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Fox News outs Beatles as 'Manchester's favorite mopheads'

It's a lorra, lorra larfs

Kelly Fiveash

Tue 16 Nov 2010 // 13:36 UTC

FoxNews.com has got its knickers in a twist about the birthplace of some pop band called the Beatles.

As illustrated below, the US news outfit is quite certain in a news article curiously carrying a Wall Street Journal byline that the Fab Four are from Manchester and not Liverpool.

Fox says Beatles are from Manchester

Beatle~~mania~~ Madchester

The mistake will have readers of a certain age rolling their eyes, not least Fox's owner, New Zealand-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch. ®

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