Wales Online breaks news of David Cameron resignation (in training exercise mistake)

Wales Online published the story of the year last night featuring David Cameron’s shock resignation as Prime Minister.

Oh dear, someone at @WalesOnline has a shocker & accidentally posts 'training exercise' about David Cameron resigning pic.twitter.com/fvhHZvdQXx

— Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) October 21, 2013

Unfortunately as Axegrinder soon discovered, the story was a “training exercise” and was not supposed to go live on the internet. The mistake was quickly spotted and the story was pulled – but not quickly enough as several screen grabs were taken by eagle-eyed readers.

Apologies to anyone who saw that unfortunately published article just now – a training exercise never intended to see the light of day.

— Wales Online (@WalesOnline) October 21, 2013

I love that @WalesOnline had an article training exercise and the story they plumped for was Cameron's resignation

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) October 21, 2013

One sage advised Wales Online to use a staging server and to never do training on the live CMS system.

@WalesOnline @owenblacker Good teachable moment, though: Never do training on your live CMS! Always use a staging server.

— Suw (@Suw) October 21, 2013