diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
index ef4487e0..de116984 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ jobs:
         - python-version: "3.11"
           env:
             TOXENV: black
+        - python-version: "3.11"
+          env:
+            TOXENV: twinecheck
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a8994b2..a80a74b0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@
 History
 -------
 
+1.8.1 (2023-04-18)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Remove a Sphinx reference from NEWS to fix the PyPI description
+* Add a ``twine check`` CI check to detect such problems
+
 1.8.0 (2023-04-18)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Add support for JMESPath: you can now create a selector for a JSON document
-  and call ``Selector.jmespath()``. See :ref:`the documentation
-  <topics-selectors>` for more information and examples.
+  and call ``Selector.jmespath()``. See `the documentation`_ for more
+  information and examples.
 * Selectors can now be constructed from ``bytes`` (using the ``body`` and
   ``encoding`` arguments) instead of ``str`` (using the ``text`` argument), so
   that there is no internal conversion from ``str`` to ``bytes`` and the memory
@@ -22,6 +28,8 @@ History
   * ``jmespath``
   * ``typing_extensions`` (on Python 3.7)
 
+ .. _the documentation: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html
+
 1.7.0 (2022-11-01)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 19685b28..c9839477 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = security,flake8,typing,pylint,black,docs,py37,py38,py39,py310,pypy3.9
+envlist = security,flake8,typing,pylint,black,docs,twinecheck,py37,py38,py39,py310,pypy3.9
 
 [testenv]
 usedevelop = True
@@ -59,3 +59,12 @@ commands =
     sphinx-build -W -b html . {envtmpdir}/html
     sphinx-build -b latex . {envtmpdir}/latex
     sphinx-build -b epub . {envtmpdir}/epub
+
+[testenv:twinecheck]
+basepython = python3
+deps =
+    twine==4.0.2
+    build==0.10.0
+commands =
+    python -m build --sdist
+    twine check dist/*