The Local News Thread

[Anubis]

Local to somewhere, anyway. Fly, my pretty, fly!

 

 

 

[Anubis]

Absolutely loads of sirens going along Queen’s Drive. At least four sets of vehicles so far. Any breaking news?

[Anubis]

Turned out it was an accident by Allsop at the flyover slip road. A car has smashed part of the school wall and railings and ended up on its side in the road with the front smashed in. Police everywhere so maybe it was someone they were after.

[VladimirIlyich]

Cannot embed photo because I'm shit.

[tokyojoe]

How stupid can some people get?

Woman falls from car on M25 filming Snapchat video

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-54217327

[Trumo]

5 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Cannot embed photo because I'm shit.

 

"Coming up later on North West Tonight..."

[Mudface]

21 minutes ago, tokyojoe said:

How stupid can some people get?

Woman falls from car on M25 filming Snapchat video

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-54217327

Gotta get those social media likes.

[Dougie Do'ins]

7 hours ago, Anubis said:

Turned out it was an accident by Allsop at the flyover slip road. A car has smashed part of the school wall and railings and ended up on its side in the road with the front smashed in. Police everywhere so maybe it was someone they were after.

Two police cars crash and woman arrested after man stabbed

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/two-police-cars-crash-woman-18962295#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare

[VladimirIlyich]

'Man in fight for life after being hit by Skoda Fabia!'

 

That writes its own jokes.

[alles ist gut]

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/memorial-plaques-to-dictators-kim-jong-il-and-colonel-gaddafi-mysteriously-appear-in-dulwich-park/

 

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Memorial plaques to dictators Kim Jong-il and Colonel Gaddafi mysteriously appear in East Dulwich

Plaques dedicated in memory of dictators such as Kim Jong-il and Colonel Gaddafi have mysteriously appeared on benches in a Dulwich park.

The plaques on benches in Goose Green are dedicated to the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il; Colonel Gaddafi of Libya; Romania’s Nicolae Ceascecu; and the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin.

Each of them has a bizarre tag-line. Kim Jong-il’s plaque reads: “Kim Yong-il, 1942-2011. Always preferred George Lazenby.”

A plaque for Colonel Gadaffi, who was killed after his capture by a militia in 2011, has the barmy caption: “have i told you lately that i love you?”

Another is for the communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day, 1989. His memorial plaque states: “1918-1989. Do ya think I’m sexy?”

A fourth, and final, plaque dedicates itself to Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, which has a tagline from an advert for the cleaning product, Cillit Bang. It reads: “Bang! And the dirt is gone!” 

Baffled park-goers in Goose Green did not appear to know much about the plaques when asked by a News reporter this afternoon.

One woman, who had been sitting on a bench dedicated to Kropotkin, was unaware of the anarchist, and had thought he was a deceased local whose family members had donated a plaque.

Another person had stopped to take a photo of a plaque dedicated to Ceascecu, because of its bizarre tagline, but did not know who he was.

Asked why he thought the plaque was there, he said: “I don’t know, it is one of those modern art things, like a Banksy?”

Mystery surrounds the plaques – but this is not the first time plaques dedicated to despots have been spotted in a London park.

In 2018, a plaque dedicated “in loving memory” of Saddam Hussein was spotted in Wanstead, east London.

Nobody ever came forward to claim responsibility for the plaque, which had sparked a backlash among some for insensitivity. 

Redbridge Council later removed it. Southwark Council has been contacted by the News for information about the plaques and whether they will be removed.

 

 

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[manwiththestick]

Frankly I'm shocked by this.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

We are having a hurricane.

[Dougie Do'ins]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

We are having a hurricane.

Is that the one heading towards Tampa ?

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Is that the one heading towards Tampa ?

Yip, my local news of the day.

[cloggypop]

My local news of the day was about researchers making a microscopic Star Trek spaceship. 

 

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/11/leiden-microscopic-star-trek-spaceship-could-have-a-huge-impact-on-science/

[Evelyn Tentions]

5 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

We are having a hurricane.

Just the one? Number 13 of the season is currently heading my way

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Just the one? Number 13 of the season is currently heading my way

Bumper crop this year.

[s(k)aturation]

5 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

We are having a hurricane.

 

We're having sashimi.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Thought it would have been hurricane #1 their lead singer is a big fan of Donny and the fasc crowd.

 

and a bad fucking whopper by the looks of things.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Hugo Boss drops Scouse slogan copyright action

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-54905416

[Section_31]

The Echo's "reviews' must surely be bought and paid for. Never seen a bad one for anywhere, basically just the journo getting some free food. 

 

"Is this the best breakfast in the city? You bet your cotton socks!"

 

No it's not, I went last week, it was shite.

[Dougie Do'ins]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

The Echo's "reviews' must surely be bought and paid for. Never seen a bad one for anywhere, basically just the journo getting some free food. 

 

"Is this the best breakfast in the city? You bet your cotton socks!"

 

No it's not, I went last week, it was shite.

Remember when Bob Dylan was playing at the echo arena years ago. It was so bad, people were leaving in their droves. We ended up in the Pump House after 20 minutes and we even missed the start.

 

Anyway, the echo gave it the review of all positive reviews. It was almost like they were at a different concert. Well they must have been because he didn't sing some of the songs they mentioned in their review. After a few people reminded them of this, they had to admit, the reviewer wasn't even at the gig.

 

Still to this day the worst £50 I've ever spent. 

[Section_31]

3 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Remember when Bob Dylan was playing at the echo arena years ago. It was so bad, people were leaving in their droves. We ended up in the Pump House after 20 minutes and we even missed the start.

 

Anyway, the echo gave it the review of all positive reviews. It was almost like they were at a different concert. Well they must have been because he didn't sing some of the songs they mentioned in their review. After a few people reminded them of this, they had to admit, the reviewer wasn't even at the gig.

 

Still to this day the worst £50 I've ever spent. 

Ha!

 

Allegedly Jimmy McGovern fell out with them because he'd written a play and the daily post arts editor had gone to review it, McGovern supposedly clocked him asleep in the audience but he still wrote an unflattering review.

[Geoff Woade]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Ha!

 

Allegedly Jimmy McGovern fell out with them because he'd written a play and the daily post arts editor had gone to review it, McGovern supposedly clocked him asleep in the audience but he still wrote an unflattering review.

‘I’m fuming, my play was that good the reviewer fell asleep, it was

grossly unfair for him to then say it wasn’t that good, it’s inconsequential that it rendered him unconscious’

[Trumo]

Meanwhile in Derry, NI: