Things that make angry people go to their local papers, number 287 of a very long series: The street lights not working. However, we’re not entirely sure if this chap is genuinely angry or not, as they’ve put “angry” into “scare quotes” and we can’t tell if he’s furious or just a little bit ticked…

They’re right, you know. Memory Lane is a really stupid name for a road because it sounds like a local radio station’s Sunday afternoon programme where they play only the standards from the 1930s and 1940s. Or, as the residents point out, because people think they are living next to the cemetery. Which, coincidentally, most…

One 15 August 2016, Rashid and Phyllis started a sit-in at a phone box in Billericay, and went down in history. Aggrieved that The Man was taking away their important link with the outside world – because (and you might find this news difficult to swallow) not everybody has a mobile phone or access to…

We thought it were high time that we made a glossary page of all the items we use on APILN. We’ll be adding more as we go along, and we’ll even try to keep it vaguely alphabetical, so bear with. A-Boards – The means that local newspapers use to advertise their wares. Often, they make…

What’s the very worst that could happen at a funeral? I’ve actually been to the wrong person’s funeral, and was also partly responsible for nearly dropping my late mother’s coffin because undertakers are professionals at that sort of thing, and well-meaning relatives are not. Wrong bodies, the crematorium exploding, a brawl during an unfortunate double-booking…

Woman buys chair. Woman sits on chair. Chair collapses. Shop where she bought table and chair set for £600 tells her to do one. Portsmouth News: Value household store The Range tells woman told she won’t get refund for broken chair because it’s out of warranty despite it being a manufacturer’s fault Now, we quite like…

Alas, this story from the happy-go-lucky year of 2014 no longer exists on the pages of the Hull Daily Mail, so we’re just doing to have to take the Daily Mirror’s word for this. And the Express. And the Daily Mail. And the Daily Star. Be that as it may, this is a mystery that…

Three angry people for the price of one in this story, as yet another private parking contractor working for the NHS sends out fines like they’re …err… really fine. But they’re not fine (See what I did there?) as drivers pile on through the pages of their local newspaper against the pencil-necked desk-jockeys who refuse…

We love a shoddy sign. All that anger, all that fury, all spilling out onto the board, and damn the spelling. This guy is angry at Wales. Shropshire Star: Resident furious at compensation offer as new bypass set to flatten his house He’s got UKIP’s Neil Hamilton on the case. You know, Neil Hamilton. And while…

Creepy lifelike dolls are now a thing. Some people want them because they are preferable to a real baby, others [sadly] because of tragic reasons. But they’re a) creepy and b) expensive and people steal them. Clydebank Post: Shop appeals for the return of its creepy life-like reborn doll through the medium of a passive-aggressive…