When I was a kid, me and my beavers group got into the local paper because we did something.
I've got no idea what we did, but we got printed and as a 7 year old that was pretty huge.
Life never got better.
Me and my sister were chosen to give Princess Anne flowers outside the High Court in Edinburgh when I was a kid. I liked that day, because I got to go in a jail cell
Local paper, local tv news and radio 4 for organising a toad road crossing when the colony turned out to be the largest recorded in the UK one year.
Local tv when I was the pagan chaplain for some local prisons,
National tv news for a couple of Greenpeace protests.
My elbow featured on the cover of Time magazine for another protest once.
I appeared in some Portillo documentary or other, and briefly in a couple of episodes of Coast, all because of where I worked at the time.
I was interviewed about my dog for a feature about pet allergies. I'm from the States and live in Columbus, Ohio, so it was a decent circulation.
Probably 3 to 5 years old when I had my picture taken and used for an article about child profanity. I had a bar of soap in my mouth for the photo. The early 80s were a different time.
Found an old newspaper in our attic that was a day or two shy of being 100 years old. Great coincidence and perfect for the story to run on the 100th anniversary.
We bought a copy and put both back in the attic, ready for whoever sees it in another 100 years!
There was a tiny article about a project I was involved with. All fine so far, but they wanted a photo of me and a friend for the article.
They sent the photographer to take a handful of crappy posed photos of us, and then they seemingly used the worst one possible, with half-closed eyes or whatever, where my friend looked like he was coming down from a week-long drugs binge, and I looked like I was about to stab the photographer.
They used it again a few years later.
Boring answer for me: I'm a local councillor and activist, so I've been in the paper more times than is strictly good for me. I've pointed at potholes and glowered at empty shops and stood freeze-framed in the act of handing over petitions and all the other classics.
The burden of local fame can be overwhelming.
Have you ever appeared on Angry People in Local Newspapers? That would be the true claim to fame!
Sadly not. The Male Political Haircuts Twitter account is a fan, though.
I was in a couple times when I competed in athletics. Was kind of cool the first time I had a photographer show up at one of my races to photograph me.
Not me or my picture specifically but my school did hit North West news and all the local papers when a meningitis outbreak in Poynton and Cheadle caused the death of multiple kids in the year above. This was in the 90s.
