Paper Monitor
12:39 UK time, Wednesday, 21 February 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Counting schools on a map can be a hazardous business.
Both the Daily Telegraph and the Times have the smart idea of considering which schools David Cameron is snubbing in sending his three-year-old daughter Nancy to a faith school.
But the results are startlingly different [look away now if you haven't already done the DMQ].
According to the Times, there are 46 primary schools within 1.5 miles of his Notting Hill home, excluding the nine Roman Catholic and one Islamic schools. The school Cameron hopes to pick is "less than two miles away".
But the Daily Telegraph says there are 15 suitable schools nearer than the school in question and even names them all on a map.
Despite the differences over figures, there is unanimity among the papers' sketch writers who analyse Cameron's Radio 4 interview in which he made the revelation.
Andrew Gimson in the Telegraph says: "David Cameron wandered into the You and Yours studio and gave a brilliant impression of being a normal person."
And according to Ann Treneman in the Times, "Mr Cameron (sorry, Dave) took every opportunity to emphasise how incredibly normal he is."
Maybe great minds do think alike, after all.
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