Hitting the headlines:

  • Euro exit – England pay the penalty, yet again – England are out of Euro 2012 (all papers)
  • When Harry met Lucy – Harry Styles from One Direction has a fling with another older woman, a Key 103 radio DJ (Mirror/ Star)
  • Benefit curb on bigger families – payouts could stop at three children under PM’s welfare vision – jobless families could be penalised for having more than three children under Tory plans for a welfare revolution (Mail)
  • It’s flaming terrible June – misery as floods and mud make it worst June in 100 years (Metro)

Picture Perfect:

  • Emma up fur a good cause – Potter star in dog afternoon for charity – Emma Watson dyes her dog pink for Cancer Research (Mirror/ Sun)
  • Bearing glad tidings – a panda cub was shown off in China and was seen playing with pals at the Giant Panda Research Base at Chengdu (Mirror)
  • Can Designs – architect Khaled Gamgoum completes his food tin sculpture for the Canstruction Contest in London (Metro)
  • Funeral firm ‘stacking up bodies like television sets’ – Co-operative Funeralcare’s refrigerated warehouse (Metro)
  • Carr’s a big-headed tax dodger – Jimmy Car was urged to buy a giant replica of his head yesterday to make up for his tax-dodge (Sun)
  • Lickin’ Cathedral – a man had made a bet with pals to lick all the cathedrals in the country – he is so far up to number 42 (Sun)

PR at work:

  • Why ‘waking up’ your hair could be a cure for baldness – L’Oreal are developing an easy-to-apply treatment for the scalp to encourage hair growth (Express)
  • Jobs stop us eating well – longer working hours means skipping meals or tucking into take-aways (Mirror)
  • Millions risk life stuffing faces while on the road – seven million motorists put themselves and others at risk by eating while driving – Co-Op Motor Group (Mirror)
  • Girl blogger wants tents not truffles – school dinner blogger Martha Payne has knocked back a VIP meal at one of the world’s best restaurants, to go camping in Blackpool (Metro/ Mirror)
  • We’re home sweet home – 27% of children dream of living in a house made of sweets – BIC study found (Mirror)
  • Cancer can’t motivate diets – obese people are struggling to motivate themselves to lose weight despite their size increasing their cancer risk – Cancer Research shows (Metro)
  • Google’s telly box heralds a new era – Google TV is launched today (Sun)
  • It’s diet Cocaine – non-foodies may be more likely to take cocaine a study claims –Yale Scientists claim (Sun)
  • Down, boy? ‘Prozac’ for nation’s 8 in 10 depressed dogs – a study shows more dogs are depressed (Sun)
  • Daffodils can help lift depression – according to scientists in Copenhagen (i/ Sun)
  • Cardiff happiest on the rails – Cardiff commuters are the happiest and those in Manchester are the most miserable – survey of rail passengers (i)
  • Tonic wine – a couple of glasses of wine a day improves your quality of life – Canadian study (Star)

Business in brief:

  • Courting the wealthy: Quartz takes on the FT – digital business news service to launch by the same publishing house that’s behind the 155-year-old magazine The Atlantic (Independent)
  • Lloyds cuts price to make grass greener for Project Verde sale – Lloyds is preparing to sell the “Project Verde” branches but with tough conditions continuing for banks it looks like the selling price will be cut (Telegraph/ Express)
  • Jobs at risk as 3i set for an overhaul – job cuts at 3i group as it scaled back overseas office network (Express)
  • Rolls’ search for successor – Search for successor to chairman Sir Simon Robertson (Express)
  • Fury as NatWest fiasco drags on – the problems have dragged into a 6th day leaving customers fuming as some balances were not showing correctly and online services were unavailable (Mirror/ Metro)

Posted by on June 25th, 2012