July 7, 2014

British newspaper The Sun called Marcus Stead “Britain’s biggest whinger” — “whinger” means “whiner” — saying he complained to a local government body every day. It corrected the article:

Mr Stead says that, in fact, the number of complaints is closer to one or two per week. We are happy to put his position on record.

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