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Over the years our papers across Sussex have enjoyed attempts at fooling our readers with stories varying from Loch Ness monster hunters to a village who invented toothpaste.
Here are a selection of stories our titles have run.
The home of toothpaste and the lost village
The Eastbourne Herald reported seagulls had been trained to pick up litter
A tiny West Sussex village was known to be part of the area associated with the historic Wealden iron industry - but who would have thought it was also the home of toothpaste?
No-one until one April 1st when the local newspaper the West Sussex County Times exclusively revealed that the paste that keeps your teeth white, gums healthy and a smile permanently on your face - was harvested from the village of Colgate a few miles north-east of the town of Horsham.