The other day More4 news was written about in the Press Gazette as being a news programme with an international remit. This is a nice remit to have, but it does mean that we sometimes can fall into the trap of reporting too often on, as someone once said, "dead people in countries no-one has ever heard of".
So we aim to make sure we have a healthy mix of the domestic, and the international here in the News.
Every day we get an email through from the ITN regions telling us what stories they are running. We could take their packages if we saw fit. Reading thought the prospects is great fun, and gives you a uniques slice of the British way of life.
Here are just some of the key stories the regions are covering today:
ELVIS IMAGE: The great man may have died on the 16th August, 1977 but 29 years after his death he's been spotted in a garden in Margate.
PINCHED PARROT: A 50 year old man with muscular dystopy has had his companion stolen. Harry from Headcorn has to keep his door on the latch just in case the emergency services need to get in - but thieves entered the house on Saturday and stole his beloved African Grey, Claude.
FAT DJ: Ex-radio disc jockey Ian Timms has lost two thirds of his body weight after a doctor told him to go on a diet or risk death. It took him 4 years and a lot of gym work in Gloucester to lose 22 stone of his 34. ALPACA: Poppy the alpaca was last year saved with some revolutionary surgery to repair her shattered leg. She is now pregnant.
MILKMAN: Kevin Pierce has been a milkman for three and a half years and delivers over one hundred thousand pints of milk a year to customers in Holt, Bodham, Kettlestone, High Kelling, Letheringsett and Fakenham.
RED HAT: Women over 50 in Holbeach have joined the Red Hat Society - a group dedicated to outrageous living, growing old disgracefully and not caring what other people think.
Which one should we run?
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