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All News is Local

All News is Local

Written by: Gareth Milner
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Listen to weird and wonderful local news from around the UK that the mainstream media would never touch. From crows stealing golf balls to the man who held a birthday celebration for abandoned bins. No news is too small, nor too surreal. All stories have been gathered from local news websites around the country.

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Gareth Milner
Politics & Government
Episodes
  • ASBO pheasants and exploding batteries
    Apr 5 2021

    ► A postman has had to overcome an unexpected obstacle as he delivers letters in a Norfolk village - an angry pheasant.


    ► Driver attempts 30-mile journey with 'shed' perched on car roof.


    ► A bin wagon blaze has led to a plea from council bosses for people not to throw batteries in the bin


    ► 80 metre ship stuck at Littlehampton Harbour



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    10 mins
  • Britain's Suez crisis, the power of high-viz jackets and rampant birds
    Mar 28 2021

    In this week's edition of All News is Local:


    ► Britain tells the Suez canal to 'hold my beer' as residents are stuck in homes after a bus is held up on narrow roads


    ► Up to 20 rhea birds have been giving police the run around after they were spotted charging through housing estates and near the M25


    ► The gym accused of sneaking people in wearing a disguise of high-vis jackets


    ► Grit bin thieves roam Stoke-on-Trent's streets in 'crime against the community'


    ► Old Debenhams mannequins find new lease of life as ‘police officers’ in Aberdeenshire


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    13 mins
  • Rogue swan, human traffic cones and stolen milk
    Mar 21 2021

    ► A swan has been spotted rattling letterboxes on Billing Road in Northampton. The RSPB say the swan could have been doing it for territorial reasons or to get food.


    ► How a Primary school in Corby deployed human traffic cones to solve traffic problems as pupils come back to school.


    ► Fourteen houses in East Dorset reported having their milk stolen from the doorstep shortly after it was delivered.


    ► The owner of a burger company says he will not apologise for using a picture of disgraced mum Karen Matthews to promote Mother's Day as he believes he has "done nothing wrong".


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    13 mins
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