Last night on the 15Th of October 2007 was the night Joanne Bingley and Derek Fortatude divorced leaving there children with Katherine Bingley for the night as the court case was taking place in Hertford Court on Liverpool Street.
Joanne told us: "We were all happy families until I met her, I won't name names because I am not like that (glares viciously at Derek). He saw her more and more until every night he came home late I knew where he was as it was quite bait."
Derek Fortatude said nothing in defences.
The Jury was becoming more and more frustrated because the normally should sign divorce papers but there was a jam in the waiting list and was forced into court.
There was a break half way through were we got an interview with the Judge:
"Do you believe any of the participants?"
"I believe Joanne more because she has more to say and complain about than Derek Fortaude, as he said nothing when she made her statement, so I think the Jury will believe her more than Derek."
So there we are the court judgement will be made next Wednesday, there is completely no romance or love in this couple its just a "Dry Stone" as Joanne told us, during the interview.
From Helena Redbridge
Hertford Court.
If anyone is confused with my post it is set as a newspaper artical. So I couldn't put it in coloumns when I was publishing my post
ReplyDeleteHi Helena, the newspaper format is a nice idea but I’m not sure which style of newspaper article you’re going for. If it’s meant to be like a newspaper report in realistic mode, try reading a couple from any newspaper (Sun/Guardian/Mail/whatever) and using the same format, down to the byline ‘By Name of Reporter’, the date etc. In a newspaper report the usual thing is to put all the important facts in the first paragraph (the who/what/where/when/how) and then elaborate on the details; you’ll see this in any reports you read.
ReplyDeleteIf you’re not going for a realistic newspaper report it’s fine but if you are, you want to bear in mind that:
-divorce hearings don’t have a jury
-they don’t happen at night
-no-one asks the judge whom he believes
-newspaper reports don’t include asides like ‘(glares viciously...)’, at least straight news reports don’t
In terms of the task, where is the stuff about the family conflict/children listening etc? The idea of a court report/news report is interesting but I think you should either do it more closely (ie follow the conventions, see above) or make it even more surreal (ie abandon the idea of a news report).
-Anjali
sorry - not Helena but annonomous!
ReplyDeleteWell one thing paper scissors stones that I have to say for myself is: when you said about Glares viciously my Helena Redbridge might have gone to rehab- we never no...
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