Paper Monitor
10:58 UK time, Tuesday, 29 May 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
There are few things Paper Monitor enjoys more in life than a headline so comprehensive there is little need to read the accompanying article. So imagine your humble columnist's delight at :
Barrister son of top lawyer in cocaine and ecstasy shame (... but he is let off with just a police caution and gets to keep his job)
- Henry Mostyn is son of former top divorce lawyer Sir Nicholas Mostyn QC, nicknamed 'Mr Payout' for his big money settlements
- Eton and Oxford-educated Mostyn fined £605 by a legal disciplinary panel for possessing drugs only weeks after being called to the Bar
- Mostyn was arrested by police as he queued for an east London nightclub
- Sir Nicholas walked out on his wife to live with divorce lawyer Elizabeth Saunders, whose barrister husband was shot dead during a siege in 2008
(Sadly it has been streamlined from an earlier labyrinthine effort, which was, as broadcaster Danny Baker pointed out on Twitter last night, an that packed in the son, the drugs, the QC, the divorce lawyer he left his wife for AND her own husband's dramatic death - all in one line. Paper Monitor did not think to take a screengrab.)
What is it in the newspaper itself?
Barrister son of top lawyer in cocaine and ecstasy shame But he is let off with just a police caution and gets to keep his job
The Daily Telegraph, too, is fond of both over-explanatory headlines and multi-lawyer pile-ups. Its headline:
Judge's son caught with cocaine weeks after qualifying as a barrister
The U-turn on pasty tax is another opportunity for the sub-editors of Fleet Street to work their special magic:
"PASTY LA VISTA, TAXMAN" - the Sun, which has also named its campaign "Who VAT all the pies?"
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Hungry now.
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