Barmy Britain - Bizarre and True Stories From Across the Nation

Jack Crossley

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857829242
• Year: 2008

A hilarious compendium of all that's weird and wonderful about life in the British Isles - the eccentric, bizarre bureaucracy and outright oddity reported over the last year by the nation's newspapers, including: Guardian headline, 'Man with false leg hit with toilet lid.'; The Astrological Magazine, 'announces that it is to cease due to unforeseen circumstances.' Jack Crossley spent some 40 years in Fleet Street and has compiled this laugh-out-loud collection of anecdotes and strange goings-on which sound so outlandish you certainly couldn't make them up.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 : SIGNS OF THE TIMES
• CHAPTER 2 : SPORTING LIFE
• CHAPTER 3 : LAW AND DISORDER
• CHAPTER 4 : BEST OF BRITISHNESS
• CHAPTER 5 : MEDIA MADNESS
• CHAPTER 6 : ROYAL FLUSH
• CHAPTER 7 : RUDE BRITANNIA
• CHAPTER 8 : POLITICS
• CHAPTER 9 : ANIMAL MAGIC
• CHAPTER 10 : NANNY STATE
• CHAPTER 11 : FOOD FOR THOUGHT
• CHAPTER 12 : WEDDED BLISS
• CHAPTER 13 : WHAT’S UP, DOC?
• CHAPTER 14 : DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
• CHAPTER 15 : NOT DEAD, JUST RESTING
• CHAPTER 16 : TRAVEL TROUBLES
• CHAPTER 17 : WHAT’S IN A NAME
• CHAPTER 18 : RAISE YOUR GLASSES
• CHAPTER 19 : SCHOOL’S OUT
• CHAPTER 20 : PLAIN ECCENTRIC
• CHAPTER 21 : A TOUCH OF CLASS
• CHAPTER 22 : COUNCIL DAZE
• CHAPTER 23 : LET US PRAY
• CHAPTER 24 : MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
• CHAPTER 25 : GOLDEN OLDIES
• CHAPTER 26 : JUST THE JOB
• CHAPTER 27 : CHRISTMAS PRESENCE
• CHAPTER 28 : ODDS AND SODS
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright