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July 12, 2010

Daily Star night man claims headline of the month whisky

By Duncan wirepost

Here are the headline of the month finalists, as appearing in the July edition of Press Gazette:

Story: England scrape through to a 1-1 draw with the USA after a goal-keeping error from Rob Green gifts a goal to the Americans.

Headline (honours shared between the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror): HAND OF CLOD

Story: A missing letter from the French philosopher Rene Descartes is discovered after a scholar finds a reference to it on the internet.

Headline (The Guardian): Descartes letter exists, therefore it is found by web surfer

Story: US general Stanley McChrystal is sacked by president Barack Obama after criticising him in a magazine article.

Headline (The Sun): MAC THE KNIFED

But as always there can only be one winner and, not for the first time, a bottle of Jura single malt whisky will be finding its way down to Bristol to sharp-eyed headline spotter Francis Harvey.

Story: TV favourite Declan Donnelly, of Ant and Dec fame, apparently has a hair-raising talent for growing back his thinning head of hair.

Headline: IT’S ALL STRANDS ON DECK

Well done to Daily Star night editor Nick Bailey who came up with it and who also receives a bottle of Jura single malt.

The deadline for headline of the month entries for the September edition of Press Gazette is 23 August. Please email them to dominicp@pressgazette.co.uk

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