Well today is certainly a quiet day for news in Newcastle. One of our eager beaver interns (not an actual beaver you understand, and
as we don’t pay them they tend not to be that eager either so perhaps we could more accurately say one of our interns) turned up a little nugget from BBC Newcastle for us to investigate further.
According to the BBC report a light aircraft came to rest on some grass near a runway in Newcastle. It remained upright and no-one was
hurt. The airport was closed for fifteen minutes, which doubtless inconvenienced passengers who were accustomed to their public transportation running precisely to schedule, but these little mishaps cannot be helped. Well it made the BBC so perhaps there was something more to this story than met the eye? Perhaps the “privately owned” craft belonged to a spy? Further investigation revealed nothing of the kind.
We asked Cheryl Cole for a comment, but couldn’t understand what she said.
We sent our man on the ground to an airport near him to interview some frequent fliers and gain their views on the “events” in Newcastle this morning. One penny pincher and frequent flier interviewed told him:
“This reminds me of a plane journey I once took where nothing much happened. Why are you people wasting my time and your ink?” He was so upset by her tone that he felt unable to offer us his usual insight.
Since she is from somewhere up north and has been on a plane a few time we thought we would ask Catherine Sykes her thoughts on events in Newcastle this morning. She told us:
“You know I hate flying! Why are you people tormenting me? How did you get my number?” She then took a deep breath and added, “Sorry, the stress of releasing a totally awesome jazz album is getting to me. You can get your copy at www.catherinesykes.com”
She may have mentioned that a few times, still it is nice of her to keep talking to us like this.
You can read the BBC report in its entirety here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-13678055
