Paper Monitor
10:44 UK time, Friday, 28 September 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's unusual to see anyone chuckling to themselves on public transport. But those who spotted that rarest of species on their commute this morning may well have sighted Paper Monitor itself.
The cause of this outbreak of muffled giggles? Why, the Times' People column (of course) with a snippet from the Labour conference. No, stick with us - it's a note left lying on the desk of the chairman, who decides which speaker to call during debates, that reads:
- Greg
Crime debate
Westminster delegate - Chinese lady, yellow top MUST NOT BE CALLED bonkers speech about gun ownership.
Thanks
"Westminster lady, do get in touch," adds People as an aside.
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph muscles in on Daily Express territory. No, not Diana or Madeleine, but the weather. And not just the weather, but making a long-term prediction about an entire season: "WRAP UP FOR A COLDER WINTER."
This, surely, is skating on thin ice (so to speak) after earlier predictions of a hot hot hot summer proved to be so very very very unfounded.
While the Telegraph plays it relatively safe by confining the prediction to a brief on its front page, the Express gives it pride of place on page three alongside news of rhododendrons flowering seven months early. The paper quotes a Royal Horticultural Society expert guessing that the plants will also flower in April: "[T]here's such as wealth of nutrients in the soil that they have managed an extra appearance," he says.
This is down to the "barmy weather", the paper explains. But is it a good thing, or a bad thing?
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