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Sunday, 9th March 2008

For those of you who share my delight at mind-numbingly dull news stories, this one is a treat:

Eurostar train fails to stop at Ebbsfleet
...One couple’s plans for a day trip to Paris went off the rails after the 12.45pm train sped past without stopping last Thursday. Gavin Meeser, 60, of North Road, Cliffe, near Rochester, said they could do nothing but watch as their transport to France whizzed past. "We heard that a signalman had forgotten to tell the driver to stop at Ebbsfleet," he said. "The next train was at 1.15pm, but we had to get off at Lille and wait another 15 minutes before we could get the next train to Paris. "We only arrived about 45 minutes late in the end, but as we were only going for a few hours anyway, it did affect our day."

What a story: a man and a woman arrived 45 minutes late after a train journey.

UPDATE There's a great comment below:

I think the best bit is how it says at the bottom of that article " For FULL story see today's Gravesend Messenger"...