Local Devon news

[Woz]

So here in Nottingham we get stories of guns, drug and prostitution, sometimes in the same story.

In contrast here's a story from the Ivybridge and South Brent Gazette, a Devon based paper:

"A garage in Long Drive, Modbury, was broken into on Thrusday night last week. The intruder tried to remove a stereo from the car parked inside and also stole a bottle of Tango"

So let me get this right- this article was reporting the theft of a bottle of Tango. Excellent.

[Snash]

Kinda reminds me of the (no doubt apocryphal) story about that most parochial of papers - The P&J - (Aberdeen Press & Journal).

When the Titanic was sunk, the headline on the P&J was...

Local man lost at sea..

Snash

[Dave Crampton]

If only all news was this mundain (SP??) We'd be living in a much nicer place..

[Woz]

I think my favourite Ivybridge and South Brent Gazette story was this one (apologies if it offends anyone but I thought it was funny):

"Local woman dies attempting suicide"
Apparently she was standing on a chair hanging up a noose from a beam when she slipped and fell off the chair, hitting her head on the fireplace and bled to death.

[Odin]

It did mention the bloke caught sha**in' a goat in a public place in the same edition.


and a bloke was fined for acting the goat....

[Okeanos]

Originally Posted by Woz

So let me get this right- this article was reporting the theft of a bottle of Tango. Excellent.

It's still theft, even if it was a bottle of Tango. This is a serious crime down this way, nicking someone's Tango. At least it wasn't coke related

[frosty the snowman]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

If only all news was this mundain (SP??) We'd be living in a much nicer place..

Some of us do! A fabulous headline in a local paper recently reported the earth shattering news that a man had suffered an epileptic fit and fallen on to of his cat, slightly injuring it. We were discussing this at work recently on a day when a similar story was big news. One of my colleagues went online to look at big city newspapers and within minutes had found one which read 'beheadings continue'. It's good to be a worzel!

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by frosty the snowman

Some of us do! A fabulous headline in a local paper recently reported the earth shattering news that a man had suffered an epileptic fit and fallen on to of his cat, slightly injuring it. We were discussing this at work recently on a day when a similar story was big news. One of my colleagues went online to look at big city newspapers and within minutes had found one which read 'beheadings continue'. It's good to be a worzel!

Was that a mis read of "Schoolgirl suspended by Head"?

[frosty the snowman]

Originally Posted by Adrian Kelland

Was that a mis read of "Schoolgirl suspended by Head"?

I think that sort of thing is featured in rather more top shelf publicationds than the mid Devon advertiser...

[Waskey]

Not the best story I've ever had in my local paper!

Can't remember the headline but it was informing the more stupid residents of Exmouth that the roof on some foundations wasn't the result of a collapse, but it was a prefab house waiting for its walls.

Almost too difficult to admit