Best ever News headline?

[Second Best]

[Good Plan Ted]

[Camoradi]

From The Philadelphia Enquirer in the 1980s

[Byker28i]

Oh come on the best ever has to be

[Lester H]

About 15 years ago in a provincial Essex paper about cuts to the library service: Book lack in Ongar.

[TorqueVR]

[juice]

Sneaky bds

[Levin]

Camoradi said:

From The Philadelphia Enquirer in the 1980s

For my money, the best headline.

One I actually remember seeing on shelves was this.

[Derek Smith]

My son was a journalist on a local newspaper in London. A man committed suicide jumping from the roof of a well-known pub in the Old Kent Road. The headline for this tragic event was; Man Jumps Off The World.

Years later, working for TV news, they had an investigation into corrupt traffic wardens. They had video cameras on a particular vehicle legally parked. The warden ticketed the vehicle, but didn't put the ticket on the car. Didn't want to warn the driver. The title of the short bit was; Bay Watch.

It used to be quite a subtle skill with regards headlines.

[TUS373]

abzmike said:

Got to be ‘Freddie Starr Ate my Hamster’…

This. Classic.

[Kowalski655]

Lester H said:

About 15 years ago in a provincial Essex paper about cuts to the library service: Book lack in Ongar.

Brilliant

[Murph7355]

jdw100 said:

Murph7355 said:

NRS said:

Brilliant - has had me chuckling for 10mins.

I mean, why??

I like a view when I poo.

Not sure I'd have time to clamber onto a roof.

Is the perp' Rhod Gilbert?

[Lester H]

TUS373 said:

abzmike said:

Got to be ‘Freddie Starr Ate my Hamster’…

This. Classic.

…and apparently, he didn’t. Just the head.