Dorking Headlines
One of the advantages of living in a lovely sleepy town is that not a lot happens. Some might say that’s a bad thing, but I get my kicks when I’m in London.
Two news items that caught my eye recently were these:
‘Dorking restaurant manager risks life to stop death plunge‘
Clearly an incredibly selfless act on the part of a restaurant manager who came to the rescue of an alledgedly suicidal but definitely drunk, drunk. Hats off to Jalal Shamsuddin of Zafron who’s heroics must have been an automated response, given how scary he described the situation!
Secondly, this, which looked more exciting on the newsboard in the High Street and a far more tenuous link to Dorking when you read the article (I was envisaging a cameraman finding Big Foot on Box Hill, but no:
and here is the story which turns out to be a Dorking-based cameraman making the BBC documentary about ‘Ida’ the a fossil discovered in Germany that is the most complete early primate skeleton ever found. This was a big hush hush news story and a cast of the fossil has now rocked-up at the Natural History Museum, London.
They really do try quite hard to make exciting for us Dorkinians….is that what we call ourselves by the way?