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40 Alex Trelinski’s TOE-TALLY BONKERS A WOMAN who spent her night complaining that her heels were hurting has gone viral after revealing she had been wearing them on the wrong feet. Ayleigh McGhee, from Glasgow, spent her entire night out “moaning” that she couldn’t walk in her snakeskin stilettos, The Sun newspaper reports. Ant it wasn’t until the next day that she realised that she had mixed up the left and right shoes before heading for a night on the town. A pal shared a snap of the fashion faux pas on Twitter and has received more than 33,000 likes and hundreds of comments One Twitter user joked: “Here’s a big difference between women and men. Women think they need to endure this for fashion, men would never leave the house in something so uncomfortable.” Back In FROM colleagues heating fish in the communal microwave, to not filling the printer with paper and singing out loud ever so loudly – what really annoys Brit office workers? Business telecommunications provider 4Com decided to find out and discovered that workmates eating smelly food in the office, for example, eggs and tuna, is the number one pet peeve. Eating out loud, speaking to loudly and whistling and singing also get on our nerves. So, when faced with these office Making a crisis out of a drama GOODNESS knows what Hilda Ogden would think. Apparently soaps like Corrie and EastEnders are going down the drain – and it’s down to all the drama. BBC arts critic Mark Lawson is warning that Soapland faces a “potentially fatal crisis” by barraging fans with implausible and harrowing storylines. Pointing to falling audience figures he says shows such as Coronation Street “risk becoming impossible to either write or act.” Recent plot lines include a siege at the Queen Vic pub in EastEnders, in which a character was shot dead, and a Getting the message bugbears, what lengths do workers go to avoid these irritations from arising again? It appears in ten will sneakily leave a passive-aggressive note. And the sassiest? According to 4Com it’s this one – making a point about perhaps the most British of topics to argue over: tea. Having reached the end of their tether over disappearing teabags, this worker declared, in capital letters: “I graft to afford teabags. I’m sure I’m not alone. So, stop helping yourself and try buying your own!” historic child sex abuse case in Corrie. Lawson also blames the rise in popularity of TV dramas. He told the Radio Times: “As other TV fiction has become busier and darker, perhaps the soaps need to aim lighter and slower, without risking the village play/cricket match lulls to which The Archers is prone.” By ‘eck chuck, as our Hilda would say. Another worker was courteous enough to leave a very honest note following their toilet troubles: ‘Clogged, sorry. But feeling much better’.
Britain FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019 41 SOOTY’S CLEAN A VINTAGE Sooty puppet which once used on TV by Harry Corbett is going on sale for £1,200 at auction. The famous yellow bear has been sitting in a box for 41 years after the entertainer gave him to one of his friend’s daughters in the 1970s. Tina Stewart, who received the special gift, said: “It’s time for someone else to enjoy him. Perhaps he should be in a toy museum.’ Sooty, a practical joker and magician who communicates by ‘whispering’ to HERE pussy, pussy! A mystery big cat that has been spotted across Cambridgeshire for more than three decades appears to have been finally been captured on camera. The Fen Tiger is a local legend – but has remained elusive. That was until Jamie Newby and fiancée Haley spotted the animal moving through a field in Ipswich and took the chance to take a snap SWEEP his handler, was created by Harry in 1948. He first apeareed on the BBC in 1952 and it is one of the longest running children’s programmes in the UK, with more than 850 episodes featuring him and his sidekick’s Sweep and Soo. All together now: Izzy wizzy, auctioneer get busy. TOP CAT GIVES PAWS FOR THOUGHT of it. The couple told the Cambridgeshire Live website that the creature was bigger than a Labrador and had a ‘scary, evil face’. Jamie said: “The size of it instantly struck me. I’d seen a dog walker walking a Labrador in the same exact spot the day before and the cat looked bigger than that.” You’d need more than a few tins of ‘Whiskas’ to feed this feline! Abbey life WANT to sample how the other half live? For just £150, two devoted fans of Downton Abbey can spend a night at the castle where it was filmed. For one night only, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon are inviting two guests over for dinner and drinks through AirBnb. They’ll enjoy cocktails, dinner and breakfast the next day at iconic Highclere Castle in Hampshire, scene of all the Downton drama over the years. The invite comes as the big screen version of the popular ITV series continues to go down a storm with filmgoers. The doors to the castle will be opened on Tuesday, November 26, for a ‘truly unique stay’. Guests will meet Lady Fiona and her husband George, the eighth Earl, at the beginning of their stay and will even enjoy a private tour of the castle and its grounds. Here’s hoping it’s not Mrs Patmore’s day off.
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