Funny newspaper stories

This story, featured in the current edition of the Cumbernauld News, is my favourite of the year so far.

If you have recently lost a brown/black longhair cat with a red collar, Cumbernauld woman, Elizabeth Nikplavovic, contacted the News to say she had found one and wanted to put the owner’s mind at rest.
Unfortunately, the cat had been hit by a car before Elizabeth found it lying beside the Seafar ring road and it had to be put down. Elizabeth is happy to speak to the cat’s owner.

One of the best bits of advice I was given as a young journalist was to tell the story in the intro, as if you were talking to your pal down the pub.

Thankfully, the reporter/sub-editor of this story must have missed that class.