It just sounds silly to me. His first name would have been the most appropriate. I find regional journalism abysmal to be honest, some of the reporters can't even get the spelling of local places right, and their grammar is terrible.
// Would Master be more fitting or is that old fashioned now?//
not heard it for fifty yearn gone by.....
Mr I think is a default - and of course titles change uses in time
there are no real alternatives - Mstr - (hahaha havent seen that written since I was five) - and you cant just use the surname or 'boy'
The French have officially abandoned Mamzell - they have a language police.
There are six in Vietnamese. My niece went up from "scatty teenager" to "responsble teenager" we thought because she was leading me around. I was always an 'Ong' ( old fool)
When my teacher Mrs Penman as caught drink driving - much much later like 20 y
she objected to the Bridport news referring her in court as
" The woman, Penman...."
loudly, afterwards, everywhere
If you are talking about a tin of peas then your spelling is correct. If your a talking about an unmarried man or a university graduate then it is bachelor.
I would have said ‘young Ben’ and not used Mr. That is a title that should be used for adults not children.
But at the end of the day grammar and the right words mean so little nowadays. I think the population will sink to text speak in normal everyday writing soon and it will transpire that only the legal profession still use it to flummoxe the population. Lol