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APILN: The best of 2023 so far
How is it April already? I suppose now is as good a time as any to collect this year’s best angry stories for your delight and my obsessive nature. Also, I’ve got nothing better to do, and there’s an important story about squirrels. So, here are 22 of the best. BBC News: Woman terrorised by…
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Best of APILN 2022: The disgruntled consumer selection
Angry customers are the bread and butter of Angry People in Local Newspapers, especially if the bread is mouldy, and the butter’s been up a dog’s bottom. So much so, that our wildly popular Best Of post couldn’t do the disgruntled consumers of 2022 justice. So here we are, and let’s start with the film…
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Angry People in Local Newspapers – Greatest Hits of 2022 (and some from 2023)
2022. Among the 2022 years since the world was created (please check – Ed), it was certainly one of them. And through the medium of “forgetting to write down the best local news stories of the year”, we have spent actual days searching out the best local news stories of the year. For those of…
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Oh No! It’s Another Angry People In Local Newspapers Greatest Hits Post
Every now and then (usually when the hosting bill arrives) we remember we’ve got a website and decide to get our money’s worth with a greatest hits post. This is one of those times.
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Best of Angry People of 2019 (so far)
It’s May and this is looking like a vintage year for angry people pointing at the thing that’s made them angry. So here are the best of the year so far. But first, a request for APILN contributors. Stoke Sentinel: Our road has been left looking like this for three years since the developer went…
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The time Kylie found a crudely drawn cock in her burger
One of the pleasures of writing a book about APILN is stumbling across classics like this in our archives of fury. This is the story of Kylie, who had a nasty surprise when picking up a takeaway dinner for the kiddiewinks at a Hungry Jack’s down under. It turns out that Hungry Jack is only…
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From the Archives: Driver’s fury over ban on his personalised number plate
Got a personalised number plate? Congratulations, you have money to burn in a classy, showy manner that doesn’t annoy anybody in the slightest. Just make sure it’s not – you know – a little bit illegal, because the rozzers don’t like it. Brighton Argus: Brighton businessman told his MR L10N number plate is illegal, and he’s…
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From the Archives: Mum goes to war with school over cheese in school lunches
What’s the hill you’re prepared to die on? Fighting racism? Kicking hatred out of society? How about cheese in school lunches? I myself am prepared to fight to the death over the new one pound coins, but then they should never have got rid of those fivers you had to fold half a dozen times…
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Ron’s Ronosaurus: The Angry People in Local Newspapers Glossary
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…
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IT A STICH UP – A salute to shoddy homemade protest signs
If you’re going to make an appearance in a local newspaper as an angry person, it’s vital that you are photographed in such a way that people know what you are angry about. This is called context. But for the love of everything that is holy, do not knock up a sign out of plywood…