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Friday Funnies: Teacher hit by double blow

It’s that time of the week again as we’re back with another set of Friday Funnies from across the press and media. The errors and gaffes are landing in their droves in the HTFP inbox with each week bringing more images from eagle-eyed readers.

We hope you’re still enjoying them and thanks as always. Please keep them coming to: [email protected].


It’s another instalment from the school of well-written A-boards, this time courtesy of Sheffield daily The Star. We suspect there was no industrial tribunal following this dismissal:


Gig reviewing is one of the big perks of being a local press journalist…..the atmosphere, the crowd, the music!! Imagine then how some poor hack at the Islington Gazette felt when he/she had to take a punt at how legendary rock band Kiss might perform at the O2 arena – a full two days before the concert took place:

  • Hat tip: Fleet Street Blues. Last time we looked, it was still on islingtongazette.co.uk.

  • The financial woes of Portsmouth FC have been well documented in recent days. If only Sky.com’s predictions about them being “relegated” to the multi-million pound European Champions League competition were true (for the non-footy fans out there, it was supposed to say Championship):


    A double, ahem, header now from the problematic world of photo cropping tools on newspaper websites. This senior police officer in Essex is stepping down (literally) from his role…..

    ….while so-called ‘Jigsaw’ killer Stephen Marshall is learning how to keep a low profile (from St Albans and Harpenden Review):


    And finally, it’s north of the border now for a tale about the death of two entire towns:

    In case you are wondering, the missing word is ‘councillor.’


    If you’ve enjoyed these then click through to our previous collection: Subbing ‘Cox-up’ blamed on gremlin. And please take a moment to visit our Facebook group to see our Funnies archive.