About

What is The Haddenham Herald?

A satirical local newspaper for Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, in the tradition of Viz and the Leigh Whisperer, built to be genuinely useful to the village alongside the jokes: real submissions, real events, real local sport, an unhinged Lonely Hearts page, puzzles, and a monthly print edition, sitting next to entirely fabricated news.

Every fabricated story here is an invented, absurd version of something, never a factual claim about a real person or business. Names, places and identifying details are changed on purpose. No reasonable reader could take any of it as fact, and that's not an accident, it's the whole design.

What we will never joke about

Death or injury. Crime and court proceedings. Any identifiable private individual's personal conduct. Anything involving children. Health or medical matters. Protected characteristics. Active legal disputes. Safeguarding matters. These stay off-limits, no exceptions.

Public bodies and public figures acting in their public role are fair game, same as any real paper. Everything else, real people's private lives, stays out of it.

Editor-in-Chief: Bobby Wellmax. Published by the Herald's owner, Drew, under a registered trading name. Corrections, complaints, and everything else: get in touch.

Safeguarding or a report involving a child: don't use anything on this site for it. Contact Buckinghamshire Council or the police directly.