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Friday Funnies: Moo-ving tale from the Black Country

The Leicester Mercury’s seminal tale about the Lord Mayor whose trousers fell down in front a group of schoolchildren continues to run and run, with a follow-up this week about a city MP offering to lend him a belt.

Meanwhile here’s another selection of funnies from the regional press and beyond. Keep them coming to [email protected].


First off this week, they say a picture is worth a thousand words – but this lovely, pastoral scene from the Black Country somehow doesn’t quite fit the Express and Star’s dramatic headline.


Next, a bit of a mix-up from the Clitheroe Advertiser in this report on a missing sex offender.

The fifth paragraph could perhaps have benefited from a closer look. Hopefully parents will think twice before acting on the advice contained therein.


Perhaps they should have read former Northern Echo editor Peter Sands’ excellent blog, which had some top tips this week on how to avoid editorial mishaps.

One rather obvious one, perhaps, is not to cut and paste stuff off the internet and straight into the paper.


It’s good to know it’s not just local papers that are prone to occasional production difficulties. Presumably when you’re busy driving fast cars you don’t have time to write standfirsts as well (from Auto Express)


Finally, whatever it was that Oxfordshire County Council did wrong in March 2008, this Oxford Mail timeline is surely putting it a bit strongly.