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Friday Funnies: So good they used it twice

Welcome to another helping of media gaffes and production howlers courtesy of our eagle-eyed readers. Please keep them coming to [email protected]

First this week, we are used to seeing the occasional newspaper story appear more than once, sometimes even in the same issue……but this double-page spread from the Ham and High surely takes the old gag about a story being ‘so good they used it twice’ to a completely new level:

Next, a teaser for all subs. What do you when you realise that a child in an otherwise charming picture isn’t quite as well dressed as she ought to be? Possible solutions included cropping the offending picture down, using a different photo or even photoshopping in some underpants – but the Newcastle Journal’s decision to opt for pixellation possibly raised more questions than it answered….

Putting a ‘note to newsdesk’ at the top of your copy used to be a regular practice, but as this example from the Liverpool Echo shows, it’s becoming an increasingly hazardous business in these days of unedited stories going straight onto the web…

Now over to the Southern Daily Echo for another of those good old story/picture mashups – a report on a woman whose body was found face down in a muddy ditch postioned next to a cheery photo of a protester seemingly covered in mud:

And finally, just to show the nationals are not immune from grammatical gaffes, a somewhat confused headline from the Daily Telegraph website: