With the bottom briefs, “In The News”, covering topics ranging from a £1 billion telescope to the Ivory Coast war, a banner for “The Agenda” and stories on Cameron’s NHS reforms and Gaddafi’s war victims going to Benghazi, the front page offers a neat wrap-up of everything that you may have missed over the weekend. A photograph from either story should have been included instead of the one used on the cover for “A mother’s plea”, the story about the murder of a policeman in Omagh. This story could have remained on the inside pages.
The spread on living with cancer by Rosemary Bennett, “Diagnosis need not mean death, but life is never the same again”, was informative and, in an eerie way, something of a relief as it shed a much-needed light on cancer in the UK. A photograph of a cancer cell could have been used to accompany this story.
Equally interesting, but maybe lower on the news scale, was “In the Bag”, the cover story in Times 2, which was also promoted on the front page. The article by Adam Sage was insightful and amusing, especially as it came from a man’s perspective. Also mentioned on the cover and a welcome reprieve from war and healthcare was mention of the game, “20 pages of pure football”.