07/06/2011

Each day the editor of the Northern Echo Peter Barron challenges BBC Tees to come up with a better headline for one of their stories.

For Tuesday's headline challenge The Northern Echo go with a story about US cops shooting at an alligator before realising it was a garden ornament.

The Northern Echo's headline "Police Croc Up"

BBC Tees went with "False Alli-gations".

Independent adjudicator Kerry thought that BBC Tees was today's winner.

The score stands at 2-0 to BBC Tees.