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I used to work as a sub-editor for Teletext. Writing 35-character headlines for the analogue service was some of the best journalism training anybody could have. I still remember some of the best:

Spurs move right, said Fred's agent

Sizzling Gasquet batters sorry Fish

Fish Mardy from Del Potro battering

(we liked Mardy Fish losing badly at tennis, particularly if he also had a strop after)

For anybody with knowledge about British tennis out there, the following became a running joke which we rehashed at every opportunity.

Bogdanovic suffers first-round exit

That must have been used a mind-boggling number of times.

We also did subbing for Ceefax, with its extra paragraph - but I'll always have a bigger place in my heart for Teletext and its 40 x 24 character grids (for text, 35 for headlines).

Romantics ire after death of Ceefax

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