Hitting the headlines:
- 48 hours to save the €uro – continent in crisis as Hollande is sworn in (Daily Mirror/i/Independent/The Times)
- Candles on cake…call 999 – cops were called to a lad’s birthday party when play centre staff refused to let his mum light candles on his cake over health and safety fears (The Sun/ Daily Mail)
- Part-timers at new high – record 1.38 million people are working in part-time jobs because they cannot get full-time ones – unions research (Daily Mirror/ The Guardian)
Picture perfect
- City’s victory parade around Manchester (all papers)
- Madam Tussauds launches waxwork of the Queen (all papers)
- Animatronic dinosaur arrives at Bristol Zoo Gardens (The Independent)
PR at work:
- Stamped & ad-dress-ed – Vivienne Westwood launches stamps with Royal Mail (Daily Mirror/ Daily Mail)
- Death on Earth: how the world’s wildlife vanished – WWF Living Planet Report (The Independent/ i/ Daily Mail)
- Red alert on cyclists – 14% of cyclists say they skip red lights regularly – poll from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (Daily Star/Daily Mail)
- Nine in ten Brits are unaware they can claim compensation for missed deliveries according to a survey by ITV Daybreak (The Sun)
- Sleepers on march – twice as many people sleepwalk as was previously suspected according to a California study (The Sun)
- Playing game consoles for just 90 minutes more than doubles the risk of a deadly blood clot – from a Lifeblood study (The Sun)
Business in brief:
- Channel 4 to bring us more daring TV as it nears 30 (Daily Mirror/Daily Telegraph)
- E.on freezing prices until 2013, putting pressure on rivals (Daily Mirror)
- Crash landing fear for Cook’s planes deal – more than 10% was wiped off the value of struggling travel giant Thomas Cook yesterday (Daily Mirror/ Daily Mail)
- Ebay tax is slapped on skint Brits – tens of thousands of eBay and Amazon traders are facing fines in a massive tax crackdown (Daily Star)
Posted by Julia on May 15th, 2012
