Daily Express - Coldest Winter in decades on way (Sic)

[CheeseRolls]

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Basically a tweet pointing to one of their top news stories.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/44...-taste-of-a-paralysing-winter-as-snow-hits-UK

First a major shock The Express has discovered centigrade, a sure sign of progress.

but then we get into the story line. Apparently it snowed yesterday in Northern Britain in November. This of course could mean a bad winter is on the way, but the Express has an expert on hand to back this up.

Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: “We are looking at a potentially paralysing winter, the worst for decades, which could at times grind the nation to a halt.”

So let's take a look at the Vantage website shall we, these guys seem to know something about the weather.

http://vantageweatherservices.co.uk/ Whoops that looks a bit noddy. Hang on let's check the long range weather forecast, no nothing unusual there, or indeed anything to suggest a bad winter is on the way.

What else can we find out about Vantage ?

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...aily-express-weather-forecast-jonathan-powell

So not the first time they have tried this "trick"

 

[Djmiles]

In September the Express were warning us about a severe cold snap in October, in October they were warning us about a severe cold snap for November, and now in November they are warning about a severe cold snap this WINTER. **** sake.

Every time I see an Express article it makes me want to hurt someone.

 

[Husty]

There has been some significant snowfall in scotland, but thats not unusual for this time of year

 

[vegster]

This was consigned to print in the form of a Saturday splash a few days before we seem to have had the wettest and windiest October on record . The Express only has 4 "root " headlines on Saturdays.

1, Extremes of weather

2, Princess Diana : Murdered ?

3, EU madness/ diabolical new laws from Brussels

4, Anything that can be regarded as an attack on "Middle England "

 

[Badger]

I love how the tag-line on their adverts is "10p cheaper than The Daily Mail", so what they're actually saying is "we print the same old shit but you're wasting 10p less".

 

[Icy Gull]

I hope you all have a set of winter tyres

 

[vegster]

I hope you all have a set of winter tyres

I'm sure we are getting near the bi-annual Lidl Snow Chain offer special.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I have not had to scrape ice from my windscreen at all since the summer. This October/Novemebr feels like one of the warmest in years. Express is a joke comic that deliberately produces shock tactic headlines.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Can't argue with "The World's Greatest Newspaper" can you?

 

[Peteinblack]

I love how the tag-line on their adverts is "10p cheaper than The Daily Mail", so what they're actually saying is "we print the same old shit but you're wasting 10p less".

 

[Stat Brother]

This was consigned to print in the form of a Saturday splash a few days before we seem to have had the wettest and windiest October on record . The Express only has 4 "root " headlines on Saturdays.

1, Extremes of weather

2, Princess Diana : Murdered ?

3, EU madness/ diabolical new laws from Brussels

4, Anything that can be regarded as an attack on "Middle England "

5, Mortgages.

 

[El Presidente]

5, Mortgages.

6: Maddie

 

[Peteinblack]

Every autumn, the Daily Excess seems to predict a bitterly cold Siberian winter

Still, it makes a change from its usual Mail-like sensationalist headlines about asylum seekers, the EU and rising house prices

 

[vegster]

5, Mortgages.

That comes under no. 4

 

[lawros left foot]

The perfect storm for the Express would be 'Boffin searching for arthritis cure in a 10 foot snowdrift, finds Princess Diana, being held captive by east European illegal immigrants, burning our tax £10 notes to keep warm'.

 

[vegster]

6: Maddie

That one has been quite rare in the last year or two, has popped up a few times recently I'll admit.

 

[Norman Potting]

6: Maddie

7. Taking half an aspirin daily makes you immortal/causes you to die in agony.

 

[vegster]

7. Taking half an aspirin daily makes you immortal/causes you to die in agony.

Sorry, not usually front page.That's usually a little way in on the page for " Amazing simple Test/Cure for Arthritis/Alzhiemers/Breast Cancer/Prostrate Cancer/Diabetes could save the NHS Millions ! "

 

[Fef]

I love how the tag-line on their adverts is "10p cheaper than The Daily Mail", so what they're actually saying is "we print the same old shit but you're wasting 10p less".

Love it ! Thanks for the chuckle !

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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