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12:40 UK time, Monday, 24 September 2007

A service belatedly highlighting the riches of the daily press.

It was hardly a moment to compare with a sleepy Cherie peering round the door of Number 10 on 2 May, 1997.

But it was a reminder to Sarah Brown that her appearance is under greater scrutiny now she's moved nextdoor from Number 11.

A stroll along a blustery Bournemouth seafront prompted headlines of "HAIR COMES THE BREEZY MRS B" (Mirror) and "BAD HAIR DAY" (Daily Mail).

But she wasn't alone. With a finger astutely on the pulse of what makes its audience tick, the Mail had its guns firmly trained on several other famous women.

Helen Mirren had airbrushed her wrinkles from the front cover of her autobiography, the paper claimed, although its picture did little to support the theory.

Former tennis star Chris Evert had, it claimed, "chased" ex-golfer Greg Norman, and the wife of new Chelsea boss Avram Grant was "THE WEIRD ONE" for antics on her television show in Israel.

More weighty issues filled the first seven pages of the Sun, which began a campaign for a referendum on the EU treaty.

And to illustrate its intent, it neatly replicated the Dad's Army map to show Britain repelling the threat from the continent. But it will be hoping for more punch than Captain Mainwaring & Co.

Final mention should go to Robert Murat, who it is reported has been told by police he is no longer a suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation.

The news of his exoneration was a down-page mention in papers today and over the weekend. He might today be considering the difference between those stories and the full pages previously devoted to implying his guilt, including one front page comparison to Ian Huntley.

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