http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 13:34:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116#post-74584 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:13:37 +0000 JohnA 74584@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Blue Peter Garden would be much more interesting if they put booby traps in it, to explode the unwary. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116#post-74536 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:46:16 +0000 The Paper Ostrich 74536@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nah. Everyone knows it was <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1265712/Ashes-To-Ashes-Fire-Quattro--Ive-vandalised-Blue-Peter-Garden-admits-DCI-Gene-Hunt.html">this bloke</a>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116#post-74524 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:45:27 +0000 Mr Payne 74524@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There was an article in FHM a few years back written by one of the purported 'vandals'. His story was that he was in fact a young teenager who had got pissed in the local park, climbed a wall for fun and smashed a couple of things like drunk twits do, obviously blissfully unaware that he was trampling on Petra's grave. When he woke up the next morning and realised that the headline story in the News and Blue Peter was all about his tomfoolery it was, shall we say, a 'correcting moment' in his life. Public enemy number one. Crikey. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116#post-74514 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:05:51 +0000 grottymonty 74514@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Presumably the garden will be on a brown field site so they'll have to clear out the winos, whores and pikeys first, then tidy up the needles. First class. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27116#post-74513 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:59:05 +0000 The Paper Ostrich 74513@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The BBC has unveiled a new-look, pre-vandalised Blue Peter garden ahead of the programme’s move to Salford next week.</p> <p>The BBC’s flagship children’s magazine programme is being relocated from metropolitan, happening London to squalid, distant Salford when it returns to screens in the autumn.</p> <p>‘We’re delighted by this exciting and inconvenient move,’ insisted presenter Helen Skelton. ‘But it wouldn’t be Blue Peter without our wonderful garden, so we’re taking it with us in the back of a truck, and when we replant it in the North we’ll give it a special new look to fit in with our new home.’</p> <p>The garden’s new design is inspired by the BBC’s new location and will feature some meagre plants pre-trampled into the ground, a pond full of lethargic fish fed on a diet of pies, crumbling brickwork and obscene graffiti daubed onto the walls.</p> <p>Programme editor Tim Levell responded to criticism that the new look is ‘unlikely’ to encourage children to get out into their gardens at home. ‘One of our cameramen has a cousin who drove through Salford once,’ said Levell. ‘So we know that for many local children it will be the first time in their lives they’ll ever have seen living plants.’ </p> <p>But he accepted that the radical new design would have upset long-time Blue Peter gardener Percy Thrower. ‘Times change, and poor old Percy would have been spinning in his grave,’ he conceded. ‘At least, he would have if we hadn’t dug him up ready to take with us.’ </p>