Keith Waterhouse and the b****y-minded Mail

The Daily Mail invited its former columnist Keith Waterhouse to pen a two-page spread commemorating 50 years since he wrote Billy Liar, which began life as a book before becoming a hit West End play and film. Waterhouse remembers there was a storm of complaints when it first appeared in the theatre, and all because it had the word "bloody" in it. Fifteen times, apparently. Waterhouse describes the word as "innocuous" and wonders what all the fuss was about. So how does the Mail spell it in the headline for the piece on Saturday? "B****y". Bloody marvellous!