This cartoon by Adams from The Telegraph mixes two news stories: the announcement by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva that the most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, and a new government report on the future of Britain's high streets which reveals that one in seven shops on UK high streets currently stand empty, although in some towns as many as four in ten shops are vacant.
COMMENTARY
The joke is that the scientist's comment ("We found it! It was extremely rare and elusive, but we found it!") seems to relate to the discovery of the Higgs boson, but in fact he's referring to the fact that he's found a shop which is "open for business as usual' (most have "closed" or "gone bust").
ALSO SEE
• Mary Portas: high streets destined to 'disappear forever' (The Telegraph)
• Retail guru declares town centres dead (The Sun)
• We may have glimpsed the Higgs boson, say Cern scientists (The Guardian)
