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They may alter this article and correct the error in time.

As if you wouldn't proof read and check the headline.

A 12 year old wouldn't miss that blooper.

You’re correct - now changed

Send the culprit back to primary school.

Bfcboyo wrote:Send the culprit back to primary school.

But definitely don’t forgive him.

Or her.

Talking of proof reading. BBC Look North presenter Beckie Barr ( I think innocently) said Jimmy McIroy played for Blackburn, when reading out the News of his death.
Burnley born BBC chief Peter Salmon, would have cringed at that comment. I wonder if he made the person responsible for the mistake, suffer his wrath.

Bfc wrote:Talking of proof reading. BBC Look North presenter Beckie Barr ( I think innocently) said Jimmy McIroy played for Blackburn, when reading out the News of his death.
Burnley born BBC chief Peter Salmon, would have cringed at that comment. I wonder if he made the person responsible for the mistake, suffer his wrath.

Sign of the times. Imagine errors of this scale a century ago.

Job gone no food on the table for your family.

All a sign of the changing times of the lazy nanny state.

Bfcboyo wrote:Sign of the times. Imagine errors of this scale a century ago.

Job gone no food on the table for your family.

All a sign of the changing times of the lazy nanny state.

Error of this scale? Have you ever made an ultimately harmless mistake in your job?

I’m not sure such a small error would have resulted in a job loss a century ago.

To be fair, it's not that easy spotting these errors nowadays..

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Rileybobs wrote: Error of this scale? Have you ever made an ultimately harmless mistake in your job?

I’m not sure such a small error would have resulted in a job loss a century ago.

Imagine top headline after putting to press in 1918.

Sacked.

Probably the same people that proof read the match day programmes. Full of mistakes every programme.