By now your sides should have recovered after splitting from last week’s comedy overload. So here is part two of July’s bumper funnies from the press and media.

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Regular readers of HoldtheFrontPage may recognise this Birmingham Mail front page from a recent story. Departing Aston Villa midfielder Gareth Barry had chosen the esteemed pages of the Trinity Mirror daily to bid a fond farewell to loyal Villa fans.

It just struck us that the headline on the unrelated front page lead could have been serving a dual purpose:

Good to see some symbiosis between editorial and advertising in this Rutland and Stamford Mercury story. Well, selling your product IS all about targeting the right audience:

And in a similar, but slightly more depressing vein, something from the Scunthorpe Telegraph:

The Liverpool Echo carried a report about a local police officer leaving his cop car in the middle of a pavement outside a city centre supermarket…..

…..which outraged one Echo reader so much they momentarily lost their grip on the English language:

Finally, this one from the National Union of Journalists just goes to show there’s no such thing as a ‘free lanch':

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