Oh dear. It turns out it’s not just the British government having a bad week. The latest issue of Cambridge News is out and the splash is… a ‘100-T SPLASH HEADING HERE’. It turns out the paper went to print before anyone had a chance to write a headline on the first page…
Wow. It’s real. This’ll be featured in newspaper sub-editing courses for years. And available at all good newsagents near you today, folks. pic.twitter.com/JS8YpuedVW
— Chris Rand (@ChrisRandWrites) December 6, 2017
The paper’s editor-in-chief David Bartlett has apologised to readers for ‘this mistake which happened due to a technical problem’.
Still, at least Bartlett had a successful Christmas shopping trip yesterday:
Out Christmas shopping, if only getting children to sleep was this easy pic.twitter.com/MbebUl3hTW
— david bartlett (@davidbartlett1) December 5, 2017
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