I take it back about British tabloids having witty headines. There’s clearly supposed to be some kind of pun there, but fucked if I know what it is.
It’s not just the tabloids that love puns.
The Guardian (quality paper) once wished that Michael Foot (former Labour party leader) would be appointed to lead a UN commission dealing with weapons as they could then print:
Foot heads arms body!
Didn’t “Dr Fuchs off to America” once slip past the censor?
Didn’t a Scottish newspaper print something after the mighty Celtic were beaten by some lower div team
SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATTROCIOUS
was a Sun headline after Celtic were beaten by Caledonian Thistle
:smack: yes, of course.
The more dismal the pun, the more likely it is to get used.
The Liverpool Daily Post printed, on the occasion of Dr Vivan Fuchs’ departure on the Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition,
DR FUCHS OFF TO SOUTH ICE (and recycled the pun a year later, sharing it with the Daily Express ) FUCHS OFF AGAIN.
Other double entrendres , intentional or not, from Fleet Street over the years, include
8TH ARMY PUSH BOTTLES UP GERMANS
and
MEAT SHORTAGE: MP’s ATTACK MINISTER
and on William Randolph Hearst making some commonplace remarks about the merits of the pen and the sword
HEARST: PEN IS
MIGHTIER THAN SWORD
(Source: Fritz Spiegl: Keep Taking The Tabloids: What The Papers Say And How They Say It)
That’s the one, brilliant 
And while we’re on the subject, what’s a pikey? Some sort of unpleasant teenager, I’ve gathered, but is there a specific meaning?
Pikey: a Gypsy. PC name, ‘Travellers’.
a.k.a. didicoi or TGBs (Thieving Gypsy Bastards)
Wearing his trademarked black beret, a freshly pressed, powder blue jogging suit and two kilograms of silver plated trinkets shaped like dollar signs and oversized shell cartridges; Chav Guverra strolls into the war room tokin’ a blunt he calls “Fidelio” and hittin’ a forty of Dos XXs.
As the Wikipedia articles note, both chav and, to a lesser degree pikey, are sometimes regarded as having racist connotations (because of their link to the Romani language and Irish traveller communities respectively). They’re still pretty common on TV, but not always without controversy.
I’d say the opposite, that chav has shaken off most of its racial origins (except perhaps in the north-east where ‘charv’ lives on). Pikey, on the other hand, is very definitely a derogatory racist term.
“Chav” has only recently been adopted as the word of choice - as noted, scots have had “neds” for years, in Liverpool they’re “scallies”, and down our way they were always “barries” or “kevs”. I think the chavscum website helped unify these various terms into a single, national term.
I should also point out that something / someone can be “munting” (ie. nasty / awful), and getting drunk can be referred to as “getting proper munted”.
I must say, I’ve never known charva, as used in the North East, to have any racial component at all, but to indicate life-style choices and behaviour.
I will admit that my source of data is one London-based Geordie!
And then they did it again when they renamed it–the “r” is silent in Myanmar too. The two names come from the same Burmese root word.
If you want to pick up British cursing, I recommend B3ta.com. Before I started visiting there, I didn’t know what “spacker”, “minge” or “mong” meant.
One of the proud claims we Brits have is the fact that our cursing and slang beats the shit out of any other in the world.
Rule Brittania 
The Times, IIRC, remarked on Surrey County Cricket Club’s performance when they had the county championship pretty much wrapped up for the current year:
SURREY WITH THE BINGE ON TAP.
Bike magazine featured someone’s road-legal conversion of a racing sidecar outfit under the heading:
SLUNG LOW STREET CHARIOT.
No kidding? I thought, to “Ming,” you had to be merciless. 