You’ve seen our selection of headlines you’re glad you didn’t write, but there are two sides to every story, of course, and today we introduce some of the better examples of the headline-writer’s craft.

Let us know if you see anything better and we’ll publish it on the site. If response is good enough, we’ll put up a prize for the best headline.

From a Plymouth Evening Herald story about mountaineers turning a derelict church into a climbing centre.

How the Express and Star, Wolverhampton,
headed a story about a brown rat scurrying across the House of Commons.

The Shields Gazette’s headline after Leicester
City skipper Matt Elliott’s two goals sunk Tranmere
in the Worthington Cup final.

From a Nottingham Evening Post report of a milkman who stole from elderly customers.

The lure of chocolate as Valentine’s Day approached prompted this in the Edinburgh
Evening News.

From the Northern Echo – no explanation needed!

From the Aberdeen Evening Express after the heating system at a church broke down.

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