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More shoddy journalism from the BBC there. That car is "next to" the staircase in the same way that I'm "next to" my chair.

Even the word "found" is misleading, unless the car had been stolen some time ago and nobody knew where it was for a while. "Stolen car ends up in Metro station" would be a better way of phrasing it.
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I'm not sure what you're doing getting hauled up a chair by the fire service...
 
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Tomorrow's Daily Star front page:

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Are the BBC still looking for a politics editor? This lady may be in with a shout for the job:
 
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A family have nursed a fox back to health in a garden tent: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-62688361 (link is to the relevant BBC article)

A badly-injured fox spent two weeks recovering in a garden tent after attaching itself to a Glasgow family.
Liz Wink said the fox followed her son home before they noticed a bad wound on its side.
The family put food in the back garden and bought the fox - given the name Florence - a tent to sleep in.
Mrs Wink said antibiotics were given after contacting a vet, and the fox finally left their garden with the wound healed after a fortnight.
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Foxes are such interesting creatures...
 
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Satire is dead (again):

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Broadband Minister suffers broadband failure during interview about broadband improvements | LBC

This is the moment the broadband minister's broadband failed during a radio interview to announce the Government's advances in providing gigabit-capable broadband.
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This is the moment the broadband minister's broadband failed during a radio interview to announce the Government's advances in providing gigabit-capable broadband.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport minister Matt Warman's line failed shortly after he spoke about the "huge progress" in rolling out the technology across the UK.

The unfortunately timed technical hitch prompted LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast to remark: "This is handy as you're the broadband minister. You can't hear me, can you? That is sensational and the picture's frozen.

"So there we go, we've got the Government banging on about however many billon pounds' worth it is of... gigabit and he can't take the question.

"You can't hear me but I'll be polite, Matt Warman, minister for digital, culture, media and sport, talking about the progress of broadband and the line collapses, but thank you for your time."

Earlier in the exchange, Mr Warman said the proportion of people accessing gigabit-capable broadband has risen from 9% to 70% in the last three years.

He said: "That is huge progress at a pace that was way above what we were hoping for when we set those targets in 2019, so really good news, but of course there are still 30% of people that we are working as fast as we possibly can to get to - and that pace shows that we're going to get to them as quickly as we possibly can."

Asked if the whole of the UK was connected, he replied: "Well, in some form, all bar the most remote properties are connected to broadband of some sort and satellite can mop up the rest, but there is a lot of work to do.

"I'm not pretending anything else, but as I say, the pace that's got us to where we are today is a huge sign of intent and the things that are to come... The vast majority of the... progress that we're announcing today is coming from the private sector."

Boris Johnson hailed the expansion of gigabit-speed broadband as he seeks to emphasise his achievements as Prime Minister during his final week in office.

The outgoing premier will on Tuesday visit north Dorset, where work is kicking off on the first major contract under the Government's Project Gigabit, the £5 billion programme to roll out more reliable broadband to hard-to-reach areas

New data from the ThinkBroadband website will show gigabit broadband is now available to 70% of UK homes and businesses, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said.

Coverage was just 7% in 2019, meaning nearly 20 million premises have been connected since then, according to the department. The Government aims to reach 85% coverage by 2025.

Mr Johnson said he was "proud" of the expansion and that it demonstrated "levelling up".
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Just seen this:
www.bbc.co.uk

Rare model locomotives sold for 'astonishing' £25,000

The models, by James Stanley Beeson, are held in incredibly high regard, says an expert.
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Rare model locomotives sold for 'astonishing' £25,000
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Three rare model locomotives have sold for thousands at auction.
The Fine Scale O Gauge models, made by James Stanley Beeson, went for £25,000 - nearly four times the total estimate.
A LNWR Ramsbottom 0-6-0T "Special Tank", listed for £1,500-£2,000, was auctioned for £14,000.
A 1958 locomotive "Belted Will" with tender, estimated at £2,000 to £3,000, sold for £9,500; while a 1940s LNWR 4-6-0 136 "Minerva" with tender, listed at £1,500 to £2,000, earned £3,400.
The sale was held on Wednesday by Market Harborough-based Gildings Auctioneers, which said it had bidders flying in from across Europe despite the auction being online-only.

