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9:56am on Sunday, 16th November, 2025:
Weird
This week's Essex County Standard has an article about the local grammar school for boys, headlined "'Outstanding' grade for school's boarders". I didn't even know it had boarders, but apparently it does.
Anyway, this is the sub-headline:

£19 per year seems exceptionally good value! I wondered if it might be some kind of peppercorn arrangement, whereby boarders pay only a token amount and the costs are covered by the school, the council or some trust left by a wealthy benefactor.
I read on, and discovered:

Oh. OK. I should have realised: this is the Essex County Standard, and they'd missed a "K" out of the headline after the "£19".
I wonder if any of the people who write these articles read them afterwards?
Yes, I know my posts are also full of errors, but I don't charge you £1.60 a week to read them.
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