Currently being reported by Teletext.

Here is one of those news stories...

icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaymercu...50002-name_page.html

And today on a Proby forum run by those who are personally close to him...

pjproby.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=25

They state...

"It looks like somebody organised a big scheme to blacken the Proby name once again.
I can assure you all no such thing has happened! PJ is at home, watching TV with Tilly! He has not been charged with any fraud at all. "

Such is the strange world of PJ Proby... it appears our wonderful media are up to their tricks again... after all, its a "good" story isn't it?

and here is The Sun's take on events ...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article813573.ece

Given our "wonderful media" can easily be sued for libel it seems unlikely they are up to any "tricks"

Regarding the authority of newspapers and the authority of an Internet forum I'd say neither are spectacularly reliable.

Frankly I find it very hard to give a toss either way.