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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 [email protected].

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Change the nappy and check the tyre pressures by Graham Smith Page 2 of 2 I have the usual fear of tooth butchers but this one seemed affable. Posh purple smock top, bit like Dr Kildare used to wear, white

Reporter attendspubic inquiry

Check out our latest batch of funnies from around the regional press… First of all, the headline we all dread writing: Complaints over a job advert for a reporter: And the ad itself: If this is the answer, what’s the

Picky readers and dangerous wildlife

More funnies from around the regional press. We’re not sure how safe Combe Martin Wildlife Park might be: High affection for Elizabeth Gomm: And don’t you just love your readers? Water commotion!When people found their passage blocked at a public

Trying to connect you!

Trying to connect you! by Graham Smith Freelance journalist Graham Smith, of Mediaworld, wonders about the information superhighway. Page 1 of 3 I’m seriously thinking of changing my telephone service back to Tate and Lyle. You know, two syrup tins

Give us a T – U – R – ?

A little light relief for HTFP readers after those early Easter deadlines, trying to fill wide open spaces with non-existent news while waiting for the schools to go back… We’re only here as public servants, you know: Her Majesty’s Press

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Trying to connect you! by Graham Smith Page 2 of 3 Hurried calls to more senior broadband brain surgeons elsewhere in the world failed to make the system work. Three men went home for their tea, a fourth looked at

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Trying to connect you! by Graham Smith Page 3 of 3 Seems World Cup Willy has taken on a whole different meaning. You’re the first, you’re the shark, my everyfinSharks are to be serenaded by Barry White at The National

Writers meet their Waterloo!

Dancing queens? Well, not all of them! Meet the new Abba – the tuneful movers and groovers from the Eastern Daily Press features team. Benny, Bjorn, Anni-Frid and Agnetha sported a slightly scary look but were of course EDP scribes

It's what she would have wanted

We spotted these gems ourselves – but if you have any funny headlines or odd stories from the regional press, please send them in to the address below… We’ll have more tomorrow. Don’t forget to put the text in here:

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Wet and windy in the House! by Graham Smith Page 2 of 3 Time to slack offThe country has enjoyed a National Slacker’s Day. Some half wit decided that we should all have a day slobbed out in front of

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Wet and windy in the House! by Graham Smith Page 3 of 3 His lips are sealed!A newlywed husband in southern India has stitched his lips together after his wife ordered him to stop swearing during sex. His wife said

Hi, hi blackbird

Hi, hi blackbird by Graham Smith Freelance journalist Graham Smith, of Mediaworld, listens to an old whistler and wonders about St Patrick’s Day specs… Page 1 of 3 Lock up your dogs, pass the budgie his ear plugs and blackbirds

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Hi, hi blackbird by Graham Smith Page 2 of 3 He whistled down the phone briefly and my dog had apoplexy. The pure, piercing snatch of a legend and the barmy thing scuttled off behind the greenhouse searching for intruders!

Handbags and gladrags

But would they find them in there, along with the lippy, old bus tickets, loose change, cuddly key-ring, compact, mobile phone, brolly, keys, diary, tissues, chewing gum… And this man of the cloth is really saddended, isn’t he? A headline

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Hi, hi blackbird by Graham Smith Page 3 of 3 Similar lenses have been used in films such as Star Wars, The Phantom Menace and Lord of the Rings. I can’t understand them going to this expense. Bar staff normally