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You couldn't make it up…could you?

The Congleton Chronicle is once again pushing back the boundaries of journalism in its pages.

The most recent example of staff working hard to bring their readers all the local news involved a one-act play competition organised by local thespians.

Editor Jeremy Condliffe takes up the story.

“The competition attracted entries from across the country and the winner was a play about masturbation, concerning a young man’s experience as he gave a sample,” he said.

“Sadly, none of us could come up with a suitable headline featuring both the content of the play and the name of the company which sponsored the competition – Siemens.”

On a similar theme the paper has recently run a story about a councilmeeting which decided on a name for a new housing development.

Jeremy said: “The architects plans had a familiar outline and for one councillor at the planning meeting, the obvious choice of name given the plan’s appearance – suggested Dog’s Bollocks Road.

“The councillor said that everyone who lived there could say ‘Where I live it’s the dog’s bollocks’.

“We did report that in full, and tried to sell it to the nationals, butthey shied away on this occasion and no one would run it.”

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