[ad_1] On 7 October 1779 a letter appeared in Berrow’s Worcester Journal. “To the printer,” wrote a disgruntled reader. “I take the freedom of informing you and the general public that the account of a melancholy accident occurring to a poor man at Evesham which was inserted in your final paper is totally devoid of basis.”Studies of a person falling in a vat of boiling ale had been, it turned out, tremendously exaggerated, revealed on the again of an nameless tip. However now the journal, which lays declare to being the oldest surviving newspaper on this planet, says it has…
