TOPLESS GIRLS MAY LEAVE THE SUN

The British tabloid The Sun may drop the bare-breasted Page Three girls - but they'd come back in a flash if sales of the paper drop, publisher Rupert Murdoch vows.

``If there was any threat to that, they'd return pretty quickly,'' he says.

Reuters reports the British press commenting on pressure within Murdoch's News Corporation to end the topless Page Three models, one of the company's most reliable cash cows. It is said that deputy editor Rebekah Wade is leading the bid to drop the Page Three girls, saying they did nothing to win women readers for the best-selling British newspaper.