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  • Poor, dead Princess Diana commemorated in cake form

    Poor, dead Princess Diana commemorated in cake form

    It’s been twenty years since poor, dead Princess Diana died, and people are still commemorating her through the medium of tat. Love her or not, her death was a needless tragedy, and that has moved people to mark the occasion in some sort of meaningful way. Cake, for example. Leighton Buzzard Observer: Lady Di in cake…

  • HOME YOU GO EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE – Even more kids join the rebellion against school uniforms

    HOME YOU GO EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE – Even more kids join the rebellion against school uniforms

    We’re going to cut to the chase today. Turn up at school with blue hair? That’s a bannin’ Wales Online: Teenager dyes his hair blue for the summer holidays, is shocked – SHOCKED – to find it won’t come out on the first day of term Mum says they’ve tried “everything” to get it back to…

  • Poundland customers forced to lick staff feet in humiliating prank

    Poundland customers forced to lick staff feet in humiliating prank

    This has been one of our most popular stories for months, so it’s clear we had to set up a permanent memorial to this catalogue of idiocy. Did we say popular? We meant “mental”. So. Devon Live: Mother and daughter forced to be ridden like horses and to lick Poundworld workers’ feet in telephone scam The…

  • “And scratch your head to show that you’re puzzled”

    “And scratch your head to show that you’re puzzled”

    There are only so many approved shots in the local newspaper photographer’s handbook, and you have to cycle through the lot of them as often as possible. The toughest one to get is this – The Head-Scratcher, reserved for people who are both annoyed and puzzled by the thing that got them annoyed. Mid Devon…

  • A salute to Australia’s NT News

    A salute to Australia’s NT News

    We’re going to go out on a limb and say Australia’s NT News is the best local or regional newspaper on the planet. Yeah, shut up Bexley News Shopper, the Hull Daily Mail, Plymouth Herald and the Nottingham Post. These Aussies are legends in their own beer-swilled lunch times. Which other paper would give you…

  • Country rocked by election news bombshell

    Country rocked by election news bombshell

    FACT: The only election news worth reading is the Sunday Sport. Long before we were a thing, and long before Fake News came along and spoiled it for everybody, the Sunday Sport was already doing its stuff with World War II bombers being found on the moon and other equally unlikely stories, mostly involving celebrity…

  • The council didn’t empty my bins for a month anger

    The council didn’t empty my bins for a month anger

    Bins. Nothing – NOTHING – winds up people more than the council hurling them out of their comfort zone by messing around with their bins. Plymouth Herald: Council hasn’t emptied my bins for a month, and I’m scared they’ll fine me because I can’t get the lid down on my recycling That’s the least of your…

  • Are we still doing phrasing?

    Are we still doing phrasing?

    This one’s not angry. It might not be angry at all, but it’s pure filth. The sensitive, the easily offended and kiddiewinks might want to look away now. Fnarr, fnarr, and indeed fnarr.