Lord Jones is Dead

Two journalists from rival newspapers, The Daily Herald and The National, wait outside a suburban house for a woman who is said to have had an affair with a high-profile minister. A photographer from The Daily Herald is with them, there to get a photo of the girl. Unfortunately, they don’t know if this is the right house – or, indeed, whether this is even the right girl. And with The National’s journalist being told by his editors that he’s not to come back until he has a story, and The Daily Herald’s journalist being told that he has to stay until The National’s leaves, the trio settle in for what promises to be a long wait. At which point the decide that they could just as easily make the story up…