Sometimes fake news can be fun. Take the time word went around Liverpool that a furious Coleen McLoughlin had taken off Wayne Rooney’s engagement ring and thrown it into a bush. The city’s detectorists came out in force.
Things got so out of hand that the National Trust had to ban treasure seekers from the Formby Point nature reserve for fear the search for the £25,000 ring would disturb the squirrels. The evidence of Coleen being in the squirrel sanctuary, let alone discarding the ring, is on the fictional side of flimsy.
