Back in the days when the local evening paper was most peoples' main source of breaking news, you can just imagine anyone who cares about the wildlife that lives along our rivers snapping up a copy of the Evening News to find out more on this shocking crime.But a quick look on Google, after the picture emerged on Twitter, revealed it to be a spoof. Newspaper pundits argued no bill (as the posters are known in the ink trade...) would use the word local - let alone twatted, for starters.
Evening papers no longer carry 'late prices', as most now come out much earlier in the day than the late editions of days gone by.
Besides this small clue, not lost on lovers of newspaper geekery, a more obvious question would doubtless have been on the lips of anyone who knows anything about herons all along. Like, how do you get close enough to, um, twat one in the first place..?
I missed this. Had an argument with a heron once. Told him to 'wind his neck in'. He did, and then flew off.
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