(Evening) Paper Monitor
15:06 UK time, Tuesday, 27 July 2010
A survey highlighting the riches of the daily evening's press.
For all sorts of reasons too complicated to get into, Paper Monitor is a bit late out of the blocks today. So instead of indulging in its normal diet of morning paper elevenses, its ravenous mid-afternoon appetite is being sated with a selection of dishes from the evening paper kitchens.
Just as any traveling epicurist knows that the finest cuisines are those with links to a local source, so the litmus test of any good regional paper must focus on its local news coverage.
Thus, (Evening) Paper Monitor presents readers with a selection of stories that you (probably) won't read in tomorrow's national press.
In its former incarnation as Local Paper Monitor (it was a long time ago, in a provincial town far-far away), Paper Monitor recalls having to pepper its copy with puns the like of which would have made Punorama (RIP, sniff) blanche. Even on a good day, whether it could have matched the ingenuity demonstrated by the South Wales Echo is definitely questionable.
Telling the story that a biomass equipment company has come third in forestry machinery category at Royal Welsh Show, the Echo proclaims: .
When you've recovered...
Other stories that won't be appearing in tomorrow's nationals include:
- Southend Evening Echo
- Plymouth Evening Herald
- London Evening Standard
And - Manchester Evening News , which shows it is in fine punning fettle with news that the city's transport chiefs (disregard all images of Apaches commandeering covered wagons) "have agreed to rethink their ban on disabled people taking electric scooters on trams".
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