Following on from the thread about our little bastard furry arsonists friends as reported in the local press, I got to think about how wonderful our local papers are. Reporting the stuff that's important in the town as well as big national events but sometimes with an interesting slant or interpretation.

My local paper is the Wolverhampton Express and Star (Dudley Edition) which has had a few interesting local stories over the years. However, this caught my eye from last Friday. Anyone unfamiliar with the bull running at Pamplona could well have a very strange mental picture of what goes on after reading this:

"An Australian man was gored in the leg and three other people were injured today when daredevils ran with fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.

The second of eight runs at Spain's most famous summer festival featured bulls known for poking people with their horns.

Navarra Hospital reported four people taken to hospital."

Well, it amused me anyway. Anyone got any other examples of local news re-writing of facts into something both sensational and gobbledegook at the same time?