Monday, September 24, 2007

This not only made the front page, but also the BBC news...

FOREIGN students visiting the Island are to be educated in bus queuing etiquette after Islanders complained about them pushing and shoving their way on to buses.

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/News/QUEUE_HERE_FOR_AN_ETIQUETTE_LESSON.aspx

And Quote of the week; "
I know it sounds patronising but next year we shall be giving foreign students instructions on how to queue for a bus.” - Southern Vectis operations manager Marc Morgan Huws. I do see their point, queuing is a part of British life but this does feel mildly xenophobic to me, rounding up all the foreign students, making them stand in rows before boarding a bus, not knowing where they are going..... sorry, it just reminded me of my GCSE History there.....



Tree Stump Fire

Oh yes, you read it correctly, plus not one story, but two! Yes, TWO fire stories...

FIRE crews attended a tree stump fire in Playstreet Lane, Ryde, on Saturday.
One appliance from Ryde attended at around 12.40pm.
On Sunday at 1.45pm, fire crews put out burning leaves in Simeon Street, Ryde.
The fire was out by 1.55pm.


http://www.iwcp.co.uk/News/TREE_STUMP_FIRE.aspx

The Isle of Wight, home to spontaneously combusting treestumps, or as I suspect, some very bored kids who had ran out of the usual things to set fire to.