Posts Tagged ‘local news’
Horror In Canterbury: Pizza Hut Turns To Pizza Hell For Pregnant Diner
LOCAL News of The Day: The Canterbury Star reports on the Pizza Hut pizza horror:
When Redwood man Rick Baker’s pregnant girlfriend told him she was craving pizza last week he took to the phone straight away- ordering two large pizzas from Pizza Hut Northwood. However, the fast food giant rang back 20 minutes later and said the pizzas could not be delivered for a further hour-and-a-half because the store had no delivery drivers.
The story is headlined:
Frustration as pizza chain fails to deliver
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Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Local News Story Of The Day: Sadd News From Purley
LOCAL News Story of The Day: The Coulsdon and Purley Advertiser reports on the closure of Jeff Dee Bookmakers, in Purley, which shut its doors owing money to punters.
Steve Walters, 54, from Kenley, asks:
Why was he taking people’s money two days before he shut shop, when he knew he was going under? I’ve just been to see about getting my money back and they’re saying no.”
He has now paid back all money owed.
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Local News Story Of The Day: East European Named Ray Spikes Manchester Drink Driver’s Orange Juice
LOCAL News Story of The Day features Barbara McClean, 52, who crashed her Nissan Note in Clayton, east Manchester. She was on her way to pick up her grandson from Scouts. Test showed she had 34 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of blood. This placed her over the the legal limit of 80mgs.
At Tameside Magistrates’ Court, McClean says she is an innocent victim. She recalls meeting an East European man and a woman while out walking her dog.
McClean says the woman needed the toilet. So, McClean invited them back to her home in Bristowe Street, Clayton. At some point drinks were served. McClean had an orange juice. She claims the man spiked her soft driunk.
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Local News: Planners And Residents Seek To Blame Basildon Town Centre On Pigeons
CAN Basildon Town Centre be blamed on pigeons? The Basildon Echo can try.
Or as Alistair Coleman says:
Believe you me, Basildon town centre was ruined long before the pigeons arrived
Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Local News Story Of The Day: The Stained Oxfam Blouse, In Worcester
LOCAL News Story of The Day: The Worcester News spotlights Debbie Browne who is upset at goings on at the branch of Oxfam in Mealcheapen Street.
The headline tells readers:
I’m so angry that charity shop didn’t let me buy blouse
Reporter James Savage writes:
She had seen the same item in Marks and Spencer a few weeks ago for £20 so was happy to part with just £4 and put some cash into the charity’s coffers. However, the shop manager refused to let Mrs Browne buy the blouse on the grounds it had a stain on it.
The 48-year-old said she didn’t have a problem with the stain and would run the risk of trying to remove it herself. She was still unable to complete the purchase and had to leave the shop empty-handed.
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Local News Photo Of The Day: Millie The Magic Mushroom Dog (And Angus)
LOCAL News Photo of The Day features Millie, an 11-month-old border collie in Australia, who ate “magic mushrooms”, and his owners Angus (14) and Sophie Olding (13) who didn’t…
Honest, mum. Didn’t…
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Greenwich Time: Local Labour Party’s Pravda Has One Very Loyal Reader
LETTER of the week is found in the pages of the Greenwich Time, the weekly paper published by Greenwich Council.
Greenwich’s Conservative leader Spencer Drury says it’s just a PR exercise for the ruling Labour Party. Cllr Drury’s complaint runs:
“In my opinion Greenwich Council continues to publish Greenwich Time in an effort to influence the opinions of people in favour of the Labour Council. It makes no attempt to offer an alternative view on even the most controversial issues. In my opinion Labour justifies GT with a fig leaf of financial jiggery-pokery.”
“Greenwich remains a one party state with its own ‘pravda’. It is a disgrace in a modern democracy that this sort of propaganda is allowed to flourish at the expense of other local papers and subsidised by unsuspecting taxpayers.”
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Posted: 25th, September 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
East Sussex Pub Bans Family For Requesting Diet Lemonade
LOCAL News Story of The Day : “Family’s request for soft drink leads to lifetime ban.”
The quintessential local news story takes us to Nutley, East Sussex:
A FAMILY have been barred for life from their village pub for requesting that it stock diet lemonade.
Diet lemonade. It is a banning offence.
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Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Oldham Woman Superglues Self To Kitchen: Boyfriend Laughs
LOCAL News Story of the Day: The Oldham Evening Chronicle reports on Tina Ramsbottom, 21, of Hathershaw. In attempting to fix a broken object d’art with superglue, she caused the fingers on her left hand to become stuck together. Looking for help she finds her lover. He laughs. He calls her an idiot.
She returns to the kitchen to put the superglue out of harm’s way. She places her right hand on the kitchen work surface and…it sticks fast.
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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bedford Doormat Fury: Bedfordshire Pilgrims Evict Man’s Mat
TO Albert Street, Bedford, where the Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association (BPHA) are attempting to evict a doormat form outside the front door of Lubin Reyes’ flat.
