The silly season has officially ended, but clearly no one has told the Hereford Times. Its tale about a discarded cabbage sprouting a 12-inch stalk in less than a fortnight has been the most viewed story on its website this week.
Cabbage tale dug up in Hereford
Published 14 Sep 2012
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Not much ever happens in Hereford since the lager lout riots dried up.
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Sadly the quality of some locals has slipped further down.
A load of rhubarb! Nothing more important happening in the whole of large and busy Hereford?
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Come on guys. Chill out. We need more funny stories like this. Website traffic proves the punters loved it. Hats off to the reporter for making a “bricks without straw” tale. Loved it !
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“Nothing more important happening in the whole of large and busy Hereford?” asks Capt Starlight.
Is the Captain really so utterly bereft of imagination to think that this is the only story on the Hereford Times website?
If you look at the page carefully you’ll see it’s actually buried away in some kind of community/village news section – C for Credenhill to be precise – so it’s probably just some trivia direct from a local correspondent which may or may not have made it into print.
If it gets readers looking for local news, brings in traffic from people searching for their locality, or makes villagers feel that a paper is still connected to their area, then what’s the problem?
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Words about an old cabbage sprouting some…stuff…should never be written.
It’s like a satire of local newspapers.
And if that’s the most viewed website story then we might as well all give up and go home.
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