Friday December 30 2011 Wigan & Leigh Magistrates Court


Steeling is part of ******* **********'slife

Ms ****** *****, aged 56, of Skelmersdale stole various items belonging to Asda to the value of £52.97. The defendant failed to be at her place of abode and had in her possession a foil lined carrier bag used in connection with theft or in the course of. There was a commission of a further offence, whilst subject to order of conditional discharge.


The defendant has been a prolific offender over the past 40 years, and has continued to offend even when placed on community orders. Furthermore Ms ***** has offended shortly after her release from prison. The view of the bench is that nothing will persuade or change the habits of a lifetime. A custodial sentence of 6 months, was given to Ms ******.

From here

Unbelievable.

Proberly as got and inglish digree two.

Can't ironing be outlawed, too?

I find that much correspondence from the legal services is poorly written. Imagine the bill for a solicitor/secretary who can type correctly

It's rampant in Pittsburg.

I served on a jury for a case where the defendant was illiterate so had made a spoken statement which was recorded to be transcribed by an audio typist. 

The transcript was read out in court and it told how the defendant had smuggled a mobile phone into the police cell when first arrested, (which he could have used to collaborate with someone to create an alibi). 

The defendant disputed this; he'd done no such thing and had never stated that he had.

The judge halted proceedings whilst the original recording was obtained and checked. It was verified that the defendant was right about this dramatic discrepancy.

Scary stuff.

She may have the same medical condition as Anthony Worrell-Thompson and needs to go into therapy

Can't ironing be outlawed, too?

It is, for men!

Ironing is outlawed for men and not for women?!

Then I'm starting a campaign, straightaway! This is a pressing matter!

OUTLAW IRONING FOR WOMEN - NOW!

Fletcher - I think Mac was just drawing attention to the misspelling of stealing(?).

Jo anne, sorry it was meant to be a joke with regard to Worrell-Thompson's so called illness regarding his stealing!

No need to be sorry, Fletcher.

Top of the class! - Another good year for Wigan Borough GCSEs.

Education leaders are particular pleased that for those pupils achieving five or more A*-C (incl. English & Maths), Wigan's results improved year on year for the past five years from a base of 41.7% in 2006 to 57.1% in 2011.

Story


What does tob mean?

(No charge for this service, WEP)

No charge for this service, WEP)


Replied: 27th Jan 2012 at 11:02
Last edited by Mac: 27th Jan 2012 at 11:50:18




WEP?

Neither example is down to them.

However

The bright yellow devices – which are about the size of a 50 pence piece – are used by rail companies to let trains and motorists know that work is going on further down the line.

Detonators

Then again, they could be right

I read that just after the 'Top of the Class' Story. I wonder if they need proof readers for but a few shillings a week?

They're working on the layout of a 'situations vacant' advert, as we type.

Don't hold your breath.

I bet I can hold my breath longer than 'some people'.

Behave!

This 'Gaffe' from the Mail:
Claims 'sometimes the U.S. seems like it dosn't want allies'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092300/The-U-S-wants-control-says-Putin-blasts-America-interfering-countries-affairs.html#ixzz1kmxiDfno

"I have lost all faith in the judiciary in Britain ... I have been treated appallingly by the CPS, and I have received more accurate information in the Wigan Evening Post than from the CPS or witness protection."

(From here)

Dear God!

The poor chap mus feel like he's been injured twice over.

Incidentally, re some of the comments on that article;

Sometimes (I don't know if it is the case here) the addresses given of the culprits are where they have moved to since the assault.

ie they could be local people who moved after the event.

Forty years?

We can count on the press to make mistakes.

M.E.N. (a bit better):
'Friends to the end: Pals retire together after 40 years at Tameside hospital
Friends who met on their first day at work are to retire from the same place on the same day more than 40 years later.'

Morgue?

I wondered about Americanisms and found an interesting item on Wiki.

In American English:
Morgue is used to refer to the room in which newspaper or magazine publishers keep their back issues and other historical references, as they serve a similar purpose to human morgues. See Morgue file.


Note also the confusion in WEP article about Registrars

Local funeral directors say Wigan’s Registra Service was capable of recording an average of 10 deaths per day

Mr Jones said that the situation was a “growing concern” for Wigan’s undertakers.

