Man caught working as tyre fitter while claiming benefits given community service.

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I fail to see why this is currently the first scrolling headline on the BBC site. Is this really a significant news event? Not unless it's Elvis.

M@

[Lobo Baggins]

Yeah, but he was working for Tom Tully Tyres, so he must be secretly a member of a brilliant but strangely underrated sports team, who are involved with a sinister match fixing operation, all the while remaining on his guard against a revenge crazed former opponent (who has been hideously scarred in some sporting related mishap).

Oh, and the whole thing must have been running for 26 weeks, even though there's barely enough plot for six episodes.

[Funt Solo]

My guess is that MI5 have a deep cover operative working abroad (somewhere full of Foreign Devils), and that his only method of recieving orders is through the BBC's scrolling headlines.

"Man caught working as tyre fitter while claiming benefits given community service" actually translates as "One of our operatives, dressed up like a cheap 70s pantomime arab while gun-running in southern Iraq has been caught and held by local Police who are sick to the back teeth of this kind of thing."

[Quirkafleeg]

'News controller on BBC website given sack....'

[Mudcrab]

Just recently: Top story, Ariel Sharon's life-threatening stroke has been upstaged by an "impending" statement by Charles Kennedy on his alleged alcohol problems!

Serves him right for being named after washing powder, mermaids and girls :o)

[monty--]

I'll tell you why. I can't believe NO ONE hasn't picked it up.

The BBC goes hand in hand with the government. It's the government's right arm. Want to see a topical scenario that the government is pushing to the masses? Look no further than EastEnders. All coincidentally in time when the government want to push something.

Or how about the news? September 11th said it all for me. Just look at the style of journalism between other channels and the BBC. It was blatant. The BBC was far more reserved. So what about the argument where the BBC wouldn't back down to the government over leaking information regarding WMD? A scam in my eyes. The BBC are obviously in league with the government.I detest the BBC.

[Noisybast]

Latest BBC headline: Millionaire Nuclear Power Plant Owner in Mystery Disappearance.