Supermarket anger
South Wales Echo: Angry campaigners claim new supermarket will kill local trade
News for you - it's already dead.
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South Wales Echo: Angry campaigners claim new supermarket will kill local trade
News for you - it's already dead.
Oxford Mail: Council forced into U-turn over road name changes
"I'd force her into a U-turn"
Southampton Daily Echo: Taxi driver livid as tree falls on car
Taxi Drivers: A bluetooth headset does NOT make you look like Captain Kirk. It makes you look like a git
Cricket club sickened as arsonists wreck pitch
Ah, that great cricketing power of Wales.
Oxford Mail: Communities unite to fight gravel pit plans
They're also dead against having a huge red arrow painted on their village.
Bournemouth Echo: Twenty pound note-wielding couple thrown off bus
With a picture of a £20 note, just in case you've never seen one before
York Press: Farmer's anger at cow sex attack
Yeah, but look at her, giving you those big come hither eyes....
Oxford Mail: Pensioer's fury as arsonists torch his mobility scooters
Two? Does he have one for track days?
Bournemouth Echo: Old bloke complains about smell from saltwater lake
A triumph for the Echo, the paper that gave the world Bill Bryson.
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 1 comments
Labels: Angry old people, Bournemouth Echo, Pointing
York Press: Parents who named their son Jay.d told to take their offspring elsewhere
First stop: The sensible names shop, you planks.
Get Surrey: Ice cream van driver forced off his pitch by council
"I'll have an ice cream please"
"Hundreds and thousands?"
"No thanks, just the one."
/Tommy Cooper
Dorset Echo: Angry woman demands council rip up disused tramlines after bike accident
"I'd rip up her tramlines"
Oxford Mail: Church takes lapdance club fight to court
...on the grounds that men leaving the establishment at 3am might intimidate churchgoers. Riiiight....
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 8:00 am 2 comments
Labels: angry people hiding behind religion, Oxford Mail
Reading Evening Post: Burger van owner told to burger off
"Take your heart attack onna stick elsewhere," say God Botherers
Oxford Mail: Man with gammy armpit walks out of hospital in protest at delays
Yeah! Stick it to THE MAN! Only go back when your arm falls off. That'll teach 'em
Southampton Daily Echo: Fury as bus driver leaves woman gasping for breath at roadside
Now being stalked by GHOST BUS.
York Press: Woman finds snake under wheelie bin
Probably the first and only snake she'll ever see.
Spotter's Badge: Jo
Barry and District News: Pensioners' fury over giant dog turds
Setting new standards in old people getting wound up about ...err... crap.
"Next thing we’ll be having horses coming along here."
Perish the thought.
Liverpool Echo: Driver angry over £30 fine for playing The Killers
Count yourself lucky, mate - if they catch you playing Justin Bieber, the police get to crush your car into a little cube.
Spotter's Badge: Page888
Swindon Advertiser: Potholes 'making my life a misery'
You can't fool me, Swindon Advertiser. That's Norman Wisdom and I claim my five pounds
Top comment in the original item that bears repeating here:
"...message just in from the people of Haiti - they send their best wishes to Mr Spaulding and hope he gets through this difficult period in his life with the minimum of trauma."
Wokingham Times: Campaigner hits out at new library toilet as luscious, pouting councillor opens new facilities
"I'd open her unisex public toilet"
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 8:00 am 1 comments
Labels: Angry MILFs, Not angry at all, Wokingham Times
Wirral News: Neighbours' fury over Britain's Got Talent organ man
"I know where I'd like to stick his organ"
Spotter's Badge: Page888
Newcastle Herald: Locals brand report on mining operation 'a whitewash'
The lesser-spotted 'Great Universal catalogue' pose makes a rare outing
Kapiti Observer (NZ): Angry bloke and angry son point at hole in road
...which emerges on the other side of the world through an identical pothole in Watford.
Reading Evening Post: Family's fury over unpaid vet bill dispute
Set wild dogs on them, or something.
Manchester Evening News: Mum who lets her kid run around naked in the front garden shocked - SHOCKED - to discover a picture of her offspring's arse on Google Street View, to whch all the PEDLOS in the world are using for their perverted gratification, or something
"Normal for Walkden"
Posted by Alistair Coleman at 7:40 am 3 comments
Labels: Angry parents, Manchester Evening News, PAEDO-GEDDON
Dorset Echo: Gardeners in apoplexy as thieves target allotment sheds
I'm not Sherlock Holmes, but I can see your problem, mate. There's a big hole.
Reading Evening Post: World's oldest teenager in agonising wait for Bad AIDS test
As opposed to the Good AIDS.
Ironton Tribune: Residents furious over potholes in local roads
"I'd fill her potholes"
Border Mail: Fury as tourists get cleaner water than locals
FACT: Dirty water gives you HUGE hands
Sunshine Coast Daily: Dad furious as kid breaks his arm in club brawl
Don't look 'em in the eye, they'll rip your head off.
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Border Mail: Shoplifting skyrockets in local stores
"Mmmmm" said a spokesman, "Mmm mmmm MMMMMMM!"
This is Gloucestershire: Newt expert don't quite think through his plan and kills newts completely TO DEATH in half-arsed protest at THE MAN
"Brian Butcher, 75, of Canonbury Street, Berkeley, fished the great crested newts from his pond and hit them over the head with a hammer, Stroud magistrates heard.
He put the protected species' bodies in a plastic bag and posted them to Natural England because he was angry work to tear down hedgerows and fill in holes where newts were likely to be was not stopped."
Fruitcake.
Spotter's Badge: @thegirlsilver
Sunshine Coast Daily: Council 'not taking nuisance dog problem seriously' claims Angry Aussie bloke
Angry Kid is angry.
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Border Mail: Aussies discover - to their dismay - that they're suddenly crap at sport
In other news, Australia "not very good at sport"
Wirral Globe: Council refuses to extend age range of local school
"I'd extend her age range"
Spotter's Badge: Page 888
York Press: Residents furious over parking ban
"This is my boyfriend," says our spotter, "we all laughed about the photo for ages."
Spotter's Badge: Vanessa
Border Mail: Woman fears her bus stop will go
Don't worry love, it's got to have wheels and an engine before it does. Go home and have a nice cup of tea.
Sunshine Coast Daily: Price hike forces holidaymakers to camp elsewhere
Top fist shaking, but at least TRY to look angry.
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Wirral Globe: Shopkeeps furious as local cash machine packs up
All that free money, GONE. What now?
Spotter's Badge: Page 888
Border Mail: Reward on offer for shooting damage to car
Pic taken shortly after poor Border Mail photographer punched to the floor
Oxford Mail: Vandalism costs town £40,000
And pity the poor photographer who fell into a hole, but still managed to get a shot
Spotter's Badge: Suzanne
Harrogate Advertiser: Pensioner finds straight banana, runs to local press
"I'd ...err... peel her banana"
Spotter's Badge: Rob
Border Mail: Sutherland street living in fear of street gang
"I'd subject her to a bizarre initiation rite"
Oxford Mail: Parents fight plans to relaunch school as academy
And top quality "Thinking of the kiddiewinks" there.
Spotter's Badge: Suzanne
York Press: Campaigners hold rally over care home
...before roaring into town and parking on the yellow lines outside THE MAN'S office. Right on!
Spotter's Badge: Jay
Essex Echo: Woman's fury over vandalism at nature reserve
"How do you get four Lib Dems on a park bench?
Oh, never mind.
Oxford Mail: 'No more loose chippings' council promises angry driver
...who is either three feet tall or standing in a hole.
Spotter's Badge: Suzanne
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