Employees of newspapers and web publishers have their fair share of personal problems.

But readers of the Derby Evening Telegraph could be forgiven for thinking that sister company Northcliffe Electronic Publishing has more than most.

Deputy project editor Julian Boardman and web-builder technical team leader Flyss Smith were briefly boyfriend and girlfriend as they modelled for the newspaper's agony column.

And we have the pictures to prove it!

Poor Flyss (aka Becky) is tired out - no doubt due to her hard work for the LTSB web building team - while Julian (aka Richard) just wants to party!

It seems that willing volunteers from the Telegraph itself are thinning out - so recruitment for Barbara Millington's advice page has started at the nearby offices of NEP.

The good news is that it's nothing too racy... but you do get the chance to pose arm-in-arm:

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