Paper Monitor
10:24 UK time, Thursday, 24 December 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
This is a Christmas gift you can enjoy a day early - a collection of heart-warming (or just a bit weird) tales from the tabs:
- Ninety-year-old Edith Abbey, from North Yorkshire, buys more than 200 Christmas presents for her large family and her friends. "I don't spend a fortune as it's the thought that counts," she says. (Daily Mirror)
- Norma Bousfield, 74, has knitted her family nine multi-coloured sweaters to wear on Christmas Day. "Her family was wool impressed," says the Sun. Be warned before clicking on the link below, if you have an aversion to bright colours.
- Stephen Jones, from Cambridge, is out of hospital in time for Christmas. The 55-year-old diabetes sufferer had suffered kidney failure but his wife Karen has donated one of her healthy organs. "I have never loved that woman more than I do right now," he says (Daily Mirror)
- A man given a heart transplant woke up with a new craving shared by his donor - for obscure crisps called Burger Rings. Before the operation he had never liked them. (The Sun)
- A baby was born in the back of a mountain rescue vehicle after an ambulance was stranded in the snow. Leah was born in the hospital car park. "It's the best Christmas present I could have hoped for," says dad Kurtis, from Hyde in Manchester.
- To win the present out of a Christmas cracker, you should pull it at an angle of between 20 and 55 degrees. (Daily Express)
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Paper Monitor wishes all its readers a very happy Christmas. It will be back on Monday.
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