AddThis SmartLayers

Friday Funnies: A Facebook friend with a difference

After an unprecedented barrage of all things funny to HoldtheFrontPage HQ, we can bring you a second consecutive week of hilarious headlines and stories.

Thanks for sending them in and keep them coming to [email protected]


Here’s a story from the South Wales Evening Post encouraging students to get in touch with their inner STI (sexually transmitted infection) and make friends with it on Facebook. The mind boggles:


Meanwhile, fans in the well-known stadium rock tour stop-off that is Bridlington Spa are not impressed that Oasis aren’t coming to town:


What with all the problems of late planes and the constant threat of terrorism, thank God staff at Stansted Airport have got something really important to worry about (from Dunmow Broadcast):


Sometimes you have to just let readers provide the comedy for you. Northern comic Roy Chubby Brown is selling his home…..

…..prompting one reader to write the (almost) inevitable:


According to the Gazette in Colchester, a pink miner appears to have gone missing:


We know this is the front page of an American magazine but we thought HoldtheFrontPage’s sophisticated readership would enjoy it:


And finally, in a similar vein, this offering from Exeter’s Express and Echo:


Click through to our previous collection: Where there’s no fire without drama

Or see for hundreds more at the HoldtheFrontPage Facebook group.