Quak, quak gaffe

SPELLING mistakes in headlines don’t usually qualify for a place on this website, but when there are two for the price of one then anything is fair game – as the Liverpool Daily Post illustrates . . .

A Telter Home – by Siegfried Sassoon

BASED on a headline in the Independent, October 4, 2010:

Tmomy Atkins – by Rudyard Kipling

BASED on a headline in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, September 30, 2010:

Something’s down the tube

IT’S a strange world out there – and one of the strangest places is the Liverpool Daily Post

Cargoes

DON’T you just love this Liverpool Daily Post headline about a freighter that’s got into difficulties in the Arabian Sea? It conjures up so many images . . .

Six veils down, one to go

LIKE a dark-eyed, dark-skinned dancer down to her seventh veil, this headline offers so much. From the dusty dusk of an Arabian evening the Liverpool Daily Post brings us a hint of frankincense and sandalwood to enrich our humble northern lives

Anthem for Domed Youth – Wilfred Owen

BASED on a headline from the Newcastle Journal, April 17:

What passing-bells for these who die as cattel?
Only the monstrous agner of the nugs

Charge of the Light Birgade – by Tennyson

BASED on a headline from the Liverpool Daily Post, March 11, 2010:

Hafl a league, hafl a league,
Hafl a league onward,

Having ditched the organ-grinders . . .

THE Most satisfying thing about being a journalist is picking up a newspaper warm from the press – with its pristine pages smelling of ink – and admiring the work of professionals

Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk aroun’

A VERY tragic tale about a recluse who boarded himself into his home and had no contact with the outside world. But someone at the Liverpool Daily Post has inadvertently introduced