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Car smashes into bus shelter
Car smashes into bus shelter and wall in Weymouth
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/25725755.car-smashes-bus-shelter-wall-weymouth/
Jason £250 out of pocket as
Jason £250 out of pocket as ‘five cars’ wiped out by same Stoke-on-Trent pothole
Jason Richards is calling on Stoke-on-Trent City Council to sort out the roads
“If that was a cyclist going down the road and hitting that, it could have resulted in a serious injury. They might have gone over the top of their handlebars, hitting the cold road before a car came up behind them. Speaking dramatically, it could result in a death or anything. You never know.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/jason-250-out-pocket-five-10698016
£250??? I hope chancers like this don’t get a penny from the public purse.
wtjs wrote:
A video shows someone scaling Pontypridd’s huge Christmas tree before appearing to dismantle the star from its summit No arrest and ‘words of advice’ means no action by the police over vandalism of public facilities, even when the vandal is caught in the act. Well, we can’t say the police are inconsistent!pretty sure he’ll be on the Naughty list after this, though.
Aren’t we in Adjustment
Aren’t we in Adjustment Disorder territory with cases like this?
CHRISTMAS IS RUINED! A round
CHRISTMAS IS RUINED! A round-up
Family-of-nine stuck at home after Stoke-on-Trent pub cancels Christmas Day menu
Now they’re having turkey at home!
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/family-nine-furious-after-stoke-10708689
This non-story bears the crown for 2025, and check the comments for the bonus.
Cornwall mum’s Christmas ‘ruined’ after Currys ‘IT glitch’
Currys took Sara’s £422 for the gift for her son – but the Cornwall mum can’t afford to buy another one
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-mums-christmas-ruined-after-10721344
If I have this right, there were stocks of this headset (she’s short of cash, but has gone for the top of the range 512gB model) in the store, but the reserved one wasn’t available, and no-one seemed to be able to do the exceedingly obvious.
There’s a lot of teenage boys and a lot of VR headsets, that’s all I’m saying.
Baby Jesus cable-tied to Nativity scene in All Saints Church, Eastchurch, to stop festive theft
‘Ruined’ Flying Scotsman experience sees family receive full refund after celebration ‘just fell apart’
Rail company offers full refund after festive plans are spoiled by delay of world-famous train
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ruined-flying-scotsman-experience-sees-33102785
Long story, long delay and having watched the Wheezing Scotsman at Swanage with time ticking on, I’m not suprised.
Police called after man climbs town’s Christmas tree to take star
A video shows someone scaling Pontypridd’s huge Christmas tree before appearing to dismantle the star from its summit
Footage filmed at the scene and posted on social media by Ellie Roxanne Johnson captures the moment someone climbed the towering tree in Pontypridd town centre, Wales, before apparently dismantling the star from the top. The local town council has confirmed that owing to the extensive damage inflicted on the tree’s summit, replacing the star will be impossible this year.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-called-after-man-climbs-33121413
Christmas ruined for Warrington family unable to collect Halfords bike (Christmas 2024)
“I got confirmation to confirm that the bike had been built and to pick up at 6pm on Christmas Eve – I received this confirmation on Sunday, December 22.”
The mum-of-two said there was no mention of changes to store opening times in the lead up to Christmas Eve, or of changes to the click and collect service the store offers.
She continued: “So on Christmas Eve we went for our Santa experience. At 5.30pm my husband went to collect my son’s bike, his main present from Santa, only to find the store in darkness and the doors locked.
And finally, earliest Christmas is ruined story I found is this little piece of nonsense – I did think the “weather warning” that floated around recently was quite good.
https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news/lynx-africa-axed-515261-20250321
Cyclist knocked off his bike
Cyclist knocked off his bike was left injured in the road for two hours after driver fled the scene
The cyclist needed hospital treatment for six broken bones after being knocked off his bike on the way home from a shopping trip
A man was left with several broken bones in his arm after he was knocked off his bicycle by a car and left injured in the middle of a Swansea road. The driver left the scene and police are now investigating.
