Paper Monitor
11:24 UK time, Monday, 29 June 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Phew! Hot enough for you? Ice creams all round at lunch today...
The nation is in the grip of a week-long heat wave and do you know why? Weather forecasters, stop your explaining. It is because Wimbledon's Centre Court now has its gazillion pound sliding roof, thus guaranteeing the sunniest late June on record.
It's the same meteorological forces at work, but on a much larger scale, as when one goes out, having left the washing on the line. Or forgotten that just-in-case umbrella. Especially if one is heading for a special occasion picnic. What happens next? It rains.
And if one judiciously brings in the laundry and packs a brolly, before heading out to the wet weather alternative to that picnic? Glorious sunshine.
But with glorious sunshine comes the threat of sudden thunderstorms and flash floods. So what to wear? Glastonbury-goers are well practised at preparing for any eventuality weather-wise, so Paper Monitor again seeks out advice from festival fashion coverage. Suggestions include:
- Jo Whiley's £250 Jimmy Choo mock-croc wellies (), says the Daily Mail.
- And a Keep Calm and Carry On T-shirt, as worn by Katie Price going down the shops.
- A fireworks-enabled bra, a la Lady Gaga, says the Guardian, presumably handy in the event of a storm-induced power cut.
- Wigs. "The new hotpants," says the Guardian. Quite a mental picture.
- And for blokes, topless with a kilt (worn traditional style, if you get my drift) in place of tennis whites, in the Sun.
Meanwhile, the Daily Star lays claim to the "world exclusive last pic" of Michael Jackson. Anyone troubled by press intrusion and/or medical procedures may wish to look away now. Oh, and/or shameless plugs.
For the paper's front page "world exclusive last pic" is a reproduction of the cover of OK! magazine - brought to you by one Richard Desmond, proprietor of the Star and Express.
"The official tribute issue. In loving memory. With all our love and prayers." So read the coverlines over a photo of a dying man in an oxygen mask strapped to a hospital stretcher.
And the OK! cover in its entirety is reproduced on page three of the Star, and also the Express. Almost the size of a full-page advert. Which is what it is.
The 
