Introspective News Headline of the Week.
“Singing Kettle caught in shooting horror”
Derek Bird shot a singing kettle? Nope.
FIFE’S favourite children’s’ entertainers were caught up in this week’s horrific shootings in the Lake District.
How dreadful for them. Were they among the injured? The dead? Did they suffer a near miss? Were they interviewed by police as witnesses?
Cast member Kevin Macleod was […] locked in a Boots store in the town for over an hour after movement in the town ground to a halt and the streets were cleared by police.
That is the slimmest thread by which a ‘local angle’ has been appended to a national story I have seen since the infamous ‘local man left earthquake town days before disaster struck – 4,000 dead’.
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June 4, 2010 at 14:38 -
Good God! I was there a month or so ago. I drove down that street.
I need counseling and an outreach support type thingy. I mean,PTSD could strike me down any minute now. -
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June 4, 2010 at 15:46 -
I’ve never been to that part of Cumbria, but I’ve read a lot about it in the last 48 hours. Where’s my grief counsellor?
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June 4, 2010 at 16:14 -
I went camping in the woods near Boot as recently as several years ago. I’m getting straight onto my local paper with a press release, including a photograph of whatever it is I’m promoting.
P.S. Worth reading the first comment on the original article, if you didn’t already.
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June 4, 2010 at 17:26 -
My ancestors on my maternal side about 7 generations back came from that area. Is that close enough?
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June 4, 2010 at 17:57 -
I had a meal in Whitehaven once … that count ?
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June 4, 2010 at 20:33 -
Candidate for CumbriaBalls in the next edition of Private Eye?
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June 5, 2010 at 08:12 -
I remember some 25 or so years ago I was flying out of San Francisco, en route to London and thence home to Fife.
Two hours out the captain announced that there had been a major earthquake in SFO, the one which shut down when the Bay Bridge’s top layer dropped down the one below and the freeway in Oakland pancaked.
Getting home the headline in the Dundee Courier, which had only just abandoned small ads on the front page, and was experimenting with modern stuff such a news and headlines thereon had the stunning topper.
Major earthquake in San Francisco, many dead. Dundee couple give help.
I wish I had kept it.
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June 6, 2010 at 00:59 -
Barrel, trigger jacket of metal. What’s inside the singiiiiiiing shooter.
There was the P&J headline supposedly after the Titanic sank: “North-East man lost at sea”
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