Christmas hat anger
Bournemouth Echo: Woman trembles in fear as horse tries to eat her Christmas hat
Let this be a warning to you: IT IS STILL NOVEMBER
Celebrating excellence in the field of local newspaper photography
Bournemouth Echo: Woman trembles in fear as horse tries to eat her Christmas hat
Let this be a warning to you: IT IS STILL NOVEMBER
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6:13 pm
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Labels: angry women, Bournemouth Echo
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Dorset Echo: Warning over dodgy charity collectors
"I'd grasp her knocker firmly and ask her for money"
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Dorset Echo
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Edinburgh News: Anger as thieves target "healing centre" twice in six weeks
Top use of quotation marks in the original article.
Spotter's Badge: Caroline
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry shopkeepers, Edinburgh News
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Staines News: Residents angry at crumbling flats
Isn't it terrible when you go to a fancy dress party and EVERYBODY'S gone as the construction worker from the Village People?
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: Angry residents, Staines News
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Dorset Echo: Charity's fury as speedcock scrawled on minibus
SPEEDCOCK!
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Alistair Coleman
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5:39 pm
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Dorset Echo
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Mandurah Coastal Times: Man fined for harassing Church of Scientology
Get your hair cut
Spotter's Badge: Kim
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry aussies, Mandurah Coastal Times
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This is Exeter: OUTRAGE after girl thrown off bus
Yeah, well, Stagecoach...
Spotter's Badge: Alexandra
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry parents, This is Exeter
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Edinburgh News: Police called as man claims assault over bowling club row
The "overarm versus underarm" debate rumbles ever onward
Spotter's Badge: Caroline
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: angry sportsmen, Edinburgh News
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This is Hull and East Riding: Dad livid to find that after sending son to school with haircut that breaks school uniform code, he is sent home from school for breaking school uniform code
Who'd have thought it?
Spotter's Badge: Andrew
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Alistair Coleman
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4:38 pm
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Labels: Angry parents, this is hull and east riding
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Dorset Echo: Charity staff fears losses due to roadworks
... by going to the paper the day the roadworks end.
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: Angry shopkeepers, Dorset Echo
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South West News: Anger over parking near swimming pool
"I'd park in her swimming pool"*
Spotter's Badge: Michael
* I wouldn't park in her swimming pool
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: angry aussies, south west news
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Essex Echo: Pensioner vows to go to prison rather than pay parking fines
Advice: Don't bend down in the showers
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: Angry old people, Essex Echo
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Bournemouth Echo: Businessman's fury as vandals wreck lorries
The very dictionary definition of dismay
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry businessmen, Bournemouth Echo
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Stuff.nz: Anger as booze shop planned near schools
Yeah - make the little scrotes take some exercise
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry shopkeepers, stuff.nz
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Angry mum told baby's dummy 'is safe for use'
Please put on your glasses for full effect
I'd suck on her... oh, never mind
Spotter's Badge: Rob
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: Angry parents, Sunshine Coast Daily
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Dorset Echo: Residents furious over name for new crossroads
There are - of course - many more things to get upset over. For God's sake, Gillian McKeith's still in I'm a Celebrity.
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Alistair Coleman
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5:15 pm
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Dorset Echo
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North Wales Weekly News: Angry parents furious over unsafe school bus service
...All apart from Giant Head Woman on the left
Spotter's Badge: Mark
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: Angry parents, North Wales Weekly News
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Birmingham Mail: Football fan ejected from ground for heading the ball
...and possession of a Villa shirt in a built-up area
Spotter's Badge: Tim
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: angry sports fans, Birmingham Mail
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Fear, loathing as turkeys invade suburbia, just in time for Christmas
At last, the 3-D newspaper. Please put on your special glasses to get the full effect
Spotter's Badge: Rob
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: angry aussies, Sunshine Coast Daily
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Wolverhampton Express and Star: Couple locked inside airport terminal for fifteen minutes
"Thank goodness they made it out alive. I haven’t been this moved by a story since the Chilean miners."
Spotter's Badge: Jill
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry holidaymakers, Wolverhampton Express and Star
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Get Surrey: "Lack of respect" after repeated burglaries at angry bloke's house
Where Are They Now: Brian Johnson out of AC/DC
Spotter's Badge: Mark
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry old people, get surrey
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East Anglia Daily Times: Fury, pointing as mysterious yellow lines appear in village
"They are beautiful yellow lines, very straight."
Spotter's Badge: Rhys
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: angry people pointing, East Anglia Daily Times
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Waltham Forest Guardian: Star of Olympics job advert still unemployed after a year
I'd give her Olympic rings a good work-out
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: Fed up, Waltham Forest Guardian
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Bridgewater Mercury: Supermarket lorries 'driving us mad'
Top marks for the 'Nescafe handshake' in the front row
Spotter's Badge: Mark
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Bridgewater Mercury
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Bournemouth Echo: Children in Need appeal utterly destroyed in Great Bournemouth Pudsey Riots
Tragic - Pudsey's eye was just getting better, and NOW THIS.
