£1 Replica Gun Game
Twenty years ago, I invented a little game to amuse myself. I would take a benign local news stories from a free Teesside paper called, The Herald & Post that came through my door on a Thursday afternoon, and I would jam pop lyrics in where the quotes should be. The first one was about £1 replica guns on sale in my town - hence the title. I’m going to be playing the game Brontë style, but here are two originals.
Gun Concern at Poundworld
Potentially lethal £1 replica guns have been taken off the shelves of a Teesside store after the Gazette raised concerns. Bosses at Poundworld in Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, removed the weapons from sale within hours of being contacted by the Gazette.
General manager, Mrs Cyndi Lauper announced: “When the working day is done, oh girls, they wanna have fun, oh girls just wanna have fun.”
The guns which fire plastic pellets have been removed from 40 stores within the region.
£73 Million Mental Hospital Upgrade
Plans to redevelop Teesside's oldest mental hospital have moved a step closer. Some of the country's leading building developers are meeting to discuss the refurbishment of St.Lukes.
The Victorian hospital in Middlesbrough is the subject of a £73 million modernization drive. Chief executive for the trust, Miss Tina Turner said yesterday, “What's love got to do with it? What's love but a second-hand emotion?”
Work is expected to start in 2007 and will take approximately two years to complete.