Tillamook Headlight Herald [OR]
4 June 2019
Offbeat Oregon: Portland’s
“Shanghai Tunnels”: Mostly myth, but not entirely
By Finn J.D.
John
One of the most popular tourist attractions for
visitors to Portland is a tour of the “Shanghai Tunnels” that ruin [sic] beneath
Old Town’s streets. Historians of old Portland […] tend to scoff at the whole
enterprise. […] And they’re right … up to a point. The fact is, there is pretty
good evidence that parts of the underground network we know as “the Shanghai
Tunnels” today were used to shanghai sailors. But they were used as dungeons,
not as a transportation network. […]
[Mr.
John’s argument is unconvincing. Two days later, the article has been removed
from the site.]
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[Revenge sale
stories about blokes who don’t own a Porsche.]
The Sun [UK]
6 June 2019
MET HIS MATCH
I flogged my husband’s £45k
footie memorabilia for just a fiver after he was pictured with a mystery blonde
at a match
A FURIOUS wife got revenge on her husband by flogging
his £45,000 footie memorabilia for just a fiver after she spotted him at a
match with a mystery blonde. Shelly Cohen, 41, from Warrington, Cheshire, has
been married to Paul, 35, for nearly a decade, but was sick of being a
‘football widow’. […]
The Sun [UK]
19 January 2019
EX BOX
Jilted girlfriend sells
boyfriend’s £186 Xbox for £3 after finding out he cheated on her
A JILTED girlfriend sold her boyfriend’s Xbox for just
£3 after discovering he had cheated on her. Georgia Jackson, 24, advertised
Josh Maddock’s “pride and joy” console for sale on a Facebook selling site. The
mum of one wrote: “First one to collect can have it for £3.” […]
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New Zealand Herald
6 June 2019
Timaru woman Jaydean
Temperley sentenced to home detention for lying about strawberry needle
A woman who lied about finding a needle in a
strawberry will spend five months on home detention. Jaydean Temperley, 29, has
been sentenced in the Timaru District Court this morning, after previously
pleading guilty to charges of making a false complaint and causing loss by
deception. Judge Joanna Mays says putting the needle in the strawberry didn't
just financially affect strawberry growers and the supermarket – it undermined
public confidence in the food supply. […]
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The Guardian [UK]
6 June 2019
The great green expansion:
how ring-necked parakeets took over London
Was Jimi Hendrix responsible
for the bright-green tropical birds’ presence in the capital? Or was it
Katharine Hepburn?
[…] If you ask random Londoners how parakeets came to
thrive in their city […] the chances are that one of these theories will be
told as fact. No one is ever sure where they heard it. They are classic urban
myths, spreading through word of mouth, mutating and evolving a little with
every teller. Whatever the truth, or lack of it, these stories are a sign that
London’s parakeets, in their short time among us, have become deeply lodged in
the city’s collective imagination. […]
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