As January limps its way to the end in a cloud of grey, dull, drizzle, HoldtheFrontPage is delighted to squeeze in another dose of Friday Funnies as we welcome in February. But we’re so good to you at HoldtheFrontPage HQ that if you come back next Friday, you’ll find another set of side-splitting gaffs.

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Christmas revellers in the Merseyside town of Southport could party in peace knowing that New York-style Guardian Angels would be seeing them home safely:

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Our next two entries come from Trinity Mirror’s dailies in Newcastle. The rush to get a story online at the Evening Chronicle website meant an important element was forgotten:

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While sister title The Journal has fallen foul of the missing quote Gremlin:

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On a similar theme the BBC’s online team just couldn’t think of any top stories to put in its sidebar:

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Journalists aren’t necessarily known for their fashion sense but how about this little white number?

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And finally Exeter daily the Express & Echo offers up a grammar error bad enough to make steam come out of a sub-editor’s ears:

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Comments

Freddie (30/01/2009 18:57:00)
is that “side-splitting gaffes”?