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Newspaper journalists don't really like to keep it under their hat when they've been working hard.

So the Daily Telegraph makes no secret of the late night required to bring you news of the Conservatives' landmark win in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.

"3AM," it says in red. In big letters.

There's trumpeting of a different kind on the front page. The Telegraph website is now the most popular of any British newspaper. Inside it reveals that its UK audience has increased 123% in a year and its global audience 153%. Huzzah, as they used to say.

But it's not quite as simple as that. Newspaper website popularity is an important business - advertisers want reliable figures so they can decide how much to pay. And yesterday the reported that the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards is investigating the methodology used to calculate popularity.

This apparently is part motivated by concerns raised by the Guardian, Daily Mail and Times websites, which are, to put it delicately, a little surprised by their competitor's sudden online success.

Away from industry squabbles, the Daily Mirror and Metro both feature some remarkable photographs of an apparent daredevil photographer leaping in flip-flops between two freestanding pillars in the Grand Canyon, casually ignoring a 3,000 foot drop.

Thanks to Hugh Macdonald - one of the people following the Magazine's new - we now know that these pictures have been around on the internet since 2006. And he points out that , the website which specialises in debunking internet myths, has covered these photos in full.

It seems it's just a bit of careful framing - the pillars aren't freestanding and if the photographer had fallen he would have fallen about 10 feet, not 3,000.

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