Touching news

As found in the Derry Journal, here's a plan which will create a cleavage of opinion.

@alistaircoleman

Trick or treat

Thanks to Jon C for sending in this article from the online version of The Daily Telegraph about the recent rise in so-called sextortion cases.

As the article says, these cases involve the intended victim being approached online by an attractive young woman who engages in explicit conversation until the victim is caught on camera performing a sex act.

According to The Telegraph, a treat is then in store.

Analyze this

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper appears to have invented a new word.

It certainly provides an alternative approach to delving deeply into something.

Corbyn reshuffle

Or y a particular Corbyn member moves further to the left.

@kayaburgess

Gun crime

Last Saturday's edition of the Glenwood Springs Post Independent newspaper couldn't have been more off target with its Opinion headline.

Riciculin

I don't know how you feel about this referendum campaign poster.

Frankly, I find it particularly patronisin.

However, take a look at this article in The Times and you'll see that it thinks it's riciculous.

C U Next Tuesday

When the four outgoing editors of the University of Utah's Daily Chronicle wrote their final columns, they said goodbye in what has become the publication's traditional way: a rather rude acrostic.

Headline act

Another page layout disaster; this time in The Liverpool Echo.

Irish generosity

And here's to you, Mrs Robinson.

Sub-sea secret

So that's how they do it. What a novel idea. Who'd have thought?

In Spike Milligan's immortal words: Damned clever these Chinese.

Full of beens

Here we go again.

Taken from an article about the importance of proofreading.

Yet...

Better get that root file fixed. Whatever that means.

Achy Breaky Heart for Billy Ray

Well, here's an interesting result uncovered by Tom L.

Looks like Wales won by a country Miley.

What Katy did

You can always rely on The Daily Express to maintain its standards.

The article spares us the sordid details so we're left wondering whether it was an American, a French landing strip or a full Brazilian.

Whichever she plumped for, no doubt it excited Willie.

Nelson's columns

As tweeted by @socratic, an article in The Times about a documentary made by Peter Ustinov reported this little-known information about the former President of South Africa.

Desperately seeking it

Thanks to Ann F we can enjoy the gaffe on the front cover of Monday's Daily Express.

It's over on the right if you're having trouble spotting it.

That's the one. Just across from the dyslexia headline.

Sniffing around

The Boston Globe says it has a policy of never deleting its tweets.

I wonder if the staff there realise that 'investifarted' could only have been suggested in auto correct if it had previously been used by the creator.

Now there's an embarrassing story waiting to be told.

And it's never going to go away.

Head lines

When you're reporting about a country that continues to punish people regularly by beheading them, you need to be very wary of how Auto Correct might alter your headline.

Land and water pitcher

Apparently, it's quite rare in baseball to find an ambidextrous pitcher who's able to throw a decent ball with either hand.

Even rarer to find one who was born with gills.

Prince Of Denial

In its coverage of the meeting in Ireland between Gerry Adams and Charles Windsor last month, The Washington Post made an interesting observation.

Correction imperfection

Thanks to Ann F for sending me this pearler which appeared in the Toronto Sun.