Concept:

‘Headlies’ is a text and visual project that uses real newspaper headlines but the stories beneath them are fabricated and fictional. Newspapers often take sides and we, the reader, judge on humanity from its text and photograph. From the newspaper’s perspective, access to public information is a good thing but a newspaper’s function surely is to tell the society about itself and to be a pollinator of its information? Its role is to inform the citizens but as information gradually travels down, the citizens become ill-advised, ill-prepared and mis-informed.


Good Samaritan’s attacker is jailed.

John Gusthorpe of 42 Whatstandwell Road, Harts was finally arrested and sentenced to prison for two years. The suspicion of Gusthorpe stalking came when he was monitored ringing the Samaritan’s helpline and constantly asking for Caroline Somerthely. He became more persistent when others who took the call would not pass on the messages from Gusthrope to Ms. Somerthely. Messages became more and more desperate after three months of ‘phone call stalking’; Ms. Somerthely alerted the management who acted immediately. Observations such as ‘the red dress you wore last night was too revealing’ and “I knew you were going to send the mussels back”, occurred too often. The arrest had taken so long, said Judge Wrey because Ms. Somerthely had indeed once have a husband named John who had disappeared after a violent row. Ms. Someterhly commented that this was just a strange coincidence and that her ex-husband was happily married with his second wife and four children.

CAPTION:'Finally behind bars.' By Sheree Angela Matthews, Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear.


CAPTION: 'So-how did that make you feel?' By Shona Davies & David Monaghan, London, UK.