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August 5, 2010

News Raider (Paul Yarrow) Photobomb Pictures

As you know we at picture frames express love a bit of photobombing. So in our eyes Paul Yarrow is the most successful news photobomber in the UK.

Paul Yarrow

Paul (aka news raider) has featured in countless news reports, appeared in parliamentary round-ups, and even been on the Antiques Roadshow.

Paul is a podgy, balding community worker from south London who has become notorious for appearing uninvited in the background of TV programmes over the past year.

The most common ‘battle gear’ of the News Raider is a beige sweater. The usual strategy is to wander around aimlessly in the background.

 

Paul has been know to employ props while photobombing; sometimes a phone, sometimes a newspaper and always a beige sweater… (more…)

June 29, 2010

England was FRAMED!

As I’m sure our British readers will know, England suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of Germany’s squad at the world cup the other day.

The most controversial part of this match being the disallowed ‘goal’ from our very own Frank Lampard, which wrecked an already staggered level of team morale and spurred on an intense disliking of the referee (from the English fans of course).

The fact of the matter being, technology was out-ruled as a form of validation for a goal, referee’s word is final, no matter how inaccurate! This has raised talks amongst FIFA execs about the use of ‘Goal-Line Technology’ to help verify referee’s decisions and ensure a fair game.

Plenty of other sports use similar technology to validate badly judged calls and accurately review split second movements for fairness, but FIFA just don’t agree that it is in the best interest for the sport

Below we have photographs taken of the ‘no-goal’ using the goal-line tech. Judge for yourself!

England Was FRAMED

Goal…?

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March 30, 2010

Banned! Curtains, picture frames and pot plants put pensioners at risk

Curtains, Picture Frames and Pot Plants are just some of the items putting pensioners at risk, according to Thurrock Council.

Residents at Rookery Court, in West Thurrock, are furious after receiving a letter from the authority saying all personal belongings in their verandas must go, even the carpets and ornaments on windowsills, because it presents a fire hazard.

Resident Peter Goldsmith, 63, said it has upset everyone there.

He added:

This is smacking us in the face. We feel like we are being treated like schoolchildren or geriatrics, which we are not.

We all know this is about the fire in a London tower block which killed six people, but our verandas are not communal areas.

The council built the verandas 12 years ago so we could sit on them and enjoy them. Now they will be unusable because we can’t have a chair and table, carpet, or even a picture frame on the wall.

As you can imagine the banning picture frames doesn’t sit too well with the PictureFramesExpress team!

Original story Banned! Curtains, picture frames and pot plants put pensioners at risk by the Echo News