http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 08:33:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8590 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:53:27 +0000 Des Custard 8590@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You swine. You were never there for any of us. Mother used to console herself with the thought that you'd put my name down for St Paul's School, but it turned out to be a sink school in St Paul's, Bristol. After an on-off affair with Eric the electrician, she ran off with Helmut, a tax inspector from Freiburg. She said she craved excitement, but I think she was missing the Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8586 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:37:57 +0000 Ostsee 8586@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, yes. She was one of the best. Have you come across your brothers and sisters yet? Lovely children, all took after their mothers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8545 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:19:55 +0000 Des Custard 8545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>She went by the name of Flosshilde and sang contralto in the choral society. She was also a keen amateur wrestler but said you preferred to see her box. Surely you remember? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8523 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:40:15 +0000 Ostsee 8523@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Son! Remind me, who is your mother? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8515 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:01:06 +0000 Scroat 8515@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>In the ensuing melee a library window was broken and a police car ran over someone’s hat.</blockquote></p> <p>Really like this. Have some thingmies. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8443 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:56:45 +0000 Des Custard 8443@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Daddy! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8217 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:55:30 +0000 Ostsee 8217@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I lived in Tunbridge Wells then and I was disgusted. Oh bother, I have blown my cover. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2787#post-8161 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:05:35 +0000 Des Custard 8161@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The genteel citizens of the Home Counties around London commemorate today the shocking events of 1985 that ensued when supplies of the Daily Telegraph failed to get through for five days running. </p> <p>Eric Brand, now head of a successful communications company, was a cub reporter on the Esher News and Mail at the time. He recalls: “Although by then Margaret Thatcher’s popularity had recovered from the low point in 1981 when there were riots in many of Britain’s inner cities, there was still a mood of unrest. </p> <p>“The disturbances didn’t get much of a mention in the national press, but it was big news for the local papers. Rupert Murdoch was at war with the unions over his plans to move the printing of the Sun to Wapping, and somehow the Telegraph deliveries got caught up in all the wildcat strikes and secondary picketing.”</p> <p>Contemporary copies of the Harpenden Observer describe disoriented Telegraph readers leaving newsagents on the first day deliveries failed. But in Tunbridge Wells there were actual riots.</p> <p>“By the second day the mood was getting ugly,” recalls Ethel Mears, a local resident, “and by the third day things came to a head as hundreds of angry readers converged on the Town Hall to demand action.” Local news footage shows scenes of harrumphing and fist shaking, and a disturbing scene as the Mayor was jostled as he left for a civic event. In the ensuing melee a library window was broken and a police car ran over someone’s hat.</p> <p>It is difficult now to believe such events took place, but for some the scars run deep. “My husband Albert was so desperate to read a newspaper he bought the Guardian,” says Ethel. “He wouldn’t touch a tabloid on principle, and he said the Times was going to the dogs, so he bought a copy of the Guardian and read it from cover to cover. He gradually turned purple as he read, and had a mild seizure afterwards. He was never the same again.” </p>