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Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:37 pm Don’t you wish Berlin had wallabies as well as feral bears on the loose?

Hold your horses, we had a feckin LION during the summer - almost.


I actually laughed all the way though that drama. I was in hospital - yet again - in the south-west of the city, and many of the medical support staff live and grew up in the area. These are the women who are measuring all sorts of gubbins, including the sort of thing that takes longer than yer standard blood pressure etc etc, so conversation is bound to be struck up.

Seems that their teenaged offspring were downloading lion roaring MP3s and taking their phones and Bluetooth beatboxes in to the forest to blast the sounds in to the night.

Send the massed ranks of cops and rangers in to panic mode.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:40 pm May I introduce you to the journalistic behemoth that is Poppy Huggett.

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/new ... n/?ref=rss

Her report reads

Pictures from the scene of a crash in Wimbledon show a car left completely smashed up with the bottom hanging off.

The car crashed into a bollard in Wimbledon on Friday evening (October 13), at the junction of The Alexandra pub and Elys Department Store in Wimbledon.

Police say there has been no reports of any serious injuries.

Picture shows a car which has run over a keep left sign, and has a smashed bumper and lower valance. Apart from that, no damage...

Desperate stuff.

A thousand words can tell a picture.

The Daily Express had better look to it's laurels. Birmingham Live is after their 'Top Weathermageddon Shrieker' crown.

I haven't read the article, that fuckwit headline put me off. Eleven counties are going to be literally "hammered" by, er, flurries of snow.

Pictured: A light dusting.

Indeed. It amazes me how they can get a shrieking headline out of "Normal weather for the time of year".

Yug wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 11:22 am Indeed. It amazes me how they can get a shrieking headline out of "Normal weather for the time of year".

In their defence the train companies are always surprised by snow in the winter so the papers might as well be.

Not so much surprised as run on a shoestring with no capacity for any sort of emergency planning.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:13 pm Not so much surprised as run on a shoestring with no capacity for any sort of emergency planning.

They don't do themselves any favours. There's little excuse for the number of cancellations and delays we have to endure on our line.

Fabulous use of English by Ben Gardner at the local Guardian:

What happened?

The emergency services was attending to an incident between Stafford and Wolverhampton around 6.30am today.

This forced the train lines from London to close.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:41 am Fabulous use of English by Ben Gardner at the local Guardian:

What happened?

The emergency services was attending to an incident between Stafford and Wolverhampton around 6.30am today.

This forced the train lines from London to close.

Our local press has been in the "Hire your otherwise unemployable young family members" freefall for at least a decade

This forced the train lines from London to close.

Must have been a hot day.