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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired December 17, 2003 - 05:46   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion live for us in London.
Tony, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol.

Yes, well, you know you mentioned just a couple of seconds ago Robin Williams in Baghdad entertaining the troops, taking over where Bob Hope left off. Strange enough, on the front page of "The Times" here, I'll show you, there he is, good morning, Baghdad, the inevitable headline. There is Robin Williams.

But the slight that we have on this over this side of the Atlantic is the great U.S. troops get Robin Williams. They get Bruce Willis. Who has the British troops got to entertainment -- entertain them? Jim Davidson, he is a comedian that you have never heard of. That tells you something. And also Bjorn Again, an ABBA tribute band. I mean you remember ABBA, obviously, now and then (ph).

COSTELLO: Yes.

CAMPION: But this is just like some people singing ABBA's songs. So, yes, I mean I'm happy for the U.S. troops. I feel a bit sorry for our guys I have to say.

Anyway, let's move on. This is a particularly nasty local story. And this is a headline out of the "Daily Express" for you, I survived the clutches of the black widow. And we're talking about this fellow here who was married to a woman without knowing that she had previously murdered her husband. And it's a crime story. It's a nasty story. And there are things like this, I guess, that go on that we don't know about all of the time.

But this woman had previously -- it has now transpired, she has now just been sentenced to life for murdering her former husband whom she poisoned to death. But then just shortly after that, she married this guy actually on a Florida beach. Conned him out of thousands and thousands of pounds.

And this also went to court and sentenced (ph). She was found not guilty of attempted murder, despite the fact that she bound him hand and foot in, I guess, what you might call an adult game. That was how she sold the idea to him. And then essentially beat him about the head in a baseball bat -- with a baseball bat. And after all that she was found not guilty of this. The police are now actually investigating the disappearance of some other men with whom she was connected earlier in her life, hence the term, black widow. A lot of men have disappeared who have been associated with her. And she has been sentenced to death for one murder about this. So if you come across a woman called, what's her name, Deana Thompson (ph), don't go near her. I think that's the moral of that story.

Just finally, huge storm erupting over the prospects for getting airport traffic up in Britain. And you can't actually read it there, can you, but this is the headline of "The Daily Telegraph." And this is no to Stansted expansion. The story that London Stansted Airport and Heathrow Airport were getting new runways. Well that's great if you are in business. It's bad if you have one of the properties that are, you know, essentially a few centuries old that surround these airports. They are going to be bulldozed out of the way. Huge big hoo-ha. You are going to be hearing more about this, I'm sure.

COSTELLO: We like it when you use the word or the term hoo-ha. You used it earlier in the business report. We like that.

CAMPION: Then you have that there. Well, you guess what I mean.

COSTELLO: Yes, we can guess that one. That one is easy.

Thank you very much. Tony Campion live in London for us this morning.

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Aired December 17, 2003 - 05:46   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion live for us in London.
Tony, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol.

Yes, well, you know you mentioned just a couple of seconds ago Robin Williams in Baghdad entertaining the troops, taking over where Bob Hope left off. Strange enough, on the front page of "The Times" here, I'll show you, there he is, good morning, Baghdad, the inevitable headline. There is Robin Williams.

But the slight that we have on this over this side of the Atlantic is the great U.S. troops get Robin Williams. They get Bruce Willis. Who has the British troops got to entertainment -- entertain them? Jim Davidson, he is a comedian that you have never heard of. That tells you something. And also Bjorn Again, an ABBA tribute band. I mean you remember ABBA, obviously, now and then (ph).

COSTELLO: Yes.

CAMPION: But this is just like some people singing ABBA's songs. So, yes, I mean I'm happy for the U.S. troops. I feel a bit sorry for our guys I have to say.

Anyway, let's move on. This is a particularly nasty local story. And this is a headline out of the "Daily Express" for you, I survived the clutches of the black widow. And we're talking about this fellow here who was married to a woman without knowing that she had previously murdered her husband. And it's a crime story. It's a nasty story. And there are things like this, I guess, that go on that we don't know about all of the time.

But this woman had previously -- it has now transpired, she has now just been sentenced to life for murdering her former husband whom she poisoned to death. But then just shortly after that, she married this guy actually on a Florida beach. Conned him out of thousands and thousands of pounds.

And this also went to court and sentenced (ph). She was found not guilty of attempted murder, despite the fact that she bound him hand and foot in, I guess, what you might call an adult game. That was how she sold the idea to him. And then essentially beat him about the head in a baseball bat -- with a baseball bat. And after all that she was found not guilty of this. The police are now actually investigating the disappearance of some other men with whom she was connected earlier in her life, hence the term, black widow. A lot of men have disappeared who have been associated with her. And she has been sentenced to death for one murder about this. So if you come across a woman called, what's her name, Deana Thompson (ph), don't go near her. I think that's the moral of that story.

Just finally, huge storm erupting over the prospects for getting airport traffic up in Britain. And you can't actually read it there, can you, but this is the headline of "The Daily Telegraph." And this is no to Stansted expansion. The story that London Stansted Airport and Heathrow Airport were getting new runways. Well that's great if you are in business. It's bad if you have one of the properties that are, you know, essentially a few centuries old that surround these airports. They are going to be bulldozed out of the way. Huge big hoo-ha. You are going to be hearing more about this, I'm sure.

COSTELLO: We like it when you use the word or the term hoo-ha. You used it earlier in the business report. We like that.

CAMPION: Then you have that there. Well, you guess what I mean.

COSTELLO: Yes, we can guess that one. That one is easy.

Thank you very much. Tony Campion live in London for us this morning.

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