Paper Monitor
12:20 UK time, Friday, 3 June 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
If there's one thing the newspapers love more than a slightly bizarre animal story, it's the weather.
And where Brits may not normally be ones to boast, when the sun shines, all bashfulness goes out the window.
"Misery for the Med as Britain laps up the sun", declares the Daily Mail with smug satisfaction. Underneath the predictable picture of children playing on the beach is an image of raincoat-clad holidaymakers drenched in Majorca - what it fails to mention is that most of them are probably Brits too.
For the Daily Mirror it's an opportunity to pull out the bad puns. Pouring cold water on claims the UK is set for a scorching month - but never one to miss the chance to show a bikini-clad beauty - it shows a snap of a solar-powered swimsuit that can power an iPod under the headline "Weather poorcast".
In other news, the Mail has done some serious investigative journalism into who the biological father of Sir Elton John and David Furnish's child is.
Apparently the baby's chubby cheeks and round face give the game away that it's Elton. Because most babies have skinny faces, clearly.
The Sun has also used the same snap of Elton and baby Zachary - dressed in a blue jumpsuit - to play on Elton's 1982 hit and reveal the "Baby's got Blue Eyes".
Back to that slightly bizarre animal story, lots of the papers report that feminist Germaine Greer has told bluebell lovers to kill their dogs in a bid to crack down on dog dirt. Not a drastic measure at all then.
But today's award goes to the Mirror which has captured a training exercise at a Chinese zoo in pictures.
Under the headline "The Grrrreat Escape" it has snaps of a man in fancy dress acting the part of a less-than-realistic comedy runaway tiger.
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