Old habits die hard at Geordie Greig's happy-clappy Evening Standard

The new editor of the London Evening Standard, Geordie Greig, may be looking at a brave new world of cuddly news, with his "fundamentally optimistic view of life, of London and Londoners". But if pages 12 and 13 of today's paper are anything to go by, it looks like the paper could be a while getting there. "Hindu blamed for riot deaths to address summit in London" was one not so fundamentally optimistic view. "11 children died while on at-risk register in five years" was even less happy-clappy. Remember people: from small acorns, great oaks do grow.