And finally ....

Women are more enthusiastic about the monarchy than men

And just what might "it" be?

Another fine mess! Motorist gets 15 parking tickets costing more than £1,000 after abandoning it outside busy bus station 

Even when you have corrected the error, this sentence takes a while to understand...

"Dr Montserrat Verdaguer, was discovered to have buried the author's ashes to the church in Northumberland, where his father had practised as a vicar - for which she was fined £1,320."

It is the father of the author who practised as a vicar ...

They don't look that old!

 "Built in 1888 as country home for coal owner Charles Perkins, the couple have transformed the 19th century wing,"

UK is a capital?

UK named as the world's whiplash capital as car-shunt claims make up 80% of all personal injury requests - more than the US

Headline and story do not match

The value of a UK degree is being undermined because too many students can't read or count properly, damning international report declares 

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said a three year undergraduate was too expensive and unsuitable for people with poor literacy and numeracy.

This makes the doctors look silly!

"Despite insisting she is 'addicted to being pregnant', doctors have told her to stop as it's damaging her health."

There was only one hall!

University student jumped to her death from halls of residence after her exam results weren't good enough to follow her dream of becoming a research scientist

Pronoun confusion

'Attention-seeking mother put her OWN blood in her daughter's urine sample so doctors would think she was seriously ill'

Hyperbole or stupidity?

"Princess XXX's former butler YYY and disgraced PR guru ZZZ came to blows in London's High Court today."

No, they did not!

Why does 'pageant' become plural?

"beauty pageant is offering a SEX CHANGE as their top prize (but insist they are not promoting surgery ..."

'Is offering' becomes 'their' and 'they' ....

Breaking my rules

"The 30-year-old and his wife Coleen announced the arrival of their third son - naming him Kit Joseph Rooney - on Sunday. However, just hours after revealing the first photograph of their new arrival, Wayne's Twitter followers started trolling him - pointing out that all three of his children's initials are KKK."

Apologies for including names here, but my objection does not make sense without them. The initials of this baby are KJR, and it therefore cannot be the case that "all three of all three of [Rooney' s] children's initials are KKK".

All in the past ...

"It's very sad to see such magnificent beasts washed up and passed their best on the shore."

Consistency would be good ...

"The incredible moment two brothers save a wild dolphin after it was found with a hook and fishing line lodged in her mouth - and now they're dubbed the 'Dolphin Whisperers'"

Is it "it", or "she"?

This one took me a while to work out

"All manner of shareable snippets were doing the rounds on Twitter, under the hash tag #WelcomeBabyXXXX, but a favourite theme emerged - the shipping of 24-year-old XXX and his band mate YYY"

I think that 'shipping' is a typo for 'shopping' as in 'photo-shopping', but I can't be sure.

This headline has been running for several days ..

"Can YOU tell the animal from just their eye?"

Why not "Can you tell the animal just from its eye?" or "Can you tell the animals from just their eyes?"

Short but wrong

"She amazingly found three ..."

How about "Amazingly, she found three "

Sitting duck

 "The video, which was recorded by a witness sat next to the two Asian women, has now been handed to police."

Or perhaps the other way around ...?

"Obese father loses six stone after 'shovelling down' NINE meals and 3,000 calories a day (even when he wasn't hungry)"

A new compound verb ...

"XXX striker XXXX wrecks his Lamborghini into Mini Cooper and smashes into garden wall after late night car crash"
 

So, who was using film?

"Using his Kodachrome film, his images show a peaceful Afghanistan"

The images cannot be using anything ...

The old "comprises" error, plus something new

" The 46-year-old is said to have splashed out just over £3million on the house which also comprises of a games room, a family room, a greenhouse and a pantry."

This sentence adds an "also" error to the "comprises"
confusion. "Includes" would solve the problem.

Not I

"No one loves a royal celebration more than I, "

Try "more than me"!

Nonsense

"Easter to fall on same day every year under new plans by Archbishop of Canterbury and church leaders"

No, the proposal is that Easter should be celebrated on the same SUNDAY every year. This headline implies a fixed DATE, eg April 10, which could be any day of the week.

Mix up of tenses again

"Magician, 62, is killed when tree he was cutting down fell on top of him at his farm"

What does "some of" mean?

XXX sparked controversy among some of his 5.8 million Instagram followers on Thursday when he shared an image of a teenage boy brandishing a handgun.

I wonder how it feels to publish nonsense day after b day?

Today's gem

"Just half of people retiring in the next five years will get the full state pension. Those in their 20s, 30s and 40s, will be worse off by."

I imagine that the second sentence was meant to refer to those NOW in their 20s etc... , but I've no idea how the sentence was intended to conclude.

Worse than sacred cows?

Doctors 'too sacred to tell patients that they're dying': Staff having to 'learn on the job' how to break the news because of 'inadequate training'

I apologise, but this is just awful writing ...

"David Bowie told his family that he wanted to be remembered for the good times and his music according to reports coming from New York. The 69-year-old singer died after battling cancer for 18 months. The singer released his final album Blackstar to critical acclaim on Friday, inset. The singer, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer 18 months ago released a photograph of him dressed in a smart suit, seemingly laughing into the face of death."

Did nobody read this before it was published? Why keep repeating 'the singer', 'released' and '18 months', and why write so many short sentences?

