Lack of water anger
Manchester Evening News: Fury as posh flats left without water for four days
How desperate do you have to be to allow yourself to be photographed in your dressing gown?
Spotter's Badge: Maria
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Manchester Evening News: Fury as posh flats left without water for four days
How desperate do you have to be to allow yourself to be photographed in your dressing gown?
Spotter's Badge: Maria
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 8:00 am 2 comments
Labels: angry householders, Manchester Evening News
Sunshine Coast Daily: Christian school demands kid has Justin Bieber haircut ...err... cut
And after a lengthy absence, the majestic Sunshine Coast Daily returns to these pages. Welcome back!
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Grimsby Telegraph: Driver livid as traffic warden can't tell the difference between AM and PM on car park ticket
Check out the furrowed brow! "I'd park in her space for the whole day."
Spotter's Badge: James
This is Somerset: Angry man told to repay benefits on account of his being dead
"I'm feeling better"
Spotter's Badge: Robert
Newmarket Journal: Mould in new home 'ruining my health'
"I wouldn't mind ruining her health"
Spotter's Badge: Mark
York Press: Pensioner warned over leaving bread out for the birds
Whoever wrote the "And you will know Elsie by her trail of bread" comment: GENIUS
Oxford Mail: Call to chop councillors after trees are felled
"I'd come after her with my chopper"
Northants Evening Telegraph: Teen's entire future ruined - RUINED - after bus pass is refused
Twenty years from now, you'll be in the local rag, hair dyed purple, complaining about your daughter's hover-rocket-monorail pass. MARK MY WORDS.
Spotter's Badge: Jim
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 1 comments
Labels: Angry families, Northants Evening Telegraph
Saddleworth News: Campaigners livid at plans to remove athletics track
I've been cutting back on the crowd scenes on this site, but this one is truly special
Spotter's Badge: Richard
Stirling Times: Strewth! Where's our swimming pool, you drongos?
Yeah, about that. See that large body of water nearby? It's called the sea.
Spotter's Badge: Kim
Wokingham Times: Portable loo company boss furious as catalytic converters stolen from vans
In fact, his business has gone (oh-ho!) right down the shitter.
Spotter's Badge: Adam
This is Hull and East Riding: Rally as planners ignore petition to halt phone mast
Because we haven't wheeled out the "Mast debate" gag for months
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 0 comments
Labels: Angry campaigners, this is hull and east riding
East Grinstead Courier and Observer: Anger at advertising board restrictions
Enjoy? I couldn't if you paid me
Spotter's Badge: Skuds
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 3:38 pm 1 comments
Labels: Angry shopkeepers, East Grinstead Courier and Observer
Southern Gazette: Strewth! My dunny's been blocked for five years
He must be desperate.
Spotter's Badge: Kim
Bournemouth Echo: Campaigners fight to save bunnies from road development
I'm with the council on this. In fact, I wrote a poem:
I've got an evil rabbit
Who's got a nasty habit
Of murder.
STOP THIS LONG-EARED MENACE.
Bexley News Shopper: Carnival of Cuts taking place outside council office
I think there’s a letter missing in that title
Spotter's Badge: Peter
Westmoreland Gazette: Residents oppose housing plans
Our spotter tells us that you could hide an airport in the area and nobody would notice
Spotter's Badge: Mark
This is Kent: Plastic Pete vows actual painful death over pothole woe
Never mind the little plastic smile, this chap's LIVID
Spotter's Badges: Alex, Hold the Front Page
Edinburgh News: Anger as legal bill in community centre row hits £50,000
Just think. That money could have bought FIVE MILLION penny chews, and everybody would have been happy.
Spotter's Badge: Caroline
Cambridge News: Plant 'livid' as weeds move in next door
RACIST
Spotter's Badge: James
Swindon Advertiser: Residents hand in petition against wind turbines at whopping great car plant, the irony being completely lost
NIMBYism at its finest
Northcote Leader: Fury as porn movie shot on local balcony
And the ACTUAL filth:
I am disgust.
Spotter's Badge and Gold Star: Chris
Pothole - oh-ho! - Pendle Today: Colne resident demands repairs to pothole road
Nothing like a good croucher. Well crouched, sir!
