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Letter: Fog in Channel, humour reinstated for a bit (2)

Published 10 April 2019

From Gordon Cummings, Linton, Cambridgeshire, UK

Webb mentions the headline “Fog in Channel: Continent Cut Off”. It isn’t just apocryphal, but one of the great misquotations. “Fog in Channel: Continent Isolated” appeared in a cartoon by Russell Brockbank in Round the Bend with Brockbank in 1948.

Issue no. 3225 published 13 April 2019

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