Sunday, September 14, 2025
Home Blog Page 336

Four and twenty virgins from Inverness arrested

0

By Hugh Dunnett, Crime Correspondent

Four and twenty virgins who came down from Inverness have been arrested for fighting and outraging public decency.

The rowdy women told cops they were desperate to get a man before Saturday night, or they’d never have one at all.

[AdSense-A]

But as they roamed Ipswich town centre bars trying to attract the attentions of rugby players and other handsome men, it all kicked off with jealous local girls.

A Suffolk police insider said: “Unfortunately as the four and twenty virgins from Inverness became increasingly desperate they began flaunting themselves outrageously in the bars.

“This upset the local women and a mass brawl broke out. One virgin was even thrown through the doors of a pub like something from the Wild West. She was unhurt but we then had no choice and arrested the lot of them.”

[AdSense-B]

However, none of the Scottish visitors were charged and were sent back home to Inverness on the next available train, apparently without having achieved their unsavoury goal.

One onlooker said: “These Inverness virgins were most insistent and were singing a very rude song as they roamed around town looking for a man. Had they found one, he may never have fully recovered.”

Please support my running costs by clicking here and buying me a beer!
[olimometer id=1]

Lewis Hamilton starts new Formula One season in a Vauxhall Nova

0

New Formula One season car

Lewis Hamilton is being forced to race in a 1993 Vauxhall Nova to make the new Formula One season more interesting, it has emerged.

The three-time World Champion will sit behind the wheel of the red banger for the opening race in Australia this weekend.

F1 bosses say the move will make the racing more interesting, as nothing really happens when 20 or so grown men driving round and round in circles for a couple of hours.

[AdSense-A]

Two Mercedes-powered cars – one normally driven by Hamilton – generally sit at the front of the rather dull procession, but his new car, which has been snapped up from a second-hand garage in Stowmarket, Suffolk will certainly make things more entertaining.

Experts say the 32-year-old Brit will struggle for speed during qualifying, but should still see off the Saubers and Renaults to start on the grid in mid position.

Lewis HamiltonLewis Hamilton

A F1 insider said: “Lewis has been at the front with Mercedes for too long and, to be frank, it’s all a bit boring. Putting him in a 24-year-old Vauxhall Nova spices things up a bit.”

Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes F1 carToo good: Lewis Hamilton’s former Mercedes Formula One car

The £300 Vauxhall Nova is not allowed to be modified for the new Formula One season, and will hit a top speed of around 72 miles per hour. Hamilton’s engineers do not expect any reliability issues, however, and will be hoping for retirements around him so he can sneak into a points position.

“These old Vauxhall Novas seem to be quite resilient,” a Mercedes team mechanic said. “It will be interesting seeing the other cars zoom past him on the straights at 200 miles an hour.”

[AdSense-B]

The Mercedes team has ensured the ashtrays have been cleaned and have been allowed to remove the radio in order to make the Nova a little lighter.

Engineers at the Brackley-based team said getting spare parts for the Nova will be “dirt cheap”, and it will not need as much fuel as the more traditional F1 car that will be driven by Hamilton’s new team-mate, Valterri Bottas.

Please support my running costs by clicking here and buying me a beer!
[olimometer id=1]

Donald Trump Tweets his admiration for Suffolk Gazette journalism

6

Donald Trump has sent a Tweet admiring the Suffolk Gazette

US President Donald Trump has sent an extraordinary Tweet praising the journalism of the Suffolk Gazette.

In what is – by a country mile – our most high-profile support ever, Mr Trump urged his 27 million Twitter followers to “check out” the Suffolk Gazette.

He even quipped that we had a “fun” soccer team, and used the #ITFC hashtag!

The President has been waging a war on so-called fake news in America since coming to power, and while repeatedly chastising the likes of CNN he has now started to showcase great journalism as well.

Last night it was the turn of the Suffolk Gazette to get a name check, and we couldn’t be more delighted.

A spokesman for the Suffolk Gazette said: “We’re only a small local newspaper in England, but we take great pride in our responsible and accurate reporting.

“It is the only way to build trust with your readership, and this explains why hundreds of thousands of people enjoy our pages every month. Even some from Norfolk.”

A spokesman for the White House said: “We do not comment on the President’s Tweets but it is true to say he is fond of England and admires the British Press. He also loves soccer.”

Mr Trump’s Tweet about the Suffolk Gazette has already been Liked by 76,000 of his followers and Re-Tweeted by 16,000 more.

Work begins at last on Ipswich Northern Bypass

0

Ipswich Northern Bypass

Work has finally begun on the long-awaited Ipswich Northern Bypass, according to a council document leaked to the Suffolk Gazette.

Recent closures of the Orwell Bridge have forced local authorities to act now before Suffolk’s county town is gridlocked on a permanent basis.

A joint Suffolk County Council highways and planning document, handed to the Suffolk Gazette at a secret meeting at its Greyhound public house HQ, shows work has already started on the bypass.

[AdSense-A]

Local taxpayers will be pleased that local councillors have thought laterally and found an economic solution enabling work to start immediately.

Compulsory purchase orders will now be issued on April 1 to ensure local home and landowners release sufficient land to permit construction to proceed. A contract was signed this week with Norfolk New Roads Ltd, which offers particularly low labour costs.

The document reveals that to speed up construction of this much-needed A14 relief road section – officially designated as the A14 Relief (Suffolk) Extension, ARSE – councillors have agreed it should be built using the latest technological innovations.

