Whilst Lush is indeed a mistress of April prankery, there are spoof news items going back long before her gulling of the forum.
The BBC started its tradition of April Fool's jokes in 1957, when
Panorama reported on the
Ticino spaghetti harvest. The involvement of Richard Dimbleby as narrator fooled many people, and a number requests were received for information about buying and cultivating spaghetti bushes.