Town centre lights anger
Essex Echo: Man's anger as town centre lights left on 24 hours a day
Can you imagine it - having to see Basildon all day AND all night? The HORROR.
Spotter's Badge: Barry, Rob
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Essex Echo: Man's anger as town centre lights left on 24 hours a day
Can you imagine it - having to see Basildon all day AND all night? The HORROR.
Spotter's Badge: Barry, Rob
Watford Observer: Heavy rain leaves man's car covered in turds
Extra credit for the detailed medical history
Spotter's Badge: TRT
Harrogate News: Police in search for mystery bum groper
I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THIRSK
Don't have nightmares
Essex Echo: Council may step in to buy run-down shopping centre
I have memories of that concrete craphole from when I was a kid. My first reaction to this story was: Bloody hell, is it still standing?
Spotter's Badge: Barry
Brighton Argus: Girl stuck in bush
Oxford Mail: Man mows lawn
Portsmouth News: Second-hand book sale
Eastbourne Herald: All news cancelled in Seaford
Spotter's Badge: Jon
Coventry Telegraph: Man shocked - SHOCKED - to discover that company who helped him claim overpaid council tax takes huge fee
Who'd have thunk it, eh?
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Blackpool Gazette: Fury as vandals target boats in park
"I'd shake her tail-feathers" (To make sure they were properly secured)
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Labels: angry amusement ride owners, Blackpool Gazette
Halifax Courier: New EU rules mean centuries old tradition of killing things put at risk
I *think* that's the gist.
Spotter's Badge: Ross
Reading Evening Post: Neighbours slam plans to fell oak trees to widen footpaths
The bloke at the end may actually explode with fury
Spotter's Badge: Andrew
St Albans Review: Tom Cruise eats food
Barnet and Potter's Bar Times: Footballer gets haircut
Blackpool Gazette: Celebrity signs books
Blackpool Gazette: Not dull, but RICK ASTLEY ALERT
Spotter's Badge: David
Lancashire Telegraph: Review as quarter of stalls in local market lie empty
That'll be the deadly man-eating triffids you've let in
Spotter's Badge: Karen (who thought this one was going to be the usual tirade of sexist filth)
Blackpool Gazette: Trader asks council to stump up cash to revamp his road
The consensus in the comments appears to be "Nuke the site from orbit"
Portsmouth News: Couple from Gosport ask local knuckle-draggers to stop vandalising their cars
"Double done a poo"
Sidmouth Herald: Driver shocked - SHOCKED - to receive a parking ticket for leaving car on double yellow lines
"I’m unlikely to be coming back to Sidmouth"
You and me both, dear
Norwich Evening News: New bin days
Yeovil Express: Journalist gives up smoking
Your Local Gazette: Cat seen at railway station
Grimsby Telegraph: Olly Murs tribute act visits Grimbsy
Falmouth Packet: Shop opens
Spotter's Badge: Sarah
Lynn News: Man wanted over betting shop raid
THIS MAN HAS NO EARS
"Pardon?"
Don't have nightmares.
Deal Express: Dad 'will rather go to jail' than pay fine for taking kids out of school for holiday
I bet you don't follow through with that threat
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Derby Telegraph: Dismay at high energy bills in eco-homes
Derby Telegraph: Family's eco-home dream turns into a nightmare
I am told that both images are by the same photographer. Well played Victoria Wilcox!
Spotter's Badge: Peter
Watford Observer: Bin collections cancelled
Epping Forest Guardian: Man gets MoT
Beds on Sunday: Man doesn't win lottery
Portsmouth News: National organisation makes crucial - CRUCIAL - business decision
Spotter's Badge: Beth, TRT, Jon
Northants Telegraph: Anger as 'lack of respect' shown to new flower bed
RESPECT THE FLOWER BED
Spotter's Badge: Victor
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 12:00 pm 0 comments
Labels: Angry shopkeepers, Northants Evening Telegraph
Cambridge News: Couple complain that rats and mice are the result of local fly-tipping
"We've caught four mice in two days and our neighbour's cat caught three in just one day."
So nobody's going hungry, then.
Hull Daily Mail: Anger as the word 'war' is droppped from memorial hall's name
War, huh? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Spotter's Badge: Peter
Sussex Courier: Warning as local weirdo steals kids' underwear from washing line
I'm a merciful sort of person. Catch him, put him on trial, and break out the cheese grater.
