A few weeks ago, I went on a mad quest to find the newspaper used in 1995's Bottom Hole TV show. During the episode, Eddie starts reading this newspaper: Obviously, the "Hammersmith Bugle" is not a real paper and they never ran a headline "No News Shocker". But judging from all the other shots, the prop is based on a real newspaper. So I decided to rip off Dirty Feed's shtick and find out what was used to create the fake newspaper. The quest took me o'er hill and dale. Through the rough hinterlands of Hammersmith and into the nether regions of Wimbledon. By which I mean - I used lots of online archive sources. And it nearly worked! I found all of the internal pages. I also found the back page: That's from The Surrey Herald - but that's a paper with lots of regional editions. None of which had the right headline. So I emailed my (frankly asinine ) request to Surrey Museums. They were polite, but unable to help. Their website gave a clue though - the location of the archives of the…
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