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[challenge entry] London doesn't need a local news programme
when the national news always looks like this:

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From the Local News challenge. See all 295 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:29, archived)
# hahaha
yes......outside of London, is foreign policy

/nofx
(I helped save b3ta! WD-39, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:30, archived)
# I used to live in Winchester,
and now I live in London, and all I see on telly is programmes about how to buy up "second homes" in places like Winchester. It's no wonder so many of my mates have gone up north.

I'm not quite sure what my point is here. I'm sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! Mr Gear the gay-maker, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:42, archived)
# hahaha
like 'Winchester' is 'up north'!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! monkeymanblue mathematically safe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:52, archived)
# Ho ho ho
the programme after in London just repeats what the main news says!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:30, archived)
# subtle, scathing, incisive
or something...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:31, archived)
# yeah
london is the only town that exists. Sometimes they might go into other towns in england... maybe even Scotland and Wales if you like that foreign news

woo
(1, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:33, archived)
# Scottish news
murrderr and fitba
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:40, archived)
# LoL
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:35, archived)
# I love local news
you get to hear about all the murders and horrid things that they don't report anywhere else.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:37, archived)
# this
was about 5 doors up from a friend of mine

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3206094.stm

how we laughed as she was cordoned in for 8 hours on sunday...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:40, archived)
# Nice.
This happened round the corner from my house over the summer. I was ecstatic
www.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk/brighton__hove/archive/2003/06/18/NEWS100ZM.html
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:42, archived)
# Oh yes
my female friends suddenly didn't want to go there after that...
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:45, archived)
# It's a horrid place though
I wouldn't have gone there anyway.

/OAP
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:48, archived)
# When I was at University
I had 2 seperate murders happen on my street, and then moved down to London, and had another happen outside my flat.

I feel just like Jessica Fletcher sometimes. Murders happening all around me.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof. Slocombe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:47, archived)
# nice
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:58, archived)
# What is the capitol of London?
Morning.
Is is a place called downing street?
(DJ Skidz, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:39, archived)
# NOOOOO ...
That's just an insignificant place where no-one important lives!!
Capitol of London is Washington ... FACT!

Edit: /sarcasm - just for the Americans
(Zed Smith, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:47, archived)
# Small competition:
What will Britain be re-named as once America takes over properly? I'm suggesting East Carolina, which fits the pattern nicely...
(I helped save b3ta! Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:49, archived)
# hmm
britginia?
(pikey, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 10:04, archived)
# OK
That would explain why it is sometimes referred to as London Village
(DJ Skidz, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 10:08, archived)
# I love the local news
but you don't have Nick Owen hosting it in London. The man is a star.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof. Slocombe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:39, archived)
# But in Wales they get
the lovely Lucy:
(I helped save b3ta! Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:41, archived)
# She reads the news from behind a sack?

Phwooar.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof. Slocombe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:44, archived)
# Midlands news rocks.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:48, archived)
# in northern ireland
there's julian
go on, tell us about all the sectarian violence this week julian ,
you big ..fat.. lisping..mincing
..festering baboon
(pikey, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:51, archived)
# Is he
needlessly wacky?
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:54, archived)
# he's a
camp extremist
(pikey, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:55, archived)
# "On Midlands Today"..
"With far more important things happening everywhere else, we see how today's big news story somehow affects the Midlands"

/basic news template
(I helped save b3ta! Prof. Slocombe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:53, archived)
# Nope ...
she blathers incoherent bollox while the viewers stare at her norks ... that's how to get ratings!!
(Zed Smith, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:48, archived)
# Do they produce
RI:SE as well?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof. Slocombe, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 9:59, archived)
# ha ha!
too true!
(I helped save b3ta! mrRush, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 10:00, archived)