Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Eric Dier features in Trivial Fact of the Day
Eric Dier, who scored England's opening goal against Russia this evening, is the grandson of Ted Croker, the former secretary of the Football Association.
Drunk vicar: ‘I’m from the Vatican, you're f**ked’
A new winner of our Headline of the Day Award: well done Court News UK.
Thanks to Joe Oliver on Twitter.
Thanks to Joe Oliver on Twitter.
#mardyVardy wins Hashtag of the Day
In its Pass Notes style, the Guardian tells the story of Lee Chapman:
Chapman is a postman who looks like Jamie Vardy. He is also a diehard Leicester City fan and came to minor prominence when the team hauled him on to the victory bus to celebrate with his beloved Foxes in the wake of their Premier League triumph.
That’s nice. Yes, it was.
Is it not still? It was nice for a while. A lookalike agency spotted the photos the team posted from the bus and offered Chapman work. The Royal Mail has given him six months off to pursue the opportunity.
That is REALLY nice! He’s got a verified Twitter account with more than 3,500 followers, where he offers fans the chance to make video messages with him and posts pictures of himself in full Leicester kit with them at events. Rumours swirl about a Celebrity Big Brother appearance and UK comedy tour with other lookalikes.
Sound, hopefully lucrative, moves. But Chapman says that Vardy – and his new wife, Rebekah Nicholson, have blocked him on Twitter and Instagram.
What?! No?! Why? Vardy’s agent reportedly sent Chapman a text message warning him not to do anything that would put any of Vardy’s endorsement deals at risk.When this story was tweeted, someone thought of the masterly hashtag #mardyVardy.
'Mardy', for the uninitiated, is a good East Midlands word meaning something like spoilt, childish or sulky.
Warning sheep high on cannabis could cause havoc in Swansea Valley village
Congratulations to the South Wales Evening Post, which wins our Headline of the Day Award.
A sheep adds: Like baa, man.
A sheep adds: Like baa, man.
Escaped llama, called Brad Pitt, captured after chase through Reigate
Headline of the Day goes to the Surrey Mirror.
Thanks to the mighty Mark Pack for drawing this gem to my attention.
Thanks to the mighty Mark Pack for drawing this gem to my attention.
Croydon Court Hotel in Thornton Heath evacuated after guest's trousers catch fire in room
Congratulations to Your Local Guardian for winning our Headline of the Day Award.
And thanks to the reader who nominated it.
And thanks to the reader who nominated it.
Hinstock warehouse collapse: Worker freed after more than nine hours under cheese and shelving
The Shropshire Star wins Headline of the Day.
You will be pleased to know that Tomasz Wiszniewski has only minor injuries.
You will be pleased to know that Tomasz Wiszniewski has only minor injuries.
Trivial Fact of the Week links Blow-Up and the Double Deckers
Nicholas Whyte has been ploughing a lonely furrow with a series of posts on the early 1970s children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers.
Although this fell precisely into my era, I fear I can recall disliking it at the time. Even then I sensed it was peopled with stage-school brats and aimed too shamelessly at the American market.
As a result I viewed the later careers of two of its stars - Brisnley Forde of Aswad and Peter Firth - with mild scepticism.
I struggled with Spooks in particular. MI5 just would not employ a former member of the Double Deckers and that is the end of the matter.
Still, I am the last blogger qualified to complain about obscure enthusiasms, and Nicholas's latest Double Deckers post has turned up a top piece of trivia. In fact he wins my Trivial Fact of the Week award.
That trivia concerns an episode of the show called Barney, in which the children befriend an entertainer down on his luck and (inevitably) put on a show with him.
Barney was played by Julian Chagrin, who a few years before had been one of the tennis players watched by David Hemmings at the end of Antonioni's Blow-Up. You can see this scene in the video above, which Nicholas included in his own post.
He calls it "the very odd 1966 film Blow-Up," but I think he meant to call it "a key moment in both the creation and the examination of the myth of Swinging London".
Nicholas also reveals that Chagrin appeared as the secret lemonade drinker in the R.White's television commercials.
The song in them was sung by Ross MacManus, the father of Elvis Costello.*
But you knew that already.
* I like Carl Wilson's observation that "a secret lemonade drinker" sounds like a line from one of Elvis Costello's own songs.
Al Murray is the great nephew of Stephen Murray
But our Trivial Fact of the Week reveals that he is also the great nephew of the actor Stephen Murray.
A young person writes: Who was Stephen Murray?
Only the star of the radio comedy The Navy Lark, Sir Francis Walsingham to Glenda Jackson's Elizabeth R on television and star of such post-war films as London Belongs to Me and The Magnet.
Irate Frenchman hurled Camembert at manager of Chelsea Waitrose
I spotted it. A reader nominated it. The judges love it.
The Evening Standard receives our Headline of the Day Award.
The Evening Standard receives our Headline of the Day Award.
East London fox 'tried to pull my trousers off'
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Evening Standard.
Readers in East London are warned to take extra care.
Readers in East London are warned to take extra care.
‘He just appeared and started singing Neil Diamond’ - mystery of Norfolk’s Sunday League Werewolf
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Eastern Daily Press.
And the paper has a video of the incident too!
And the paper has a video of the incident too!
Florida candidate for U.S. Senate admits to sacrificing goat, drinking its blood
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| A goat yesterday |
Thanks to a nomination from a reader, the Orlando Sentinel wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Lord Bonkers adds: It is just this willingness to go the extra mile that makes the difference in a closely fought contest.
Cat named after Nottingham Forest legend Brian Clough becomes celebrity – by visiting his local pub
The Nottingham Post wins our Headline of the Day Award by a distance:
The feline takes himself down to the Blue Bell pub in Sandiacre at around 7pm each night and has become such a hit with regulars and staff that he has his own stool and a stash of kitty treats behind the bar.
Brian particularly enjoys Monday's quiz nights and Wednesday's darts – where he helps himself to the leftover cheese cobs and pork pies.
Now the seven-year-old moggy has even got his own Facebook page, with a helping paw from his owners.
One-legged animal porn pervert told he has “walked into trouble”
Our Headline of the Day competition sees a victory for Lincolnshire and the Gainsborough Standard.
Like all the best headlines, it was nominated by a reader. Thank you.
Like all the best headlines, it was nominated by a reader. Thank you.
Boudicca Rising wins Name of the Day
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| A cat yesterday |
Googling the case I came across the excellent organisation South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty (SNARL), which is leading a campaign to catch a suspected attacker, and its organiser Boudicca Rising.
She wins our coveted Name of the Day Award.
Rabbit hutch stolen from Shropshire field - but the rabbit is left behind
Our Headline of the Day comes from the Shropshire Star.
The judges were unanimous, but I can't help thinking this is rather embarrassing for the rabbit.
The judges were unanimous, but I can't help thinking this is rather embarrassing for the rabbit.
