Paper Monitor
10:53 UK time, Thursday, 14 September 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Alternative uses for your free wall-chart, pt1...
Paper Monitor understands not all wall-chart aficionados are playing by the rules, spying opportunities in these thick, glossy giveaways that have no relation whatsoever to their intended educational purpose. Wrapping paper for example – for which today's Guardian offering, depicting the wild flowers of Britain, would be ideal. Another suggested use is as a temporary floor mat to sit on in a crowded commuter train where all the seats have been taken.
PM would like to hear of any further unintended uses. Just tell us using the post form at the top right-hand-side of this page.
With all this wall-chart waywardness, where else can today's children go to find out about the world? The Daily Mail reports on the return after 24 years of the children's annual Look and Learn, "once Britain's most successful children's illustrated educational magazine".
But only towards the end of story does it reveal that in fact the re-launch will simply be a re-hash of old articles that appeared in L&L the first time round. "There will be no new material post 1982," says the Mail. Leading PM to envisage today's young things left bewildered by a screed of articles about the Cold War, Prince Charles' happy marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, and, instead of the launch of the new BMW Mini, covered in, among others, today's Daily Express, news of an exciting new dawn in motoring – the unveiling of the Austin Mini Metro.
What next: an interview with that queen of 70s prime time poetry Pam Ayres? Ahh (see Daily Express pp 40&41)...
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