Paper Monitor
10:21 UK time, Monday, 2 January 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Happy new year! Paper Monitor turns to the morning's newsprint offerings hoping to block out memories of the after-effects of Hogmanay over-indulgence, but everywhere are memories of the night before the night before.
Most papers carry spectacular images of
pyrotechnician Darryl Fleming, who led the team which put on the display, was the "first man since Guy Fawkes to take gunpowder into the Palace of Westminster".
It was a record which weighed heavily over Mr Fleming. "I didn't fancy being hung, drawn and quartered if anything went wrong," he told the paper.
In the Guardian is enjoying - if that's the correct word - a bracing dip in the Firth of Forth, the English channel, Whitley Bay in Tyneside and other less-than-tropical locations.
After carefully surveying the photographs, Paper Monitor does not regret taking the decision to spend the day indoors.
An even more sobering selection of pictures have been to illustrate its new year round-up.
They show a selection of revellers in various states of drunken incapacity in cities around the UK. According to the story, the festivities "left emergency services across the country with a massive hangover". The headline is BENDER THE YEAR.
Interestingly, of the eight photos of drunken mishaps, two feature men looking tired and emotional while the remainder focus on overly-refreshed young women.
Does this signal that 2012 is the year we discover a new Drunk Girl?
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