Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rubber News is a recurring news programme in the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. It would only be a few minutes long and would be screened as one of the sketches in Spitting Image.The programme''s first appearance was in series 1 episode 7 (May 13th 1984).Rubber News involved normally two (sometimes a different number) of the "Spitting Image" puppets acting as newsreaders sitting behind a news desk presenting some news headlines, made up by the writers of Spitting Image. Sometimes the puppets would argue or get into a fight.