Sales

I'm just looking at the sales figures for the edition where we put Big Brother's Alex De-Gale on the front page.

Surprise surprise - it was one of the biggest-selling editons of the year. Credit where credit's due, it was content editor Andy Worden who suggested splashing the story as I hadn't really considered it.

I don't even mind being made to look stupid by splashing the story the day after confidently predicting I'd never do anything of the sort. (Many thanks to holdthefrontpage for bringing that to people's attention!)

As is the fleeting nature of reality TV fame, Alex's star is already sinking - she slipped from the front page a fortnight ago to page 15 last week, and is lined up for page 23 this week.

Expect to see her hovering around the planning applications come July.



In fact sales in general are doing really well, which is a credit to the entire editorial team who have had to put up with some fairly major teething troubles during our switch over to a new production system.

This week's paper is also shaping up to be a cracker, more of which later.

And finally, check the website tomorrow for Palace reporter Sami Mokbel's new blog. I don't know what he's going to be writing about yet - and I suspect he doesn't either - but it should be entertaining.