Is Your Dad The Best In The UK?

Mother's Day is up next but here at Scooped HQ we already gearing up for Father's Day and we are now adding to our 2009 range of personalised Father's Day gifts.

Scoop your dad this Father's Day - by putting him on the front page of a spoof tabloid newspaper.

Here you can name your mum THE BEST DAD IN THE UK.

Show him how much you care by putting a picture of her on the front of a joke newspaper.

A funny newspaper front page gift is the perfect personalised Father's Day gift.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

New personalised graduation newspaper gifts

Scooped! produce brilliant personalised newspapers as gifts for all occasions - including graduations.

Let the graduate know how proud you are of them - by making them front page news!

Our graduation newspapers are available in two different styles; The Scoop (red-top tabloid style) and the soon-to-be unveiled The Daily Scoop (middle market style).

A personalised newspaper front page is the perfect personalised graduation gift.

Personalise our graduation template page or have a professional journalist write and design your completely unique bespoke front page for that truly special personalised graduation gift.

Personalised newspaper gifts written and designed by real journalists.

Name your mum the BEST MUM IN BRITAIN

Mother's Day is just now just over three weeks away and here at Scooped! HQ we are adding to our 2009 range of personalised Mother's Day gifts almost every day.

Scoop your mum this Mother's Day - by putting her on the front page of a spoof tabloid newspaper or fake celebrity magazine.

Here you can name your mum THE BEST MUM IN BRITAIN.

Show her how much you care by putting a picture of her on the front of a joke newspaper or personalised magazine.

A funny newspaper front page gift is the perfect personalised Mother's Day gift.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

Personalised Work Leaving Newspaper Gifts

IS a work colleague moving on to pastures new? Then why not make it front page news!

You can help your colleague or loved one celebrate their new job or leaving their old one - by putting them on the front page of a spoof newspaper.

A personalised work leaving newspaper front page is the perfect personalised work leaving gift and a great way to show them you care and make them smile!

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

New Personalised Mother's Day Gifts from Scooped!

Mother's Day is just five weeks away and here at Scooped! HQ we are adding to our 2009 range of personalised Mother's Day gifts almost every day.

Scoop your mum this Mother's Day - by putting her on the front page of a spoof tabloid newspaper or fake celebrity magazine.

Show her how much you care by putting a picture of her on the front of a joke newspaper or personalised magazine.

A funny newspaper front page gift is the perfect personalised Mother's Day gift.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

New Mother's Day Newspaper Gift - Scoop style

Scoop your mum this Mother's Day - by putting her on the front page of a spoof tabloid newspaper or fake celebrity magazine.

Show her how much you care by putting a picture of her on the front of a joke newspaper or personalised magazine.

A funny newspaper front page gift is the perfect personalised Mother's Day gift.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

Personalised Mother's Day gifts - new Evening News spoof newspaper gift

MUM'S the word at Scooped! these days ... with Mother's Day just five weeks away.

We are already adding to our 2009 range of personalised Mother's Day gifts - and we have teamed up with the Edinburgh Evening News to give your mother a real treat this year.

You can Scoop your mum this Mother's Day - by putting her on the front page of a spoof tabloid newspaper or fake celebrity magazine.

Show her how much you care by putting a picture of her on the front of a joke newspaper or personalised magazine.

A funny newspaper front page gift is the perfect personalised Mother's Day gift.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

Scooped! director in today's Sun newspaper

Here is the unedited article in full ..

Former Sun man James McIvor is a self-confessed twitter addict. He joined early last year primarily to promote his company Scooped! Spoof Newspapers but has since launched the world's first online twitter newspaper, The All Tweet Journal. You can follow James at @makingthenews and @alltweetjournal or visit his websites www.makingthenews.co.uk or thealltweetjournal.com

Here is his take on twitter ...

I JOINED twitter at the same time as I was signing up to loads of other social network sites - myspace, bebo and Facebook to name just three.
All these sites served their purpose of helping to promote my business but, for me at least, twitter has raced ahead of the game.
Its great strength is its simplicity - anyone can use twitter without having to work out how to use fancy applications, although they are available for the geeks.
Around 1,000 people follow my tweets each day and twitter allows me to inform them of our new spoof newspaper front pages, offer Valentine's Day discounts or ask their advice on new ideas.
The easiest way to build up a following is to follow followers of followers, if you follow me.
But it's not all about business, it's great being able to share ideas with people of all different backgrounds, share newspaper or blog articles or just find out how people are passing their day.
Since I signed up the number of people using twitter has increased by 1000% and I read the other day there are now 35million users so it has become a very powerful site.
Twitter scooped the world with the first picture of the Hudson River plane crash - the pic was on twitter within a few moments and I replied to the original tweet to say it was a spoof. A couple of hours later it was on the BBC News at 10.
Celebs are now getting into twitter, presumably because - as you only have 140 characters to play with - they can let their fans know what they're doing very easily and very quickly.
Jonathan Ross announced on twitter that he was hosting the Baftas and the next day every national newspaper ran the story.
I like that I can scan twitter - there are 20 tweets per page - and if anything grabs my attention I'll go straight to that page. It saves the hassle of visiting all your favourite sites - if you follow the right people they do it for you - and it is a very quick and immediate way to keep up to speed with the news.
Earlier this month I launched The All Tweet Journal, an online twitter newspaper that will allow people who use twitter regularly to share their news with a wider audience. I have taken the twitter format and put it onto a regular looking newspaper.
It's early days but the feedback has been great so far and the plan is to go from a weekly newspaper to a daily.
If you are only interested in following your favourite celeb then before signing up to twitter first of all visit valebrity.com to check that it really is them - there a plenty of fakes out there.
So, if you are not already on twitter, twit are you waiting for?

