The British Bank Holiday is a notoriously slow news day. Unless an untoward sighting of a royal backside occurs, hapless journalists are tied to their telephones in half empty offices hoping for a story to emerge. If the sun is shining and their spouses are burying their children in sand on British beaches, the misery of their Babylonian captivity is heightened.
Most of the lions in Essex are the stone variety on the gateways of city boy mansions. But the missing lion in Essex has sparked rumours that the b...