I always love to see The Northern Echo's stories being followed up by the national papers.

There's been quite a bit of interest today in our picture of an unfortunate owl which left a perfect impression of itself when it flew into a window at New Blackwell Tennis Club in Darlington.

It's fair to say that the chief sub-editor wasn't as excited about the picture as me and I've had a bet with him that it makes it into the nationals.

We'll see who's the bigger twit in the morning.