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Earth Shattering Local News

Started by Blumf, June 23, 2011, 04:34:22 PM

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Blumf

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on July 14, 2021, 04:33:18 PM
Bin needs emptying in Botley (West Oxford)

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19442300.concerns-raised-health-hazard-bin-botley/

Kinda puts all that Euro Cup final Leicester Square malarkey into perspective, doesn't it.

Fambo Number Mive

From the same paper, a list of the responses from Oxford Mail readers to whether they would wear a mask after 19th July:

Quote...CHELSEA WEATHERHEAD: Yes. I'm not risking my family because people just want to get back to normal.

But this is our new normal

EMMA LOUISE-ELLERY: "No."

AMANDA ADAMS: "No."

JULIA FAULKNER: "Yes."

DEREK O'CONCHOBHAIR: "Yep, without a shadow of a doubt."

LYNN O'MALLEY: "Yes."

BETHANY APPLETON: "Yes."

MARIE HADAWAY: "Has the virus been eradicated? Then the answer's still yes to wearing a mask!"

MICHAEL TODD: "Nope."

VICKY PARKER: "Yes I will as I'm a carer."

DES BRAMLEY: "Yes.

ELVI ELVI: "Yes."

PAULINE DAVIES: "Most definitely."...

MASTER GORDON: "Definitely not, need a few months break from it at least."..

And even more names. There is no news value at all to this list. How does it benefit a population of over 100,000 to know what a couple of dozen people are doing re masks? But it gets clicks and people leave comments.

I only know one of the people on the list (not saying which one). I hope a few of the people on the list aren't on the same bus or in the same shop as me.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19442334.oxford-mail-readers-say-masks-new-covid-variant-emerges/

It's like something from Talk to Transformer.

DrGreggles


Blumf

Looks like he used an old tin of primer.

Alberon

In the desperate attempt to tie a non-story with someone famous folder we have this on the BBC (the BBC!).

Ricky Gervais' Cemetery Junction arch in Reading sold to local group



QuoteA landmark arch that inspired the name of Ricky Gervais' film Cemetery Junction is set to be taken over by a community group.

It comes after the Grade II-listed arch at Reading Old Cemetery was put up for sale in 2019.

Reading Borough Council's policy committee approved plans submitted by Junction Arch Heritage and Arts (JAHA).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-57810452

This needs a little explaining. Reading has a place called Cemetery Junction. It's called that because there's a junction with two busy roads leading off with a cemetery (some of my great-grandparents are buried there, fact fans!) between them. Gervais used the title, but not the place, in a film ten years or so ago. In the film it was an actual train station or some such shit.

There's a fantastic story around Stoke on Trent at the minute where a landfill has been mismanaged badly (presumably illegally) such that the smell carries for miles if the weather is right. For a while it's been bad - I used to think my car was overheating when I drove past as it's kind of a sulphurous, metallic smell, but it's been allowed to get worse over the last 18 months such that it's attracting loads of protests and investigations from the environment agency. On a bad day it's so bad those near it can't open their windows, and it carries for miles. It's the perfect local news story, and I'm absolutely obsessed with it.

Anyway, today stokeontrentlive report another small impromptu protest:

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/live-road-closed-protesters-block-5655001

Here's a wonderful video of a row over a security dog from the scene where a bloke tries to fight a HGV.

https://youtu.be/3PXkJ3sM4SE




Blumf

Fucking hell, was he being paid by the word? I've seen shorter reports on murders.

SpiderChrist


Rich Uncle Skeleton


Mr Farenheit

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on July 14, 2021, 05:17:06 PM
From the same paper, a list of the responses from Oxford Mail readers to whether they would wear a mask after 19th July:

And even more names. There is no news value at all to this list. How does it benefit a population of over 100,000 to know what a couple of dozen people are doing re masks? But it gets clicks and people leave comments.

I only know one of the people on the list (not saying which one). I hope a few of the people on the list aren't on the same bus or in the same shop as me.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19442334.oxford-mail-readers-say-masks-new-covid-variant-emerges/

It's like something from Talk to Transformer.

I really like 'MASTER GORDON's name and his command of logic.



Blumf

This was on the front page of the BBC's news site:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57900658
QuoteA man stuck in long tailbacks when a lorry fire shut a motorway started playing football on the carriageway.


Fambo Number Mive

Manchester Evening News journalists go to Aldi Fallowfield to try out the new self-service tills.

QuoteThe tills were clean and recognised almost all of the items. The excellent store assistant was on hand to rectify any mishaps.

All in all, a good service.

I suppose if you're a bit nervous about using self-service tills the article is reassuring, but it does go into a lot of detail

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/went-test-out-new-self-21148031

bomb_dog



Fambo Number Mive

Quote from: bomb_dog on July 27, 2021, 06:21:42 AM
I don't like something I bought.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/tried-lidl-aldis-cookie-dough-20949566

Worth it for the photo.

