Posts Tagged ‘local news’
Isle of Wight riot police hit Newport – photos
TO the Isle of Wight, where riot police are in full cry:
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Local News: Portsmouth boy stuck in bedroom
LOCAL news: to Portsmouth, where the story is very local in the Portsmouth News:
Emsworth boy was stuck in bedroom
Whose bedroom?
A crew of firefighters from Havant were called yesterday lunchtime after a young boy got stuck in his bedroom.
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Peterborough family build air raid shelter in garden
MEET the Rands, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. They’s built a World War II replica air raid shelter in their back garden. What do they know? What have they heard?
Mrs Rands tells the BBC:
“It’s above ground. We didn’t put it in the ground because they do flood and we didn’t want to ruin what we’ve put in there.”
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Local news: Brighton female scout rescued from huge bush at midnight
LOCAL news of the day feature the Brighton Argus and its story headlined:
Girl Scout rescued from giant bush
The story:
A female Scout got stuck in undergrowth. The schoolgirl could notfight her way free of the bush on Wednesday at 11.25am so called on firefighters for help.
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Local News: A mirror breaks in Stamford
LOCAL News: The Stamford & Rutland Mercurypolice log reports:
POLICE are looking for witnesses after a car mirror was damaged. The silver Toyota Avensis was parked in Princess Road, Stamford, yesterday (Sunday) when its wing mirror was damaged and left hanging off the side door.
If you have any info…
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Local news: Cumbrian woman finds Chinese tortoise in garden
LOCAL news story of the day: the News & Star tells of Margaret Parker, 67. She spotted a “baby tortoise” in the garden of her home in Upperby, Cumbria. Mrs Parker’s daughter dashed out to buy some supplies. Lorraine Boyes, 47, bought soem vegetables from the Co-op. But the tortoise refused to eat.
So. They called the Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Centre, near Wigton. The wee creature was placed carefully inside a cardboard box he tortoise. Rescue volunteer Pauline Adams soon arrived. Says Margaret:
“I was worried it might have died. But then the lady from Knoxwood looked at it, picked it up and turned it over. She told me: ‘It’s not dead – it’s made of pot…My daughter was trying to tempt it with the lettuce and the tomato but I did wonder why it wasn’t moving it’s head, and decided it was probably just frightened. At first the woman from Knoxwood didn’t say anything when she saw it. It was about the same weight as a real tortoise, but when she picked it up and looked underneath there was writing on the bottom: Made in China.”
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Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The greatest ever opening line to a local news story
LOCAL news: the greatest opening line to a story ever?
Firefighters have warned of the dangers of driving into a petrol forecourt when your car is on fire.
Local News: Missing plaque not missing
LOCAL News: The Maidenhead Advertiser has news:
‘Missing’ Altwood memorial plaque has not been stolen
Know that:
A memorial plaque commemorating four Altwood schoolboys who died on a ski trip in 1988 has not been stolen.
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Local News: police find nothing in Coventry
LOCAL News Story of the day arrives in the Coventry Telegraph where the story is that police have found nothing:
Police hunt in Tile Hill woodland “turns up nothing of interest”
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Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Bradley Wiggins is living in Hackney as a rabbit
LOCAL news story of the day is found in the Hackney Gazette, where “Bunnies bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Olympic cycling champion Bradley Wiggins were dumped at a Hackney vets“.
Rabbits most often looks like Ken Dodd or Cilla Black. But Wiggins is in vogue. If his name can inspire animal lovers to adopt a rabbit, then so be it:
Head veterinary nurse Janice Godfrey said: “We have our very own Team GB here – but in our case ‘GB’ stands for ‘Gorgeous Bunnies’. They are beautiful animals and the sideburns on the boys give them a distinguished air. They’re not interested in gold medals – a loving new home is what they need.”
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Posted: 10th, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Local News: man trapped in Watford porch
LOCAL news matters. Local news story of the is found in the Watford Observer. Adam Binnie writes:
A man who had become locked inside the porch of a house in Rickmansworth had to be rescued by fire fighters.
A crew from Rickmansworth was called to Harefield Road at 1.30pm today after the man, who was looking after a house for a friend, became trapped between in porch and front doors.
Luckily the man had a key for the back door, and after posting it through the letterbox to a waiting fire fighter, he was released.
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The 10 most vital local TV news stories of the decade
LOCAL news can be entertaining stuff. The trick is in highlighting the part of the story that matters most. The copywriters behind theses caption were inspired. Take a look at the Ten Vital News Stories of the decade: (More here.)
Posted: 10th, July 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Mystery of the headless money and other tales from Northwich
NO Northwich, Cheshire, where locals are amazed by the discovery of a “headless monkey’” in their midst. It is, says the Northwich Guardian, a “Mystery“.
Says RSPCA inspector Nadine Pengilly said: “It wasn’t a monkey, it was squirrel – it was a big fat squirrel that had been there 24 hours and started to bloat up. Vets have examined it and it’s definitely a squirrel.”
That’s Northwich for you – more nuts than bananas…
Worcester man steals condoms, octopus and toothpaste: Katie Price prosecutes
LOCAL news story of the day arrives via the Worcester News, wherein we learn: “Man blames work stress after stealing condoms and octopus.”
How he must have toiled to find both items of desire in the one shop in Worcester city centre. Further reading reels that Mark Brookes did not create as orgy because the octopus was tinned and he is not pervert, merely stressed out.
