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Article: Chinese and a takeaway of 1,400 local newspapers; Mass buy-up mystery of edition that told of restaurant's cockroach shame.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2005
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Byline: BILL MOULAND
WHEN news emerged that a live cockroach had been found in a plate of king prawns at the local Chinese restaurant, it caused something of a stir.
The evening paper, which featured the story on its front page, couldn't keep up with demand for copies.
Newsagents in a 40-mile radius of Weston super Mare, Somerset, were visited by two men who started snapping up the Bristol Evening Post and its damning front page.
With 1,400 copies worth [pounds sterling]490 out on the streets in the North Somerset area, it was no mean feat. But the upshot, of course, was that very few local people got to read about the shame of the Sea ...