House prices

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7340

Gourami wrote:

Eeh them wer the days.

Proper exams them woz, spelling, grammar, the works.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat May 05, 2012 5:04 pm

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A police officer who eventually stopped McDermott near her £200,000 apartment in the village of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, said she was so drunk he could only understand the word 'Monica' as she slurred out her name.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1u0munWoj

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:14 am

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'I held her neck for five or six seconds': Rich jeweller's son tells murder trial of moments before girlfriend died

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uSMGG0Ea

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He said he then stormed out of the room at his parents' 350,000 pounds home

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Investigation: Emily was found dead at Elliot Turner's £300,000 family home

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:20 am

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Privately educated boy of 13 killed by lethal cocktail of drink and drugs at his family's £4m home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uSOIrx4r

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:23 am

Arnold wrote:

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'I held her neck for five or six seconds': Rich jeweller's son tells murder trial of moments before girlfriend died

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uSMGG0Ea

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He said he then stormed out of the room at his parents' 350,000 pounds home

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Investigation: Emily was found dead at Elliot Turner's £300,000 family home

It looks like the excuse for a sub-ed is using a British keyboard but old Leon is not (and he's too thick to find the £).

Out in Florida playing water sports with Littledick, perhaps?

Paul · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 1:28 pm

Horror in 'Nappy Valley': Father returns to £1m home to find new-born baby son and daughter, one, 'smothered to death by wife'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rists.html

Althea · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 1:43 pm

Wonder what Leveson would make of that?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 1:47 pm

It may seem intrusive or crass but they've done nothing against the code. Those pictures will have been in the public domain - or at least on a publicly accessible website.

Althea · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 1:59 pm

I was thinking more about the pointless inclusion of the house price in the title.

Not exactly "high quality journalism", is it?

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 2:12 pm

FMR. It's not just house prices now.

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The estate agents who sold the property described it as a 'beautifully refurbished' family home with planning permission for a wine store, further bedroom and en suite bathroom.

They wrote: 'This beautifully presented property has a wonderful feeling of space with a wide hallway and stairs, and good sized rooms with lovely high ceilings.

'It enjoys surround sound throughout and benefits from a larger than average garden ideally landscaped for family life.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uTKREq30

National Anglia · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 2:24 pm

Sweet Jesus. What a story to start experimenting with self-parody on.

satnav · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 2:28 pm

They have now added another half a million to the house price I wonder what brought that change about? I can't believe they are allowing comments on the story while the police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:45 pm

It's really quite misleading to quote the house price at all; it gives the impression that these are luxury mansions, when really they are fairly bog standard large town houses.

McSnark · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:21 am

Arnold wrote:

FMR. It's not just house prices now.

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The estate agents who sold the property described it as a 'beautifully refurbished' family home with planning permission for a wine store, further bedroom and en suite bathroom.

They wrote: 'This beautifully presented property has a wonderful feeling of space with a wide hallway and stairs, and good sized rooms with lovely high ceilings.

'It enjoys surround sound throughout and benefits from a larger than average garden ideally landscaped for family life.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uTKREq30

OMGWTFBBQ? How the flying gilded fuck is that at all relevant to what happened!

Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 10:28 am

It's relevant in that it allows the readers, many of whom would not be able to afford such a house, to tut and reflect that money doesn’t buy happiness. I suspect there will be a little Schadenfreude in there too somewhere, as these people were clearly not the kind of middle-class that Mail readers identify as (nice suburban semi, caravan in the drive, good but not spectacular wage), but what they’d think of as rich (a currency trader and jewellery designer/stay at home mum) and so the readers can enjoy the misfortunes of the kind of people they both resent and aspire to be. There's also, I think, a feeling that mental illness doesn't happen to people like this because they 'have everything' so why would they get depressed?

Edit: I suspect they added the extra details because they were getting comments pointing out that £1.2million isn't actually that OTT for a 4-bedroom terrace in good nick in a nice part of Wandsworth. Anyway the details of the house are gone again now (as are comments)

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