Hampshire Chronicle: Winchester resident fumes as chippings from pothole damages home
"I'd brush up the contents of her pothole"
Somewhere in Australia Weekend Courier: Aussie bloke fights losing battle to save beaches
By Tammy Lovett. I bet she does.
Spotter's Badge: Kim
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 0 comments
Labels: angry aussies, Somewhere in Australia Weekend Courier
Bournemouth Echo: Poole man crosses his arms in fury as council refuses to help over noisy neighbours
At the risk of taking the law into your own hands: Crap through their letterbox - it's the only language these curs understand. And when you've finished, the neighbours as well.
Spotter's Badge: @hp88
Wolverhampton Express and Star: Angry milkman keeps diary of woe over potholes and escaped horses. yeah: HORSES
Blimey - people still have milk delivered? In bottles?
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:50 am 0 comments
Labels: Angry milkmen, Wolverhampton Express and Star
Portsmouth News: Family launches poster campaign against dog mess
No good. My dog got stuck on the long words
Essex Echo: Potholes 'have turned road into a minefield'
A minefield, you say? Where's Princess Diana when you need her?
Dead? DEAD? Why didn't anybody say?
Derby Telegraph: Row between Village of the Damned and Royal Mail over removed post box rumbles on
"I could kill you with a thought"
Keighley News: Woman OUTRAGED to discover that KFC serves halal chicken
Oh, good grief. Meat is dead stuff, no matter to which invisible sky zombie it is dedicated. And on a personal note, don't you think it's time to give the takeaways a rest?
Spotter's Badge: Jamie
Brighton Argus: Woman forced to sleep in car to escape noisy neighbours
...with a picture of what a woman sleeping in a car might look like
Spotter's Badge: Skuds
Derby Telegraph: Couple flee home after 70th car crash outside property
With 69 out of the 70 caused by drivers blinded by his coat
Spotter's Badge: Clive
Hendon and Finchley Times: Tory MP slams council car parking charge hike
"I say! How do you work this thing? My chauffeur normally handles this side of the business"
Spotter's Badge: David
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 0 comments
Labels: Angry politicians, Hendon and Finchley Times
North Star News: Anger at 'devious' police cuts
Scrub your brain, that's police CUTS
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Bournemouth Echo: Woman ages thirty-seven years waiting on phone for Tax Office
"I'd leave her in a somewhat taxed condition"
Oxford Mail: Footballers upset as dogs leave turds on their pitch
As any football fan would tell you: "You're shit ...AAAAGH!"
Manchester Evening News: Waiters fight off armed robbers with bottles of mineral water
Brilliant. Just Brilliant.
Spooter's Badge: Adrian
Edinburgh News: Mum's anger as son locked insdie theatre
Serves him right for being called *cough* Scottish Play.
Spotter's Badge: Caroline
Peterborough Today: Town centre cable repairs bring misery for traders
It's like a publicity photo for a 1980s New Rom band
Spotter's Badge: Hannah
London Evening Standard: Fury as estate agent calls house buyer obnoxious
Pot/Kettle
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 1 comments
Labels: angry householders, London Evening Standard
Edinburgh News: Radio DJs crash their cars into rocks in the road
Heh. Rock DJ.
Ok, I'll shut up.
Spotter's Badge: Caroline
Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Residents block entrance to building site in protest
No. No. No. Probably. No. Would block her site entrance.
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:50 am 2 comments
Labels: Angry campaigners, Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Wales Online: Pensioner's nightmare as Tesco moves in next door
Could be worse. Could be students
Spotter's Badge: Radnor Man
Somewhere in Australia Weekend Courier: Water company's apology for bad smell
There are not nearly enough holding-your-nose pictures on this blog. Fixed.
Spotter's Badge: Kim
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 9:25 pm 0 comments
Labels: angry aussies, Somewhere in Australia Weekend Courier
Essex Echo: Hot MP hears firefighters' fears over budget cuts
"Were she not a Tory, I'd let her slide down my pole"
Lancashire Evening Post: Dog owners angry as poop bins filled to brim
"My dog's only got one ear"
"Heard it"
Brecon Today: Pensioner left in the cold over boiler dispute
"We need to look literal. Act cold."
"But it's lovely out..."
"ACT. COLD."
Spotter's Badge: Radnor Man
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