Paper Monitor
12:33 UK time, Monday, 19 April 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
They're British, they're stranded because they can't fly home, the government says it's going to get them back and use the Royal Navy to do it - cue the dramatic seafaring headlines, puns and hyperbole.
The Sun goes with "". See what it's done? No surprise there really.
The Daily Mail also talks of a Navy armada ready to pick up thousands of stranded Britons in a rerun of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, adding that France scuppered a DIY rescue mission at the weekend. No surprise there either. The Mail is not the type of paper to miss a chance to reference "", as well as having a dig at the French.
Probably the most surprising is the Independent , with the front-page headline: "". Firstly, by focusing on the rescue it is singing from the same hymn sheet as the other papers - not something you can always say about the Indie. Secondly, its article is full of emotive war-time/military references and language. It talks about "the repatriation" of stranded tourists, civilian vessels being "commandeered" by the Navy to help out and says the rescue plan has "shades of the evacuation of the British Army from the Belgian Channel port of Dunkirk in May 1940".
Erm, that will be very faint shades then. If we're honest here the fact these British holidaymakers are stranded is just about where the similarities with Dunkirk start and finish. It seems all this volcanic ash is going to the head of some papers. Let's hope it clears soon, for everyone's sake.
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