Morning run

It was a cold northerly wind when he ventured out.  The base layer provided essential bodily warmth, but the cold hit his face like iced water.  This was not going to be easy.

Alistair MacLean, eat your heart out.

Up in smoke

There's some discussion about using plastic for banknotes from 2016.  Evidently they give off environmentally unfriendly smoke when being burnt. 

I don't think that will happen very often will it?

Your round!

'A round of applause before every premier football matches in tribute to Nelson Mandela'.  Who the flip thought of that?  what are we thinking?  Its not as if we don't respect the guy, but surely we don't have to drag it down to that level.  I'm sure his family will really appreciate it.

Revealing Story.

"ITV have discovered that...." or "Sky News can reveal ...." or "The BBC has uncovered...".
What a load of balaoney.  It's always 'revealing', 'uncovering', or some other adjective to describe something we should be shocked about.  It's always bad news, never good, and if they simply reported the facts would probably be a non-story, so this technique is just get our attention or to drive it up the queue to make the headlines.  You never have a "ITV can reveal..." story further down the schedule in the news, only the top story or two.
I reckon ITV are the worst because they have to keep the viewers switched on to maintain advertising revenue, but BBC are also guilty if they think they have an exclusive, or at least a different slant on an existing story.

There, rant over.  Back to work.