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"Royal" is not a noun

"Students were stunned to see the Royal in their canteen at break time, after he had landed his helicopter in the school grounds."

What was wrong with "the Prince"?

Yet again!

"XXXX revealed she celebrated finishing writing the XXXX series by making a permanent mark on her hotel room in a Twitter post marking the ninth anniversary of the poignant day on Monday."

OK. Bad writing is spreading ...

This is from The Guardian

"And data in Newham suggests this isn’t a simple case of social cleansing."

"data" is plural, like "media"!

So easy to fix this

"XXX reveals she has been burgled twice in message of support to fellow writer and break-in victim YYY"

Just start with "In message" and it all makes sense.

It's the "missing word" round

" The accident (pictured), which happened just after 2.30pm today, required the assistance of emergency services, a paramedic, four ambulances and the hazardous response. "

Oh no, not the hazardous response!

Editor wanted: apply immediately!

"XXX is due to start legal proceedings to clear his name of the crime which he was convicted of and served a prison sentence in 2011."

Marcy?

This is clearly a typo, but it has remained uncorrected for some twelve hours, despite comments from readers:

"In Marcy 2002, the former prison officer paddled out to sea in a canoe at Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, before ditching the vessel to give the impression that he drowned."

The piece goes on:

"He and his partner in crime ex-wife  XXX (left), who both hid the news from their two sons, used the money to travel around the world and buy several properties in Panama."

Why not simply "ex-wife XXX (left) hid the news ... and used the money ..."? Surely "their" implies both of them?

Do they make a deliberate effort to be obscure?

"XXX had also allegedly offered to give his iPad, smartphone and cash to a local craftsman who realised he was wanted for questioning over the murders to stop him calling police."

Getting tense

This from a story about a negligent paramedic who was filmed

"standing around with his hands in his pockets as a patient has a heart attack and died in front of him in hospital car park"

Why the change of tense?

Double whammy

"Now her new series involves her wearing copious amounts of prosthetic make-up and even fat-suits to superbly impersonate the likes of Dames X  and Y"

Not only is "superbly" misplaced here, but the initial "Now" is also redundant.

"their" is plural

... and there is usually a way of keeping it that way.

This comes from a piece on an expensive studio flat, which

"offers the occupant the chance to shower in their kitchen"

Why not "occupants" or "the kitchen"?

What a difference an 'e' makes.

"Groom-to-be's wedding is cancelled when he punches his fiance in the nose on the eve of their big day"

I checked, and he was going to marry a female....

Credit where it's due

In an article about someone with  'perfect' body:

"[She] credits her fantastic body with eating only healthy food and working out eight times a week."

'credit to' and 'credit with' are not the same. I credit my body with always being there: I credit its size to my not exercising enough....

Misplaced adverb, misprint and TMI

"How to perfectly fold a T-shirt every time:

The 30-year-old teachers viewers how in a two-step YouTube video"

Really awful writing. Why not "How to fold a T-shirt perfectly"? If you can do it perfectly, then you can do it every time.

Why is the age of this 'expert' relevant?

'teachers' for 'teaches'?

What a mess!

From an article about a popular singer

"The 27-year-old has been revealed to have had the biggest-selling album of 2015, despite the fact it was only released in late November."

Why not "The 27-year-old had the biggest-selling ..."?

Bending my rules

This was a story about a dancer, which had this headline:

"XXX reveals she needs a hip operation at the age of 46 after decades of dancing have taken their toll"

The story revealed that this was not actually the case:

"She said: ‘I’ve been told I’ll need to have a hip replacement at some point, but technology changes so rapidly that they might have invented something new by them.’"

and the final word here was a misprint which has, so far, gone uncorrected.

Any day can be a "Sat" day

"Wayne Herbert, 45, from London, said he was sat in his seat before take-off when passengers in the row behind tried to load too much hand luggage into the overhead storage."

Who is "he"? Is he the Doanld?

"Revealed: How Donald Trump cut off medical treatment to his nephew's sick baby after he allegedly had his alcoholic older brother cut out of his father's will"

If you find that headline hard to follow. This is the opening of the article.

Doanld Trump's older brother Freddy died an alcoholic in 1981."

Not happy ever after...

"Mystery of dead Briton found in Australia after police reveal he was carrying a fake ID"

No, he was not found after this revelation by the police. Logically the two events should not be connected in this way: the "after" could easily be replaced by a colon.

And this one is even worse:

"Tributes to 'happy lad who was always smiling' after he was mauled to death by his dog while suffering epileptic fit."

Somehow, this change does not work

"[G]atecrashers cause damage worth thousands of pounds after woman leaves her teenage granddaughter to house-sit"

It's strange, but "thousands of pounds worth of damage" is a perfectly acceptable usage, but this variation seems odd.

You must anticipate this!

From a piece on a TV programme:

"XXX was billed as one of the most anticipated television moments of the year, but ... ended up leaving fans bewildered."

I don't think it is possible to bill an event as anticipated ...

Is there a limit?

Happy New Year!

Just a quick one to start the year.

Maybe someone should have suggested a limit on adjectives here:

"A British-educated Bangladeshi ISIS jihadi computer expert has been killed by a US-airstrike"