The main story today concerns a cannabis farm found in a flat above a café in the town centre. The police took out all the plants (there were 500 of them) and shredded them in the road using an industrial shredder. The front-page headline was "SHREDDED WEED", presumably because the only word they could think of that went with "shredded" was "wheat", as in the breakfast cereal, and it starts with the same syllable as one of the common slang terms used for cannabis. That's a strong pun in Daily Gazette terms.
Here's the thing though. The location of the flat in question was on the High Street. Yes, that's right: the HIGH Street. This is a story about illegal CANNABIS growing in the HIGH Street. The Daily Gazette journalists seem oblivious to the full-on pun being given them on a plate there.
Fortunately, the operations manager of the hotel opposite has a much livelier sense of humour.
