http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160457 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:50:40 +0000 Boutros 160457@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes I should have made more of the needles.<br /> And the last para.<br /> And the rest, really!</p> <p>Well, that's my self assessment done... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160438 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:54:59 +0000 Titus 160438@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like the needle idea - well done Des! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160408 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:42:04 +0000 Des Custard 160408@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>V nice; only just seen this. Too late to suggest a needle exchange scheme. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160399 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:37:46 +0000 nickb 160399@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Haha funny thread </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160376 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:42:57 +0000 Titus 160376@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Can't we have some link to Dutch Elm Disease and Ash Dieback? Or 'Adopt a Christmas Tree'? Or even 'A tree is not just for Christmas'? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160373 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:58:48 +0000 Boutros 160373@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>£5 will provide power for a chipping machine for a day.<br /> £25 will pay for a team of council workers to clear a street.<br /> £50 will pay for an artificial tree - the only way to prevent this tragedy blighting our streets every Christmas. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160269 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:47:49 +0000 Quaz 160269@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great idea. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160266 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:44:41 +0000 writinginbsl 160266@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>love this</p> <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160244 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:39:30 +0000 Squudge 160244@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd like a video with this, needles dropping in slow-mo, that poignant dead-eyed stare from a tree that knows that no help will come.</p> <p>&lt;signs stars direcct debit form - ticks gift-aid box&gt; </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160237 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:21:09 +0000 dvo4fun 160237@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A nice Chtistmas Tree Appeal boutros in left alert style I'd say. I can even hear the narrator </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160233 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:06:42 +0000 Boutros 160233@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>bumped past the spam. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55429#post-160145 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:22:18 +0000 Boutros 160145@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thousands of Christmas trees made homeless just a few days into the new year are still sleeping rough on pavements. The shocking fact is that it's mostly the middle class who put them there - the same people who step over them with hardly a second glance as they go to and from their places of work. </p> <p>Normally, council workers would have been round to 'sanitize the neighbourhood' - that's gov-speak to mean take these discarded and unwanted items off the streets - but many local authorities squeezed by Tory cutbacks have instead decided to let the trees rot on the pavements.</p> <p>We spoke to one tree in a leafy part of the affluent Wandsworth borough. It was a pitiful sight, dressed in just one bauble, needles dropping where it lay. The tree did not reply. Too traumatised, perhaps, to comment on its own frightening and hopeless predicament.</p> <p>Sadly there's no helpline you can call, but if you come across a sad, homeless tree on the pavement outside a house near where you live, there is something else you can do. Pick the tree up carefully by its top. Drag it up to the front door. Gently open the letter box, and stuff the tree as far into the letter box as it will go. It may sound cruel, but it's the right thing to do. </p>