Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 378687 times)

pcolbeck · « **Reply #825 on:** 20 April, 2015, 08:24:59 am »

Womble destroyed by fire

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12899584.Womble_destroyed_in_fire/?ref=mr

hellymedic · « **Reply #826 on:** 20 April, 2015, 09:50:52 am »

Child's dropped toy is found and returned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-32371730

pcolbeck · « **Reply #827 on:** 28 April, 2015, 12:15:40 pm »

Warning rogue ice cream vans !

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12917692.Warning__Bogus_ice_cream_vans_reported_near_schools_and_beaches/

Wowbagger · « **Reply #828 on:** 28 April, 2015, 12:22:40 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 26 March, 2015, 02:00:49 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 22 March, 2015, 03:48:34 pm
That's good to see your local is a proper English pub, Wow.
But, in typical pub-business fashion, a pub at the far end of what appears to be the London Tilbury & Southend Railway (bought out by the Midland, later grouped into the LMS) has a sign depicting a GWR loco

I am *not* an anorak, I tell you

You are right, you are not an anorak. Our local station, Prittlewell, is not on the LTSR, which runs into Fenchurch Street from Southend Central, but on the Great Eastern line from Liverpool to Southend Victoria. Southend borough has no fewer than 9 main line railway stations and a 10th, Southend Airport, that was largely paid for by Southend Borough Council, despite it being outside the borough. People who fly into Southend and then leave by train almost invariably head towards London.

David Martin · « **Reply #829 on:** 28 April, 2015, 12:28:17 pm »

Where do those who work at Southend airport live, and does the rail link improve the employment prospects therin due to an increase in passenger numbers?

hellymedic · « **Reply #830 on:** 30 April, 2015, 10:40:37 am »

Dry cleaner adopts partridge in That Larndonn.
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/partridge

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #831 on:** 30 April, 2015, 10:44:21 am »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 20 April, 2015, 08:24:59 am

Womble destroyed by fire

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12899584.Womble_destroyed_in_fire/?ref=mr

I'm glad it wasn't Arch!

billplumtree · « **Reply #832 on:** 30 April, 2015, 12:34:12 pm »

Another week of non-stop excitement in Kendal:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/12919818.Express_lanes_introduced_at_Kendal_supermarket

Morrisons are to introduce a 10 items or fewer queue..................

Efrogwr · « **Reply #833 on:** 30 April, 2015, 05:46:18 pm »

Quote from: billplumtree on 30 April, 2015, 12:34:12 pm

Another week of non-stop excitement in Kendal:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/12919818.Express_lanes_introduced_at_Kendal_supermarket

Morrisons are to introduce a 10 items or fewer queue..................

Ee, that's a good idea! It's a wonder that it hasn't been done before.

hellymedic · « **Reply #834 on:** 03 May, 2015, 11:42:48 am »

Dorset Loves Knobs!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-32549090

billplumtree · « **Reply #835 on:** 05 May, 2015, 02:26:04 pm »

Whitby councillor stands down:

http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/whitby-s-extraterrestrial-town-councillor-calls-it-a-day-1-7211759

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Mr Parkes was elected to Whitby Town Council in 2012. He later hit the headlines when he claimed his mother was an alien and that he had experienced numerous extraterrestrial encounters, including one in which he lost his virginity to an alien at the age of just five.

Earlier this year he attracted national media attention once again when he claimed a race of alien reptiles called ‘the Nordics’ were to blame for the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine as they were advising Russian president Vladimir Putin on foreign policy.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #836 on:** 05 May, 2015, 03:06:49 pm »

The second paragraph is Clearly Bollocks. The aliens in question are Reptilians, not Nordics, as any fule kno.

marcusjb · « **Reply #837 on:** 05 May, 2015, 03:25:52 pm »

http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/12931611.Wind_damages__tourist_attraction__phone_box_in_Richmond/

This is the stuff that matters here in Richmond Upon Thames......

Jaded · « **Reply #838 on:** 05 May, 2015, 03:35:36 pm »

I think Cheltenham can trump that.

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Strong-overnight-winds-damage-tree-Cheltenham/story-26441310-detail/story.html

hellymedic · « **Reply #839 on:** 05 May, 2015, 03:36:03 pm »

My alien mother is Danish. Does that make her a Nordic?

Canardly · « **Reply #840 on:** 06 May, 2015, 10:43:59 am »

Only if she is a small Grey.

mcshroom · « **Reply #841 on:** 07 May, 2015, 11:39:00 am »

Whitehaven Pensioner Bitten in "Nasty" Goose Attack

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A 71-YEAR-OLD woman was bitten in a “nasty attack” by a goose on Whitehaven harbour.

Visitor Mary Jones sustained a bruise on the top of her thigh in the attack, says her friend Ru Lochlea.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #842 on:** 09 May, 2015, 02:42:58 pm »

Exciting new shop opens
I can barely contain my excitement ! It sells picture frames FFS.

Ian H · « **Reply #843 on:** 09 May, 2015, 03:31:23 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 09 May, 2015, 02:42:58 pm

Exciting new shop opens
I can barley contain my excitement ! It sells picture frames FFS.

To be fair they claim it's an "amazing range".

Of picture frames.

Canardly · « **Reply #844 on:** 10 May, 2015, 05:19:54 pm »

and marching up to the top of the hill and marching back down again does become a bit boring......

Wowbagger · « **Reply #845 on:** 12 May, 2015, 09:50:54 pm »

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/12944601.Swarm_of_bees_cover_bike_in_Southend_town_centre/?ref=mr&lp=2

A better class of person just happens to turn up in Southend, obviously.

Edit: I am remarkably angry having read the rest of that article and the btl comments. It seems some utter moron went into Sainsbury's for two tins of aerosol flyspray and killed the bees, a protected species. If I'd suspected anything like that was going to happen I would have gone and collected them myself.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #846 on:** 13 May, 2015, 08:23:42 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 12 May, 2015, 09:50:54 pm

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/12944601.Swarm_of_bees_cover_bike_in_Southend_town_centre/?ref=mr&lp=2

A better class of person just happens to turn up in Southend, obviously.

Edit: I am remarkably angry having read the rest of that article and the btl comments. It seems some utter moron went into Sainsbury's for two tins of aerosol flyspray and killed the bees, a protected species. If I'd suspected anything like that was going to happen I would have gone and collected them myself.

the end of the article says

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They were later gathered up and taken to Leigh by Ann Cushion of the Southend division of Essex Beekeepers.

clarion · « **Reply #847 on:** 15 May, 2015, 06:54:01 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 09 May, 2015, 03:31:23 pm

Quote from: pcolbeck on 09 May, 2015, 02:42:58 pm
Exciting new shop opens
I can barley contain my excitement ! It sells picture frames FFS.

To be fair they claim it's an "amazing range".

Of picture frames.

and they offer a mount-cutting service!

clarion · « **Reply #848 on:** 15 May, 2015, 06:55:49 pm »

Quote from: Oranj on 15 May, 2015, 03:31:23 pm

Fine cyclists (for not using a cycle track)

Remarkably coherent (for a babbling idiot).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #849 on:** 15 May, 2015, 11:54:24 pm »

More of the same, from Southend.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/12950785.Police_crackdown_on_cyclists__a_success_/?ref=mr&lp=19