Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 374927 times)

hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1775 on: 14 October, 2018, 02:34:10 am »
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ElyDave

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1776 on: 21 October, 2018, 08:17:06 pm »
at least we're getting something useful out of 3 years of roadworks

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45905645
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1777 on: 21 October, 2018, 09:01:30 pm »
Not a news item but I see Bristol has a Windscreens Avenue (it's just before the start of the railway path to Bath).  There is a Windshield Drive on Fishers Island in New York state.

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1778 on: 22 October, 2018, 10:45:53 am »
Not a news item but I see Bristol has a Windscreens Avenue (it's just before the start of the railway path to Bath).  There is a Windshield Drive on Fishers Island in New York state.
Yeah, but ours was the original!* I think Windscreens Av is technically a private drive.


*I haven't a clue if this is true or not.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1779 on: 22 October, 2018, 10:49:27 am »

I considered whether the LEP could be twin of the Southend News Network... but it's not. There is a shrine of the Buddha's tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, but...
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1780 on: 31 October, 2018, 01:16:31 pm »
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/thief-high-crack-toilet-bike-2163591
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Staff at a builder's merchants had a shock when a man loaded a toilet on his bike and pedalled off.

Dale Charran admitted being high on drugs when he ran out of supplies and decided to grab the cistern unit from Bradfords Building Supplies in Avonmouth.

Police flushed him out after identifying him on CCTV.
Perhaps this should really be in "I carried this on my bike"! Good the police have flushed the little shit out, his life was obviously a bit crap. You might say he'd gone round the bend.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1781 on: 31 October, 2018, 01:19:38 pm »
Who's going to be first to pan Cudzo for those execrable puns?
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1782 on: 31 October, 2018, 01:47:24 pm »
Yes they can be a little potty.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1783 on: 31 October, 2018, 01:53:33 pm »
Standards here are going down the pan.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1784 on: 31 October, 2018, 02:11:11 pm »
A good result considering they initially had nothing to go on...
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is...

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1785 on: 31 October, 2018, 03:32:31 pm »
The police are clearly on a roll.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1786 on: 31 October, 2018, 09:04:13 pm »
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A Westcountry woman who hit the headlines when she revealed she had cheated on her fiance by having sex with a ghost - and went on to say she had 15 ghost lovers - has now revealed she has found true love and is planning to marry a poltergeist.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-who-sex-15-ghosts-2161821
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Pingu

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1787 on: 31 October, 2018, 09:46:56 pm »
That's the spirit!

ian

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1788 on: 31 October, 2018, 09:48:04 pm »
She certainly believes in paranormal activity.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1789 on: 31 October, 2018, 09:53:30 pm »
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A Westcountry woman who hit the headlines when she revealed she had cheated on her fiance by having sex with a ghost - and went on to say she had 15 ghost lovers - has now revealed she has found true love and is planning to marry a poltergeist.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-who-sex-15-ghosts-2161821

Mary loves dick! Mary loves dick!

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Giraffe

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1790 on: 01 November, 2018, 08:49:22 am »
Phantom pregnancy?

BTW, years ago, on a route that we used in the Cotwolds, there was a building firm called Spook Erections... OK, carry on.
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Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1791 on: 01 November, 2018, 10:18:47 am »
There used to be a massive Spook Erection on Earl Grey St in Edinburgh.
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1792 on: 01 November, 2018, 10:51:35 am »
Talking of phantom pregnancies, I had morning sickness last week. Well, at least, I vomited every morning for three days after having breakfast. It was most bizarre.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1793 on: 02 November, 2018, 01:51:01 pm »
Reading this...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-46070239

...made me very sad.
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Torslanda

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1794 on: 02 November, 2018, 02:49:06 pm »
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

nicknack

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1795 on: 02 November, 2018, 05:37:16 pm »
Apparently all foreign men of whatever age are rapists.
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Steph

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1797 on: 13 November, 2018, 08:37:12 am »
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/marked-police-van-stolen-from-outside-sussex-police-station/ar-BBPDbu1?ocid=spartanntp

Balkans, Baltics...
??? There's nothing about the Balkans or the Baltics there.

However:
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Sean Warman, 27, from Lowestoft, was arrested in Bungay on Sunday morning, according to the force.
A short sharp shock will do him a tonic...
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Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1798 on: 17 November, 2018, 09:35:35 am »
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1799 on: 19 November, 2018, 09:16:27 pm »
'tis my locality, the furore on the local facebook group was palpable....  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46265117