On Tuesday morning there was a fatal crash on the M23 at 5:00am which closed the motorway for hours. By the time I left for work at 7:30 the traffic was already building up as commuters came off at Pease Pottage looking for alternative routes and it took nearly 15 minutes to get to work. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Newspapers'
Great Modern Buildings
October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
Another thing I am enjoying this week is the Guardian’s series of pull-outs on great modern buildings – a great improvement on wallcharts of mushrooms or sharks. (I’ll reserve judgement on the booklets of speeches and interviews. I kept them all and just never got round to reading any of them) So far they have […]
Tags: Buildings·Newspapers·Town Planning
How the other half live
September 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Politics
In the Guardian today, Polly Toynbee was quoting Norman Tebbit: Lord Tebbit, the party’s deathless Sauron, shot a deadly pre-conference bolt at Cameron with effusive praise for Gordon Brown – “I think he is a very clever man and I have very considerable regard for him” – while damning his own leader: “I think we […]
Tags: Newspapers·Tories
Extreme reporting
September 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
Looking through the Crawley Observer to write the last post, I spotted an amusing juxtaposition. I do hope it was done deliberately. On page 8 there was a story about kids doing the amazingly dangerous trick where they use a motorbike to spin the roundabout in a kids’ playground really, really fast while someone tries […]
Tags: Local Papers·Newspapers
Where do the papers find their news?
September 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
The implication here is that they just get it all of the Interweb, and sometimes it does seem that way. One ex-Crawley News reporter I used to drink with sometimes often complained that all the Observer does is copy & paste from the web to get their stories. A bit of an exaggeration but it […]
How to have fun in interviews
September 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
I think that Sam Allardyce was having a bit of fun in his post-match interviews after his team lost to Derby the other day. Either that or the Newcastle air is getting to him and he has started channelling Viz magazine. When I was reading the match report in Yesterday’s paper I found this masterpiece […]
Tags: Football·Funny·Newspapers
McCanns appeal for privacy
September 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on McCanns appeal for privacy · Life
According to the BBC web site, the McCanns are asking for their privacy to be respected. Perhaps they should have thought of that before turning themselves into a media circus? I can’t criticise them for that. They felt that was what it took to make things happen, but its bit of a Pandora’s Box that […]
Tags: Newspapers
I must go down to the sea again…
August 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on I must go down to the sea again… · Life
From a story in the Argus, headlined ‘Alarm over sea ban lady’: Emergency services are on alert after a woman who has sparked 56 sea rescues costing £1 million moved to Sussex – next to a reservoir. What could possibly go wrong?
Tags: Newspapers·WTF
Local paper deliveries
August 3rd, 2007 · 9 Comments · Life
At the last Broadfield Forum somebody who lives on the estate over the road from us mentioned that they do not get the Crawley News delivered to them. Charlie and Chrystal deliver the paper on this side of the road, but would prefer to have a round each instead of sharing the payment between them, […]
Prince 4 No. 1?
July 17th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Music
The Mail on Sunday are running a campaign to have the Prince album Planet Earth declared the number one album. Is there any merit to this campaign? No. Well, that's the short answer. And remember the question is not whether it deserves to be number one (The answer to that is No as well – […]
Tags: Newspapers·Shopping
