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Laughter is the best medicine and our regular round-up of press and media funnies aims to put a smile on the most downcast of faces.

From amusingly misspelt headlines to double-entendres of the first degree, we want to feature them on this page.

We used to round them up into collections of ‘Friday Funnies’ and these can still be viewed here, but we will now be publishing them individually both here and on the site homepage.

If you spot one, tell us about it at [email protected].

"A polar bear ate my dear friend Chuffy"

Most newspapers have one, make fun of one and need one to talk about behind their back.It’s the wizened old hack, travelling on the final journey in his or her long and illustrious career.They’ve been there, done that. They are

"I'm glad I didn't write that!"

Click here for more headline funnies If you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press.e-mail it to us now and we’ll post it here Back to the funny index Do you have a

How many times have you committed suicide?

Spend a few hours in any courtoom and the chances are you’ll hear a daft question or an even dafter answer. Someone, bless them, has gone to the trouble of writing down some of these gems and putting them together

A few of my favourites…

Our recent crop of courtroom howlers and headlines – bizarre and brilliant – has prompted this from Nic Outterside at the Aberdeen Press and Journal: My favourite headline of all time was written by a sports sub at The Scotsman

There but for the grace of God…

There but for the grace of God… By HoldTheFrontPage staff We couldn’t resist this masthead from the Swansea Evening Post – a city on the move so fast that on Saturday May 6 it was four months ahead of itself.

Wine that went 'sh'…

Richard Willner, of the Evening News, Norwich, was inspired by our growing selection of cock-ups to share this tale: “I was working on the Lynn News, in King’s Lynn, and a local hotel wasadvertising its new menu. Whoever inputted the

Something s-pecial for the ladies…

Something s-pecial for the ladies… By HoldTheFrontPage staff This tale of woe for advertising staff comes from Nic Outterside, of the Aberdeen Press and Journal: “Former colleagues at the North Wales Weekly News may remember a cracking advertisement howler from

"They wanted my skin for shoes"

Most newspapers have one, make fun of one and need one to talk about behind their back.It’s the wizened old hack, travelling on the final journey in his or her long and illustrious career.They’ve been there, done that. They are

Are you sitting uncomfortably

Oh, that dreaded moment when you spot an unfortunate juxtaposition of story and advert, with the paper already printed! It happened at the Derby Evening Telegraph on March 17, when the front-page lead about a murdered man, whose severed head

Another from Nic

Another from Nic By HoldTheFrontPage staff Nic Outterside, our most prolific howler contributor, says: “This was an advertising howler which lost an ad. man his job at the Oban Times company in 1992. At the time I was Editor of

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Keep your favourites rolling in, folks! Wayne Swiffin, of the Derby Evening Telegraph, was amused by this, on BBC’s Ceefax: Reward: £5,000 for shooting culprits Neil Burns, of The Orcadian, mailed us with what he considers a classic, written by

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Headlines to die for Click here for more We want to know if you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press.e-mail them to us now and we’ll post them here Have you heard

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Headlines to die for Click here for more We want to know if you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press.e-mail them to us now and we’ll post them here Do you have

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Headlines to die for We want to know if you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press.e-mail them to us now and we’ll post them here Have you heard anything better in your

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Headlines to die for Click here for more We want to know if you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press.e-mail them to us now and we’ll post them here Have you heard