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Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who killed the Lyminge, Kent, duck? The Speed Watch crew investigate
WHO killed the duck in rural Kent? When some motorists stopped to let a duck cross the road, a driver overtook and took out the bird. The killing was observed, apparently, by members of Speed Watch who tracks passing cars with speed recording devices and then pass on the speeding vehicles’ details to the police on the beat in Lyminge, Etchinghill and Rhodes Minnis.
Colin Manvell is the Lyminge Parish Council vice-chairman and Speed Watch coordinator. He tells media:
“Through places like Etchinghill, the roads are so narrow in places that if a car was going too fast and came across a bus it just wouldn’t stand a chance. We’ve got a lot of animals who live nearby and horse riders often come down this way too. A poor duck was killed recently when an impatient driver pulled out.”
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Posted: 19th, June 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Local News special report: Clete Meyer collects golf balls in Iowa
CLETE Meyer collects golf balls in Iowa. So rare are they:
Aberdeen woman gives up alcohol for an entire month – local news story of the day
LOCAL News Story of the day takes us to the Aberdeen Evening Express, wherein we read that to raise awareness of alcohol problems, a local woman have given up the demon drink…for a month.
Says Stacey Summers, 25:
“I struggled. I really, really did. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.”
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Who is the Eltham lift shitter?
DO you know the Eltham lift bespoiler, the shadowy figure who poos, vomits and wees in lifts “on an almost daily basis this year” in two lifts on Soweby Close?
One man can poo, wee and vomit at the same sitting every day of the year? Stake out the local takeaways and looks out anyone using a loyalty card.
The News Shopper says “Greenwich Council has blamed the mess on a dog”.
A dog who takes the lift?
“…but at a meeting last week, calls were made for forensic tests on the poo, which residents are confident will prove it is manmade”.
Oh, for those pre-CSI days when dogs shat out white poo.
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Local News story of the week: Boots in Haywards Heath shuts for a bit
LOCAL News Story of the Week concerns the Mid Sussex Times report on the Boots in Haywards Heath that opende late. A note on the store’s door said:
“Due to unforseen circumstances we do not have a pharmacist at present and so are unable to open this store.”
This scoop as soon followed by:
Haywards Heath shop reopens after ‘lack of pharmacist’
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Birmingham’s fattest man to marry his Jennifer Aniston
BIRMINGHAM’S fattest man is…Barry ‘Fat Baz’ Austin, 43 (years). The Mercury reports that Barry has proposed to his lover Debbie Kirby, his girlfriend of 13 years.
Says Barry:
“Debbie has been an angel to me for years, I love her to pieces so this was not a hard one to think about. I just thought it was now or never so popped the question, and she has said she needs a few days to think about it all. I know it is a lot for her to take in.”
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Does Noel Edmonds cause your heating to fail?
WERE you one of the residents of Kingsclere on the Hampshire-Berkshire border whose digital technology failed over Christmas?
The Basingstoke Gazette says the Smith family were “baffled when their heating, shower, doorbell and even their car’s remote-control door locks refused to work“.
A spokesman for Ofcom explained:
“Often these problems can be caused by a video sender that transmits a television signal to other sets in the house. They are not the source of all the problems but in a lot of cases interference is tracked down to those devices.”
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Stolen ET washes up on Hampshire beach
E.T. has come home. Back in September 2011, the Extra Terrestrial was stolen in a raid on Margaret Wells’ Portsmouth home. E.T had been made by her daughter Louise as part of a 2002 make-up course. Mrs Wells told The Portsmouth News:
“My daughter was offered £2,000 for it but she didn’t want to sell it – it’s the only one she made.”
Her granddaughter Tia, four, tugged at heartstrings:
“I loved him. He’s got big eyes and little feet. At night he comes to life.”
PC Steve Bourne announced:
‘The E.T. is obviously a very unusual item to be stolen. Anyone who may have come across the E.T. model or is offered it for sale is asked to contact us.”
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Who is the Burnley Bum Slapper?
TO Burnley, where local police are hunting the bottom slapper. A man has been slapping women on the backside.
The Burnley Bottom Slapper has, to date, slapped a 45-year-old woman jogging along Padiham Road; , a 19-year-old woman was walking along Ighten Road; and a 24-year-old woman was walking alone in Watt Street.
The Burnley Bottom Slapper is white. Says Det. Insp. Derry Crorken:
“We do believe these incidents could be connected and would appeal to anybody who has any information about them to contact police. I am also keen to hear from any other women who this may have happened to in the area. These are very concerning incidents and we need to find the person responsible.”
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Local News Story Of The Day: Mr Bartolucci And His Massive Pear
LOCAL News Story Of The Day: “An Italian man has stumbled across a rather buxom pear in Sutton.”
The Sutton Guardian spots Renato Bartolucci, 73, who pear tree is yielding “voluptuous fruit”.
Mr Bartolucci, who used to work in the hotel industry but has now retired, said he has never seen such a juicy pear as the 3lb one he saw recently.
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Local News Story Of The Week: Happy Theo The Ely Cat Of Joy
LOCAL News Story of The Week is the Cambridge News’s story on Theo the cat who went missing 18 months ago. Theo went missing from Ely, Cambridgeshire, and turned up 136 miles away in Margate, Kent.
Owner Angela Kerridge says:
“He is such a friendly cat I think that may have led him to be taken. It is just so lovely to have him back.”
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