Paper Monitor
11:20 UK time, Thursday, 1 February 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
With all this global warming malarky going on, every month seems to set a record of some sort - hottest, windiest, wettest etc.
But it's a toughy for the papers: on the one hand, global warming is the biggest catastrophe facing mankind since a dirty great meteorite, or was it a comet, hit Earth a few million years ago (to paraphrase Prof Stephen Hawking); on the other, hey it's the weather and that's always good of a laugh among the British.
So while the Doomsday clock may have nudged forward a nano-second more on the back of news that the past month was the second warmest January on record, the latter sentiment seems to govern the press' attitude.
Time to cut the lawn, in blooming February! - the Times.
JAN-PHEW-ARY - the Daily Mirror.
Winter heads for record as the weather goes balmy - the Daily Telegraph (with a picture of a yellow rose - heaven forbid it should be a red one - on the front page).
Weather springs a surprise - the Daily Express.
Winter goes green - the Daily Mail, which, characteristically also finds a cuddly animal angle - in this case a balding hedgehog who apparently lost its hair due to the stress of missing out on winter hibernation.
Ah, but surely that paragon of environmental piety, the Independent, will do justice to this worrying story... Er no, it doesn't even carry it.
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