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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired December 24, 2003 - 05:47   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Mad cow, heightened security, all making headlines here in the U.S. How about overseas?
Let's check in with Liz George who is in London.

Liz, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, well actually they are looking sort of fairly bright and festive. It is that time of year, of course, when you get all those cutesy photographs.

As far as the mad cow story goes, of course it broke in the U.S. a little bit late for our front pages here. The only paper that managed to actually get it on the front page was "The Guardian." And as you can see, just a little bit of a story down here about it. First case of mad cow disease in the U.S. and pretty much just sticking to the facts there. Just reporting the story as it is, not an awful lot of comment going on on that at the moment. But of course as the papers come out tomorrow, I'm sure that you are going to see this being one of those very big headlines across all of the European papers anyway.

As I was saying, they are also very bright these front pages. A lot of them have got pictures of Buckingham Palace there with the various different colored lights strewn at it.

Now this is all part of a campaign to brighten up the capital here in London for Christmas. And the Queen, for the first time ever, has actually said yes, absolutely fine, you can go and light up the palace. And the lights will go on later on this afternoon. It's going to be about midday your time, about 5:00 in the evening our time, with all sorts of different colors, one of which will be the flag, our Union Jack flag there, which will adorn the palace. Fairly beautiful, be spotlighted on there.

And that comes as people are saying that across the U.K. Christmas has become more kitsch and we've gone away from those rather elegant little white fairy lights and we've decided that we're flashing, Santas and colored lights is all the rage. So you've got some pictures there. You've got the palace, first of all, how it might look when these lights get turned on. And then some more kitsch displays of people who have really gone overboard with their houses across the U.K. with their light displays -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Liz, so folks are certainly in this spirit. But you know as we talk about Buckingham Palace kind of celebrating the holiday, I understand there's also quite a bit of chatter about a canine catastrophe of sorts.

GEORGE: Absolutely, a canine catastrophe. The poor old Queen. Basically what's happened is the Princess Anne's terrier has attacked and killed one of the Queen's beloved corgis. Now the Queen here, you know she's had corgis for years and years, most of them descended from the original breeding pair. Back in 1944 she got that pair. And they are a feature of her. Basically everywhere she goes you see these corgis with her. And they've become very much a symbol of the Queen and very much beloved by the nation as well.

And Princess Anne, apparently her dog, called here by "The Sun" the beast, it's actually called Dotty, which is a bull terrier there, mauled and attacked one of the Queen's dogs when Princess Anne was on a visit and broke its leg and various other things. And the poor corgi actually had to be put down. So the Queen now only has five corgis left. She's said to be devastated by that.

WHITFIELD: Wow! And a bull terrier, not a big dog, and I thought always had the reputation of being fairly docile.

GEORGE: Well not a big dog, but not a very good reputation of being docile. It's -- an RSPCA, which is a big animal charity here, it's actually on their list of most dangerous dogs.

WHITFIELD: Really?

GEORGE: And it's known not really to socialize very well with other dogs. They have said it's all right with children, but not to socialize very well with other dogs. And in fact, this particular dog, Dotty, back in November last year, mauled a couple of children in one of the parks.

WHITFIELD: My gosh!

GEORGE: And it was the first time that one of the Royals actually got a criminal record, because it was put in front of the courts, although the dog -- the judge decided the dog didn't have to be put down at that point.

WHITFIELD: Dotty need not socialize ever again after that especially.

GEORGE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks a lot, Liz, appreciate it.

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Aired December 24, 2003 - 05:47   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Mad cow, heightened security, all making headlines here in the U.S. How about overseas?
Let's check in with Liz George who is in London.

Liz, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, well actually they are looking sort of fairly bright and festive. It is that time of year, of course, when you get all those cutesy photographs.

As far as the mad cow story goes, of course it broke in the U.S. a little bit late for our front pages here. The only paper that managed to actually get it on the front page was "The Guardian." And as you can see, just a little bit of a story down here about it. First case of mad cow disease in the U.S. and pretty much just sticking to the facts there. Just reporting the story as it is, not an awful lot of comment going on on that at the moment. But of course as the papers come out tomorrow, I'm sure that you are going to see this being one of those very big headlines across all of the European papers anyway.

As I was saying, they are also very bright these front pages. A lot of them have got pictures of Buckingham Palace there with the various different colored lights strewn at it.

Now this is all part of a campaign to brighten up the capital here in London for Christmas. And the Queen, for the first time ever, has actually said yes, absolutely fine, you can go and light up the palace. And the lights will go on later on this afternoon. It's going to be about midday your time, about 5:00 in the evening our time, with all sorts of different colors, one of which will be the flag, our Union Jack flag there, which will adorn the palace. Fairly beautiful, be spotlighted on there.

And that comes as people are saying that across the U.K. Christmas has become more kitsch and we've gone away from those rather elegant little white fairy lights and we've decided that we're flashing, Santas and colored lights is all the rage. So you've got some pictures there. You've got the palace, first of all, how it might look when these lights get turned on. And then some more kitsch displays of people who have really gone overboard with their houses across the U.K. with their light displays -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Liz, so folks are certainly in this spirit. But you know as we talk about Buckingham Palace kind of celebrating the holiday, I understand there's also quite a bit of chatter about a canine catastrophe of sorts.

GEORGE: Absolutely, a canine catastrophe. The poor old Queen. Basically what's happened is the Princess Anne's terrier has attacked and killed one of the Queen's beloved corgis. Now the Queen here, you know she's had corgis for years and years, most of them descended from the original breeding pair. Back in 1944 she got that pair. And they are a feature of her. Basically everywhere she goes you see these corgis with her. And they've become very much a symbol of the Queen and very much beloved by the nation as well.

And Princess Anne, apparently her dog, called here by "The Sun" the beast, it's actually called Dotty, which is a bull terrier there, mauled and attacked one of the Queen's dogs when Princess Anne was on a visit and broke its leg and various other things. And the poor corgi actually had to be put down. So the Queen now only has five corgis left. She's said to be devastated by that.

WHITFIELD: Wow! And a bull terrier, not a big dog, and I thought always had the reputation of being fairly docile.

GEORGE: Well not a big dog, but not a very good reputation of being docile. It's -- an RSPCA, which is a big animal charity here, it's actually on their list of most dangerous dogs.

WHITFIELD: Really?

GEORGE: And it's known not really to socialize very well with other dogs. They have said it's all right with children, but not to socialize very well with other dogs. And in fact, this particular dog, Dotty, back in November last year, mauled a couple of children in one of the parks.

WHITFIELD: My gosh!

GEORGE: And it was the first time that one of the Royals actually got a criminal record, because it was put in front of the courts, although the dog -- the judge decided the dog didn't have to be put down at that point.

WHITFIELD: Dotty need not socialize ever again after that especially.

GEORGE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks a lot, Liz, appreciate it.

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