Paper Monitor
10:51 UK time, Tuesday, 29 July 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Sometimes one strives for something unique, something that the reader could never have thought of.
At other times, you really just want to get home, microwave your dinner and go to bed.
A pier is on fire. A great British cultural institution is the end of the pier show. The fiery pier is definitely providing a show in the sense of a visual spectacle. It is also a terminal moment for this particular pier.
So it is with no great surprise that the Times, Guardian and Independent describe the conflagration at the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare as the "End of the pier show".
What towering elan, what brio, what flair. To reach Icarus-like towards the burning sphere of headline excellence, that is the mission of the subs of these broadsheets.
Although, it must be said, things in the Sun are not much better. "WESTON SUPER FLARE", it shouts. Geddit?
The newspaper carries a poignant quote. "Our seaside piers are such a part of our heritage. This is a real tragedy."
Is it the sentiments of the National Piers Society? Or the Victorian Society? No, it's page three lovely Rhian, 21, from Manchester, speaking her brains.
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