>>it was, apparantely, printed in only the first edition of the FT before someone caught on and pulled it. who fulled the con on them and how is still unclear but they bought the proverbial pig in the poke :o<< Guy, if that's the case it would have to be an inside job. There's no way that story, as repeated here, would have made it past the news editor or the subs' desk. It's badly written (capped words in the intro? On a broadsheet?!), doesn't obey FT house style and has no relevance to the paper. Probably the only way you could do this would be at a late stage in the production process, after the proof for the page had been signed off. But why would an FT layout man risk his job by pulling such a stunt? I'd like to see a hard copy of the story, as it appeared on the page... ...so I can sell the story to Private Eye ;-) Mark
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