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The Actual Mark of the Beast and Actual Aliens
Huddersfield Examiner: Cul-de-Sac residents complain that their bins haven’t been emptied in two weeks The story aside (don’t leave your cars so the bin lorry can’t get up your street), I am obsessed with this gentleman’s shiny pair of shorts. Are they made of cut-down bin bags? __________________ Teesside Live: Man who runs a fan…
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The World Naked Butler Shortage: A warning from history
Surrey Live: We don’t do those clickbaity ‘Journalist Does Normal Thing’ stories that seem to be all the rage at the moment, except for this one A Journalist Does Normal Thing story has to be truly exceptional to get into the pges of Angry People in Local Newspapers, and when the reporter has a face…
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Regret to report that people are still trying to go on holiday
North Wales Daily Post: Psycho seagulls leave couple prisoners in their own home Yet there they are, outside. Perhaps if they let the seagulls have a go on the trampoline, we could all reach some sort of accommodation. ____________________ Henley Standard: Couple want to know where the police are after car takes out their plant…
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Thirty yards of cycling hell, a nice cup of tea, and a slug
This from the Lancashire Post is local news reporting at its very finest and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Lancashire Post: Local woman rides entire length of new cycle lane Honestly, this video is one minute and 48 seconds of suspense, drama, personal growth, and a happy ending. But it’s a good thing…
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Paris destroyed/Paris saved
How many round-ups of local newspaper headlines begin with an obscure reference to the film Superman II (1980, dir: Richard Lester)? Just this one, that’s how many.
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It could be you. But it isn’t
Another week, another bunch of folks dealt a hand from the bottom of the pack. Who, for reasons left unexplained, still went to the papers.
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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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The best of APILN for December 2021 part II, but stories that are not Christmas is RUINED because they’ve got their own page m’kay?
____________________ Gloucestershire Live: Driver doesn’t over-react in the slightest after receiving a parking ticket On the run from the law, sleeping in barns, foraging for food in hedgerows. Who knows when this renegade will FACE THE LAW. ____________________ Chronicle Live: Mayor is furious over lack of electric car charging points in his town “Phased plasma…
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The best of December stories so far but not Christmas is RUINED stories because they’ve got their own post thank you
For the best of this year’s Christmas is RUINED stories, click here. ____________________ Gloucestershire Live: Bomb Squad called to local hospital after man gets a WW2 shell stuck up his bumhole The old “I was cataloging my large collection of wartime memorabilia in the nude, and I slipped and fell onto this large artillery weapon,…
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Just none cornettos, illegal sprinkles and other stories
Another week, another parade of people who have thought – for one reason or another – that their lives could be improved by taking their problems to their local news organisation and pointing angrily at the thing that made them angry. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Stoke Sentinel: NHS worker absolutely furious as…