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A non-Standard vox pop

London Evening Standard voxpop mistake - Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson, as she appears in today's Evening Standard

Has going free brought down the quality of the London Evening Standard? Today's "news extra" edition, soon to become extinct with the loss of up to 20 jobs, features a vox pop about Christmas shopping. In it, 18-year-old Emily Wilson looks suspiciously like a middle-aged man – complete with grey beard. A case of mistaken identity on the part of the paper, Monkey hopes. "We've just had a glass of Moët at Selfridges so are feeling very festive now," Emily, shopping with her mother, tells the Standard. Perhaps she'll sober up when she sees her picture.

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