Challenge! Can you find a worse Local Story.

[Munter]

Ok people. I was reading the website of a "local paper for local people" and came across this non-story.

http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/Is-...

My challenge to you is find a worse story on a Local paper website....

[andy-xr]

Oh, so many to choose from

Here's more of heartwarmer: http://www.chad.co.uk/ashfieldnews/Injured-hedgeho...

But this one wins it for me. "Man seen walking along road"

http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Man-seen-walking-along-...

[sniff diesel]

Shropshire Star's normally full of them. The letters are the funniest parts.

[Munter]

andy-xr said:

But this one wins it for me. "Man seen walking along road"

http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Man-seen-walking-along-...

Oh bugger. Thats going to take SOME beating!

[eltax91]

Munter said:

andy-xr said:

But this one wins it for me. "Man seen walking along road"

http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Man-seen-walking-along-...

Oh bugger. Thats going to take SOME beating!

- that's the town in which i was born and bred. My mum works for the paper, in the printing department. It will take some beating, what a st story.

[Morningside]

Things kept in car boot.
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?bra...

[Earl Grey]

Great just sent them and email ! awaiting reply

[Road Pest]

andy-xr said:

But this one wins it for me. "Man seen walking along road"

http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Man-seen-walking-along-...

That's fantastic, how on earth they ever thought that was a story to write about is beyond me

ETA My OH has to leave the room when the local non news comes on the TV it winds her up so much.

Edited by Road Pest on Saturday 8th November 20:01

[Balmoral Green]

Central TV did a reasonable effort last week, with a fairly innocent story about an old boy who had been tending the same allotment for sixty years. But they just had to spoil it and go overboard by exaggerating and filling the story with such complete total utter blatant downright lies that it had me screaming at the telly. And this was just a pensioner on an allotment story.

[Munter]

Earl Grey said:

Great just sent them and email ! awaiting reply

Oh what did you say? What do you expect from a phone camera in a nightclub...

[wmg100]

http://www.rutland-times.co.uk/news/Elderly-woman-...

Hold the press!

[TankRizzo]

I do like this one from The Portsmouth News.

I'm sure he's "asleep" when he's doing it.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/gosport/Rare-sleep-dis...

[Munter]

TankRizzo said:

I do like this one from The Portsmouth News.

I'm sure he's "asleep" when he's doing it.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/gosport/Rare-sleep-dis...

Thats a stunning excuse!

"So tell me sir why did you hit your wife?"
"Errr....I was asleep?"

[Road Pest]

TankRizzo said:

I do like this one from The Portsmouth News.

I'm sure he's "asleep" when he's doing it.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/gosport/Rare-sleep-dis...

Good story to give the council if you want a house with another bedroom!

[elle]

TankRizzo said:

I do like this one from The Portsmouth News.

I'm sure he's "asleep" when he's doing it.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/gosport/Rare-sleep-dis...

Yeah, right

[anonymous-user]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/770815...

[cambiker71]

This was front page news a while back, UFO sightings over fenland Wisbech on christmas eve!

Erm....
http://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/MYSTERY-UFO-w...

[Onz]

This made the front page of our local paper last week, I was utterly gobsmacked!

"Dog to give lessons in reading": http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/search/story.asp...

[Munter]

cambiker71 said:

This was front page news a while back, UFO sightings over fenland Wisbech on christmas eve!

Erm....
http://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/MYSTERY-UFO-w...

Story said:

Jimmy Watkinson said: "I am quite religious and I saw it as some kind of sign, because it was Christmas Eve. I felt drawn to it and tried to cycle towards it."

[R5GTTGaz]

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Petition-...