It’s been a few weeks since we gathered up some press funnies for you at HoldtheFrontPage HQ. With the shocking “summer” we’re all having to endure, hopefully these will bring a little sunshine into your working day!!

If you can do better, e-mail us the clipping

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First up is one you’ll have to squint to see. The Derby Evening Telegraph’s report of a vicious knife attack contains a very strange image of Derby South MP Margaret Beckett:

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And a slightly more obvious offering comes from a Sentinel report about the recent public sector workers’ strike, in Stoke-on-Trent:

We think they’re trying to tell us something…..

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No typos or subbing errors in this Nottingham Evening Post headline. It’s just plain funny:

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Meanwhile, the South Wales Evening Post is doing nothing to enhance the reputation of Welsh spelling:

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The difference between a nice bottle of red and a long-barrelled firearm is always a difficult one to spot, particularly, it seems, if you are on the Weston and Somerset Mercury:

Thankfully, a helpful reader has sent in an illustrative diagram, saying: “Most of us would be quite keen to get our hands on a seven foot Muscat.”

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Finally, a HoldtheFrontPage story this week featured the Hartlepool Mail’s 24/7 coverage of the Anne Darwin trial via its website.

But deputy editor Gavin Foster’s description of it as “the most bizarre trial the town has ever seen” prompted this response from a HTFP reader.

“Your story on the Hartlepool Mail’s admirable coverage of the Darwin court case describes it as the most bizarre trial the town has ever seen. But surely that honour will always belong to the hanging of a monkey on Hartlepool beach, on suspicion of being a French spy. Just a thought.”

You can’t really argue with that one!

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