Paper Monitor
15:45 UK time, Tuesday, 2 August 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Ah, there's some very silly stuff indeed in today's papers.
Paper Monitor is almost left feeling that there's some sort of seasonally-induced news shortage.
We'll start with the best. It's in the Sun. There should be a prize for any article that contains a sentence like:
"This amazing sonar image appears to show Han Solo's Star Wars spaceship the Millennium Falcon at the bottom of the Baltic Sea."
The man who found it says: "I have never seen anything like it." Well, yes, that's what one might have assumed.
Then in the Sun and elsewhere there's the woman who punched a black bear while out running in Montana. And the couple in the West Midlands who try to live like native Americans, again in more than one paper.
And what about the pub that's banned Morris dancers because the bells on their boots break a ban on music.
The Daily Mail suggests that a British bee venom mask is all the rage in China.
If only we had a name for this seasonally-induced news shortage.
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