Tape has been placed across the doormat advising Mr Reyes to “move it or lose it”.
Says he in the Mail:
“I need to wipe the soles of my shoes dry or I might fall over in my house then that would be health and safety issue.”
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Posted: 24th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Local News Story Of The Day: Bradford Stinks – But Why?
LOCAL news story of the week comes to use via the Bradford Telegraph & Argus where the mystery of a foul smell continues to befuddle.
A mystery surrounds the source of a bad smell which hit Bradford city centre yesterday morning. Workers began to turn up their noses at the rotten odour around 10am as the weather began to hot up.
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Northampton Considers Capital Punishment For Car Vandals
LOCAL News Story of The Day takes in the Northampton Chronicle, wherein there is anger as vandals damage over thirty cars. The story is just that. But the comments are the true money shot:
“I generally don’t believe in capital punishment, but crimes like this, born of envy and a cash of sheer destruction, make me re-think my views.”
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Posted: 2nd, August 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Chorley Billboards: ‘POLICE HUNT CHORLEY BUM PINCHER’ And Other Amazing Headlines – A Gallery Of Local News Screamers
READER Karen points Anorak towards Chorley, Lancashire. There the billboards for the local Chorley & Leyland Guardian are required reading. Hey, they might even be better than the actual newspaper.
Screamers like “POLICE HUNT CHORLEY BUM PINCHER” makes us reach for our own arses – with our own hands! – to see if your buttocks are still there.
Other headlines are just plain fanciful:
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Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (10)
Local News: Dudley Girl Copying Pet Dog Gets Head Stuck In Gate
LOCAL News Story of The Day is found in the Wolverhampton’s Express & Star, wherein we learn that Dudley four-year-old Rachel Warren has got her head caught in her front gate. She did this trying to copy her pet dog. The pet dog was able to get back out. Rachel was stuck.
The story is headlined:
Drama as Rachel, 4, gets her head stuck in gate
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Plague Of Porn Mags And Sandwiches Rain Down On Kent
SEEKING signs of Harold Camping’s impending apocalypse when the world will end and the rapture arrives, we journey to Borough Green, Kent, where lorry drivers have been tossing their porn mags onto the Maidstone Road. No, not filing them and keeping them crisp-edged beneath the vinyl seat covers – actually throwing them away like there is no tomorrow.
Say a local:
“The pornos used to be quite a problem but then we didn’t see any for a while. It started up again a couple of months ago. Recently a lady crossed the road to put one in my skip, which I wasn’t angry about because I would much rather it was off the road.”
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Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Local News Photo Of The Day: The Essex Warning Ghoul
LOCAL News Photo of The Day reaches us from the Essex Echo:
An elderly woman who was badly bruised after tripping over a plank of wood while trying to catch a bus is warning other passengers to beware.
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Eric Hubbard Lost His Hamburger In A Tornado
LOCAL News Hero Of The Day is Eric Hubbard who explains what the tornado meants to him and his life: it took his burger. Antoine Dodson repsonds: “It’s coming in your windows, snatchin’ ya burgers up, tryin’ to eat em so ya need to hide your soda, hide your fries, and hide your burgers…”
Posted: 19th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Beast Of The Bridgewater Mercury: Turtlepig Rocks Somerset
SOMERSET’S Bridgewater Mercury reports on a crowd gathered at Town Bridge in Bridgwater on Monday afternoon to check out an unidentified object.
Coral Pople provides the money quote:
“I’ve been here for 45 minutes. Everyone was saying it was a turtle – but it looks more like a pig to me.”
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Local News: A Warm Victoria Sponge In Essex And Herts
LOCAL News Story of the Day is found in the pages of the Herts & Essex Observer:, wherein a shopper on Coopers of Stortford would like to apologise for comments made to and about another shopper’s Victoria Sponge.
Spotter: MediaBlog, Via Stuart Dredge
Local News Update: Louth Man Trips And Breaks Glasses
IN today’s local news special, we move on from the Ringwood dog with the injured nose to tell you of Sutton-on-Sea’s Dave Seddon:
Ringwood Puzzled And Buzzing With Injury To Dog’s Nose
Dave Seddon from the nearby Marisco Court said: “I was crossing that road on my way into town last Saturday and my foot went down into this big hole and I fell and hit my head on the road. I banged my chin and broke my glasses, with the frame snapping and digging into my eyebrow.”
More local news when we spot it…
Posted: 29th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Local Newspapers Offer Bee Shaffer A Job
LOCAL newspapers are in trouble. Tonbridge blogger explains why he’s no longing writing for the Kent Courier (part of DMGT’s Northcliffe, and offers Bee Shaffer and any other media students some work:
This is how it is for local hacks:
Are the senior people at the Courier group so divorced from reality that they can’t notice when they’ve cocked up and ended up rubbing salt in the wounds? In the last few months they have decided to turn Community Life columnists into “Community Media Partners” asking them (including me) to not only work for no payment, but also to sell ad space to local businesses on their behalf to go on a community blog…
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