www.telegraph.co.uk ... real news source???

[TheWarmth]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Is this a real source of news in the UK? I've had two pretty outlandish stories forwarded to me recently. The first one, "Tree Man," is pretty insane, but most people seem to believe it's real:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... ree112.xml

It's pretty interesting and somewhat disturbing.

Then today, someone forwarded this to me, which is just downright disgusting and seems like a sick joke to me:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... tviewedbox

[TheWarmth]

So the two stories that I posted links to are intended to be based on fact, correct?