Now this first round teams is called Historical Headlines. In it you have to devise headlines as they might have appeared following a famous historical event which I shall provide you. For example :- The Gunpowder Plot might have

The Sport - Guy Fawkes it up
Financial Times - Boom fails to materialise
Guardian - Remember Remember the 4th of November

Another example - Moses receiving the 10 commandments

Telegraph - Graven image manufacturers protest at new guidelines
Melody Maker - Adultery slips to number 8 this week

Or try the burning of Joan of Arc

The Lancet - It's official-Smoking DOES damage your health
The Star - Phew-What a Scorcher

Ok - if you've got the idea let's start with - The Birth of Jesus

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Answers

MAFF to investigate unorthodox animal feed - The Independent

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Tourist Board slams Planning Authority over town's hotel shortages - Bethlehem Echo

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

The Mirror. Immaculate Christmas box for Mary and Joseph.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

local farmer abducted by aliens - daily sport

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Nazareth Carpenter Demands DNA Test in Paternity Suit - Telegraph 101 ways to brighten up your home with Myrrh this Christmas - Woman's Weekly

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Who Screwed Mary? - Daily Sport

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Tory Leadership Election Enters Third Phase - Daily Mail

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Number of unmarried mother set to soar this year - Daily Mail

Birth of male who claims to be God - What's so unusual about that? Guardian Women's Pag

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Virgin on the ridiculous - The Herald Are you prepared for Y0K? - Computer Weekly Pagans upset by commercialisation of popular festival - Holiday Weekly

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Toon hails arrival of yet another Messiah - This Lad will work Miracles says Robson - Evening Chronicle.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

God demands DNA test - National Enquirer

Animals complain of overcrowding - Farmers Weekly

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Markets wobble as Shepherds Down Tools in Wildcat Strike - Financial Times

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

The King Lives! Elvis seen in Watford Tescos - The Sun

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Holy Cow? - Jewish Enquirer
Madonna in new publicity stunt - Sounds
Jesus Christ! - Biblical Times (first edition)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Child Support Agency reveals new tactic employed by absent fathers - Parents Illustrated

LSD use widespread at Bethlehem Love Parade, Council Blamed - BBC Radio News

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Herrod vows to crack down on teenage preganancies - Telegraph

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Shepherd blames big star for diminishing flock - Wise men follow star - Astronomer Monthly

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

IC Newcastle : What birth?

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Dyer on his way to Leeds - News of the World
We've Arrived! - The Star (early edition)
We're not moving! - The Star (second edition)
Mary and Joseph in animal scandal - Sunday People
Nothing worth reporting - Jewish Reporter
Jesusgate - Weshington Post

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Shepherds Flock leaving - Dyer latest Welsh Times

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Aliens shagged my bird - The Sport

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Freddie Starr ate my ass! - The Sun
Mary claims denounced as a cheap Branson publicity stunt - The Mirror
Joseph & Mary flee as Michael Jackson flies in to start Middle East tour. New Musical Express
Prophet's Warning - Investor's Chronicle


-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Cattle Lowing, Baby Awakes: Social Services Damning Report - The Guardian

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Xmas cancelled says Councillor Herod

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001