Pick your favourite newspaper lie

[sweet_left_foot]

A-Z Index of Euromyths 1992 to 2017 - so many to choose from. I think my favourite is renaming the English Channel, or maybe dead pets to be pressure cooked before burial.

I wonder if the same cobblers will get rolled out when the small print gets read for the trans pacific partnership

 

[aytonstrummer]

"100 days of snow" - Daily Express

 

[Frozen Horse]

"100 days of snow" - Daily Express

Variants on that theme were my first thought too.

It's not Christmas until the Express run "Coldest Winter for 50 years" or something of that sort.

 

[ThePrisoner]

Quite like this one:

Christmas puddings, Royal Navy – EU bans wooden oars for stirring the Christmas Pudding, Nov 1992

 

[Carlos Fandango]

 

[Brian Marwood]

Freddie Starr ate my hamster.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

Farmers forced to issue pigs with toys, Jan 2003

 

[r00fie1]

 

[sweet_left_foot]

Feeding swans and homeless people to require license, Feb 1994

Noise regulations to require club, pub and football goers to wear earplugs, Mar 2002

 

[Norfolkred1]

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Wouldn't put it passed one or maybe two.

 

[atomicloonybin aka ALB]

 

[BiggEggo]

The Express front page on any given day.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

The Express front page on any given day.

12Tn pound treaty brexit benefit is what started me off.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

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job vacancy at the Conservative Party?

 

[Neilwarnocksbumbag]

No bids for Tomlin

 

[coluka]

I’ll go with a Boro one from circa 1978 it read something like:-

‘Rene keen to sign, I see no snags’

 

[Abel Tasman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680561496999198720

 

[Blaggamuffin]

I’ll go with a Boro one from circa 1978 it read something like:-

‘Rene keen to sign, I see no snags’

For those of us of a certain age!

 

[TeessideCleveland]

 

[swordtrombonefish]

The biggest lie of course is most of these publications calling themselves newspapers.