What's a scoop worth?

If you want to know why newspapers are always desperate for scoops, here's your answer ...the Daily Mirror's exclusive interview with Richard Hammond on Monday is reported to have boosted the paper's circulation by 200,000.
Not a bad day's work and it will no doubt have had The Sun's senior team spitting tacks, although in this case the Hamster was always likely to tell his story in the paper which employs him as a motoring columnist.
It's just before 3pm in the afternoon and we're still on the look-out for our big scoop tomorrow. It's been a busy week with the abduction story - and a very different splash today, praising the performance of North Wales Police who have done a great job in the past year, according to HM's Inspector of Constabulary. And that means North Wales is an even safer place to live, which is great news...such a shame it rains so much.
It rained at the weekend on the excellent "Conwy Feast" food festival. But you know what that rain didn't do? It "failed to dampen the spirits" of the crowds who attended (one of my very favourite newspaper crap cliches).