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A few very slow news days in Bracknell and Wokingham recently: Google maps displays a street name in Russian and a person is accepted into university

That google maps error isn’t that uncommon, I’ve seen street names appear in different languages many times before, including in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean , Thai, Hindi or some similar south Asian language and in Russian / other Cyrillic languages it happens for some reason.

https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/26466498.wokingham-street-appears-russian-google-maps/

https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/26464347.bracknell-student-accepted-university-oxford/

u/Any-Ad-5373 — 4 days ago
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It was Tesco, for those who care

A competition between Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda, Waitrose, M&S and Weetabix themselves to see which is the best value-for-money wheat biscuit

u/Striking-Anteater-28 — 9 days ago
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Old Mars bar found in Lincolnshire

It is slightly bigger than a new Mars bar.

The BBC headline editor has subtly corrected the grammatical mistake in the film title referenced.

bbc.co.uk
u/Ed_Avis — 10 days ago
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Train toilet is out of order.

I really don’t know why this seems to be a national scandal. The story is quite literally one train’s toilet was out of use so the train stopped at stations longer to give passengers time to use the facilities. I have been on numerous long distance train journeys where the toilet was out of use and there was no news headlines then. What is going on?

EDIT: it’s clear to me now that people don’t know how the UKs railway system works and expect staff to have superhuman abilities. Please don’t comment unless you have something sensible to say.

u/No-Jello-5504 — 13 days ago