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Paper Monitor

08:50 UK time, Tuesday, 22 February 2011

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

There are some stories that are just made for certain newspapers.

Take the news that a 16-stone banker dons Union-flag style lycra and a black mask for four nights a week to rid the streets of Birmingham of crime.

You know it's a story that's found its natural home when it's in the Sun, under the headline "THE PHANTUM"

The portly, red-bearded fellow has yet to be unmasked, although a photographer somehow managed to snap him as.

He says he also breaks up street fights, stops burglars and helped police arrest a suspected drug dealer in London. But he keeps his nocturnal super-heroics from his girlfriend:

"It's very hard. I tell my girlfriend I'm playing late-night poker with friends or watching pay-per-view sports. Instead, I get a map and say: 'I want to make that area safe tonight.' While I'm over that area, nothing bad will happen. You can make a small bit better at night."

Elsewhere in the paper, there's a heartwarming tale of 91-year-old Freda O'Brien, who has lived in the same council house in West Yorkshire for 84 years. There are some great photos of Freda outside the house, going back as far as 1928.

Asked the biggest change in the street during that time, Edna replied: "The cars. When we moved in, nobody had one."

And finally, in further evidence that good things do come in threes (like Quote of the Day, Random Stat and Paper Monitor), there's a third gem to note in the Sun.

The paper sets aside the terrible loss of life suffered in Libya in the clashes with protesters, to come up with an inventive front page headline: "CAMEL FOR MR GADDAFI"

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