The newspaper that published spoof news releases

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Blogging minister Tom Harris has an amusing story from his days as a student journalist on a local Scottish newspaper. The rival newspaper, in the same town, had even fewer staff and less time to re-write or check news releases submitted to it. So the enterprising hacks at Tom’s paper invented a fake local charity and wrote weekly spoof news releases, which would duly be printed in their rival paper, despite the fact that anyone reading them should have spotted the numerous clues that it was a spoof.