Hitting the headlines:

  • £10 electronic cigarette sparks terror alert on a coach on M6 – smoke coming from a man’s bag resulted in a major ant-terror operation costing hundreds of thousands of pounds (Daily Mirror, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Independent)
  • Flood warnings across Britain as a month’s worth of rain is expected to fall in two days (Daily Express, Independent)
  • Andy Murray in the Wimbledon semi-final (Daily Star, The Sun, Daily Express)

Picture perfect:

  • Western Europe’s tallest building, Shard, opened last night (Daily Express, The Times, The Sun, Daily Telegraph)
  • Leading scientists insist aliens exist, and they know what they look like (Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star)
  • It’s prom night for a couple of dolly birds – two girls turn up to their prom in Barbie boxes (Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star)
  • A beaming elephant seal has been photographed in the Falkland Islands (The Sun)

PR at work:

  • An egg for breakfast can help you lose weight – research by Network Health (Daily Express)
  • Women’s eyebrows can reveal where they’re from – research by Debenhams looking in to sales of eyebrow pencils in their stores across the UK (Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sun)
  • The most annoying hand gestures are revealed – research by iPhone app ‘Goggle Eyes’ ((The Sun, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph)
  • British pupils have slumped to their lowest ever international ranking in Maths, research by The Programme for International Student Assessment (The Sun)
  • New car sales for the year broke through the million mark last month, research by The Society of Motor Manufacturers (The Sun)
  • Geordie girls take longer to get ready than almost any other girls, a survey by lastminute.com (Daily Star)
  • Young Britons aged 18-34 go out 32 times a month on average, a survey by Deloitte (Daily Star)
  • People who grow up in the North of England are more likely to stay there compared to those in the South, research by Newcastle University (Daily Mail)
  • Two out of five victims of homophobic bullying at school either try to commit suicide or contemplate suicide, a survey by Stonewall (The Independent)

Business in brief:

  • Cineworld sales are down 2.1% on the start of the year (Independent, Daily Telegraph)
  • The Barclay’s scandal could lead to a downgrade in the bank’s credit rating (The Guardian)

Posted by on July 6th, 2012