From the seething ocean of YouTube comments emerged YouTube Comment Reconstructions, and four years on, it is still a work of beauty. For the uninitiated, it is a video series in which genuine serious actors reconstruct the hellish horror that happens below the line on YouTube, bringing them the gravitas they clearly do not deserve.…

Angry People in Local Newspapers has joined our pals at Newsthump, Southend News Network and The Rochdale Herald in the Big Fat Secret Santa, bringing Christmas presents to disadvantaged kiddiewinks around the UK. We’ve joined forces with Reading Family Aid’s Toys and Teens Appeal 2017, Rochdale Giving Back Christmas Toy Appeal, and Southend on Sea…

One thing led to another while I was watching North Korean television yesterday (shut up), and I uploaded a screen grab of Kim Jong-un reading from a piece of paper onto Twitter with a vaguely amusing caption. This one, in fact: "And after the meat raffle, we've got a comedian. But don't bring the kiddiewinks,…

You may have heard by now that the delightful Katie Hopkins has left her position at the Daily Mail by ‘mutual consent’ today, and so a very kind-hearted member of the public has decided to set up a fundraising appeal for her in her hour of need – amazingly it has already raised more than…

This is possibly one of the weirdest political interviews we have ever seen. But then, it’s Australia, and anything goes in local politics. One minute North Queensland politician Bob Katter is giving his blessing to the forthcoming legislation on equal marriage following the positive result to the national referendum. Then, he changes. One of the…

  It’s that time of the year when everybody crowds into the town centre, a c-list celebrity pretends to switch on the lights, and the crowd goes home cold and miserable and complaining that there were too many people there and the lights were worse than last year’s. So who’s turning on your local lights?…

After Brexit, the only way you will be able to get news will be through the medium of an old man with a bell, so you’d better get used to it. It’s an opportunity being grasped tightly by the gnarled old hands of the town crier community, who – it has to be said –…

This is the first of our SHIT TOWN BATTLES, facing off one location against another vaguely similar town to see which is the crappiest. So… >ding ding< Which is worse? Canvey Island (Essex) or the Isle of Sheppey (Kent)? There’s only one way to find out… And since you are here, the fight will be carried out…

We’ve saluted the genius of the Sunday Spurt before, and now it seems we have to do it again because they won’t stop being mental cases. In fact, I’m genuinely tempted to quit journalism and go write for them instead. I mean – look: How can you not be moved by one man’s love for…

A singer-songwriter duo has changed the words of the Disney classic song ‘A Whole New World’ to try and portray how mums feel at the end of the Summer Holidays when they send their kids back to school.  ‘A Whole New Term’ covers the whole range of emotions from having to ‘undo six weeks of…