Love some of those.
Although it's not in the same class - the one I'm most proud of writing was on a story about a biography claiming that Jimi Hendrix had pretended to be sexually attracted to his male bunkmate in order to get out of the army.
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
The best I managed in my brief career as a sports sub-editor was when Rangers' owner David Murray was moved to warn the Dutch FA against an approach for the club's then manager Dick Advocaat.:
HANDS OFF DICK, MURRAY TELLS DUTCH
Probably subliminally inspired by the Sun's memorable take on Graeme Souness signing West Ham full-back Julian Dicks for Liverpool:
SOUNESS GRABS DICKS
very funny!
Winchester and Mid Hants Observer (I think.. sometime back in 2005):
In response to a planning enquiry over a new mobile phone mast...
"New Erection Sparks Mast-Debate"
Seagull flies off with cat in beak
As mentioned on the Radio 4 Now Show last year.
Having seen this on another forum a while back, I tried googling it and found out it was an interweb hoax, and not a parting gift from a chief sub working his notice. Gutted! 
LOL!!!!!!
"Jumping Jack Flash, It's A Gas Gas Gas Explosion"
I think it was in The Sun, a story about Ronnie Wood's yacht being sent up in flames by a onboard gas cylinder.
Although I don't remember the details so well, I distinctly remember covering the pub's copy of the paper with a sprayed mouthful of Guinness.
A few years ago, the street sellers of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle were often to be heard shouting "chronicle" in various guttural, incoherent ways at regular intervals. They would range from what sounded like an after-dinner belch to the infamous "Ronny Gill".
One day a friend of mine was walking through town and happened to look across at one of the sellers, who was wearing the typical look of deep disinterest and general misery. Without ever cracking his wretched facade, and in the same flat, bored tone that he and his colleagues were synonymous with, the guy shouted, "man kicked to death by one-legged chicken".
Vienna Boys' Choir caught up in Sex abuse Scandal
Article written by Roger Boyes....
Paddy Pantsdown....
The Sun after it emerged Paddy Ashdown had an affair..
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703
Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
Who is John Denver?A dead singer. Drug overdose I think.
Nope, air crash.
He did have a history of drunk driving busts but at autopsy he was found to have no trace of alcohol or drugs in the system. Made his name as a country and western singer but made the crossover into general acclaim. Father was a military flight instructor and he himself was a highly qualified pilot. Original speculation was as to possible suicide but he was flying a fairly experimental light aircraft, and the final conclusion was that the crash was a combination of unusual aircraft design, relative unfamiliarity on the part of the pilot and not enough height to recover.
For what it's worth my vote is also for Super Caley Go Ballistic.
Press and Journal, 15 April 1912, reporting the sinking of the Titanic:
"Aberdeenshire Man Drowned At Sea"
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