He said: “Now, where the families would check with the DWP or other bodies to inform them of the death of a loved one, the registrar service is doing it themselves under the new system and that means that they no longer have the time to record as many deaths as they did before because each one is taking twice as long to complete.

“I have spoken to one of the registras and he confirmed that it is causing them problems.

Are they slipping up?

Coun Tushingham, Independent for Ashton, is up for re-election in the local elections on May 3.

A list of other candidates campaigning is not yet available


Published on Thursday 5 April 2012 12:49


However:

Started: 4th Apr 2012 at 19:58

Not an error, but a right sensationalist lead paragraph.

Page 1 WEP yesterday.

'COULD a murderer be on the loose in Wigan?

That was the frightening question preying on the minds of many minds today following the tragic death of a Wigan man days after he was found collapsed in the street.'

Certainly a serious and very tragic event, but that is redolent of the climate of fear that was around West Yorkshire over thirty years ago.

Yes, A murderer could indeed be lurking. Lock up your Daughters!

It really annoyed me that.

I have now wish to go into the various 'theories' and speculations about the particular circumstances, and hope not to provoke others into doing so, until the facts emerge.

But I'm sure the Police aren't about to issue warnings.

You only have to look at the thread about Mr. Farrell to view speculation and rumour.

Murderers do prowl Wigan, Ethel Rileys murderer to name but one still walks amongst us.

I know they do prowl, Mac. One was only caught following a subsequent serious crime some years ago. But the thing that struck me is the element of scaremongering in the tone of the item.

Almost like a yearning for some 'penny dreadful' story to emerge.

Mind you, that must always be at the back of the mind of a journalist.

As is their livelihood, but I take your point.

Make sure you can see where your going

Isn't that the link I supplied on the 'tinted windows' sketch?

Yes, but you didn't point out the error, did you?

Yes, it was supplied in the bleedin' link supplied!

You missed it, didn't you?

Thought you were typing in patios.

No, it's raining.

Do you mean 'patois'?

Patios, minus the apostrophe.

Another howler.

Horrible story. But another display of a lack of local knowledge.

Martyn Trezise, who had kicked the 42-year-old victim in the face as he desperately tried to cling onto the parapet of the bridge near the DW Stadium, was jailed for eight years.



Firefighters had to be called to the scene in Scholes and after they lowered a ladder down the steep embankment the victim managed to climb to safety.

maybe you should point it out to them

Scholes!
The town cryer suggests action.

Give that man a bell.

He has the end of one on display.

I wonder what the technical term for that conical thing on the end of the clapper is?

No end

Ooops, wrong thread

Welll, shame to waste it.

Just googled 'bell clappers'.



Is there a doctor in the house.

Is that another one of his symptoms?

Aye, and it's worse when your conical doings turns black

Coincidentally , I wonder if the conical doings is there to add a bit more weight/momentum to the 'hammer'.

Must be, else it's a trademark maybe?

Possibly?

Another one, plus some nice technical terms on drawing.

Anyroad, back to topic.

“Remploy means verything to them - it is not only a job, but a way of life.”

Here

Give that man a bell


someone on here has an head like a bell..............smooth and shiny

Remploy, have their staff all been made redundant now?

Wonder if 'some people' have spent up?

Cutting a lot of factories.

gosh another informative thread.....good on you

Comments from yesterday have been removed from the WEP article.

The general point was the wisdom of employees of such a funded company actually taking industrial action.

ie they were only going to lose their own wages. Not like holding a big corporation to ransom.

Looked on the G4S website earlier, found this job. 'Driver - Permanet - Stoke-on-Trent'.
I sent an email asking if they were looking for proof readers. Not expecting a reply.

Though on a more serious note, they have LOADS of jobs going, G4S jobs

Looked on the G$S websirte earlier.

Come back, Ena.

Get thee to a bakery.

Typing of olympics

MattGerrard
Reader
.
. This is made even funnier when your reporter manages to spell the mis-spelling incorrectly in the photo caption...

Posted: 2 hours ago.

Journalists eh. Tsk!

Was a nice little one in yesterday's WEP (Not online)

'Halford sand firestations'

Halfords and firestations

Item about driving tests.

