3.35pm UPDATE - a cracking story is breaking - full details on tomorrow's front page!
Looks like the silly season has arrived a few months late. Yes, the news fairy has packed her bags and headed off to the Canaries, leaving editors scratching their heads wondering what to stick on their front pages.
It's like that great Spitting Image sketch showing a weekend TV news bulletin in which the lead item was "No news on Sunday, claims report".
At this moment in time this is the BBC's and Press Association's exciting main national headline: "Parenting experts to help families in areas beset by anti-social behaviour." Mmm, that'll really have a news hungry public a-beggin' for more.
As for us - the front page of tomorrow's Daily Post is still very much a "work in progress".
I thought I'd trawl round and see what the globe's greatest newspapers are chatting about.
Here's the New York Post's best offer: "O.J. Simpson's explosive new book, "If I Did It" - and an accompanying TV sit-down in which he "hypothetically" details how he brutally murdered his wife and her pal - have been axed."Well that was pretty boring when I read it in the UK papers this morning.
Something different from the Sydney Morning Herald: As many as 25 nuclear power plants could be built by 2050, producing one-third of Australia's power and slowing the growth of greenhouse emissions. Might be worth noting if you're looking for a new life after Wylfa shuts.
What about the dear old British Currant Bun? Lead story on the Sun's website is Heather Mills claiming she really did love Paul McCartney. Yeah, sure.
The most desperate piece I ever saw during a news "lull" was in a national newspaper. An "investigative" reporter had exposed a shopping rip off - by counting the number of cornflakes in a variety mini box and a typical family size box, then working out on a cornflakes per £1 rate that the little boxes were nowhere near as good value for money!
Watergate had nothing on that expose.
In the meantime, we'll keep plugging away looking for tomorrow's smash hit.
Anyone got some Coco Pops on them?
