What's in the Express?

What, no link to Diana's 'murder'?

Yes the Express does seem to concentrate on weather, health and house prices

anno

I too went on an Express hunt following a challenge thrown down by another GNetter. Very disappointed nothing juicy to report back YET.

Did note the coldest winter in 100 years. Wasn't it the Exoress that forecast the BBQ Summer?

He he, I'd forgotten that the DE existed. I thought it had died in sympathy with the Daily Herald and the News Chronicle.

If in doubt, predict that Britain will 'grind to a halt'. As this happens regularly with a mere centimetre of snow, they are almost certain to be right.

Don't forget to knock the local authorities who haven't stocked up on road salt. Or how about an article predicting a boost to the economy from the sale if snow boots, snow shovels and sledges.

Now I realise that the article I cite at the top of the thread was actually published on November 27th, but somehow I got to it by surfing through today's Express on Line. Strange!

Jodi, I don't think I threw down a challenge! I just wondered why the Express never got a mention, whereas the DM arouses such fury!

Despite the fact that I posted that I thought there were some good articles in the Telegraph, I will not now be able to read them. They have stuck it behind a paywall for people living abroad, who now only get to read twenty articles a month. I shan't be giving them any money!

ana I couldn't remember who brought up the Express.

I think it is Richard Desmond who was/is the publisher of Penthouse and a range of other pornographic magasines.

Really? Didn't know that!

Private Eye is very good at informing its readers who owns all the papers and what kind of people they are. Richard Desmond publishes some very hard core pornography. I could say a lot more about his character, but I don't want to fall foul of the libel laws, which he is very happy to use. The proprietors of many other papers have very dodgy records when it comes to tax avoidance.
You can google 'Ownership of newspapers published in the UK'. It makes uncomfortable reading.
Or read Private Eye, of course!

Noticed in Christmas present guide in today's Express on line:

While the iPad might be billed as a ‘For Him’ gift, the iPad mini couldn’t be more perfect for ‘Her’.

How about that, all you iPad grans?

Do they have a health scare every day? Yesterday it was a weight-loss product; today it's 'Millions at risk from high blood pressure.'

And as for the weather? Forget all that about the worst winter for 100 years, today's prediction is: 'NOW 85 MPH WINDS TO BLAST IN'.

You have been warned.

- we women only warrant 'mini-gadgets' then? Presumably we haven't the strength to cope with full-sized ones, what with battling against the 85 mph winds and suffering from high blood pressure!

Apart from the shocking story of the school massacre which dominates the headlines all over the press, the Express has plenty of non-stories, for example, 'HILLARY CLINTON HASN'T QUITE MASTERED HOW TO DO HER OWN HAIR' and the fact that Pamela Stephenson told Billy Connolly not to talk too much at dinner parties. Well, I never!