POPE DECLARES PINK THE NEW COLOUR FOR 2008 SEASON!

Report by Fashion Editor "Free trade"
Pope Benedict XVI, who has acquired a reputation for being no slouch in the fashion stakes, has come out boldly to declare that pink is to be THE colour this year.

Pictured on the left at a Church fashion gathering near Rome, when he knew that there would be plenty of photographers present, the Pope -- and his retinue -- made a bold commitment to the colour pink as the preferred colour of the year. Later cornered by a Roundup reporter, the Pope, who is from Bavaria in Southern Germany, offered the following views, "Hello, it is vunderful for me zis opportunity to have, my opinions on ze fashions for zis year to giff. Your readers may not know zat I zis little pink get-up from Dorossy Perkins in Penzance bought haff. It makes no secret of ze fact zat I zis year my full backing to ze colour pink am giving."

The Pope was then whisked away to the TV studios in Milan, where he is a judge in the Italian version of The X Factor.