Ulugbek Meliev was travelling home on his bike after a Christmas shopping trip, when he was hit by the blue-coloured vehicle at Gors Avenue in Swansea on Sunday, December 21 at around 1.15pm. The 41-year-old’s partner, Natallia Banifatsyeva, claimed the driver made off down Townhill Road, and appealed for witnesses to come forward with information.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cyclist-knocked-bike-left-injured-33117356
Car ploughs into former pub
Car ploughs into former pub near The Brook in Chatham
A dark blue Mercedes-Benz mounted the pavement at the junction of The Brook and Whiffens Avenue and crashed into the former Churchills pub, which is now flats.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/car-ploughs-into-former-pub-334418/
40 years ago today, a much
40 years ago today, a much younger version of me was at the funeral of a bloke I was at 6th form with – he piled his father’s car into a tree a few days earlier. It doesn’t leave you.
It will be the same story in 2026: my Christmas wish is I just want this to stop.
Families in tribute to crash victims, 17 and 18
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg337rejyzo
Brandon – Victim of fatal collision named, as family pay tribute
Leeds United tribute to crash victim planned
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrlk0pg84eo
Llantrisant fatal RTC – Victim named and his family pay tribute
TRAGIC DAY ‘Hearts shattered’ as 2 victims pictured after 3 separate horror crashes in 12-hr span & touching family tributes paid
The latest fatalities take the death toll on our roads to 183 for 2025, nine deaths more than for the entirety of 2024 — with around two weeks to go
https://www.thesun.ie/news/16269577/garda-road-crash-limerick-monaghan-tipperary-collision/
Tributes have been paid to a “beautiful” 21-year-old woman who was killed in a horror late night crash outside a shopping centre in Sutton Coldfield
Tributes paid to mother who died in crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger47vyqxeo
Tributes paid to victims of fatal car crash on A98 near Buckie
Dad arrived to see bloodied
Dad arrived to see bloodied son ‘lifeless’ after clowning around in school car park went wrong
Chanelle Guest, 18, drove a Renault Clio (uninsured) with her victim on the bonnet, and caused him to suffer a fractured skull and bleed on the brain after he slipped and hit his head
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/court-brecon-high-school-dangerous-33111925
Car reverses into house
Car reverses into house causing significant damage
Police are at the scene while structural engineers are also attending
In pictures seen by WalesOnline the back of the car has gone through an external wall at the side of a semi-detached home on the street, destroying a gate and a wall between the house and the car in the process. Pictures show a large hole in the wall too.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-reverses-house-causing-significant-33111863
so where are these pics, guys?
I wish more clinicians would
I wish more clinicians would be vocal about the effects of air pollution, although this intervention mis-fires as it’s all about buses and idling traffic, and then there’s the comments completing the wall of denial and distraction.
Calls to cut air pollution along Lewes Road
Dr Leddy, a neurology registrar at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton, told councillors that she saw people with dementia, stroke and conditions affecting their brain and nervous system every day.
She said that, in 2020, the medical journal The Lancet included air pollution as a risk factor for dementia and, in 2024, it said that addressing the risk could prevent half of dementia cases.
By 2040, 1.7 million people in England and Wales are expected to be living with dementia.
Dr Leddy said: “It is a devastating illness for individuals and families. Any measures that can be taken to prevent this condition make sense on an economic, medical and personal level.”
https://www.theargus.co.uk/comments/25719282/
stonojnr wrote:
[quote=stonojnr]Driver on the run… the first version of the article simply blamed the car for crashing and leaving half a mannequin left on the streets, and people wonder why we think local newspapers are written by AI now https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25706240.driver-run-bmw-crashes-new-look-beccles/%5B/quote%5D
A week on, still on the run
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25721834.driver-large-bmw-crashes-new-look-beccles/
The headline under-sells this
The headline under-sells this one:
Colchester Waitrose death: man failed to inform DVLA of arthritis
Gran with ‘messy driving
Gran with ‘messy driving history’ claimed she didn’t know about roads ban
The court heard Jayde Anscomb has ‘so many’ points and disqualifications on her record that it was ‘hard to keep track’
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/gran-messy-driving-history-claimed-10710898