Kurznachrichten - News Summary

Has there ever been a news summary hasn’t featured single gloomy, depressing or fear-mongering story? Of course local news doesn’t count - especially if you live in Norfolk. An Anglia News summary generally consists of heart-warming tales of skateboarding pensioners, genius toddler musical maestros and courageous cat rescues. There is an occasional worrying traffic forecast but any delays are often caused by motorists slowing to observe a seventy-six year old lady in her skate gear showing off her supernatural dexterity. National news just isn’t anywhere near as fun. War, death, destruction and every other conceivable source of human misery, pain and suffering are kicking and punching each other to get to that headline top-spot. Who’ll get the gold? Warmongering Russia? Inflation crazy, election-rigging Zimbabwe? Or maybe even Famine-hungry central Africa? Who knows. Whichever way, it makes for exhaustively depressing viewing. I‘ll choose the agile aged over that business every time.