I’m going to give this chap the benefit of the doubt. When you pay for two hours of parking you don’t expect to be fined £25 when you return twenty minutes before the ticket runs out. And, as far as I can tell, the council don’t have a leg to stand on. Nottingham Post: Driver returns…

There’s a deluge in Coventry. A deluge so horrific that this couple are trapped in their house for fear that it will wash away. Or, possibly, it’s all a bit of an inconvenience and a massive waste of water. But the word “forced” is much overused in journalism, when the writer actually means “might have…

To Scotland again, and the ritual humiliation of a beagle who cannot go to the toilet properly because of a fizzy-drink based incident. Irn Bru is not generally known for its explosive properties, but it was the closely guarded Scottish recipe that nearly did for Parker the dog. And as you can see, he’s really…

To Scotland, where a gentleman is furious that his cosy carpet slippers come with a bit of the Third Reich about them. We’ve got enough genuine Nazis running around these days, sieg heiling in the streets, holding high office, so the last thing you want is to get home and find your footwear is of…

And back in the world of deeply ironic news, the Grimsby Telegraph brings us the story of one celebrity double being caught giving traffic police the middle finger after he’s caught speeding. And it has cost Paul Walker, namesake of poor, dead Paul Walker, a few bob in fines. Grimsby Telegraph: Paul Walker fined £390 and…

Charlie Pender is mayor of Corner Brook, an otherwise quiet little town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It looks like the kind of place where nothing much happens, and folks like to keep it that way. Charlie is standing for re-election this month, and he’d quite like the people taunting him with…

Part One Part Two And the happy, smiling faces just don’t stop. Here’s the third instalment of HOME YOU GO, our annual collection of schoolkids feeling the wrath of their teachers for daring to turn up for the new term without the right uniform. Grimsby Telegraph: Kiddiewink put into isolation because of his “extreme” haircut The…

And still they come. Kids have had all summer to make sure that their school uniforms are 100% spot on; while parents have had to sell kidneys so that they can afford the official school trousers from the school trouser cartel that can only be bought through the currency of human kidney. And meanwhile, head…

It’s that time of year again as the kids go back to school, and are immediately sent home for wearing the wrong school uniform. Then their parents throw a hissy fit and go to the local newspapers, meaning that the poor kiddiewinks are tarred for their entire school lives as “That kid whose parent went…

There are times when you don’t want to read the story, because the headline is all you need to give you a perfect picture of events. This is one of those stories. But if you really must: Edinburgh Evening News: Court hears how a member of Alex Salmond’s house band “shared drugs with a singer before…