19 June 2013

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Laughter is the best medicine and our regular round-up of press and media funnies aims to put a smile on the most downcast of faces.

From amusingly misspelt headlines to double-entendres of the first degree, we want to feature them on this page.

We used to round them up into collections of ‘Friday Funnies’ and these can still be viewed here, but we will now be publishing them individually both here and on the site homepage.

If you spot one, tell us about it at editor.htfp@and.co.uk.

May 2, 2013

Newspaper’s WI report hailed as best ever

A retired sea captain captured by Somali pirates five years ago got a surprise when he gave a talk to a local Womens’ Institute about…

April 23, 2013

Rhapsodic headline from Ulster weekly

Is the headline writer from the Ulster Gazette a Queen fan, by any chance?

April 5, 2013

Funnies File: Winnie-the-Pooh – violent criminal?

Loveable children’s characters have been implicated in criminal activity in a layout gaffe. In the Brampton Guardian, a Canadian paper, blow-up figures of Winnie-the-Pooh and the…

March 26, 2013

Is this the best headline of 2013 so far?

The Romford Recorder raised a laugh with this headline about a funeral procession disrupted by a house fire earlier this month. Former local councillor Alby…

March 15, 2013

Funnies File: Could this be this year’s custard shortage story?

An early contender for the ‘Whitstable custard shortage’ award for non-story of the year has emerged in the shape of this strange tale from the…

January 23, 2013

Journalist hits headlines as football boss answers phone

Comedy moment with reporter’s wife takes place at press conference

January 3, 2013

A grossly inoffensive court report

This short court report which appeared in the Boston Standard over the Christmas period made one HTFP reader chuckle. Like him, we’re scratching our heads…

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December 10, 2012

Colourful mistake for local weekly

Never mind the blushing builder…we suspect there may have been some red faces on the subs desk over this typo from the Holyhead and Anglesey…

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December 6, 2012

US newspaper warns of impending doom

A subbing glitch meant one regional US paper went to print bearing a harsh warning of impending doom. Clearly sent as a message to inform…

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November 16, 2012

Steaming hot news from Bridlington

They’re a plain-speaking lot on the Bridlington Free Press. What more needs to be said?

October 23, 2012

Is this the longest headline ever?

No less an expert than Peter Sands seems to think so, but you’ll have to go to the Norwich EveningNews24 website to see it in…

October 9, 2012

Open door policy

We’ve had the saucepan fire in which the damage was confined to the contents of the pan, but that seems like Pulitzer Prize-winning stuff besides…

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October 5, 2012

Saucepan fire makes hot news

Slow news week in the Manchester suburb of Timperley where the Sale and Altrincham Messenger reports on a culinary escapade gone wrong. The real killer…

September 14, 2012

Cabbage tale dug up in Hereford

The silly season has officially ended, but clearly no one has told the Hereford Times. Its tale about a discarded cabbage sprouting a 12-inch stalk…

September 7, 2012

A concert to miss?

Readers unaware that The Killers are an American rock band may have been somewhat confused by this front page juxtaposition from Tuesday’s Liverpool Echo.

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