Originally Posted by
FODPlod
It doesn't take much. Guess which national daily published this for its gullible readership?
A more factual report:
On the day after it first put to sea, the Mail also ran an article mocking the carrier for embarking on its first day of contractors sea trials without aircraft on board. You couldn't, as they say, make it up. Except that they do. If times get hard I might apply to become a defence correspondent, the bar doesn't seem to be set too high.