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Claws front page proves so popular it has been turned into a T-shirt

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The T-shirt created for a readers' competition. Photo: Whitstable Gazette

The front page of a weekly newspaper has proved so popular it has been turned into a T-shirt.

Following reports that a 50ft crab had been spotted off the Kent coast, the Whitstable Gazette splashed on a parody of the Jaws movie poster.

Evidently, people loved the "Crabzilla" front with its "Claws" headline and one of the paper's reporters realised it would be possible to turn it into a T-shirt and raise money for charity.

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The original front page

Editor Leo Whitlock said: "Crabzilla was all that people in Whitstable were talking about, with the online versions of the story generating visits from more than 141,000 unique browsers in just a couple of days. So we knew we had to do something different for the paper."

He paid tribute to the originators of the front page - deputy production editors Lisa Daniels and Crispin Whiting - to the editorial graphics supremo, Ashley Austen, for making it work, and to reporter Mary Louis for coming up with the shirt idea.

To obtain a T-shirt, people are being invited to take part in a text message competition. Profits will be donated to the newspaper's charity of the year - the Canterbury Food Bank.

Source: Whitstable Gazette

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