Anyone been to Blackpool recently?

[Benny_MN]

If you did, I hope you didn't buy a take away....:noway2:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50474&in_page_id=34 :character0088:

[wankmaster]

It will be interesting to see if this one makes the main news. At the moment it doesn't seem to be on the BBC website, altho this story about the donkeys on Blackpool beach is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6691031.stm

Maybe it has been covered and I missed it?

[AllRuth]

It will be interesting to see if this one makes the main news. At the moment it doesn't seem to be on the BBC website, altho this story about the donkeys on Blackpool beach is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6691031.stm

Maybe it has been covered and I missed it?

I'm sure it was the BBC news site that I read the story on yesterday. I was going to post the story on here but it grossed me out too much.

[AllRuth]

Found it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/6688137.stm

[wankmaster]

Thanks for the link.

Inconvenient stories do get printed on the BBC website, but they don't stay there long, and tend not to make the TV news.

We can contrast the case of a "chav" child who goes missing and ends up as part of a kebab ( alegedly ), with that of Madeleine McCann, child of middle class parents who are "our sort". One gets a bare mention, the other is massive news.

[Benny_MN]

Thanks for the link.

Inconvenient stories do get printed on the BBC website, but they don't stay there long, and tend not to make the TV news.

We can contrast the case of a "chav" child who goes missing and ends up as part of a kebab ( alegedly ), with that of Madeleine McCann, child of middle class parents who are "our sort". One gets a bare mention, the other is massive news.

Good point

[AllRuth]

Thanks for the link.

Inconvenient stories do get printed on the BBC website, but they don't stay there long, and tend not to make the TV news.

We can contrast the case of a "chav" child who goes missing and ends up as part of a kebab ( alegedly ), with that of Madeleine McCann, child of middle class parents who are "our sort". One gets a bare mention, the other is massive news.

For sure. I also don't understand how the BBC news selects the bits it wants to report. I went and read the report on 24dash.com after catching the BBC one and you get a lot more detail even though the report isn't that much longer in length.

http://www.24dash.com/communities/21015.htm

[redwhiteandblue]

Thanks for the link.

Inconvenient stories do get printed on the BBC website, but they don't stay there long, and tend not to make the TV news.

We can contrast the case of a "chav" child who goes missing and ends up as part of a kebab ( alegedly ), with that of Madeleine McCann, child of middle class parents who are "our sort". One gets a bare mention, the other is massive news.

Ah because Madeleine went missing in Portugal you see, so the whole thing is about how those johnny foreigners are useless at catching crims, unlike our Brit police...

[wankmaster]

Ah because Madeleine went missing in Portugal you see, so the whole thing is about how those johnny foreigners are useless at catching crims, unlike our Brit police...

That's part of the equation for sure. I noticed some MP was asking Blair to send the police over to Japan to solve the body in the sandbox murder, as the "nips" didn't seem to be cutting the mustard. Seems like you can join the police now and see the world. Funny how the locations seem to be quite attractive tho, don't see many volunteers for going to Iraq.