More than 500 lots featured, with the star attractions being the items made by James Beeson, whose family firm was one of the leading makers of the 20th Century and supplied models used in Hollywood films.
Andrew Smith, model railway expert for Gildings, said the high bids were evidence of the quality of Beeson's work.
"The astonishing prices paid for these locomotives is testament to the incredibly high regard James Stanley Beeson is held in by collectors of model railways.
"The example of his extraordinary metalcraft which sold for £14,000 is believed to have been an especially challenging shape of cab for Beeston to build, which partly explains why it attracted such fierce bidding and ultimately sold for such a huge amount of money.
"The overall results of today's sale, and in particular this private collection of scratch-built models from the mid-20th century, shows that the market remains fiercely competitive."
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-Peter :)
 
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brad465 said:
This tweet started quite the trend:



And LNER got on board (pardon the pun) too:

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That explains why one of the football related accounts I follow randomly tweeted “football”. I was somewhat surprised but just ignored it as an error that would soon be deleted.
 
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Is it the same reason behind the famous "Ed Balls" tweet - someone trying to search and tweeting their search term instead?
 
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Not sure whether this belongs in the Football thread.
www.bbc.co.uk

FA Cup: Blackfield & Langley FC goalkeeper sent off for urinating in a hedge

In what may be an FA Cup first, a goalkeeper is sent off for urinating in a hedge in a first qualifying round tie.
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The incident occurred in the 76th minute of their 0-0 draw with Somerset side Shepton Mallet FC in Saturday's FA Cup first qualifying round tie.

"The ball went out for a goal kick," Blackfield & Langley FC co-manager Conor McCarthy told BBC Sport.

"He needed to go to the toilet so he went up against a hedge and their players started shouting saying 'what's he doing?' to the ref. The ref went up to him and decided to send him off.
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Baxenden Bank said:
Better than standing on the goal line and doing the deed, or standing and aiming for the penalty spot (not from the goal line - that would be impressive).
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I remember reading about one where a player went on the 18yd line during the warm up where the ref declared it unplayable
 
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People from around the world, including government leaders have been sending congratulatory tweets to Liz Truss on the occasion of her becoming PM. Only problem is, many of them have been Tweeting the wrong person!
 
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najaB said:
People from around the world, including government leaders have been sending congratulatory tweets to Liz Truss on the occasion of her becoming PM. Only problem is, many of them have been Tweeting the wrong person!
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This is just like when someone in New York called "Liz Line" got trending because of the naming of Crossrail's Elizabeth Line ;)
 
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No comment needed!
A teenage boy was rushed to surgery after getting a USB cable stuck inside his penis. The 15-year-old from the UK had been trying to measure the inside of his penis with the cable as a form of “sexual experimentation” when it became tangled and he was unable to remove it.
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www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Teenage boy gets USB cable stuck in penis as doc forced to surgically remove it

The cable became knotted after the boy inserted it and he was unable to remove it.
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No comment needed!

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Teenage boy gets USB cable stuck in penis as doc forced to surgically remove it

The cable became knotted after the boy inserted it and he was unable to remove it.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk www.dailyrecord.co.uk
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Known as FBIP to hospital staff.

Meanwhile, a woman arrested for not paying for a meal claimed she was arrested for her good looks

A woman arrested for skipping the tab at an airport restaurant accused police of harassing her because she was too “good-looking.”

Hend Bustami, 28, left a Chili’s Tex-Mex outpost at Harry Reid International Airport last Wednesday without paying her bill, news station KTLA reported.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police called to the scene found the self-described “hospitality professional” sleeping “near the security checkpoint, hindering their operations.”

Bustami was eventually arrested by the baggage claim, where an arrest report said she appeared intoxicated and was “belligerent” with officers.

Bustami claimed “‘she was being harassed because cops [had] never seen anyone as pretty as her,’” police said
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https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/woman-claims-she-was-arrested-for-being-too-good-looking/
 
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Gloster said:
I have managed to display my usual technical brilliance and not been able to identify the poster after three goes.
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In case you can't load the Tweet:
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The joke is that the username is Internet Explorer and uses the icon for IE versions up to 9 - which historically had the reputation for being extremely slow as compared to Firefox and Chrome.
 
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Liverpool's Car Free Day was ended two hours early after major congestion formed in parts of the city
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The Strand was supposed to be shut between 10:00 and 16:00 BST in an attempt to encourage drivers to use alternative modes of transport.
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Liverpool's Car Free Day ends in 'disaster'

An attempt to lure drivers out of their cars is ended early because of city centre congestion.
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43096 said:
No, you need to be a total nerd to get it. 90%+ of people wouldn’t.
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Considering the reputation the eariler versions of IE had in terms of performance, I would've thought seeing that particular IE logo would bring back many memories, not all of them pleasent, for a lot of people who used those versions of IE that came built into the likes of XP etc.

Besides, if you really wanted to be nerdy with internet browser logos for this kind of thing and completely befuddle most users, you could do a lot worse than Netscape. ;)
 
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