Paper Monitor
10:33 UK time, Monday, 16 January 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
So it's that time of the year - "Blue Monday," the most depressing day. Post-Christmas blues, debt, lack of sunlight - they are all meant to add up to make it a miserable Monday for many.
So Paper Monitor is on the hunt for stories that bring happiness - however small - to someone, somewhere.
The Daily Express, for one, thanks "supermum" Tania Sullivan, mother of 11, and her joiner husband Mike, from Kent, for "".
The couple receive standard child allowance, but they grow their own vegetables and keep chickens to help make ends meet. Ms Sullivan, we learn, does home schooling.
"Some people use having lots of kids as an excuse not to work but we manage. It annoys me when people assume we must be on benefits. That's simply not the case," the paper quotes Ms Sullivan as saying.
As the parents of 11 children it would have been easy for them to live off £60,000 a year benefits. But they believe in working hard and paying their own way.What a magnificent example to set their offspring.
It certainly won't be a Blue Monday for young Noah Evans, son of Radio 2 DJ Chris. Employing the masterful pun: "Chrissy Chrissy Bang, Bang," the Daily Mirrror informs readers that Evans bought the iconic car used in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because his son, who turns three next month, loves the film. :
Chris Evans paid nearly £500,000 for the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car because his son Noah loves the film. It could prove expensive if Noah starts to like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
And the Daily Telegraph .
"Climate change may have helped to boost the survival of an endangered species of albatross, scientists believe," the paper reports on its front page. The Wandering Albatross - the world's largest bird - is thought to be benefiting from stronger winds, which are thought to be the result of warmer air, over the Southern Ocean.
It is thought the bird is now able to fly faster and reach prey more easily, resulting in an increase in its body weight.
So far, so good. But something from Paper Monitor's schooldays is coming back. Aren't albatrosses thought to be unlucky? At least the Ancient Mariner seemed to think so.
Maybe not such a good news story after all?
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