'The world's greatest newspaper'

The Express's Diana obesession is increasingly beyond parody, and Newsnight looked a little out of touch with this report - which failed to mention that the paper seems to have decided Madeleine McCann is a more powerful dog-whistle for the front page. But they did have a wonderful interview with the founder of the Diana society, sitting regally in the middle of a sea of commemorative tat. Asked if she read the Express, she said "they are a first class paper and everything in it is true".

Cornwall: 'independent-minded'

Insp James Pearce, who let the parade continue, said: 'As far as I was aware, they were dressed in the style of Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves.'

We've no idea, say newspapers

The Times today has the headline, 'We've no idea, say police in Madeleine case', but the Express manages to splash with 'Madeleine: We are just hours from the solution', according to Portugal's top policeman.

Award for journalism-by-numbers with a rusty pallet and easel - although you have to admire the bloody-minded commitment to keeping the paper ticking over in August - to the Express, for a story suggesting the Queen and PM are facing growing public anger over their refusal to fly the flag at half-mast on the 10th anniversary of Diana's death.

Public anger attributed to the Diana Circle, leading lights of which must be top of their royal correspondent's speed dial