Sunday, October 16, 2011...1:40 pm

BBC online news sub-editors have a bit too much fun with the Liam Fox story

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Spotted – very briefly – on the BBC news site on Sunday: a rib-tickling double-entendre headline that bored sub-editors probably enjoyed writing a bit too much.

BBC News headline: Police consider Fox friend probe

Sadly, if unsurprisingly, wiser heads prevailed and the head was quickly changed.

I don’t know why, but the second headline just doesn’t seem mucky – even though it uses the “p” word. Is that just me? 

Actually, don’t answer that…

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