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10:28 UK time, Monday, 19 March 2012

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

First things first, Paper Monitor isn't encouraging truancy.

But it can't help but be tickled by the tale of 12 bus drivers who scooped the Euromillions jackpot in a syndicate last Friday.

says the Daily Mail, which goes on to say bosses were drafted in to help provide a service to the town in Northamptonshire.

The paper's cartoonist Jonathan Pugh is clearly entertained too. "Typical! You wait ages for a bus and then three Aston Martins drive past at the same time," he muses, beneath a picture of two people waiting at a bus stop.

That's because one of the winners has previously posed for pictures of himself taking part in an Aston Martin "driving day", according to Metro, which it terms a "busman's holiday".

Under the headline "everybody off my bus, I've won EuroMillions jackpot!" the paper also reveals that one of the bus drivers quit his job mid-shift.

"He apparently stopped the vehicle, told everyone he was going no farther and followed them off the bus," it says.

Although some residents may have been miffed that their travel arrangements were in chaos, the paper decides the main mood on Twitter is congratulatory.

It reports one resident as tweeting: "12 Corby based bus drivers scoop the Euromillions last night, the whole town is talking about it, try getting a busy in Corby today!"

"So that's several millions injected into the local economy, some happy people and more than likely some new bus driver jobs coming up!" it quotes another as saying.

The Daily Telegraph notes that .

Now Paper Monitor loves its job. But with that track record, it might be worth thinking about getting a syndicate together.

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