The real story

One other bit from Peter Preston that's a quite interesting illustration of newspaper priorities:

The Mail may print in four Spanish cities - including Madrid - but didn't have a correspondent there able to file a stick of copy when the bombs went off.

And the Express? No Spanish dateline on its front page and a whole page inside wherein its 'Consumer Editor' interviewed a '27-year-old printworker from Sandy, Bedfordshire', who had been going on a stag weekend to the Spanish capital, but was 'now probably going to Prague instead'.