City journalism students scoop Sun

City journalism students have scooped the Sun by more than a fortnight with the tale of Jane Goldman, aka Mrs. Jonathan Ross, and her macabre double headed skeleton of a baby.
As I reported earlier this month, Goldman's purchase of the skeleton from a Hackney "Little Shop of Horrors" was one of the stories that launched the student's local Hackney Post website and was posted on 7 March.
Today it's a page three lead in the Sun under the headline  "Wossy Wife's £1,500 Fweak." It also gets a good showing on the Sun's website.

City students launch Hackney Post

 As well as producing local website Islington Now, which I mentioned yesterday, City University journalism students have also launched the Hackney Post covering the East London borough.

Stories on the site range from an exclusive on a Hackney local caught up in the Chile earthquake to a twin headed baby skeleton sold by a shop of horrors to Jane Goldman, aka Mrs Jonathan Ross, plus news of a knitting group in Dalston.
The Islington and Hackney sites are run by two groups from the same City MA journalism class which should lead to some intense competition for stories, as well as being an interesting experiment in online hyperlocal journalism.

• Islington Now has multimedia picture coverage today of a fire at an Old Street restaurant.