Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 378048 times)

Regulator · « **Reply #575 on:** 01 March, 2014, 07:59:43 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2014, 05:38:48 pm

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11039130.Second_parking_vote_lost_as_Rochford_Tory_resigns/?ref=mr

Councillor resigns over something that really matters.

Yeah - defending the rights of people to park for free is really important...

Rhys W · « **Reply #576 on:** 01 March, 2014, 07:31:46 pm »

Former primary school headteacher from Wrexham spanked wife over affair.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #577 on:** 01 March, 2014, 09:31:52 pm »

At my primary school she would have got The Slipper.

PeteB99 · « **Reply #578 on:** 02 March, 2014, 07:32:28 am »

Ruler across the back of the knees at mine. None of your namby pamby slippers.

mcshroom · « **Reply #579 on:** 03 March, 2014, 10:41:43 am »

Quote from: Regulator on 01 March, 2014, 07:59:43 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2014, 05:38:48 pm
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11039130.Second_parking_vote_lost_as_Rochford_Tory_resigns/?ref=mr

Councillor resigns over something that really matters.
Yeah - defending the rights of people to park for free is really important...

What I found strange was that the Green councillor voted for the suspension of parking charges in that second motion (or more accurately, for the motion delaying the introduction)

little miss mac · « **Reply #580 on:** 03 March, 2014, 06:25:22 pm »

From the Wandsworth Guardian: woman indoors when weather inclement; unhurt.

Regulator · « **Reply #581 on:** 05 March, 2014, 08:00:48 am »

20 tonne piece of lead on a roof? I think someone's got their units mixed up...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #582 on:** 05 March, 2014, 09:36:46 am »

According to the London Metal Exchange website, the current value of 20 tonnes of lead is about £42000. No wonder house prices are going up!

clarion · « **Reply #583 on:** 05 March, 2014, 10:24:24 am »

Putney B&B is helpfully marked on Google Maps. Streetview confirms that there is no suitable roof for that sort of covering around there.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #584 on:** 06 March, 2014, 10:46:30 pm »

In the top 185 in the country

clarion · « **Reply #585 on:** 07 March, 2014, 07:33:01 am »

I note that Sheffield, one of the country's most fertile musical hubs, rates 176. Did someone just take a list of places and a random number generator?

Regulator · « **Reply #586 on:** 07 March, 2014, 07:34:58 am »

Quote from: clarion on 07 March, 2014, 07:33:01 am

I note that Sheffield, one of the country's most fertile musical hubs, rates 176. Did someone just take a list of places and a random number generator?

I think that's the case for most of the 'Top of' lists that appear in various publications...

clarion · « **Reply #587 on:** 07 March, 2014, 07:35:54 am »

Probably so. But it makes for a good press release.

Guy · « **Reply #588 on:** 07 March, 2014, 10:23:33 am »

Anyone up for a night ride?

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Bedfordshire-dogging-sites-exposed-An-area-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-and-a-supermarket-car-park-20140306150000.htm

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #589 on:** 07 March, 2014, 11:00:10 am »

Quote from: clarion on 07 March, 2014, 07:33:01 am

I note that Sheffield, one of the country's most fertile musical hubs, rates 176. Did someone just take a list of places and a random number generator?

Sheffield fails to make top 175 shock!

There's no attempt to explain what is meant by "the ability to engage with music" or how they measured it, nor is there any kind of scale - so it might as well be random. If we assume these are "points out of a hundred" then the range from top 84.27 to bottom 72.52 doesn't seem that huge.

clarion · « **Reply #590 on:** 07 March, 2014, 11:10:23 am »

I am sure that we could have David Martin rubbing his hands with glee once we start to ask about sampling, let alone methodology!

HTFB · « **Reply #591 on:** 11 March, 2014, 08:28:31 pm »

Norfolk: Fire station destroyed in fire.

Ian H · « **Reply #592 on:** 11 March, 2014, 08:46:40 pm »

Quote from: HTFB on 11 March, 2014, 08:28:31 pm

Norfolk: Fire station destroyed in fire.

It's not uncommon. (My other half's parents lived next door).

Deano · « **Reply #593 on:** 11 March, 2014, 09:27:09 pm »

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11066036.Mural_painted_over_by__masked_vigilantes___as_Sherburn_barber_threatened_online/?ref=mr

Oh dear.

Kim · « **Reply #594 on:** 11 March, 2014, 09:31:46 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 11 March, 2014, 08:46:40 pm

Quote from: HTFB on 11 March, 2014, 08:28:31 pm
Norfolk: Fire station destroyed in fire.

It's not uncommon. (My other half's parents lived next door).

This makes me feel bad for grinning every time I see the "fire assembly point" sign outside our local one.

HTFB · « **Reply #595 on:** 12 March, 2014, 08:13:22 am »

Surely their job is more about fire disassembly? (Any one of fuel, heat, oxygen, IIRC)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #596 on:** 12 March, 2014, 10:59:58 am »

Fire un-fettling.

clarion · « **Reply #597 on:** 12 March, 2014, 04:47:44 pm »

Well, that's settled that debate.

nicknack · « **Reply #598 on:** 12 March, 2014, 05:31:29 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 06 March, 2014, 10:46:30 pm

In the top 185 in the country

Swale is 366th out of 375. I must try harder.

Jaded · « **Reply #599 on:** 13 March, 2014, 09:36:59 am »

Crashed a van full of dead badgers into a bustop.