting.’
'from a shop named LOL, which stands for laugh out loud.'
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I work in local papers, so no excuses for me, but we do follow one poor lass who has written for her paper about the local WI buying a new kettle, another group having a raffle to raise funds for a new printer and the charity vents to buy a new Henry vacuum cleaner.
Oh, one of our editions this week had the front page story about the new Nandos planned for the town won't be open until the first week of August. Yes, I feel dirty...
Love the way the husband thinks the Morrison s pie thing is part of a more sinister agenda.
Also.
Husband Tony, who eats fish and chips three days a week and rarely touches pastry, branded the decision “stupid”.
Theres obviously nothing wrong with his decision-making!
My antivirus is blocking a few things in that first link from the OP, be warned.
*sigh*
It's the TrinityMirror local news site...
It was better when he said it was a conspiracy .. a conspiracy to deny the man who does not eat pies access to pies he does not want to eat ...has JHJ covered this yet ?
Are you sure the two holding pastry products haven’t escaped from a Bob and Vic sketch?
1) It's Vic and Bob... Not Bob and Vic... I'm not OCD, but it's definitly wrong to say it that way around!
2) They're clearly Edward and Tubbs from The League of Gentlemen.
Schnizzle gets real here in Cumbria
http://road.cc/content/news/200681-parked-bike-mystery-perplexes-cockermouth-residents
And Road.cc actually picked that up? I can see a local rag running it in a quiet week (I did worse myself), but sheesh.
Its kicking off here in the Borders
“I’d been cooking steak earlier and had left the window open a little more than usual.
“I had my three kids, my partner, plus an 81-year-old, six dogs and three cats in the house with me, yet it was the old cat who alerted me.
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“I woke up to hear my cat making a growling noise.
our village monthly had a good typo a few years ago where they were appealing for whoever it was nailing dead cows they'd shot to the fenceposts near the Rec (or somesuch) to please stop it.........followed the next month by a correction that it was crows
It must be good to live in a place where bike theft is about the worst crime imaginable.
Aye zokes, insular community.
Yorkshire Evening Post today reported that RAF fighter jets flew over Leeds “and other parts of Yorkshire” today.
Remarkable, that, seeing as Leeds is kind of [i]in the middle of West[/i] Yorkshire
A few years ago I stopped for a coffee in Holsworthy. Was reading a copy of The North Devon Gazette or somesuch, and spied me the following headline:
'Buzzard seen acting strangely in a field'
There was even a stock photo of a buzzard's head, closeup. It just looked annoyed IMO.
‘Buzzard seen acting strangely in a field’
It was probably hunting for worms, a practice that can seem a little odd to those who think that buzzards only kill livestock. And I’m not surprised the buzzard looked annoyed, that’s defamation of character, right there!
back in the days of the Monica Lewisinki case a little local Glasgow paper ran the headline
"Clinton Accused of Shirt Lifting"
Bill Clinton, of Pollockshields, was accused of stealing two shirts and a jacket from a charity shop. His defence was 'I'm not the man you arrested'
Latest news from Harrogate:
A housing developer has been fined £34,000 after a hedgerow was unlawfully removed next to a new housing development in Harrogate. Persimmon Homes PLC was also ordered to pay £9,468 in costs and a victim surcharge of £170 following a ruling at Leeds Magistrates Court.
Interesting to note the hedge also received a £170 victim surcharge!
Are you sure the two holding pastry products haven’t escaped from a Bob and Vic sketch?
"We're from the Isle of Man".
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I think it has been put their to drum up some hatred and casual racism.
Some of the comments from Australians are quite funny though and I have no idea why he didn't go to see a medical professional if he was concerned, I guess he would get a fee for commenting to the mail then!
Not much crime in Lerwick??! It’s the UK’s murder centre, I’ve seen Shetland!!
You need to differentiate between news stories and human interested stories. News outlets usually through a human interest story in just to break up the endless doom and gloom. Spoiled strawberry pavlovas are just a continuation of this great tradition.
News outlets usually through a human interest story in just to break up the endless doom and gloom.
You mean like a story about a cat with a telegraph pole stuck up it?
Somerset live is click bait of the highest order, worse than the daily mail.
But I kind of believe this one