British hoaxes that fooled the public

British newspaper The Telegraph has just recently published a list of curious cases that caused confusion among the public. Lots of people were fooled to believe in impossible stories of fairies, false identities, giving birth to rabbits and so on. That only shows the naivete of some, but naivete based on actual news that appeared in newspapers. True magic of the press - and most of the cases were revealed even if there still was no TV, not to mention Internet! Hoaxes, that's what the Telegraph calls such incidents. And some of them are really curious. Some other include famous people. Here is my subjective selection of cases, and for the whole story go to the official page of The Telegraph, who knows, you might find something more to it.