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- Says blogger Matthew Turvey
Great headline – but did it ever appear?
Thursday 22nd December 2011, 6:00AM GMT.
A reader, considering Britain’s “isolation” from the eurozone, says he’s reminded of the famous newspaper headline: “Fog in Channel – Continent Isolated,” writes Peter Rhodes.
It’s a good line (I have used it myself) but I’m not sure such a headline ever existed.
It seems to have been dreamed up by the great motoring cartoonist Russell “Brock” Brockbank (1913-1979.
It appeared as the headline on a newspaper being read by his comic creation, Major Upsett.
Great headline – but did it ever appear?”
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