Local paper headlines

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

Local newspapers are wonderful. They tell us so much about ourselves, yet somehow nothing at all. Thought this topic could serve as a repository for our very favourite local newspaper headlines.

Personally, my all-time favourites come from the Somerset Standard, and date from many years ago, so no weblinks: 'Woman held rolling pin during row’; and, the very best, ‘Big fish found in river’

More recently, I enjoyed the Reading Evening Post’s ‘Teen who had sex with a dog to be sentenced’
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2051 ... _sentenced

They seem particularly concerned about another dog being forced to watch.

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

The comments on the dog one are good. Some top class punnery from Hugh Janus!

I assume you're aware of the angry people in local newspapers blog?

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

The commentators on that website are mainly complete foaming right-wing tools, but a comedy story usually brings out the best in them.

Yeah, I've perused the angry people blog, most diverting.

Adam · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:03 pm

The Yorkshire Evening Post once ran the headline "Minimum Fuss Over Gay Jesus".

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4289

Talking of local papers, who's posting on Kentonline as 'Scott Chegg'?

culfy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:41 pm **Posts:** 510

Danson's Forehead wrote:

The commentators on that website are mainly complete foaming right-wing tools, but a comedy story usually brings out the best in them.

Yeah, I've perused the angry people blog, most diverting.

Can I just say that I myself have been an 'Angry people in local newspapers'.

The experience is really rather surreal. The background was that a woman in our street was being a nuisance so a group of us got together a petition about her (long story). The local paper of course wanted to photograph us with the petition. I can remember the photographer barking instructions.

"Right stand round the petition, close together. Point at it. STOP SMILING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ANGRY"

Esqui · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:04 pm

I was an Angry Person in a local newspaper once, too. I was ANGRY about the bus company banning kids from my school, so I leant on a bin next to a bus stop and looked Fed Up.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Esqui wrote:

I was an Angry Person in a local newspaper once, too. I was ANGRY about the bus company banning kids from my school, so I leant on a bin next to a bus stop and looked Fed Up.

Thisis fast descending into an episode of "Sadface memoirs".

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

MK News has followed the DM's example quite nicely, with some nice Tory propaganda today:

We're in the money

Quote:

IT HAS emerged the leader of Milton Keynes Council has received almost £40,000 in allowances – on the day its cabinet met to decide spending cuts.

Adam · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:24 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

Esqui wrote:

I was an Angry Person in a local newspaper once, too. I was ANGRY about the bus company banning kids from my school, so I leant on a bin next to a bus stop and looked Fed Up.

Thisis fast descending into an episode of "Sadface memoirs".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=687CW4namTk

hel · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:14 pm

This all-time classic from Dublin:

Fantod · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:28 pm

Local Evening News had an 'Injured Dog Fiasco'.
And... not a headline, but evocative nontheless, a report on the fire brigade being called out to address a minor incident 'in which an oven caught fire and a chicken was scorched'.

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

More from Reading...

Dad punched 118 118 'man'
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2086 ... _118_man__

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

My local papers front page headline this week is and I shit you not...

STRANGER DANGER
: Prowler seen hanging about near schools in Grantham area.

With a no doubt dwindling readership, I have noticed my local paper becoming more sensationalist and increasingly more opinion orientated instead of just reporting news.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Esqui wrote:

I was an Angry Person in a local newspaper once, too. I was ANGRY about the bus company banning kids from my school, so I leant on a bin next to a bus stop and looked Fed Up.

If only the Libyans could figure that one out.

They'd have Quadaffi doing a swift impression of Matilda.

(Was I the only one who thought of Harry Belafonte when the blatts were speculating that he'd gone Venezuela)??

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