Sheryl has chicks!

Never mind about Clarke, Prescott and Patsy with the snooty voice. Guardian journalists are more concerned with the fate of Russell and Sheryl Crow, nesting outside their window. The latest bulletin is reported here:

"CHICKS!!! Right here, outside the widow. No, not girls, young crows. Very young. The miracle of life has happened right here in a Farringdon plane tree, writes the Guardian's self-appointed office ornithology correspondent Sam Wollaston (who's been logging the Guardian crows' nest-building and egg-sitting antics for News blog). It's enough to make you start believing. And Sheryl brought forth her firstborn chicks, and wrapped them in fluff, and laid them in the nest; because there was no room for them in the Guardian offices ..."

It is less than encouraging, however, that there remains some concern that these are actually crows (as opposed to rooks or ravens or maybe even blackbirds). And naming the chicks Bob and Cameron is perhaps a bit presumptuous at this stage...

But you don't get exciting news like this at The Herald or The Scotsman.