Looking for local news online is not very easy is it.
You seem fine for Very Important News stories that make the Sky news ticker and BBC news.
But local news there are only about half a dozen things happen every day and if the one you are interested in isn't one of them you are out of luck.
And at the moment the election is always at least one so there is less other news than ever.
There is twitter and blogging these days I suppose, but you need to already be following someone who will tweet or blog about what you are interested in and if you don't know them you are again out of luck.
So are there other ways to find out local news.
Hmm well I get lots of earnest emails from D*N BL*KE our neighbourhood watch man who takes his job very seriously - 'chicken gone missing in Church Road' - 'welly thief about' etc. I am sure no local news escapes his assiduous eye.
But for more interesting news like the three paedophile music teachers who taught my daughters (I kid ye not) I just put key words into Google News Search which sometimes works. Or the local paper site, Glos Echo for me, but its search is poor, Google searches the Echo's site much better and faster than it does it itself. But you are a clever Furby and will have thought of that.
I have tried the google name search.
I am a very impatient furby and I must just wait for it to be googleable (is that a word) I suppose.
Three music teachers eh that is more than bad luck isn't it.
You can get regional news on BBC's freeview text, also online from www.bbc.co.uk/<your location> which for me, <your location> is Bristol.
As Merry says, many local newspapers have websites so that's another possibility.
I suppose I am looking for the "Did the chicken steal the wellies" type of story which isn't important enough for the BBC.
The local papers own website if they have one sounds like your best bet. Searching is ok if you already know what look for. For example if you already heard that wellies were going missing.
Found it now thank you.
I just want to say how sick it makes me that when the wellies do get stolen that somehow everyone feels sorry for the missing chicken and no one even suspects that the chicken stole the wellies.
Devious little buggers, those chickens. And people think they just look like psychopaths.
They are also responsible for making invisibly tiny holes in the wellies they don't steal, so that humans will get wet feet in winter, frostbite and amputations.
Psychopaths doesn't even begin to cover it.
It's revenge for the mammalian takeover after the downfall of the dinosaurs.
Just look very closely at their little raptor-ancestor feet. You know they would disembowel mammals if they were only big enough. (they are also seeking revenge for the demise, probably at human hands, of the giant Moa).
Oi you lot! 
And if the investigation into why the chicken crossed the road to escape with the wellies took place on the day that the most interesting vegetable competition was taking part in Church Road all the better.
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