Paper Monitor
11:10 UK time, Tuesday, 28 November 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Defection, it鈥檚 the name of the game today.
But before Mr Grade makes a call which cannot be refused (Note to MG: Address is the.magazine@bbc.co.uk, please make your subject line "Lucre"), Paper Monitor will eschew the delights of the newspapers and instead defect to bring you a round-up of nuggets from the outer reaches of the 大象传媒's very own websites!
From the 大象传媒 Weather Centre, what鈥檚 the forecast for鈥 picking a place at random鈥 Ashby de la Zouch? It鈥檚 a mixed bag today in Adrian Mole鈥檚 hometown, with lightning, thunder clouds AND sunshine on the cards.
Seeking a diversion while supping a scalding Nescafe from its checked Thermos, Paper Monitor logs onto the CBeebies site to play the Koala Brothers鈥 game. Can Frank and Buster pick up the parcels dropped when the postbag came apart while delivering mail to the homestead?
Left a bit鈥
鈥 ah - got one! Right again鈥
鈥 well, about half ended up smashed on the parched earth of the Outback. Never mind.
And in , a spin of the mouse picks鈥 Yemen at random. What factoids can Paper Monitor pick up about the reputed home of the Queen of Sheba? Fancy that, 鈥渢he custom of chewing the narcotic plant khat in the afternoons is still widely observed鈥.
And in Paper Monitor鈥檚 stablemate, the Editors鈥 blog, a pun worthy of Punorama - Grade expectations.
Enough of this. It鈥檚 so long from Paper Monitor, and it鈥檚 auf wiedersehen, good night from Michael Grade.
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