A police spokeswoman said the driver of the engine and its trailer had been taken to hospital suffering from shock after the incident.

Tragic accident

God be with his family

If it is 'just' a fall, it's a totally freak fatality.

RIP

Sausage's

Sausage's seems to be a common one.

Sausage's, how they used to be made!

Nude male masseuse 'flew boy, 15, to London to work as a prostitute for 2012 Olympics’

Nasty story about a vile creature, but isn't a 'male masseuse' a masseur?

Indubitably so.
Now, did he loan you his ipad to use whilst he slept?

NO!

I hope you ar not trying to rub me up the wrong way.

I'm already peeeved that the WEP didn't put an article online containing the word 'roofs'.

A rather contentious one.

Either or.
Fiddlers on the rooves

Think it was an article about lead thieves (yesterday).

'Roofs' just looks iffy.

Get a roofer to look at them.

I'll have to google rieve, now.

Police were called to Kirkhall Lane in the town at about 12.30am on Saturday following reports of a collision between a Citreon Zara Picasso taxi and a 41-year-old pedestrian.

Tragic story

All the more reason to check for errors.

RIP

Citreon has been a common mis-spelling in the Observer group newspapers for many years. I wonder if it's down to the same writer/proof reader/editor

Do you mean spellcheck?

I don't think they have one.

If they have, it's broken!

Ooops

Found five other examples of 'Citreon'.

Amongst them is this classic:


Citreon C 1 the Eco Choice

Hiccup

In that article they got it mostly right. It's probably manufacturers blurb which has been C&P'd, even when it's in front of them they still got the caption wrong on the pic.

Spellcheck wouldn't help, if it doesn't have the word, (often the case with proper nouns), there is an option to add it to the vocabulary. If it's entered incorrectly, it will always be wrong.

You'd think newspaper employees would be up to scratch, even without a spellchecker, Kenee.

They must have dictionaries to hand.

Note to them; Aardvark is in the first half of the book.

gullible has been omitted fron the latest dictionaries

See 'snig'.

Cyprus Road, Worsley Hall

More local knowledge.

Again, a tragic story, and more reason to get it right.

Cypress

these people get paid to put these articles together. R.I.P, young man.

Yes. RIP.

Cannabis was the most commonly used drug, although its was also down.

Peawapp appears in comments.

And someone complaining about the grammar.

I've just been reading in the Daily Mail about 'the most smallest, westerly remote guest house in Britain'.

Mr Gollin said: 'We are the most smallest, westerly remote guest house in Britain and we are taking on one of the largest travel guide companies.

Daily Mail

According to reviews, it isn't the most bestest one.

Surely not the worseorest?

The headline may have meant of a lower rank, therefore correct.
Actually, it probably did, albeit subconciously.

In fairness to the DM, it was a quote.

They ran the headline, they take the blame.

Often annoys me when people are quoted directly when the jounalist (?) could have slightly bent the qoute to make it look less gormless.

Presuming the scribe is more articulate than the source.

Not just the WEP guilty of faux pas

Find a real pas

This one's for real

Have you noticed the P-A-D thread has been deleted.
Bad publicity for the site it seems.

Click

I thought yours was rather positive.

It was, and over a thousand views. So it served it's purpose.

And hopefully helped resolve the problem.

Well done, you.

ME, IT'S ALL ME I TELLS YE!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

Hypocrite

Posted by: walshy76 (7450)

If it bothers you that much don't reply

That's what I do when the thread ruiners come out with stupid irrelevant comments on the general section


Replied: 2nd Aug 2012 at 15:14

Posted by: Mac (3290)

Foolish post from a foolish dick.




Posted by: Mac (3427)

Thinking you are a buffoon, Dick. That's one thing we have in common.


by: Mac (8358)

oops @ extra i in second gratuitous.
It means, in this case, 'Uncalled for', particularly as this is a site Children visit.


Replied: 21st May 2012 at 18:21

Posted by: walshy76 (7450)

If it bothers you that much don't reply

That's what I do when the thread ruiners come out with stupid irrelevant comments on the general section


Replied: 2nd Aug 2012 at 15:14

Posted by: walshy76 (7471)

Hypocrite

Replied: 4th Aug 2012 at 18:50

awwwwwwwww not doing very well today are you.....why not try changing names

Whoops

AHEM!

