GCSE results days can be hectic affairs for regional newsrooms – but the above front page headline error is sure to cost the Northamptonshire Telegraph a few marks.
However well the county’s year 11s may have done, it was perhaps not the newspaper’s finest performance.
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It’s not funny though, is it? Funny would be a double-entendre or similar that no-one spotted (or did and let it go). No, this is just another manifestation of ever-decreasing standards and should have been spotted at the various levels of subbing. Oh. Right.
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You want to see appalling literals? Try the BBC News Channel’s main and scrolling headlines sometime. Not just the regional press infected by lack of accurate subbing.
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