I want local news to be more local. No offence, Kent, but you're too far away and whilst I can, at a push, be fleetingly sympathetic that one of your main roads is down to one lane today, it has nothing to do with me. I'm not asking for the bullet-in radius to be Southampton - this would still not be localised enough. I want to know what is happening in the lives of the people who live on my very road – and maybe that road I turn my car around in. And let's be clear: I do not want to actually have to go and knock on doors and introduce myself and ask – I am sure they are very nice, but I want to find out via television bullet-ins that follow the national news (which is perfectly national enough for me, in case you were wondering).
And I'll be honest...one of my over-arching reasons for canvassing for proper localised news coverage is that I would quite like my trivial life to occasionally be the happy signing off story at the end.
"And finally, in other news, Mr Williams produced his first random 'blog' in bloomin' ages this evening. When pressed on why he had not produced a blog for so long, the 38 year-old explained he had been too busy writing witless status updates on FaceBook. 'But the blog is back', he has promised. ‘But how long will it be until he loses interest’, the pundits ponder? If you have an opinion on this, or any other of this evening's perilously tiresome stories, please e-mail us, text in or hire a sky-writer to send us a message."
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Well at Number 132 the day has been spent doing very un news worthy events. Work etc though yesterday Oliver did feed a big pig a apple ate the farm, and got a sticker for helping to feed the animals. would that have worked for local enough news worthy ness?
It most defintely would. I am only sorry I have read this on August 21st when it is no longer news. What's the latest?
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