I think that's a winner in terms of the sheer pointlessness of it. It would be wasting pixels as a Facebook post but in a newspaper covering a city of over 1 million people?

Ferris

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on July 27, 2021, 05:47:12 PM
Wasp nest found in Peterborough toilet cistern

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-57977680

That's very good. Enjoyed the "related articles" section as well:

Quote- Trapped squirrel freed from inside lamp-post
- Thatcher finds large nest in 'wasp metropolis'
- 'Colossal' wasp nest found in attic
- Wasps deployed to protect mansion from moths

And people say the BBC isn't value for money.

Sebastian Cobb

Deploying wasps to fend off Moths? Why not just burn the fucking place down.

DrGreggles


Sebastian Cobb

Saw that... when did the Sport, a paper that will happily capitalise BELLEND in a headline and bought us 'Find the bastard that shat down my chimney' go soft and start asterisking stuff in sub-headings?

Captain Z

Can't even wink at people these days! It's EU gone mad.

Blumf

Sheer hell on the gritty streets of Birmingham

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-driving-instructor-gives-middle-21315970.amp
Quote
An investigation has been launched by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency into a mystery driving instructor making lewd gestures in Birmingham

It's a hand signal not listed in the Highway Code.

And the defiant gesture is currently at the centre of a probe into an alleged simmering feud between rival Birmingham driving schools.



They have been approached by one instructor who claims her working life has, for one-and-a-half years, been made L by a mystery rival who has interrupted lessons by making lewd gestures and even flashing hazard lights.

Alberon


Tikwid

Still probably quite interesting to people not in the know but an amazing headline out of context: Honiton celebrates 800 years of event where hot pennies are chucked at kids

Fambo Number Mive

According to the BBC

QuoteThe annual tradition of throwing pennies dates back to when the local gentry enjoyed the view as the poor burnt themselves trying to pick up hot coins, according to the British Film Institute (BFI).

In more recent times, the pennies are simply made warm

I can imagine Alexander Ballbag Johnson, Sunak and the other millionaire cabinet minister mingling with their billionaire donors and enjoying watching poor people trying to pick up hot coins. How long will it be before GB News calls for the coins to be made hot again?

Also, even though the pennies will no longer be hot having coins thrown down on a crowd feels a bit dangerous.

purlieu

My dad just alerted me to this:

Alberon

Face from the film 'Scream' appears on the side of a church.

QuoteA passerby in Reading was left shocked when he saw the image of Ghostface from horror film Scream outside the most unlikely location - a church.

The ghoulish persona is clearly shown in photos, and it's impossible to miss its gaunt, face-like features.

Ash, a photographer, spotted the figure on a piece of wood outside Saint Laurence Church in Reading town centre.

And here it is in all it's ghoulish glory!



Can't see it? Here's a close up!



QuoteThe Reading man said: "I was just on my way back home. I was walking by and I saw something interesting so I went closer and I said 'oh, there's a ghost there'.

"It was interesting - especially because it's right outside the church.

"I've shown it to my family members and everyone's saying different things, but the closest thing we can say is that it looks like a Ghostface from the Scream movie."

"You could also see a skull with flames, or maybe an alien.

"I'm not a religious person but it's interesting to see it outside a church - but I don't want to relate it to a religious figure."

Every year people are shocked to find faces in unsuspecting places, and many go viral across the internet - including a Jesus-like figure seen on a piece of burned toast.

According to Ash, it's the clarity of the figure, and the coincidental time of year, that makes this sighting really stand out.

"This face is even clearer than the ones I've seen on the internet", he said.

"It's interesting because Halloween is so close and it's in the kind of place where everyone can see it.

"Some people like stories like this, they love it. I'm not like that. I don't think it's related to something, but I think it's in a great position and I was surprised to see it there, right in the Town Centre outside the church."

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/scream-face-appears-plywood-outside-21613630

Fambo Number Mive

"Was Jeremy Clarkson right to call the M25 protesters smelly? Readers have their say"

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19594571.jeremy-clarkson-right-call-m25-protesters-smelly-readers-say/

A series of comments follow from the typical sort who comments on Oxford Mail articles.

QuoteSIMON HAND: "With the crocs he's taking it too far!"

LEE MORRIS: "Top man."

JOHN BROWN: "True."

NIKI GILES: "Love him."

SALLY WORTH: "He's not wrong."

KELLIE MORGAN: "Haha the truth!"

KERRY LOUISE: "Harsh but fair."

Some of the commentators don't even seem to realise what Insulate Britain was protesting about:

QuoteDION BETTS: Well he's not wrong? If protesters actually used their own brain and did some research in to the matter they would realise that cars actually contribute not even a fraction of 1% towards global warming.

Dion, your comment doesn't cut the mustard.