Another Waste of a Report
Well, when we saw the headline on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire that there was a
“Rubbish fire at Long Marston Sims recycling centre” we thought; that’s a bit unkind. Maybe it was their first attempt at making a fire and they’ll improve the next one, but not with the media constantly putting down their efforts. Indeed, Dave, our man on the ground said: “Promise to make a much better fire next time…”
But it turned out that the “rubbish” collected by the recycling plant had somehow caught ablaze, not on purpose, but by accident, and the fire brigade had to be called and everything! Gosh! Apparently recyclable waste is highly flammable, who knew? Words like “inferno” were used in the BBC report, but we would never be quite that dramatic, and since you now have the gist will move on to the next story.
Would you like fries with that?
Britain has its first “Drive Through” (see how we spell that in the old country) bank. Slough Metro Bank allows customers to access their account without leaving their car. There is no news as yet as to whether they will also be serving milkshake, or whether you will need to park up and wait if you want something specialist like a mortgage, but it’s sure to be a convenience that everyone wondered how they did without for so long. Despite fears (mainly from Dave, our new man on the ground) that the bank may be vulnerable to ram raiders, we are sure they have taken the appropriate precautions and everything will be lovely.
Anyway, read more here
The Man Who *Ahemed* The Hornet’s Nest…
No, it’s not the next instalment in a gritty Swedish crime trilogy, but a true life story of sex, and gruesome death by hornet. Well not really, although it did fool some UK news organisations, for whom the satire was lost in translation – the story of our lives. On 15th of May, The International Business Times reported that a Swedish man was stung to death trying to have sex with a hornets nest. Sounds like the sort of disturbing thing we cover, right? However, the very next day the site reported that it had been stung by a cruel hoax, set up by animal rights campaigners, but sadly lost in translation to us Brits. The group wanted to raise awareness of the cruel treatment of hornets, apparently.
Read a tiny bit more here
