The Anonymous Widower

Ten Big Mistakes

This piece on the BBC web site lists ten of the greatest mistakes of all time. They do have one from the Liverpool Echo.

The Liverpool Echo, in a rare error, once described Violet, the mother of the Kray twins, as “Mrs Violent Kray”.

I disagree with the statement it was a rare error. Fritz Spiegl, wrote a whole book on the subject of errors in Liverpool’s evening paper.

One I actually saw, was when they referred to the 1697 Arab-Israeli War.

Knowing the city well, as I do, I was always a bit suspicious that some of mistakes in the paper were not as accidental, as many would believe!

June 16, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Liverpool, Newspaper, Words