Best newspaper headline you've seen

[Greedo]

A few belters over the years but one of my favourites was in a local paper years ago. Think the journo had aspirations to work for the Sun.

There had been a fight one Friday night in a fish and chip shop and the police were called. The fight was still going when they arrived and one of the rozzers got a seeing to.

The headline.

"Cop battered in chip shop"

 

[tdr1nka]

In Scarborough I once saw the headline, 'PARENTS WIN SCHOOL FIGHT'

And a long time fave from the South London Press, 'SQUIRRELS ON CRACK'

 

[red_tom]

Inverness Caledonian beating Celtic in 2003

"Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious"

 

[atbman]

The old Manchester Guardian review of bad performance of Anthony and Cleopatra

It was the biggest asp disaster in the world

 

[Greedo]

Inverness Caledonian beating Celtic in 2003

"Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious"

Yeah that was a good one and I was at that game. I was at the next rangers game after that and the away fans were all holding that up

 

[yorkshiregoth]

Not quite a newspaper headline, but Fox news were talking about Hurricaine Katrina, with a caption of George Bush: Americas greatest disaster.

 

[surfgurl]

Now Maggot, a few months ago I cycled past a billboard for the Cheddar Valley Gazette which read "Cheddar Dentist Retires." I'll dig out the photo I took at the time. I also happen to know one of the headlines of the aformentioned newspaper was "Egrets We've Had a Few," the story was about some egrets that turned up from Africa. Also "Tortoise Used in Ramraid."

The journalist that wrote these desperately wanted someone in Uphill in Weston-super-Mare to win a gardening competition, but unfortunately during his time on the Weston paper no-one did.

 

[Hover Fly]

N.W. Evening Mail, "WOMAN ATTACKED BY LAKE"
When a certain Doctor Fuchs left the area, "FUCHS OFF"

 

[zimzum42]

anything which ends "...fingered by police"

 

[wafflycat]

Not so much a headline...

But some considerable time ago, I was doing the weekly shop. I was at the magazine stand searching out something on cycling. This was located near the section for magazines on fishing. There is a mag named "Coarse Fishing" It had a plastic wrapper over it, as there was some sort of freebie coming with the mag that week. Thing is, the plastic wrapper had areas of clear plastic & areas of opaque plastic. There was an opaque bit covering the first two letters of the title of the magazine. I dissolved into a heap of giggles on the shop floor..

 

[litespeeder]

From the Sun in the late 1980's....

Freddie Star ate my hamster

 

[Fnaar]

A local paper a few months ago had "Hamster dumped by roadside"

 

[Morrisette]

The Cambridge Evening News once had a front page story about someone throwing a beet onto the A14...

It's all kicking off!!!!!

 

[Bodhbh]

The Sun generally delivers the goods on this. After the Archbishop of Canterbury put his foot in his mouth over Sharia Law there was "How do you solve a problem like Sharia?" and "Bash the Bishop". Wonder how they got away with the last one.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

the day the princess of wales died, the mighty alex were due to play a derby game against port vale, which was called off at very short notice. so there's a load of us sitting in a chippy, pissed off, trying to work out the best headline for the next day's papers. we came up with "di dead as a dodi".

funny that none of the national papers ran with that…