The Christmas party season is now tantalisingly close so spirits should be high across press and medialand. May we add to the joyous atmosphere of your newsroom with another dose of Friday Funnies.

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When is a dead puppy not a dead puppy? When it’s a live eel apparently (from Cambs Times):

Up north to Liverpool now where one Echo journalist recently interviewed an inmate via mobile phone for a prison guard walkout story. HTFP likes the old lag’s comment at the bottom:

We’re not sure whether this “artist’s impression” is strictly relevant to the terrorism case but we did like the brickwork effects (from Derby Telegraph):

A strict diet is integral to a footballer’s success on the pitch so it’s great to see that Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell isn’t overdoing it at the buffet bar (from Sunderland Echo):

Finally, it’s over to the Leek Post and Times – or should that be the local centralised subbing hub – for the latest headlines……or not!

If you’ve enjoyed these then click through to our previous collection: Dead man found where?.

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