A woman helped her website to fake its own death by convincing lurkers and the  sites own members that it had died in a canoe accident, a court heard yesterday.Ellie Ellins, 56, was overwhelmed with writers block and facing an increase in members demanding more content, less bollocks, she decided to concoct the story to avoid having to flood daily stream of consciousness down the forum’s front page any longer.

Board members including, Knicker Sniffer, that quiet one out of the Lancashire Hotpots, Anthony Worrall Thompson and Lord Brian “Look at me here on another skiing holiday” Thong believed their board was dead after their weeping aquaintence told them via MSN: "I think it’s dead. I’m not posting on there any more, it’s up the creek without a paddle."

It was suggested that : "Ellie Ellins clearly thought nothing of lying to other members and convincing them that their own forum was on its last legs and unable to perform an aquatic Eskimo roll.”

According to Worrall Thompson, his whole world had fallen apart. He felt he had not just lost a local based forum, but his best friend.