Hitting the headlines:

  • Diamond refuses to take blame for rate fix – Bob Diamond has declined to take personal responsibility for the rate-rigging scandal (Times/ Sun)
  • Britain facing flood misery – two months rain expected in the next 3 days (Express/ Sun/ Mail)
  • Scientists prove the existence of ‘God particle’ – momentous find after 45-year hunt for Higgs boson (i/ Mail/ Metro/ Sun)
  • Only one Shard…but so many windows – Shard Skyscraper in London (Western Europe’s tallest tower) reaches completion (Times/ Express)

Picture Perfect:

  • Kate, set and match: now for the semi-final – The Duchess of Cambridge watches Andy Murray seal a place in Wimbledon’s semi-final (all papers)
  • Hair-dressing – a hairdresser has used her customers tresses to create a dress made out of hair (Metro)
  • Easy riders – children cycle at The National Cycling Centre Olympic training cycle track in Manchester (Metro)
  • Panda Awareness – people dressed up as pandas went on the underground to raise awareness of pandas (Metro)
  • Paris Illuminations – Paris Fashion Week – Frank Sorbier shows off his collection (Metro/ Telegraph)

PR at work:

  • Having large breasts ‘raises risk of cancer’ – 23andMe study (Mail/ Star)
  • England world’s fourth best team – according to FIFA world rankings (Star)
  • Joey in the pink – Joey Essex from The Only Way is Essex has teamed up with Surf to bottle the fragrance of the summer holidays by creating a limited edition bottle of Surf Summer D’reem (Star)
  • Top firms give our boys jobs – war heroes get guaranteed interviews – troops axed under Government cuts are being guaranteed interviews at some of Britains biggest firms including; John Lewis, Greggs, New Look, Timpson and Tottenham Hotspur (Star)
  • Fed up? Time to visit pub for unhappy hour – a pub in the Yorkshire Dales has launched an unhappy hour to reward the most miserable with a free drink (Express/ Star/ Sun)
  • Burger’s a true beast – a restaurant has created a burger that is so large it has to be ordered a day in advance and is £!5 containing 456g of fat and three days worth of calories – Warren’s Gourmet Burger Company in Bristol (Star)
  • Eee! It’s best to live next to a Yorkie – the perfect neighbour lends a lawnmower, babysits, checks your pets and invites you to BBQ’s and the people who do all this and more are aged between 35 and 44 and live in Yorkshire – More Than study (Express/Telegraph)
  • Women rack up £84,000 clothes bill – women spend nearly £84,000 on clothes in a lifetime research shows and £14,000 of that is on shoes – study by Sure Women Linen Dry (Express/ Sun/ Metro)
  • Two children in every class have no food before school – two pupils in each class arrive at school on an empty stomach because their recession-hit families cannot afford food – according to Kids Company (Metro/ Independent)
  • It’s cheap up North – Yorkshire is the cheapest place to rent a holiday home according to a study by Trip Advisor (i)

Business in brief:

  • Lord Sugar hails YouView as a ‘great moment’ in TV – the innovative internet TV service has been launched (Express/ Star/ Telegraph/ Times)
  • A BBC man all his life. And now he’s running the show – Corporation resists calls for a female director-general by appointing 23-year veteran George Entwistle (Independent/ Guardian/ Metro)
  • Etihad will keep spending in climb to top of aviation’s premier league- Etihad has recently bought Air Berlin and Aer Lingus (Times)
  • Diageo seal deal to flog Chinese luxury spirit in UK at £99 a bottle – the drink, Baijiu, that has sealed millions of Chinese Business deals is about to go on sale in London after Diageo agreed a UK distribution deal (Independent)
  • Hundreds of jobs could go as dry-cleaner cuts its cloth – up to 100 loss-making branches of Johnson Service Group are to close (Times/ Guardian/ Telegraph)

Posted by on July 5th, 2012