As the half-term week draws to a close, some of you may not feel much like laughing. School holidays are traditionally a quiet time for newsrooms and a loud time for those stuck at home with the kids.

Fear not though as HoldtheFrontPage has come to the rescue with some Friday Funnies. Please keep them coming to us at: [email protected].

Some say marriage is a life sentence. Morose singer Morrissey use to quip “Newly wed, nearly dead”. Ho ho ho! Well, here’s a wonderful tale of life (and death!!) from the Western Daily Press:

We suspect Fly Emirates was hoping for a little more consideration from The Times when it placed the company’s online ad:

Avon and Somerset Police recently put out an online appeal for a witness in a mysterious supermarket theft:

Fans and users of news aggregation site NewsNow.co.uk will know what a fantastic resource it is…..and what a pain in the neck it is when you mess up a headline and attempt to rewrite it before the RSS feed grabs it.

Take this gem from the Watford Observer about the Newspaper Society’s recent Local Newspaper Week:

And finally, a salutary lesson from Peter Barron, editor of The Northern Echo. While young reporters are obsessed with their iPhones and Twitter, old-school subs bemoan the demise of basic writing skills such as grammar and spelling.

So it is that Mr Barron reminds us all of the importance of commas (reproduced verbatim from his blog):

For some reason, I’ve missed out on visiting the picturesque village of Faceby, a few miles from Stokesley.

But I finally made it this afternoon to speak to the Carlton, Faceby and Busby WI.

The sun was shining outside the village hall and the view across the hills was spectacular. While I was there, I was reminded of the importance of the comma.

Kate Morris told how she was a reporter on the Bingley Guardian in the 1950s, and has never forgotten the headline on an obituary about a local councillor.

The headline should have been: “Councillor Jones dead, loss to Bingley.”

With the comma in the wrong place, it actually read: “Councillor Jones, dead loss to Bingley.”

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