Our (very basic) guide to twitter

Scooped! director James McIvor is interviewed in today's Sun newspaper, giving his view on the social networking phenomenon twitter.

James has launched the world's first online newspaper, the all tweet journal.

Here are 20 things to know about twitter

1. Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to micro-blog for free in real-time

2. Posts - called tweets - can be no more than 140 characters long.

3. You can 'follow' other twitterers' tweets and they can follow yours.

4. Your username is @nameofyourchoice and you can have your own picture

5. You can use twitter from your PC or your mobile phone

6. You can post about anything you like .. a link to your own or favourite website or blog, about what you're doing at work, how you're favourite sports team are doing (you can tweet direct from the game) where you're going that night, when you're playing your next gig - or, simply, what you had for dinner. It is also useful for asking your followers a question and, often, getting a prompt response.

7. Posts - both yours and your followers' - are displayed on your profile page like a micro-blog, allowing you to scan over each page and spread news very quickly.

8. You can follow a number of celebrities on twitter including @britneyspears @andymurray @wossy (Jonathan Ross) and @coldplay

9. The twitterer with the most followers is @barackobama who at the last count had more than 250,000

10. @stephenfry is at No3 with almost 200,000 followers

11. @stephenfry tweeted from 'The Green Room' moments before he appeared on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last month.

12. twitter scooped the world with the Hudson River jet crash - a picture of the plane was posted on twitter within minutes of it crashing and was later used on BBC News.

13. twitterers can get their daily diet of news from twitter with @bbc @skynews and @cnn all regularly updating

14. An estimated 35million people use twitter worldwide

15. twitter - founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams - does not allow advertising on the site and has not made a single penny but last year turned down a £350million bid from Facebook.

16. There are now hundreds of twitter applications which allow users to share photos, videos or files or just find people more easily.

17. There is now a dedicated online twitter newspaper called thealltweetjournal.com

18. There is a website dedicated to validating celebrities on twitter called valebrity.com

19. On February 12 more than 175 cities around the world - including Glasgow and Edinburgh - will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

20. twitter is not all good though ... @russellbrand has joined.

Star on the front page of Edinburgh Evening News .. for FREE

Scooped! has teamed up with the Edinburgh Evening News - to allow you to star on the front page of the paper for FREE!

To celebrate Valentine’s Day we’re giving away a spoof newspaper front page to EVERY Evening News reader.

With our exclusive 100% discount you can name your partner BEST GIRLFRIEND, BOYFRIEND, WIFE or HUSBAND IN SCOTLAND and put them on the front of a personalised newspaper.

You can order online at www.makingthenews.co.uk/eveningnews or you can order by post by completing the coupon (below)

If you order online it will take just 60 SECONDS to create your very own Evening News front page. All we need is the person’s name, age and where they live and a picture (optional) and that’s it, you have made them a front page star.

At the checkout, please enter the code SCOOPNEWS to get your page for free. All you will be asked to pay is £2.99 for postage and packaging.

A personalised newspaper gift is the perfect personalised Valentine's Day gift.

Postal Entries:

You can order by post by filling in the coupon below and sending to Scooped! Giveaway, 50 Shuna Place, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 6TN. If you send a photograph to go with your order please also include a stamped addressed envelope to ensure its return. There is an additional £1 administration charge for postal entries so please also include a cheque, made payable to Scooped! Limited, for £3.99) Entries that do not include a cheque will not be processed and if an SAE is not included we will be unable to return photographs. Please also advise delivery address.

If you would like to contact Scooped! email scooped@makingthenews.co.uk or call 0141 639 9918

Coupon:
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Living In ……………………………………..
Headline: The Best ............................................

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Exclusive twitter offer - 50% off our Valentine's Day newspaper gifts

Scooped! has teamed up with the all tweet journal - the new online newspaper for twitter users - to celebrate Valentine's Day.

Now you can make your love story front page news from just £4.99.

A personalised Valentine's newspaper is the perfect personalised Valentine's Day gift.

You can make your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband's year by naming them the Best Lover In Britain, Best Lover in Scotland, Best Lover In England, Best Lover in Ireland, Best Lover In Wales or the Best Lover in the World.

Or you can name your partner Best Husband in the World or Best Wife in the World and put them all over the front page of a spoof newspaper.

To get your fake newspaper for half-price just enter the code TWITTERSCOOP at the checkout and you will get a 50% discount.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

Bespoke newspaper gifts - you can be in The Simpsons

DON'T have what you're looking for amongst our range of personalised newspapers?

Don't worry - we can design a spoof newspaper front page exactly as you want it.

With a bespoke fake newspaper we will come up with a unique headline, unique story, unique adverts and unique picture captions - no two pages are ever the same.

Here is an example of a bespoke page designed for a customer's joint birthday/leaving bash.

Our photoshop wizards ensured that we captured the joint occasion by transforming the Chrystal family into The Simpsons.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.

Our bespoke pages are available from just £29.99 - email scooped@makingthenews.co.uk or call 0141 639 9918 for further information.

Make your love story front page news - 25% off our Valentine's Newspapers

Celebrate Valentine's Day - by putting your love story on the front page of a spoof newspaper.

A personalised Valentine's newspaper is the perfect personalised Valentine's Day gift.

And with our exclusive offer to existing customers, you can get a huge 25% discount on all our spoof newspaper gifts throughout February.

Make your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband's year by naming them the Best Lover In Britain, Best Lover in Scotland, Best Lover In England, Best Lover in Ireland, Best Lover In Wales or the Best Lover in the World.

Or you can name your partner Best Husband in the World or Best Wife in the World.

To claim your 25% discount, just enter the code LOVESCOOP at the checkout.

All our personalised newspaper gifts are written and designed by real journalists.