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August 9, 2010

‘New car diddy kiddy dumb daddy dough’ is headline of the year frontrunner

A clear frontrunner has emerged in Axegrinder’s headline of the year competition.

It’s The Sun’s awesome headline from February this year about the news that Rap star P. Diddy had blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son – who did not even have his driving licence.

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH

It has garnered more than 60 of the 100 votes cast so far.

Unfortunately, the utterly crap piece of software Axegrinder used to collate the votes so far – Polldaddy – only lets me collect 100 votes, and we have already exceeded that limit.

So I’m re-opening the voting again with a new poll widget, this time provided by Blogpoll.com

Don’t worry if you have voted already, you’re vote will be added to the new tally.

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Here are the headline of the month stories and headlines from the last year, scroll to the bottom to cast your vote.

Remember to cast your vote wisely, bearing in mind that the author of the winning headline will receive a weekend at the luxury lodge on the Isle of Jura where George Orwell wrote 1984 – courtesy of our sponsors Jura single malt whisky.

September

Thelondonpaper

Actress Rachael Weisz wins rave reviews for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse.

WEISZ AFTER THE EVENT

October

Metro

A farmer has been given £500,000 to clean up the country air turning pig muck into electricity.

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO SPARK IT

November

The Sun

BNP activists round on BNP leader Nick Griffin after he puts in a lacklustre apperance on Question Time

DOWNFALL

December

Wembley and Kingsbury Times.

A shop owner in Kingsbury has been fined for selling fake Durex condoms.

JOHNNY ROTTEN.

January

The New Scientist

A new anklet device used in America can alert the authorities if alcohol-related offenders have breached bail conditions banning them from drinking.

THE ELECTRONIC FINK THAT WILL SQUEAL IF YOU DRINK

February

The Sun

Rap star P. Diddy has blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son – who does not even have his driving licence.

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH

March

First Great Western Trains passenger magazine

Veteran tennis players to battle it out at a Masters Tennis competition

OLD BOYS’ NET WORK

April

Daily Mirror

Council chiefs and police have cut down 6,000 trees at beauty spot in order to stop couples having sex in the woods.

COPSE AND DOGGERS

May

The Coventry Telegraph

A thief conned a pensioner out of his savings before taking him out for a pub lunch.

SCUM DINE WITH ME

June

Channel 4 News

The UK political situation is finely balanced on 7 May after the general election delivers a hung parliament.

HUNG DRAWN AND COURTED

July

Daily Star

TV favourite Declan Donnelly, of Ant and Dec fame, apparently has a hair-raising talent for growing back his thinning head of hair.

IT’S ALL STRANDS ON DECK

August

Daily Star

Jeremy Clarkson was warned he could be physically attacked after he claimed on Top Gear that Muslim women wear kinky underwear under their burkas.

TOP FEAR

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