How the Blairs landed a holiday in 'The Sun'

5th Sep 2005, 18:03 GMT

August is traditionally known to journalists as the silly season, and universally dreaded. Newspapers publish, radio and TV broadcast, but newsmakers such as the politicians have taken off, and there is precious little to fill the vacuum between really hard news - plane crashes, the aftermath of the Stockwell shooting - and total trivia - what happened next in Lost.