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].
Simon Harvey brought us his tale of being struck by lightning as he pursued a runaway donkey while covering a summer fete for the Henley Standard. Click here… Chris Fidler, news editor of the Harborough and Lutterworth Mail, followed up
It’s a hard life being a sub-editor, but life can be even tougher when you’re a thug. Consider, the plight of poor old Bill the hooligan who featured in one East Midlands daily newspaper recently: If he’s really fortunate, the
More classic headlines, this time remembered with fondness and sent to us by Sandra Dyson of the Hull Daily Mail: Local agricultural show results….Cattle do nicely in the beef stakes Home education feature…Clarity begins at home Man who fell off
Liz Payne, from the Accrington Observer, couldn’t help but notice the howlers Jeremy Condliffe sent in from his time there. She told HoldTheFrontPage: “It’s now my job to record those cringeworthy moments here – so here are a few.” Observer
Winner of the “It can happen to anyone – but thank God it wasn’t me” award goes to the team behind this gem…. We loved this one…. …And the assortment below tickled our fancy too… If you’ve seen a classic
We couldn’t resist revisiting the Accrington Observer’s merry newsroom just once more… to reap the wise words recorded by Liz Payne. Observer staff demonstrating broad music and movie knowledge: Mervyn – not really understanding the Star Wars phenomenon on the
Here’s the latest crop of funny, strange and unusual headlines from the regional press: Presumably these signs just say “Glos” – or maybe they’re only tiny. OK…we know it was a sports story really. Here are some more which raised
Most newspapers have one, make fun of one and need one to talk about behind their back.It’s the wizened old hack, travelling on the final journey in his or her long and illustrious career.They’ve been there, done that. They are
We’ve been trawling the regional press once again for good and bad headlines and liked this one, from a Liverpool Echo story about bad weather delaying the construction of a giant marquee for a summer pop festival…. But these appealed
Most newspapers have one, make fun of one and need one to talk about behind their back.It’s the wizened old hack, travelling on the final journey in his or her long and illustrious career.They’ve been there, done that. They are
On one of our regular trawls through the regional press for headlines which are good, bad or just plain bizarre, we liked this one from the Aberdeen Evening Express when Leicester City made a last-ditch bid to keep manager Martin
More strange and surreal headlines from the regional press: If you liked those, try these click here If you’ve seen a classic headline – good, bad or just plain bizarre – anywhere in the regional press, fax it to us,
Solid base for a property buy By HoldTheFrontPage staff A sharp-eyed HoldTheFrontPage reader spotted this bargain spotlighted in the property section of a Midlands daily newspaper. Under the headline “Executive Home In Sought-After Area”, a four-bedroom home was photographed. The
We know what they meant… By HoldTheFrontPage staff Thanks to all the journalists around the country who are keeping us well supplied with courtroom howlers, cock-ups and headline horrors. Here is the latest selection: Craig McGill e-mailed us to say:“This
Most newspapers have one, make fun of one and need one to talk about behind their back.It’s the wizened old hack, travelling on the final journey in his or her long and illustrious career.They’ve been there, done that. They are
PA headline horror By HoldTheFrontPage staff From Rob Shipley, at the Jersey Evening Post, comes the following headline horror story: On Saturdays we put the paper out early and therefore rely on acamera-ready world news page made up for us