Eye-popping pictures in the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald gave the editor a challenge.

It wasn’t so much that they had to tell the story – it was more a case of a cover-up.

For the pictures were of a naked gardening day at Abbey House Gardens.

And one that slipped through the net clearly showed one gardener displaying his very own personal bloom, in a lovely shade of pink.

Where’s willy?

Editor Gary Lawrence said: “Looking back I suppose it was bound to happen.

“It was a challenge to publish the photo without including the various offensive wobbly bits all over the shop but I got our artist to create some plant pots with pretty flowers in to pop over the top of any body parts that may have been beyond the pale.

“I carefully arranged them all and thought I’d covered up every inch of offending flesh.

“Unfortunately, how shall I put it, when I saw the paper I realised that four or five very vital inches belonging to one particular gentleman had evaded my attention and were now presented for the delectation of our readers in full and very pink colour.”

Here’s the zoom in case you couldn’t find it

It wasn’t long before someone was on the phone to complain about the family newspaper confronting readers with a naked gardener’s equipment.

Gary said: “This is perfectly understandable but I have to say you would need to be looking very carefully at the group to spot the elusive dangly part.

“Why anyone would want to garden in the nude is beyond me… all those brambles and there is too much potential for injury what with those shears and clippers and things.”

And the original pre-plantpot pic

And there was more from the Gazette when this story, apparently about the US president, raised a few eyebrows when it appeared on billboards outside newsagents:

A local angle on an international story?

Nope. Click here to find out what it was really all about…