Paper Monitor
10:37 UK time, Friday, 22 March 2013
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Some stories hang around longer than others. Cold weather for example.
The front page of the Daily Express Weather© (expl: climatic conditions so extreme they break some sort of standing record or other) proclaims:
36 hours of snow chaos on the way
A prediction it has no doubt made before.
Similar jeremiads abound elsewhere:
- "White hell weekend" - in the Daily Mirror
- a picture of a chilly-looking dog in a hoodie in the Daily Star
Oh, and we're about to run out of gas, according to more than one paper. Please make it go away.
We haven't yet got to that stage with the Budget, although it feels as if the papers could be settling in for a long spell.
The Daily Mail can barely control its glee at the sight (or sound) of a politician getting a kicking on a radio phone-in - in this case, Nick Clegg being put on the spot over child care credits.
The Sun proclaims George Osborne the "Chancer of the Exchequer" and accuses him of having "cooked the UK books to make UK growth figures look marginally less appalling", but says:
It's not Pastygate mark II
Time will tell if the Budget stories are hanging around in a week's time. Meanwhile The Times has a map of the cosmos on page 15, about which it says:
This is the oldest light in the universe and has travelled billions of years to reach us after first being imprinted in the sky only 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
Which really is a long time. About the last time Paper Monitor saw decent weather, in fact.
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