whats tha recon to this?..

RE: "It's the least cosmopolitan place there is"

I think it's fair to say that Barnsley isn't very cosmopolitan.

 

No, but Leeds is

nah then, weir did a leeav mi rucksack?

 

RE: No, but Leeds is

Chortle.

 

Typical British Newspapers

From what she actually said the headline/strapline could [and should] have read something like</p>

&quot;Barnsley goes cosmopolitan&quot;  given she talks about how things have changed a positive story imho</p>

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But no, our press would much rather sh*t stir, take the negative, and cause controversy.</p>

 

RE: Typical British Newspapers

But that's not the story or what she said.

 

RE: Typical British Newspapers

To quote</p>



<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00ffff">Ms Harris stressed last night she was talking about the Barnsley of the late 1960s and early 1970s rather than the modern town.</font></p>

<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00ffff">&quot;It was very different then. People had only seen the French on television and things like continental quilts and yoghurt were still relatively unknown. Every-thing is very different now and those attitudes no longer exist. The town has moved on and is continuing to change</font></p>

<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00ffff"></font></p>

 

frog loving split arse

 

RE: Typical British Newspapers

And that's a better story is it? Author acknowledges town has changed since 60's when criticised for her earlier comments which were phrased in the present tense. She did not say that Barnsley is now cosmopolitan, merely that it's moved on in the last 40 years.

 

So where's the story

imho neither are worth publishing.</p>



the point I was trying to make [unsuccessfully] was that from her interview you could have had 2 non stories. Our press always choose to go with the negative</p>



1. &quot;Author says a town was bigoted in late 60's early seventies' ... much like every other town in the country&quot;   -  negative connotations</p>

2. &quot;Author says attitudes in northern town have changed in the last 30 years&quot;   -  positive connotatiions</p>

 

Kill The frog

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Obviously hasnt been in tarn illatly

There is a static community where there has never been much of an ethnic community,



yer rite