Local news in non-rioting places

I bet pornhub.com are very grateful to Chester Cathedral and the Chronicle for the free publicity!
 
The trouble with living near Washington is, murders and other crimes aside, our local news is all political.
 
TODAY in Colchester :disco:

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Family continue to text dead nan 3 years after death; are stunned when they receive a reply.

http://www.STOP FUNDING HATE.co.uk/...-grandmother-02-gave-number-new-customer.html

http://i.STOP FUNDING HATE.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/16/1413451842737_wps_13_One_of_the_messages_Sheri.jpg

I can't stop chuckling at this story. I'm just amazed the DM aren't blaming the BBC for it.
 
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Some of the THICKO comments are fantastic

"I find it more disturbing that the phone still had battery connection?????"

Yes love, it was ACTUALLY their DEAD NAN texting them from her GRAVE
 
And the Vaseline soft focus "makeover" shot of the Gran- IT'S TOO MUCH :D
 
"Gran loved to text"

She looks the SORT. Probably until she RAN OUT OF CREDIT...
 
I know she's not one of Moopy's favourite celebrities, but Katy Hill wrote a lovely blog about Simon Hirst last week.

http://katyhillsblog.com/2014/10/13/true/

This weekend, one of my wonderful colleagues and buddies became a perfect example of this. On Saturday evening, he announced to the nation on the BBC’s Radio 5 Live that he’s going to live the rest of his life as a woman.

From Sunday morning – she did.

Simon Hirst is now Stephanie Hirst and half way through gender re-assignment therapy. If you didn’t hear the interview, I urge you to click on the link above and invest an hour of your time to being inspired.

We used to present Hit40UK together and I won’t pretend I wasn’t nervous during that broadcast on Saturday evening. In this Katie Hopkin era of bringing anyone down who’s deemed “different” I contacted loads of my friends ahead of the interview and asked them to tweet their support. I sent Simon supportive texts ahead of that 10pm broadcast and warned him to ignore any haters.

But courage and honesty count for a lot.

To be in your late 30’s and announce to the world that you’re changing sex takes courage. But to have spent most of your life in the public eye and to have so many people who’ve grown up listening to you in your male dominated world of radio? THEN to go public with something so personal? Courageous seems a woefully inadequate description.

The broadcast went live and I sat, nervously.

Then… BOOM. It started. Within minutes #hirsty was trending on twitter and there was an outpouring of support across all social media platforms. It was emotional to watch. Today the story is across all media. The article in today’s STOP FUCKING HATE has been shared almost 1000 times in the 2 hours since it was published and, here’s the shocker – ALL of the comments are positive. When does that EVER happen on the STOP FUCKING HATE website?

Over the summer I read a wonderful book called Raising My Rainbow by Lori Duron, which charts her “adventures in raising a gender creative son”. I’m not a fast reader but I DEVOURED the book on our flight to Rhodes, tears streaming down my cheeks. I think everyone should read this book. It’s amazing and insightful. I was horrified to read about the “Kraig” experiment, conducted at UCLA as recently as the 1970’s. In an attempt to make “Kraig” less ”girly” his mother would reward him for masculine behaviour and his father would beat him for feminine behaviour. IN THE 70’s! There are no words.

When I wrote about Eurovision earlier in the year my faith in humanity grew but the outpouring of love for Stephanie just goes to show just how far we’ve come. It’s been totally overwhelming and I hope Stephanie becomes a poster girl for being YOU.

I keep getting asked “Did you have any idea”? “Did you ever notice anything”?

I know what people are REALLY asking. As he said in the interview, Simon was always super careful to hide any signs – that was all part of feeling he needed to hide who he really was.

So my answer?

ABSOLUTELY I noticed. I always knew Hirsty was an AMAZING individual, with the ability to make a huge difference. I’m so thrilled she finally gets to do that! If Stephanie can be true to herself and stand up and be counted, so can you.

Stephanie – I’m SO proud of you. And I was going to write “Welcome to the world” but you’ve actually always been here.

You just don’t have to hide anymore.

K x

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over,

It became a butterfly”
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Aww Katy Hill was my favourite Blue Peter presenter.
 
Kate said:
Oh AS IF you don't have a Dolly Parton wig in your collection
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I actually have a Dolly Parton, a Britney and a "once was Britney, got chopped down to Jimmy Saville, now he's no longer viable, we'll call it a Wendy Richard..."
 
Sheena said:
I actually have a Dolly Parton, a Britney and a "once was Britney, got chopped down to Jimmy Saville, now he's no longer viable, we'll call it a Wendy Richard..."
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I was made to read this out in work it made me laugh so much.

Meanwhile guess what the story is behind this lovely photo.

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I thought it was going to be "UKIP supporting woman furious that Union Jack branded vinegar is actually bottled in Luxembourg".
 
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