A day with the news

We've mentioned the media before, usually in dark mutterings or in the sort of tone that 's normally reserved for commentary on black magic child sacrificing but - to be fair - that mostly applies to the national media, and then only to a small selection - mostly the Daily Mail (DFM), in fact.  However, our own, local home-grown chaps - the NWWN and the DP - both try their utmost to paint a fair and reasoned picture of local life.  Sometimes, however, this can have amusingly unintended consequences.
This morning's Daily Post bursts with excitement at the news that the recession is over, quoting a 0.1% rise in output over the last three months.  Of course, that was the three months leading up to Christmas, so the question of whether there's more good news on the horizon is still open and if the economy only managed to grow by a tenth of one percent in the busiest period of the year, hmmm. 

The reports that two more pubs - the Ship Inn, Abergele Road, Old Colwyn, and The Bull in Chapel Street, Abergele - are in trouble after yet more booze being flogged to children doesn't exactly come as a surprise but the headline "North Wales pubs caught in underage drinking sting" does pose the question as to how - exactly - a pub takes a drink.

This sort of ambiguity in headlines isn't rare, however;  another item on the same sheet proclaims "Man admits Anglesey cemetary rape" which raises the odd eyebrow, and is similar to the headline in Kansas "Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead".   The action of Scottish Power in sending a meter alert to the occupier of a public toilets in Talybont leads to the chief exec being labelled as 'Bungling', when he probably knew nothing about the automated alert system the company uses, although one could argue it might be a good idea if he did. Finally, the redundant adverb appears in all its glory as news that 'Callous thieves stole a Christmas float which has raised thousands of pounds for charity." in Mold, making us all wonder what other sort of thieves there are.

And so to the next day....