Oh dear. Another “Slow News Day” is it, Shropshire Star?

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After having read the comments on the Telford ‘Chavs’ I was pleased to see that Shrewsbury also had a hilarious entry in Uncyclopedia, I would have felt left out if we hadn’t. This non conformist reference guide is meant to be funny and it is, even a fool can see that it is not meant to offend. After creating a website like this you need maximum publicity to promote it, pick a town, write a contraversial entry and local newspapers like The Shropshire Star are doing the job for them. Read it and enjoy it for what it is intended, the entry for Emo’s had me giggling all day

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Oh puh-lese … we come all the way from Las Vegas every year to stay just outside Shrewsbury and we LOVE that town and meet the nicest people every time! My mother was born and raised in Wem and adored Shrewsbury as everyone else did. Don’t you listen to what anyone says…Shrewsbury is tops in our book!
John & Christine Kirk Las Vegas NV

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can no one understand this is just a joke or do people take everything seriously these days?

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Why is the Shropshire Star giving a spoof website, evidently the product of an elaborate joke by its webmasters, the light of day?

Surely a website that renounces London as an attractionless village and essentially preaches hate in the majority of its articles is not worthy of publication?

Either treat a site as a joke or keep it out of the headlines.

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just to redress the balance of this drivel being pumped out by some nancypedia,i read the latest copy of the saga magazine today and in it they are talking about the best places to live and in the top medium sized town category, shrewsbury was voted best with it’s medieval centre containing the most listed buildings, over 600, and reference is made to a cinema housed in an elizabethan building. the only draw back was the traffic congestion. the average house price is £227927, thank you saga magazine how right you are, perhaps this will offse some of this nonsense from these cyberpests.

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I seem to remember a good few years ago, that the Shropshire Star won awards for it’s local news coverage.

The Shropshire Star found an entry on a web site about a Shropshire Town, “reported it” and did the same thing a week later – no doubt they’ll look at another town next week – do they get paid for promoting other peoples web sites?

This is not News, it’s boredom, perhaps it’s time the Shropshire Star employed journalists – lets see some local issues instead of sofa reporting?

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So, Devon Salopian, basically Shrewsbury is a great place to live because it’s full of very old buildings that nobody can afford to buy, nor can they plough through the reams of traffic to even get a glimpse at them?

Given the source of the article, however, I’m not entirely surprised that it considers these qualities to be ‘good’.

I’m beginning to think that maybe Uncyclopedia should change its name to ‘Lonely Planet’. Seeing as nobody can recognise it as a joke, maybe it could find a better use as a travel guide, ’cause it seems pretty accurate to me.

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