Hitting the headlines:

  • Hollande wins French election (across board)
  • Break-up of the eurozone is now firmly on the cards (Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Times, Guardian, The Sun, Financial Times)
  • Dismal spring continues as Britain is expecting another month’s rain tomorrow night (Daily Express, The Times)

Picture perfect

  • Birds eye shots show stunning Britain: pictures from new book, Britain from above month by month (Independent, I,)
  • Four tiny babies…what a shell shock! Tiny tortoises are a big hit at zoo (Daily Express, Daily Telegraph)
  • Chicken let onto Ewood Park pitch as Blackburn fans protest against owners, Venkys (Daily Express)
  • Calling all Bungays, of Bungay: Suffolk football match with 22 Bungays (The Times, Daily Mirror, The Sun,)
  • Hundreds of Hartlepool fans invade Charlton dressed as smurfs (Daily Mirror)
  • The bright lights: Super moon lights up New York skyline (Daily Mirror)
  • Riding your luck! Bike lane blunder forces cyclists to use the middle of the road (Daily Mirror)
  • Treasured tusks: largest tusks ever sold at auction are set to command a £250,000 bid (Daily Telegraph)
  • True blue-ooh-ooh. Twitter sensation depicts Boris Johnson as looking like orang-utan (The Sun)

PR at work:

  • Can I insult you, madam? Weight Watchers survey about rude shop assistants (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror)
  • Travelex study: around 80,000 British couples will wed abroad in 2012 to beat the rising costs of UK weddings (Daily Star, The Sun, Daily Telegraph)
  • Durex joy for Vegans: free vegan-friendly condoms will be offer to athletes at London 2012 (Daily Star)
  • Recession is bad for your health: Pru Health survey shows hard-up Brits can no longer afford to buy healthy grub (Daily Star, The Sun)
  • Niger is ‘worst place to be a mother’ – Save The Children research polled the best and worst places to live as a mother (I)

Business in brief:

  • Twitter has more legs than Facebook: expert predicts Twitter has longer term future (Daily Telegraph)
  • Coalition under fire as Wonga launches business loans (Daily Telegraph)
  • Selling off the family seat to enter chocolate war: Felicity London, Cadbury heiress, starts up rival chocolate company (I, Independent, Daily Telegraph)
  • Big bucks at the meat counter to be earned by venison: Farmers struggling to keep up with demand for venison (The Times)
  • A perfect night in doesn’t always mean pizza – Lovehoney research suggests more people are staying in to have sex (The Times)

Posted by on May 8th, 2012