To minimise costs the ARSE will be single lane only with several passing places, and there will be a level crossing where the road crosses the railway at Westerfield.

[AdSense-B]

Unfortunately pressure groups known as Bealings Indignant Group (BIG ARSE), and the Witnesham, Henley Including Tuddenham Environmentalists (WHITE ARSE) are already lobbying councillors and threatening legal action.

By complete coincidence several great crested newts have also been spotted in the area for the first time in centuries.

The route will link the existing Claydon interchange and with the former Martlesham Park and Ride site, where a proposed tollgate will be installed.

Toll charges are expected to be significantly lower than those applying on the M6 toll road, and councillors expect the income raised to quickly permit the construction of a second lane at some point in many years to come.

Please support my running costs by clicking here and buying me a beer!
[olimometer id=1]

Mod’s scooter laden with so many accessories it can’t move

0

Mods and scooters
A middle-aged mod has admitted he has attached so many headlights and mirrors to his scooter that it now can’t move.

Barry ‘The Face’ Smith, of Lowestoft in Suffolk, says he got a bit carried away with accessorising his Lambretta, which struggled to reach any sort of speed in the first place.

“Now it is so weighed down that the bloody thing does not move at all,” he explained.

Factory worker Mr Smith, 58, who wears a green parka coat with a target on the back together with numerous patches of The Jam and The Who, said he now just used the scooter to sit on.

“I can’t go anywhere on it unless I remove all the lights and mirrors, as well as the long aerial on the back with a rabbit tail tied on top. But then I’d just be left with a scooter, and that would be shit.”

Mr Smith’s wife, Jane is annoyed with the 60s machine. “The mirrors make it so wide he can no longer take it around the side of the house. So it sits out in the front garden and all the kids make fun of it on their way to school.”

Scooters for mods

Ipswich Town release League One guide book

0

Ipswich Town have published a special League One guide book to help long-suffering fans plan their journeys next season.

As the team plunge towards relegation, and after announcing increases in season ticket prices, the Town board hope the special £3.99 guide book will bring in much-needed revenue.

[AdSense-A]

The book, available now in the club shop, is packed with fascinating details about the exotic locations Town will be playing at next season, including Rochdale, Northampton, Oldham and Bury.

Ipswich Town Guide to League OneHandy guide: What to do in League One

An insider at Portman Road said: “It looks increasingly likely we will be in League One next season, so we thought it would be helpful to educate the fans on the places we will be visiting.

“While researching the book, we were continually surprised by the quality of entertainment and things to do in League One. We’re quite looking forward to it.”

[AdSense-B]

Supporters will be snapping up the book as they look forward to their first ever season in League One. Today’s embarrassing defeat at Cardiff means Ipswich have won just twice in three months, and now sit in 17th place in the Championship.

If that wasn’t bad enough, there is near revolt on the terraces over the season ticket price rises announced this week.

Please support my running costs by clicking here and buying me a beer!
[olimometer id=1]

North Sea haddock disappointed he’ll no longer be caught and eaten

0

By Courtney Pike, Fishing Correspondent

A North Sea haddock has spoken of his disappointment that he may no longer be caught and sent to a fish and chip chop.

Harry the haddock, aged four, is one of the remaining North Sea haddocks to be listed as unsustainable for fishing , meaning he’ll have to swim around on his own for a while longer.

[AdSense-A]

The 2.5lb Harry, who lives around five miles off the Suffolk coast, said he now had very little to look forward to.

“What’s the point of swimming around pointlessly in the forlorn hope of finding a mate and having some kids? There are not enough of us left, and I don’t fancy getting hitched to a cod.”

Harry the North Sea haddockFeeling battered: Harry the haddock at his palatial North Sea home

Harry added: “You may think we are just haddocks, but we have feelings and to be honest I’d rather just end it all by being hauled up in a giant net, then shipped to Lowestoft to be eaten in a fish shop by some ghastly human.”

Haddock from the North Sea and the west of Scotland were taken off a list of sustainable “fish to eat” by the Marine Conservation Society this week, which downgraded the fish from its Good Fish Guide after stocks in the North Sea and West of Scotland fell.

[AdSense-B]

Harry said it had been three weeks since he last saw a fellow haddock.

“I used to be part of a gang. We’d hang around together, calling ourselves the Haddock Massive, but the rest of them have all gone. I wanted to go with them, but now the trawlermen are staying away so it will never happen.”

Please support my running costs by clicking here and buying me a beer!
[olimometer id=1]

Norfolk MPs in crisis over family staff ban

1

By Ian Bred, Norfolk Correspondent

New rules banning MPs from employing family members will cause chaos in Norfolk, it has emerged.

The remote rural county’s eight MPs have revealed they will find it impossible to find anyone locally who isn’t a relative.

Now Bubba Spuckler, the Conservative MP for Downham Market, is writing to Prime Minister Theresa May urging that Norfolk be made an exception.

He told the Suffolk Gazette: “I live with my sister and our eight children, and employ my other sister, who is also my mother, as a secretary and the keeper of my diary.

“There is no one within ten miles of my constituency who is not a Spuckler family member, so what am I to do?”

Downham Market MP Bubba SpucklerFamily concern: Downham Market MP Bubba Spuckler

The new rules forbid MPs from hiring family members at the taxpayers’ expense after claims many were, in reality, being paid for doing very little – or nothing at all – and the system was open to abuse.

A spokesman for Mrs May said: “We appreciate the new rules will cause issues in Norfolk. But let’s face it, the MPs there do not need to hire someone to deal with correspondence, because hardly anyone in Norfolk can write.”