It started with the terrible news that the first tiger cub to be born at London Zoo in seventeen years had been found drowned in a pool in the enclosure. Then it emerged that Tian Tian, the panda at Edinburgh Zoo, is no longer expecting a cub. And just when you thought that the day could not get any sadder, it has emerged that Kenneth Branagh has missed out on his dream of emulating Sir Laurence Olivier as Director of the National Theatre.
Such tragedies always come in threes.
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