Fires at two radio towers cut broadcasts to millions and popular pressure grows to outlaw a paedophile group. A Dutch cyclist shows his mettle in the Tour de France, while there are embarrassed faces in the Dutch fashion world. It's all in the Dutch dailies.

Radio towers hit by fires
You have to dig quite deep for domestic news in the quality papers today. But wade through the coverage of the ongoing phone-hacking scandal in Britain and famine in the Horn of Africa and you get there in the end.

There hadn't been a fire at a Dutch radio mast for 50 years, nrc.next tells us. The Netherlands made up for that on Friday, when blazes at two separate radio towers put them both out of action on the same day. More than one and a half million people were unable to receive FM radio or digital television over the weekend. And for some, the problems will continue through this week.

Nrc.next runs a dramatic photograph of the rump of the radio tower in Hoogersmilde; the top section of the 367-metre-high construction collapsed half on the ground, hanging by strands of massive cables. The good news, says the paper, is that the only casualty was a horse which, according to the local mayor, will "pull through all right".

Wise after the event, de Volkskrant wheels out a report from 2007 which concluded that the country's radio masts are a dangerous mess. Too many broadcasters make use of the towers. Their engineers carry out all kinds of operations in the buildings, often simultaneously. This brings with it safety risks.

A spokesperson for the company which owns the two masts appears to be playing down any connection between the blazes. He dubs the double fires "a bizarre coincidence". Could that be Dutch understatement?

Call for paedophile group to be banned
Trouw's domestic lead deals with whether or not the Martijn paedophile support group can be prosecuted as a criminal organisation and eventually banned. The group ostensibly works towards the acceptance within society of sexual relationships between adults and children.

The trouble is that eight members of Martijn have been convicted of paedophile offences. And, in a recent child sex case, the abuser was said to have been helped by the group. He was apparently given advice about how to cover up evidence of abuse and how to select a victim.

The prosecution authorities have ruled out taking the group to court, saying the fact that some of its members have been convicted of offences is no reason to ban the group itself. However, de Volkskrant reveals that public opinion in favour of a ban is mounting. Over 40,000 people have signed a petition calling for the group to be outlawed.

The Public Prosecutor's office has now asked the lawyer who represented the child's parents in the abuse case to mount a legal challenge to its decision not to prosecute the group.

Faces on the front page
Two faces dominate the front page of De Telegraaf today. The first is of well-known Dutch character actor John Kraaijkamp Sr, who has died at the age of 86. The paper reminds us that he hit the big time in the 1960s and 1970s with the "legendary" comedy show Johnny en Rijk.

The other face featured by De Telegraaf is considerably more battered. Following a serious fall during a pile-up, Dutch cyclist Laurens ten Dam carried on to finish Saturday's stage of the Tour de France for the Rabobank team.

His face was badly injured in the crash but he carried on, bandaged up "like a mummy", according to the paper. And, yes, there he is in the photo, bloodied but unbowed.

The next day, we're told, he showed his "warhorse" mettle by continuing in the race, despite the eight stitches in "his badly swollen face". And there he is again - we can't quite count the stitches in a deep gash to his nose, but his injuries look nasty. But "giving up is not an option for Ten Dam", we're assured.

Embarrassment for fashion gurus
Finally, AD tells us that the fashion world was "well and truly had" this weekend. A new, mystery designer, simply known as Frank, put on a major show of his creations as part of Amsterdam's International Fashion Week.

The cognoscenti were full of praise for the new discovery. That is until it surfaced that Frank is simply a new line brought out by budget clothes chain Zeeman. "We just wanted to show that good clothes don't have to be expensive," said a Zeeman spokesperson.

De Volkskrant adds that International Fashion Week director Bart Mausson would rather be associated with Chanel than with Zeeman. Nevertheless, he appears to be philosophical about the embarrassing incident. "Some of the dresses were hideous," he fills us in, "but that's the case with a lot of designers".