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Cleveleys MP in bizarre love-triangle with conjoined twins watched his two-headed lover eat dogfood whilst listening to Status Quo’s Greatest Hits on MiniDisc. It’s exactly the sort of rubbish you expect to read in the news these days, as ‘fake news’ is on the rise. At least that’s what some people want you to believe – but in an age of fake news, should you believe them? And if they aren’t to be believed, then is there really all the fake news they claim there is?  It’s a minefield. Ever since President Donald Trump began banding around the term ‘fake news’, it seems everybody is either using, or misusing it. Of course, Hoax news items deliberately written to mislead should rightly be called ‘fake news’ when they are created for the purpose of financial gain, perhaps through the sales of newspapers; or for some other personal gain such as political advantage. But just because something isn’t true doesn’t make it fake. Most people that like to read or watch the news al