This worrying effort from the Shropshire Star wins our Headline of the Day Award.
The judges also appreciated the precision of the story's first paragraph:
Residents in Telford are now outnumbered by rats as lockdown has boosted their population to 358,616, according to a pest control company.
Does that caption really say Horsehay & Dawlish? Hell of a walk to Dawlish! (Yes, I know it's a typo for Dawley. At least I hope it is.)
ReplyDeleteNot any more it doesn't.
ReplyDeleteThe gas was on in the Institute,
The flare was up in the gym,
A man was running a mineral line,
A lass was singing a hymn,
When Captain Webb the Dawley man,
Captain Webb from Dawley,
Came swimming along the old canal
That carried the bricks to Lawley.