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August 4, 2009

Two national front-page scoops for Dunstable Express reporter

By Dominic wireposts

Well done Lui Straccia, a reporter from the Dunstable Express, who broke the story of a woman pregnant with her 14th child who said that the other 13 had all been taken into care.

(Hat-tip HTFP)

The previous week Straccia scored another great exclusive when she revealed that a group of Luton youngsters on a school trip to France had been bundled out of France by men in anti-contamination suits after one of them contracted swine flu. That story was followed with a front page in the Daily Mail.

Boo, hiss to The Sun which claimed the former story as an “exclusive”.

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