A boozy competition for would-be editors
OK Editor's Chair watchers, here's a real competition with even better prizes.
I'm away from the office next week chilling myself out in Cornwall (literally, it seems) while our friends enjoy our Brummie home.
While I'm out of town, I challenge you all to write better page 1 splash headlines than appear in the print edition of the Birmingham Mail each day from Monday March 24 to Saturday March 29.
The rules: 1. The headlines you write must related to the main p1 story of each day. 2. They must fit, or thereabouts, the space available. 3. The funniest wins. 4. The Editor's decision is final (I love saying that).
There will be a bottle of classy wine PER DAY awarded to that day's winner... and a bottle of champagne up for grabs if you are the top entrant across the whole week (total number of entries, regardless of actually winning).
I'll judge and announce all winners on the day of my return to the office (March 31).
Happy headline writing!
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Half crate of wine with extra bubbly here I come!!!! (Picture chubby bloke rubbing his hands together in glee...)
Question: Entries byt he day or can we do all in one go at the end? If the latter, does this still count in terms of multiple entries (ie: many entries but all on one posting??)
Entirely up to you, Colin... entries every day would be preferable, but if you send all in one blog comment that counts, and I'll count the entries. Deadline of close of play Sunday March 30th though...
Have a couple of suggestions for today's (Thurs) headline, I hope you are a fan of puns!:
1) Brum beach plans all at sea
OR
2) Tide goes out on Brum beach plans
OR even (a Sun-esque)
3) Wave goodbye to Brum beach (with some sort of effect on 'wave' of course!)
Steve Hayes
Here goes:
Monday March 24, the headline read:
What a
sauce!
My offering:
HP wiped
out again
Tuesday March 25, the headline read:
Chaos
as train
derails
My offering:
Empty wagon
bumps into
derelict wall (that's the picture looked like!)
Wednesday March 26, the headline read:
Car jobs ‘safe’
in £1bn deal
My offering:
Posh car workers'
Indian takeaway
Thursday March 27, the headline read:
Brum beach is
all washed up
My offering:
Mo more sandy bottoms
for city office workers
Friday March 28, the headline read:
Teen stabbed
to death
My offering:
(no offer here... far too serious)
Saturday March 29, the headline read:
A&E full
of drunk
patients
My offering:
Last orders
at the A&E
nightclub