News articles with "crazy/interesting" facts
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News articles with "crazy/interesting" facts
It's a shame really that I occasionally see pages like this (about the M20 here) containing facts that are always not interesting or unique. More should be done to notify people of the road network we have and some of the feats of engineering and technology involved. Anyone else seen these before?
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They certainly are. And any link that says something like "#15 will blow your mind!" should automatically be ignored.
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Almost everything on KentLive is. They very rarely have news on there.
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Cambridge live has also gone to pot.
They have many articles about some local participants on a TV programme called Love Island. There was also an article about the queue at the check out in Aldi.
They have many articles about some local participants on a TV programme called Love Island. There was also an article about the queue at the check out in Aldi.
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This site, Kent Live, Wales Online et al are all owned by the same group, so I expect their websites are all similar. There have been quite a few click bait articles about Aldi on Kent Live.
Or you get the tenuous “someone whose great great aunt once ate at a restaurant somewhere in our county did a thing today” counts as “local news”...
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The "local" newspaper here is running a campaign to get lights switched back on along the M65 because the "trial is clearly dangerous".
So far so good. Apart from the minor detail that said lights were physically removed about four years ago. A local paper should know this.
So far so good. Apart from the minor detail that said lights were physically removed about four years ago. A local paper should know this.
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In the days before t'interweb, when I lived in Cornwall, I always used to joke that the Falmouth Packet was so parochial that one day its front page headline would be "Old lady trips over kerb"
Imagine my delight when it did run "Pensioner injured in pavement drama" (breathlessly screaming its outrage at the dramatic tale of an old lady who had tripped over a broken paving slab) as its front page headline.
I was close...
Imagine my delight when it did run "Pensioner injured in pavement drama" (breathlessly screaming its outrage at the dramatic tale of an old lady who had tripped over a broken paving slab) as its front page headline.
I was close...