See my lovely new 'Another Telegram For Tonker' thread.

No!

See Nip

Nip is a dog

See Nip run

Run Nip. Run.

Reminded me of T. Wogan's Janet and John Stories.

Exactly.

Tried to find the name of the dog. Google suggests some none PC stuff.

Saves having to explain stuff.

Not familiar with that, Mac. Apart from your earlier mention.

Humour abounds....
Have yourself a listen

Will listen later.

Asta tha listened, Baby?

Not yet. Sorry.

But I will.

"See John blub"

Expect complaints.

Int Google great
"Where they sat in there van on north western car park stuffing there faces, like they used to do in the 80s

Could be related to the people, or is it one person,who post things on here that know one can understand "

Posted by: dostaf (33287)

Often annoys me when people are quoted directly when the jounalist (?) could have slightly bent the qoute to make it look less gormless.

Presuming the scribe is more articulate than the source.

Replied: 3rd Aug 2012 at 18:50
Edit

A similar thing to that here:

A witness who alerted the emergency services told control staff the man was seen climbing on to a bridge and was then seen to fall.

More local knowledge.

The man, who is in his early 20s, fell around 25ft on to the tracks at Wigan Wallgate station from King Street West at around 1am on Sunday.

Here

Hope the lad is OK.

Maybe he was actually climbing up onto the bridge?
Hope alll is well wtith him.

Which bridge?

King Street West has a parapet, the station buildiing and Wallgate forms the 'bridge'. Though there is a small 'landing' type platform adjacent to the building which overhangs the track. (KSW)

I dunno, Isn't there a latticework one around those parts?Just a suggestion is all.

Possibly a signal gantry, but I don't think it forms a bridge.

I know it's pedantic when a poor lad is in a bad way, but again seems like iffy reporting.

Witness could have described it as a 'bridge'. Journalist with local knowledge would have questioned it.

I take your point.

Cheers.

Also to clarify, I'm not suggesting the witness in that report is gormless.

My self quote in purple really refers to items where quotes could have been slightly polished, without misrepresentation.

Clear pics of the wall/parapet

I have personally seen many people climbing onto the railings (see pic 4) over the years.

Possibly why the story struck a chord.

The 'landing' I mentioned is for the door seen here.

From here

Burger's

Can't not include this one from 'Politics'


Posted by: sledge (2462)

Why dont you look for it and prove me wrong

You r beahvouir was out of order...end of.

Broady?....note the Clrs grammer, and this guy DOES work for the council (alledgedly)

Replied: 9th Aug 2012 at 22:52

People really shouldn't store thrones.

Sum peepl maik rods for there oun baks.

A timely reminder:


Posted by: dostaf (33398)

Let me explain.

Some folk (myself included) , have a bit of fun with each other when it comes to typo's.

Mache is the Grand Master. You should have seen the near misses he had with the simple word 'walking'.

But.

And this is important.

I wouldn't comment about eveyone's errors as I would hate to put folk off who are not the best of spellers. Some may have left school at an early age, and are even now just plucking up the courage to use a keyboard.

These people are to be encouraged, rather than put off.

As you have brought Borg's error to our (and his) attention:

Welcome to the club.

In other words, you too are fair game.

Replied: 7th Aug 2012 at 14:25

Condition: Instead of hair, human nails grow out of her hair follicles, but doctor's have yet to establish a cause

Poor show.
Horrible ailment for the Woman though. The Reporter should be docked wages.

The things is - this was triggered by a reaction to drugs that were administered to her. In this country the NHS would deal with it - there would be no reason for her or her family to be out of pocket.

Surely the manufacturers of the drugs given to her should be footing the bill - as would be the case here?

“Your admissions to teh police make it clear this was not a one off.”

Tsk again.

Make many similar ones (on here) myself with letters in wrong order.

But I seldom use spellchecker. You'd think that would be second nature in this day and age to a Journalist with something about to be published.

Seldom?..You do occasionally? OH the ignominy.

Yes, I admit it, although not often. Usually when on Pedant alert.

"I am Michael Pain, and I am a nosey Neighbour"

Not a lot of people know that.

