Still a place in The Sun for topless models

The return of a bare breasted model on Page 3 of The Sun tabloid for the first time in almost a week has been applauded and condemned.

It had been widely thought the controversial topless model slot had been dropped after 44 years, moving online to the paper’s website, with British politicians welcoming the apparent change.

Labour MP Stella Creasy tweeted: “So Sun going back to doing #page3? bit like drunken letchy uncle at a wedding who doesn’t get the message. Makes everyone uncomfortable..”

Yesterday’s front page claims: “We’ve had a mammary lapse.”

The paper shows 22-year-old Nicole from Bournemouth winking and baring her breasts.

Under the headline ‘Clarifications And Corrections’ the paper states: “Further to recent reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify that this is Page 3 and this is a picture of Nicole, 22, from Bournemouth.

“We would like to apologise on behalf of the print and broadcast journalists who have spent the last two days talking and writing about us.”

Model Jodie Marsh described the return of the newspaper’s topless model as a victory scoreline of “Boobs 1 Fake feminists nil”.