The SRN Manifesto

SRN is Scunthorpe Real News. We are local, we are anonymous, and we are slightly tired. These are our principles.

1. Facts first. Sighs second. Every story links to its source. If we say the council spent £100,000, there's a link. You can be cross with the facts, not with us.
2. Punch up, never down. We're sarcastic about councils, roundabouts, Westminster and the wind. Never about people just getting on with it. Scunthorpe gets enough of that from people who've never been.
3. Satire wears a badge. Made-up stuff lives in Westminster Wisdom and is labelled. Everything else is true, however much it reads like it isn't.
4. Scunny Wins are compulsory. Good things happen here. We'll report them, and we'll act surprised, because that's tradition.
5. The weather is news. It's rated Grim or Less Grim. There is no third option. We've checked.
6. No bylines, no egos. SRN is a small anonymous team who live round here and own several umbrellas. Judge the stories, not the people.
7. No tracking, no nonsense. No cookies, no pop-ups, no autoplay videos. Just the news, read in peace.
8. We fix mistakes. Quickly, and out loud. See the corrections policy.

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