Journalist Fionola Meredith takes a look at what is making the headlines in Monday's morning papers.
Bombardier's decision to invest over £500m in its Northern Ireland operation for a new series of aircraft - the biggest single investment by any company in Northern Ireland - is top story in both the News Letter and the Belfast Telegraph.
It is also the day for the dailies to reflect on the Twelfth.
The News Letter thinks it's been a glorious Twelfth in more ways than one, what with the Bombardier announcement and all the tourists at the parades.
The Telegraph too has full coverage of what it calls "the colour, the crowds... and the trouble".
So alongside images of cute flag-waving youngsters, it has some strong words about public drinking on Belfast's Lisburn Road on the Twelfth, grimly noting "observe the sons of Ulster - heading for a hangover".
Meanwhile, the Irish News focuses on the plight of a Catholic civil servant who is still in a near-coma state two years after suffering terrible head injuries in a sectarian attack.
The Bombardier investment gets prominent coverage in the Irish Times too.
Over at the Irish Independent, there's a dramatic photograph showing a Garda officer's narrow escape.
"As they are being patched up in hospital, they face the prospect of being visited by the knife-wielders that put them ther"
He's shown dodging out of the way as a wrecked car that had been involved in a fatal crash falls from a forklift truck as it was moved from the scene in Tipperary. "It could all too easily have been tragedy heaped upon tragedy," says the paper.
Gordon Brown has promised "shock tactics" to combat knife crime come in for harsh criticism in the Daily Telegraph, which reports that families of stab victims and politicians have branded them "half-baked" and "not tough enough".
"As if the victims of knife crime do not suffer enough," scoffs the paper's editorial. "As they are being patched up in hospital, they face the prospect of being visited by the knife-wielders that put them there."
Prison, as far as the Telegraph is concerned, is the only answer for those caught carrying knives.
Twins
It's a boy and a girl for Brangelina - that's the collective term for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - and the papers are all agog, even the broadsheets.
The twins, to be named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, are already the world's most famous children according to the Independent - and a price tag of $11m has been slapped on the first pictures of them.
It's expected that the fee will go to charity. That would make it "the biggest ever baby deal", says the Guardian - the only other photos that "would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien", one picture agent tells the paper.
And finally, the Guardian reports on a unusual plan to commemorate President Bush after his departure.
Last week, a group called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco submitted a petition bearing almost 12,000 signatures to election officials, in a bid to put their proposal put to ballot in November.
And their aim? They want the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant rechristened the George W Bush Sewage Plant. They consider it a fitting tribute to the man who quipped "goodbye from the world's biggest polluter" as he left the G8 summit last week.
And it could happen - the group do have enough signatures required under California law. But the paper says "the name change might be not quite right - the plant does, after all, control pollution".
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