I recently had a conversation with her indoors about what constitutes news. My opinion was that everything that happens or doesn't happen is news, whether or not it gets reported depends solely on what else is happening. Thus "Peter Guest in Coffee drinking binge" is news but doesn't get reported because "Pete Golden crashes his car" is more newsworthy. It must have been a quiet day in Barrow in Furness. The North-West Evening Mail (the North-West's Paper of the year) has reported that Caren Hindle, Barrow Borough Council's parking services manager warned that people who were parking illegally (on No-Parking restrictions) on some of the roads approaching the area's beaches could get a £35 ticket. Ms Hindle is reported as saying that "It is not our intention to go down there and issue a load of tickets; we could have issued about 28 tickets down there on Thursday". Why not? Illegal parking was blocking the roads so that service vehicles and ambulances couldn't get through. The question is Ms Hindle, why didn't you issue the tickets, after all part of the reason that you have the job is "to ensure the safe and expeditious movement of traffic" and on that day you didn't.
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