Award for the most eye-catching headline of the morning goes to the Sun.

It's the story of two "gypsies", their twelve kids, one five-bedroom £1.2m Muswell Hill semi, Haringey Council and some very angry neighbours, collapsed ceilings, used toilet rolls used as weapons, and kids wandering naked in the street. There's a dossier on the family, which appears to have been passed on to the Sun by someone from the council, which may (should) result in repercussions. The neighbours have formed a special neighbourhood watch team charged solely with monitoring the family. The Sun article is a lesson in journalistic provocation ("Children run amok everywhere, riding shiny new bikes around the corridors", "The chain-smoking couple", "Tanya, who lives off benefits"), but i wouldn't want to live next-door to them. The final word, however, goes to the neighbour who commented thus:

"A house like that one should be worth around £1.2million. But with the state it's in at the moment, it might only be worth £700,000."

Because this is, after all, London.

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