Spotter's Badge: @hp88
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: Angry parents, Bournemouth Echo
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Waltham Forest Guardian: Fury as burglars target nursery for third time
Standards are slipping. Some of those kids haven't even bothered to cross their arms.
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: Angry Kids, Waltham Forest Guardian
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Dorset Echo: Local crones panic after brown-skinned man found working at Olympic sailing site
“They need to check that he’s not scattered something that’s going to lie dormant for 18 months. I’m not saying he is a terrorist but he could be. It’s possible.”
BWA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: angry councillors, Dorset Echo
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Hampshire Police: Police hunt indecent exposure suspect
Note to Hampshire Police: Why - in the name of parted buttocks - are you protecting your wanted notices with legally scary copyright warnings? Don't you want people to help?
Don't have nightmares
Bournemouth Echo: Model enthusiasts taken to HULL AND BACK by pond weed woe
Top, top punnery by Echo sub editors. Take the rest of the day off.
Spotter's Badge: Katy
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry boat owners, Bournemouth Echo
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Reading Evening Post: Earring found in meat pie
There goes my no-questions-asked pie-filling contract
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry old people, Reading Evening Post
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Wolverhampton Express and Star: Angry cat livid after getting trapped in house
I LOLed. I LOLed out loud
Spotter's Badge: Jill
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Alistair Coleman
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7:40 am
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Labels: Angry animals, Wolverhampton Express and Star
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Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express: Locals furious over land use debate
Great that Wayne Rooney's thrown his weight behind this crucial campaign
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Alistair Coleman
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12:26 pm
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
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Tayside Courier: Protestors shame-faced as they all turn up to demo with matching placards
Superb crowd-shot - will be keeping an eye on this paper
Spotter's Badges: Richard, Anon
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Alistair Coleman
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11:48 am
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Labels: Angry campaigners, Tayside Courier
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Watford Observer: Angry Scouts vow to whittle vandals TO DEATH. Or something
"I'd stick my woggle up her Beaver"
Spotter's Badge: TRT
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry scouts, Watford Observer
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Kentish Gazette: Pensioner's life is thrown upside-down as he grows a new tooth at the age of 82
Kentish Gazette? Are you sure that's spelled right?
Spotter's Badge: Jo
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry old people, Kentish Gazette
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Bournemouth Echo: Traders point in impotent fury as festive slide erected outside their businesses, you know, to draw in more customers
And so the season of goodwill approaches, and like night follows day, it brings out the humbugs. Superb angry pointing, we think you'll agree.
Spotter's Badge: The Bournemouth Daily Echo
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Alistair Coleman
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3:04 pm
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Labels: Angry shopkeepers, Bournemouth Echo
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Bird attacks make old bloke soil his shorts IN FEAR
"LIKE a wildlife ninja, Tom Nealson snatched butcher birds out of the air with a net as they swooped to attack him."
WOW.
Spotter's Badge: Rob
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry aussies, Sunshine Coast Daily
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London Evening Standard: Camapigners point out that Narrow Street in East London is called that for a reason
Good point, well made
Spotter's Badge: Jim
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry campaigners, London Evening Standard
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Somewhere in Australia Weekly: Wedding photos spoiled by traditional Australian pursuits
...being sports, booze and having a barbecue. Deport the ingrates!
Spotter's Badge: Kim
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry aussies, Inmycommunity
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Bristol Evening Post: Hapless flatmate loads belongings into wrong car ... with HILARIOUS results!
I'd fill her boot...
Spotter's Badge: Neil
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: Angry MILFs, this is bristol
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Somewhere in Australia Reporter: Passengers not told bus stops taken out of service
Aussie anger: Exactly the same as British anger, only with better weather.
Spotter's Badge: Kim
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
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Labels: angry aussies, Inmycommunity
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Oxford Mail: Allotment holders angry over spate of thefts
A fine study in arm-folding.
Spotter's Badge: Suzanne
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
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Labels: angry crime victims, Oxford Mail
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Somewhere in Australia News: Locals angry over threat to theatre
"Come on darlings! Show that anger! Show that rage!"
Spotter's Badge: Kim
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Alistair Coleman
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8:00 am
1 comments
Labels: angry aussies, Inmycommunity
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Oxford Mail: Locals upset over funding cuts
"Councillor Fooks". I sincerely hope not.
Spotter's Badge: Suzanne
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Alistair Coleman
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7:50 am
1 comments
Labels: Angry campaigners, Oxford Mail
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Teen unrepentant as police fine him twice for riding without 'gay' helmet
*cough* Gay haircut *cough*
Spotter's Badge: Rob
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Alistair Coleman
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7:53 pm
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Labels: angry aussies, Sunshine Coast Daily
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It's not often I do a post such as this, but the following were the FIVE lead stories on the Reading Evening Post website on a single day this October. Never before - and never again since - will so much fury be illustrated in a single day's press.
And the lead story on such a tumultuous day? The garden gnome.
Well done the Post. Still got it.
Nursery closure fear after thefts
Seeing red over green collection
Who'll mend broken lights on towpath?
Fined twice for driving blunder
There's gnome place like home
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