British tabloid The Sun has quietly discontinued one of the most controversial so-called traditions of UK journalism: the Page 3 feature, which has published photos of topless models on the inside page of the "family newspaper" since 1970. Although the newspaper has not acknowledged the change, The Times reported that it understood that last Friday’s edition of The Sun was "the last that will carry an image of a glamour model with bare breasts on that page." A spokesman for the paper, which has a circulation of just under 2 million and is the UK's best-selling daily, tweeted that page three would be "in the same place it’s always been — between page 2 and 4."
The Sun has called female MPs criticizing page 3 "fat" and "jealous"
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