Spotter's Badge: Skuds
Essex Echo: Fury as thieves target fishing tackle
"I'd let her use my tackle" (So she can go fishing)
Spotter's Badge: Barry
Swindon Advertiser: Locals claim victory as application for needle exchange turned down
Translation: JUNKIES STAY AWAY
Spotter's Badge: George
Eastern Daily Press: Pub stops karaoke nights after they have the wrong licence
For eg: Not one for strangling kittens and playing the sound out of loudspeakers
Spotter's Badge: Stephen
Epping Forest Guardian: Potholed road 'is like a Ugandan minefield'
Except people are actually killed in minefields
Spotter's Badge: Beth
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 3 comments
Labels: Epping Forest Guardian, First World problems
Sunderland Echo: Campaigners call for badly-written novel to be burned
Because burning books solves EVERYTHING
Spotter's Badge: Gary
Derby Telegraph: Trader fined for selling hooky cheap tat
"If he had sold his complete stock he stood to make at least £1,500"
WOW. I'm in the wrong trade.
Spotter's Badge: Peter.
Billericay Gazette: Charity shop owner hits out at knockers
I wouldn't get involved with any smearing (Neither would I spread malicious rumours)
Spotter's Badge: Barry
Colchester Daily Gazette: Residents furious at smell coming out of Essex
Brilliant work by the photographer. Take the rest of the day off, sir
Spotter's Badge: Alice
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 1 comments
Labels: angry people holding their nose, Colchester Daily Gazette
Wokingham Times: Holy crap! It's all kicking off in Woodley
Portsmouth News: Holy crap! It's all kicking off in Portsmouth
Portsmouth News: Holy crap! It's all kicking off in Chichester
Spotter's Badge: Jon
Bexley News Shopper: Woman, 71, told new carpet is a fire hazard
"I'd inspect her carpet" (To ensure that it was correctly laid)
Spotter's Badge: Simon
Haverhill Weekly News: Protest as walk-in clinic is closed
"I'd raise her blood pressure" (To ensure that she was living a healthy lifestyle and getting her five a day, oh no, that's worse, isn't it?)
Spotter's Badge: Mark
East Grinstead Courier and Observer: Anger as bike thief leaves his old bike behind
If somebody stels THAT bike, will she be holding up a photo of her holding up this photo? Brain hurts
Spotter's Badge: Skuds
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 6 comments
Labels: angry cyclists, East Grinstead Courier and Observer
Coventry Telegraph: Tree at the end of my garden 'making my life HELL'
The money shot: "Nine years ago wasn’t anywhere near as big."
Tempted to give her a spotter's badge for noticing that trees grow over time.
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Waltham Forest Guardian: Traders dismayed as Olympics turn area into a ghost town
Yep, yet another LOCOG nause-up
Spotter's Badge: Beth
Essex Chronicle: Family may have to move as daughter denied place at local school
"I'll hold my breath unless you do as I say. Then you'll be sorry"
Spotter's Badge: Barry
North Wales Daily Post: Sheep gets stuck
Cambrian Times: Road allegedly haunted
Portsmouth News: New streetlights
Brighton Argus: Cat stuck up tree
Spotter's Badge: John, John, Jon, Me
Reading Evening Post: University wants to study killer cats for ...err... harmless research
Don't look it in the eyes. It can see your soul
Spotter's Badge: Andrew
Dorset Echo: With all the world's problems sorted, attention turns to the menace of roundabout sponsorship
I once sponsored a roundabout. It did the London Marathon
Lancashire Evening Post: Victims angry at 'let-off' for teenage vandal
Man, did I ever read that photo caption wrong. No woman should be called Jean Bondage
Spotter's Badge: Karen
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:50 am 0 comments
Labels: angry crime victims, Lancashire Evening Post
Cornish Guardian: Locals in fight to stop solar farm expansion
You will note they've driven to a country road to protest against renewable energy. Take that, you hippies!
This is North Devon: Micro-celebrity spotted
Hemel Today: Celeb spotted near Hemel
Falmouth Packet: Celebrity spotted in Cornwall
Midland Reporter: Pensioner puzzled as thieves steal empty shopping bags from car
"I'd like to fill her bags" (With shopping)
Spotter's Badge: David
Manchester Evening News: Teacher fined for taking daughter out of school to go on holiday
"I'd take her out of class" (To discuss my child's recent poor grades)
Spotter's Badge: @Jabblue
Dorset Echo: Fishermen angry at high security during Olympic events
Fishing is not and never will be an Olympic event. DREAM ON
Spotter's Badge: Stephen
Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Shopkeep's anger as bank refuses to honour 'free banking forever' account
FACT: Santander is Spanish for "Greedy grabbing bastards"*
*Lie
Spotter's Badge: Ross
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 8:00 am 2 comments
Labels: Angry shopkeepers, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Estern Reporter: Sporting clubs' anger after being denied permission to run bingo nights
Lucky escape, to be honest
Spotter's Badge: David
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