Hitting the headlines:

  • Britain’s biggest banks facing the prospect of criminal investigation after rigging interest rates: Barclay’s chief executive, Bob Diamond, is being urged to resign, HSBC, RBS and Lloyds are also under investigation (all papers)
  • Two year old girl falls 60ft to death after vandals break hole in balcony glass (Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror)
  • Olympics snub for Beckham – Beckham hasn’t made the Olympics football team (The Sun, The Mirror, i)
  • Shotgun killer escaped from Pentonville prison in London (Daily Express, i, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Sun)

Picture perfect:

  • Ugly truth about new TV top dog: Mugly, the world’s ugliest hound will have his own TV show (Daily Express)
  • Painted ladies: Models were covered in greasepaint to promote products by the cosmetic brand, Mac (Daily Telegraph)
  • Palace will sparkle, an exhibition titles ‘diamonds’ is on display at Buckingham Palace (i, Daily Telegraph)
  • Marvellous Marie: Marie Helvin posing in a bikini at 59 years old with no airbrushing, isme.co.uk (Daily Express, Daily Mail)

PR at work:

  • Hundreds of kids who live within half a mile of the seaside have never been to the beach, a survey by Fun In Action Group (The Sun)
  • Graham Fletcher from Reading has won the £1.5million on ITV1 show, Red or Black
  • Cabbage Patch Kids are set to be at the top of children’s Christmas lists this year, along with Barbie, Spiderman and Mickey Mouse, Hamleys says (The Sun, Daily Express)
  • A talented mum has drawn a picture of her two-year-old son every day of his life (The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror)
  • Heavy snorers are at double the risk of developing arthritis, research by Taipei Medical University (Daily Express, Daily Telegraph)
  • Seven out of ten Britons believe women should hang up their bikinis at the age of 39, a survey by Isme.co.uk (Daily Mail, Daily Express)
  • New heated knife to spread butter, a survey by Warburtons revealed that most Brits desired breakfast innovation (Daily Express, Daily Mail)
  • Half of women posted unflattering holiday snaps of their friends online because they had fallen out with them, a survey by MyMemory.com (Daily Mirror)
  • Probably the oldest crater in the world: Carlsberg’s fund Greenland’s exhibition to the worl’d oldest crater (Daily Mirror)

Business in brief:

  • Murdoch refuses to bid for BskyB after the division of NewsCorp (i, Daily Express)
  • Greene King toasts a sales jump: Sales up by 9.4% (The Sun, The Times)
  • Debenhams reported a sales jump of 3.1% (The Sun, The Times)

Posted by on June 29th, 2012