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The story dominating all the papers is the murder of prostitutes in Ipswich. This isn’t easy for the newspapers, when the unhappy tale is still unfolding and when every overnight headline could be rendered obsolete by subsequent developments.

How can the papers tackle the story that everyone is talking about without looking out of date? The Guardian has a double approach. On the front page, rather than a straight news story, it opts for a colour piece, conveying the atmosphere, catching the sense of foreboding.

And to keep the story moving, and to provide the in-depth detail, it’s relying much more on the paper’s online edition. There’s an interactive guide, combining photos, graphics and text, in a way that suggests that this story marks another watershed in how newspapers cover such rolling stories.

Elsewhere, the Daily Express is in Diana-mode (again), with pages of coverage questioning the presumed findings of Lord Stevens’s report into her death. Even the cartoon is about the Diana memorial concert.

The Times, meanwhile, has a story of good fortune and success… that will have everyone else feeling sicker than an office party hangover. Employees of bankers Goldman Sachs are sharing out a huge bonus - on average Β£319,000 a person. Senior executives can expect to collect Β£10 million each - and across the City of London, bonuses are expected to total Β£8.8 billion. As the Times observes, staff are now divided into the β€œhaves and have yachts”.

Back to work everybody. We’ve got to keep those bankers in bonuses.

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