Who said that?

You, just then

I may have typed it, bit Mr Caine never said it.

Or am I thinking about the 'My name is Michael Caine' one?

Google time

But you said it,albeit in your head.

They can't do you for thinking.

Peter Sellers, by the way.

Almost

Sellers.

How apt for your pedantic thread.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

To err is human.

I changed it from Sellers to sellars as well.

Ask Wayne Rooney.

I just thought of that.

August explanation; Wayne says "errrrrr" a lot.

Most footballers do, it's a prompt.

In fact, I'm wrong again.

Wayne says 'errrm'.

The cause of the blaze is not yet known as inquiries are ongoing with both the fire and police.

Ask a silly question

Movie theaters showing The Expendables 2 combed for bombs after phone threat

Could argue that it's an American story, but in the actual article the word is used correctly three times.

Lazy articles!

BLOODY DISGUSTING!

'Johnson' 'Johnson's'

The piece is littered with this.

Such disrespect is usually reserved for the perpetrator, not the victim.

news,scotsman.com

Johnson’s death early on Saturday morning in a Manchester hospice at the age of 78 added a cruel twist to the brutal and unfinished saga of the Moors Murders, whose dark horror has hung over Britain for half a century

Johnson devoted 48 years to finding her boy, the cheeky and happy-go-lucky lad who loved marbles and cycling, and collected leaves in a scrapbook


Johnson always believed that Brady and Hindley, who were convicted in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10 and Edward Evans, 17, killed her son, although it was over 20 years before either of them admitted it.

The living room of Johnson’s modest Manchester home was adorned with pictures of Keith. There was Keith, toothy and smiley, hair a bit scruffy and wire-rimmed glasses askew, in the picture that had peered out from newspaper pages for years, now draped in rosary beads


This week, Johnson will be laid to rest, while her lost son still lies out somewhere on the moors.



FILTHY JOURNALISM



Edit:

Up late reading news stories etc. This one ^^^^ (bad job) has really got me. One thing doing a bit of nit-picking, but that's just ignorant.

Total lack of respect.

Chairman of Wigan Conservative Federation Michael Winstanley said: "It is quite clear that building on this land will have an adverse impact on the local wildlife and the recreation facilities that generations of Wiganer's have been able to enjoy. It is also clear that the local area doe not have the infrastructure to cope."


WEP 23 Aug page 2 Gidlow Protest

Rogue Apostrophe eh!.

But on that note, I was conversing with a Gentleman Yesterday on the wildlife population about the new builds, and the new infrastructure.
He wondered where the Squirrels would go., I said they would find somewhere in time, sadly, most of the other wildlife (Hedgehogs, etc) would be buried alive.

Interesting point.

Don't some developments have Wildlife Officers involved, to try to relocate as much as practicably possible the critters concerned?

Mind, I'm probably thinking of larger projects such as motorways which are developed by much larger concerns.

Legendary fighter ace John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham - who put his eyesight down to eating carrots - have emerged for sale for £200,000

Medals

GCSE marking wrong ???

DOZEN of Wiganers

lol!

Local paper for local people.

Grill

Grilling

Grille

More local knowledge?

The car then sped off up along the one-way system, however it isn’t known for sure whether the driver turned right towards Miry Lane and Wigan town centre or left towards Newtown

Injured cyclist

Hope Mr Parry recovers and maintains confidence whilst on the road.

Also hope (wishful thinking perhaps) the culpris are caught.

Another in hot water.

Features steel chassis, polished aluminium bonnet and brass radiator grill

Tsk!

But despite Mr Day, then a teenage fishermen, showing police the unexploded rocket lying in the mud - it remained there largely undisturbed for 68 years.



Great-grandfather Ruben Dace warned police of the V2 missile after watching falling just off the coast of East Anglia

Here

Grill n. 5. Variant of grille.

No. No. No.

Stamps foot.

I googled before getting egg on chin.

See

I was going to say see here, for example, but then noticed the 'Bargin Bin'.

grill2
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a variant spelling of grille
[see grille]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

'Bargin Bin'

It's still'grille'.

Have a word with 'The world's most trusted dictionaries' ...

... and they might have a word, or two, to say to you.


