Brighton’s Argus is always guaranteed to throw up a decent headline or two, and the best usually end up on the posters outside shops. I wonder if this headline will be one of them: Hunt for Worthing “poo thief”?
Entries Tagged as 'Local Papers'
Throw away the key
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
The ‘Ifield Five’ were found guilty last week, and will be sentenced next month. It has dragged on for a long time now, with the original offence happening nearly a year ago.
Tags: Crime/ASB·Local Papers
I’m black and I’m proud
January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life
I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here. Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running). I [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers·Weather·WSCC
Headline – fail or masterpiece?
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Close the headline of the year competition – a late entrant has surely beaten off all comers…
MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed (from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph)
Tags: Local Papers
Paranoid
December 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
A slight return to the song title subject lines for this one – though there is another Black Sabbath song that I could have chosen instead. This is old news (it appeared in the Crawley Observer on Dec 2nd) but I never got round to writing about it at the time, being more interested in [...]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·China·Local Papers
Burning bodies
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The headline on the Argus website is “Sussex crematoriums to generate electricity” but the full URL for the story is http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4779646.Sussex_crematoriums_to_generate_electricity_from_bodies/
I think I have a fairly rational, science-based readership here so I probably don’t need to labour the point about all the total point-missing in the story and comments. Suffice to say, they are not [...]
Tags: Local Papers·Science
Passing the test
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The Crawley News is reporting (though not on its website) that it is harder to pass your driving test in Crawley than anywhere else in Sussex. This is backed up by statistics showing that the pass rate is lower than elsewhere. Of course this could just mean that drivers in Crawley are worse (it might [...]
Tags: Driving·Local Papers
Angry people in local newspapers
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Sites like this are the icing on the cake of the internet, providing a respite from the doom and gloom elsewhere in my Google Reader feesd. Best followed in conjunction with Glum Councillors.
Tags: Local Papers
Hold the front page!
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Credit where credit is due. Having wound up the Crawley Observer a bit last month when they got caught out by events, it is only fair to comment on the way they included the story about falling masonry on the front page this week.1
Also fair to point out that the Crawley News also managed to [...]
Tags: Local Papers·Weather
More Tory climate change denial
November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
Last week there was an interesting post at Next Left about the attitudes of prominent Tory bloggers to climate change. One of our local newspapers this week has a column to show that it is not just prominent Tories who hold suspect opinions on the topic: even the obscure ones are joining in the chorus.
Tags: Global Warming·Local Papers·Tories
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