Paper Monitor
13:44 UK time, Thursday, 10 January 2013
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Bathed in golden light, an Australian family is in the sea near their home.
But this is no idyllic summertime snapshot. The golden light is not sunshine but an inferno that engulfed their small Tasmanian fishing village last Friday. As flames approached, Tim and Tammy Holmes fled into the sea with their five grandchildren.
As they clung to the wooden jetty amid swirling embers for several hours, Tim Holmes , reproduced on the front page of the Guardian, the Independent and within other newspapers.
"Everything was on fire and it was just exploding all over the place," Holmes said. The children - three of them non-swimmers - clung on in the chilly sea. Eventually, Holmes managed to return to the shore and grab a small dinghy. He loaded in the children and his wife and then took the boat 200m out from the coast, where the air was more breathable.
One of the photos shows a dog - possibly a spaniel - on the jetty as the family huddle underneath.
Rest easy, pet-lovers, the Times : "The family dog, Polly, also made it."
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