Spelling

In the United States*, "grille" is used to avoid confusion with the cooking device, called a "grill".

*Eggs-actly!

I feel some bad press comiing on.

Turned out nice again

I mean coming.

By George, I think he's got it, The Borg.

Bad press? I wouldn't do that, Dostaf, but I would ask you to take more care when reading.

(Who is behind The Huffington Post? (17:49 )

And that is why I mentioned Jets on a new thread, rather than on here.

What is well happy?

Oohhh that's shoddy.

Ignore 14:31

I usually do.

A gray cat is caught getting frisky with its friend, or sneaking up behind to snatch him by his throat

Saw the majority of those pics a couple of weeks ago on an American site. Lazy bleeders could have re-worded to UK English.

'Beside himself: Seen entirely tuckered out, an orange and white kitten slumbers while folded in half on the couch'

Two reasons for posting this, one is obvious.

St Trinnian's!

After much googling I can not find a proper type of description.

there was a time when that 'caricature' was common on every other carnival.

In latter years it has been seen by many as playing into the hands of pervs. (Not literally)

'But they ended up kissing and they began touching each others and she said she wanted him to have sex with him.'

Would be laughable if it wasn't a very serious story.

Man Cleared

Jimmy Saville's headstone.

Two of the gang were wearing dark grey clothing underneath a high visibility sleeveless jacket.

Here

oOps

^^^^

Only one higher case O in Oops, Mache.

Sorted.

Wrong thread.

A**S hole

Now I'll have to put it back.

On a serious note, there was something posted on here once about sticking asterisks in word to disguise swearing being unacceptable.

Google isn't helping.

Was a few years back, Mache.

Dr Tim Dalton (pictured)

GCSE's
They want to replace thm!

The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to replace thm with new English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBaccs), beginning with English, maths and science in 2015 with further subjects to follow, has led to accusations of a two-tier education system’s being restored.

Saville or Savile?

One 14-year-old girl tells the programme how she met Sir Jimmy at a school in Surrey in 1974 and he assaulted her in his caravan which was parked in the school grounds.

Here

A certain change in the air.

Howard Gallimore, whose eponymous restaurant charges £6.95, said:

Here

Must have a degree.

@WiganCouncil Flooding near bridge on Manchester/Wigan Road, Hindley/Ince nr to junction of Semen Way. Take extra care!

Retweeted by Wigan Council

Vet Saves Bat

Not checked for errors. I just guesed who.

And after reading about it being from Huddersfield, I had a look at their news.

And guess what?

I nearly commented the other week about an abscence of adve erm. 'articles'.

He does get about a bit...saving creatures.

Is he a WW member?

Don't know mester, but he always seems to attract media attention.

I presume there are other Veterinarians in the town.

A pic of a stagnation o 'lung incident would be handy.

The gatehouse, which carries the emblems of two prison reformers, John Howard and Elizabeth Fry and became famous as the entrance to HMP Slade in the Porridge TV series.

Know nowts.

Well why do you tell them

Ripped down: A sign is torn from its berth at Hillsborough

Berth?

New 100% eco sky lantern, no wire no metal part, use dragon wool instead of wire.

H&T is the leader of sky lantern manufacturer, the paper we use is best quality fireproof paper, even light each part of lantern, it will not catch fire. And we pay much attention on how to keep lantern more and more stably when flying. For package, each lantern is packed in a high quality pp bag, supply a colorful coated paper instruction, each bag also contains a small bag of dryer, keep the lantern paper not affect with damp. And this new type sky lantern is 100% biologic degradable, we use fiberglass rope (also name dragon wool) instead of wire, so this new type eco lantern is no metal part.

Here

Headline: Two UK soliders killed at checkpoint in Afghanistan
God be with them.

RIP

They corrected their error (twice).
They have also removed comments because someone picked up on it.

I was puzzled.

The headline was as I copied and pasted.
Fixed now, anyway.

'soliders'

Cheers

Operation Stasafe.


Y Knot

They use word processors as well!

Mother-of-four who used to eat 17,000 calories a DAY is now a third of the women she was after losing over 60 per cent of her body weight and dropping 12 dress sizes

Here

Will probably soon go as it is a title link.

'Woman' on actual article header.