anyone ever had a call from some outfit calling themselves "Southern News" or some such?

When they ask your age*, and you decline, and they get right pugnacious and aggressively persistent, (despite getting data for free): it will end up in a Comic like the Sun.

Trust me.

* They made up a figure there and then and insisted I agree. I didn't but they published a number anyway. I have since had spurious contacts asking about being involved in this and that. My reply didn't put them off immediately:
eg "I am not that interesting, and you lot want it all for free and don't use the true bits etc".