Some newspapers don't like young people winning legal battles. The Daily Mail was not a happy bunny after the Court of Appeal ruling that backed Shabina Begum, 16, against the school that excluded her for wearing her jilbab. It said, crossly and wearily: "Yet again, Britain is diminished by a destructive cocktail of human rights legislation, legal aid, lawyers living high on the hog and judges who seem bereft of common sense." The hog-high-living lawyer they have in mind is Cherie Booth, who represented Shabina. They are not keen on her. It's a personality thing.

The opinion writer of The Daily Telegraph was just as incensed. The attack was just as personal. But its target was Shabina. She "spouted a great deal of nonsense", it said of her victory speech. It called her "this bloody-minded 16-year-old". And declared accusingly: "Every word that this Muslim schoolgirl uttered smacked more of politics than of true religious feeling." How do they know that? And what's wrong with political feeling anyway? Don't human rights battles usually smack of politics?

Its final damnation was meant to be resounding but failed. It is "pretty clear that she was out to make a fuss", said the paper.

Since when has the Telegraph, or the Daily Mail, been against bloody-minded people who take their rights seriously, stand up for themselves and "make a fuss"? The answer is, perhaps, only when they are young.

The Hendon Times ran an intriguing headline: "Youth service is very healthy". Sounds like good news. But what's the story? Ah. There it goes a bit peculiar. You may have to concentrate.

The report starts: "In a week when the ingredients of our food were on all the front pages because of the potential cancer-causing Sudan 1 dye, Barnet Council took the chance to declare some better news on the food front: children's homes in the borough have begun serving organic food."

In practice, that means 11 looked-after children at one home in Barnet and another in Southgate are to have some organic meals.

The paper hoped this would offset some bad news it had reported earlier.

"This news was good publicity for the council after disclosures in early February that 300,000 is to be slashed from the youth budget this year."

You can almost hear the reporter whistling, "always look on the bright side of life".