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It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

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A good example of this is their insistence on using the comma, to mean β€œthe”, β€œof” or β€œand”, leading to some bizarre headlines.

Midland, Baker, Roz, Mazda, convicted, fraud

Which despite the fact it just sounds like a list of random words, is in fact a valid sentence. Or at least it represents one.

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Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

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