The Official Local News Thread

[zeitghost]

This is an ex student of mine....

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/di...entPK=21161773

Fame at last...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvNL...eature=related

[Xenophon]

Looks like you started a winner here Xen. Who'd a thunk it.

Aye - who'd a thunk it indeed.

I hope the stories keep coming - I love 'em!

[oracleslave]

http://www.putneysw15.com/default.as...rservice03.htm

[Tensai]

Who said life in the suburbs was boring....?

Firefighters had to cut a man out of a titanium chastity belt intended for sex games

[Malingering BA]

I like this idea

Wimbledon Guardian: Chocolatier planning knife crime sculpture

A shocking rise in teenage gun and knife and crime on London's streets has prompted a wave or new ideas from politicians and youth workers on how to tackle the tragic epidemic.

But a Streatham Vale chocolatier wants to make a statement about the crisis on London's streets through the medium he knows best - chocolate.

Mr Gregory, widely considered to be one of the top three chocolatiers in London, has ideas for two pieces - one of a chocolate baby playing with a gun, and a not-too-sweet image of a gun or knife victim lying in a pool of chocolate.

[Malingering BA]

Who said life in the suburbs was boring....?

Firefighters had to cut a man out of a titanium chastity belt intended for sex games

"Firefighter Simon Mitchell did a great job and was especially hands on'.

[The Lone Gunman]

Who said life in the suburbs was boring....?

Firefighters had to cut a man out of a titanium chastity belt intended for sex games

There are quite a few laugh out loud moments in that story. I suspect the author is having a laugh at how many "double entendres" the sub editor missed.

As stated above the "hands on" and I also noticed the references to swellings.

[PRC1964]

Oooh, here's a bit of a contentious one from my local

It's your national, rather than local but... http://www.spiegel.de/international/...566998,00.html