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Posted by: matt ( )
Date: November 08, 2010 11:17AM

http://thewellingtonnews.co.uk/content/police-chief-road-rage-warning-you-will-be-caught

No, really, it is. It's their biggest news story in, oh... in absolutely ages! ;o))

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Posted by: EssexExMo ( )
Date: November 08, 2010 12:40PM

I live In East London and have relatives in Devon

One time, we had just returned from Devon and threw the local (Teignmouth) newspaper on the table next to the local London one.

front page headlines in the london newspaper was 'Man stabbed in underpass'
front page headlines in the Devon newspaper was 'Plant pot broken at old folks home'

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Posted by: matt ( )
Date: November 08, 2010 08:38PM

onceanelder Wrote:
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> I live In East London and have relatives in Devon
>
> One time, we had just returned from Devon and
> threw the local (Teignmouth) newspaper on the
> table next to the local London one.
>
> front page headlines in the london newspaper was
> 'Man stabbed in underpass'
> front page headlines in the Devon newspaper was
> 'Plant pot broken at old folks home'

There is a heck of a difference, isn't there?

My favourite headline was: "Nasty accident nearly caused" ;o))

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Posted by: matt ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 09:52AM

Ridiculous Wrote:
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> One day this summer, the top story on my local TV
> news was about somebody's hog getting loose and
> eating a bunch of turnip greens.

That's the kind of story I like.
'
Covering murders or fatal car crashes? That's... not so good. Yeah, you get the thrill of the headlines, breaking a big story, sometimes, but it's upsetting, too.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2010 09:52AM by matt.

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