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10:49 UK time, Monday, 25 August 2008

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Amanda Platell is not a happy bunny in the Daily Mail.

The target of her ire is Carol Thatcher. La Platell is "saddened" by the "opportunistic book" that Thatcher Jr has churned out, which details her mother's battle against dementia. This treatment of a former prime minister feels "like a terrible invasion of an old woman's privacy".

And where was the serialisation of the "opportunistic book" to be found? In the, er, Mail on Sunday. And just in case you missed yesterday's invasion of privacy, today's Mail gives a precis on the page opposite Platell's diatribe.

Of course the less kind media-watcher might suggest Ms Platell had herself once been guilty of a bit of opportunism, when, in the aftermath of the 2001 election, her video diary of the campaign - in which she acted as spin doctor for William Hague - was broadcast on Channel 4.

Over in the Sun, you've got to love their "WHY I LOVE MY 30p Sun" box. In it delighted reader Victoria Clarke says: "There's always a story in it you won't find in any other paper."

This is positioned exactly over a story with the headline "Lifesaver boob job".

Paper Monitor wonders whether this was deliberate.

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