BREAKING NEWS

[policywonk]

Tremendously important

Shocking.

Why haven't the UN been called?

Oh I love local papers. Headline in ours a few years ago: "Keys Found!"

This is dated 25th March - surely everyone knows about it by now

I love the photo of her looking pissed off with packets of custard powder in her hands.

Thanks for linking - we need to know this sort of thing or how else can we stand up for ourselves and ensure we get our just desserts?

Wha??

When I moved from SA to the UK, the contrast in the local papers was particularly notable.
Local SA paper: 5 murdered in own home, women raped
Local UK paper: Where Bubble and Squeak the gerbils eaten by a pitbull?

Sorry, were

pmsl

I love the comments underneath

oops, that was at the story op linked to obv , not bleh

Oh my god, am moving to Kent in a few weeks - would never have agreed to move if I'd known about the parlous state of local custard supply.

'Are you sure this was in Whitstable, not Framley?'

Make sure you take plenty with you, bellabelly.

And they said that that swine flu business was a threat to humanity...if only they'd seen this custastrophy coming

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custastrophy You damned near killed the thread!

I do like 'dis-custard' in the first para of the story. Is there a special module on punning at journalism school?

LOL. Years ago DH's granddad (a miserable old bugger at the best of times) posed for an article in the local paper about how little his pension bought him. The picture consisted of him holding a cauliflower in one hand and looking sorrowfully down at a few coppers in the other hand.

The cauliflower was provided as a prop by the local paper. Tightwads took it with them when they left!

Ha ha - also saw this and thought 'pure Framley!'

Actually, am a bit worried. We're moving house on Friday - to a place a few miles from Whitstable. What will I do about custard?

Loving the cauli story, verygreenlawn.

On holiday in rural Wales in the late '80s we saw the billboard headline:

MAN ARRESTED FOR STEALING HIS OWN COAT

Any non-story in the news is now referred to as a "Coat Story".

Blimey, I thought our local newspaper was scraping the bottom of the barrel a couple of years ago when the headlines read

CABBAGES STOLEN FROM ALLOTMENT

Has Custardo seen this thread?