Freesheet Metro does its bit for knife crime today, but not exactly in the way you might expect. This week's "Style Counsel" section – it's intended to help you dress like your heroes – features Taylor Momsen, an actress in ITV2's Gossip Girl. Number four in Momsen's five favourite things: "My knife. I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it." The accompanying interview opens with Momsen recounting how she inadvertently flew across America with a couple of knives "tucked up in the folds" of her purse. "I went through security, took them on the plane, opened my bag to get my wallet in LA and they fell out. I was like: 'Holy s***!'" Possibly Metro might have omitted this – or at least commented on it – on grounds of taste, sensibility, legality ... or any number of other reasons, appearing as it does on the same day a man was stabbed in a Manchester department store. The "massive in-interview malfunction" became lead story on the Metro website. Update, 1.20pm: And now, the story appears to have been taken down from the site. "Holy s***!" indeed.
