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13:23 UK time, Wednesday, 1 April 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

In this special G20-free edition, the most pressing question of the day is just what IS going on with Nigella Lawson's face?

"Nigella is flawless" the Daily Mirror tells us, alongside what looks like a snatched picture of the domestic poster girl.

"All eyes, surprisingly, were on Nigella Lawson's youthful complexion yesterday..." yadda, yadda.

The Daily Mail, however, is less on-message. Taking a very similar picture to illustrate its story, it wonders aloud: "Could Nigella be a little short on beauty sleep?"

"Her sparkling eyes showed a hint of puffiness... yadda, yadda".

Had no one informed the first lady of cherry-crowned chocolate cupcakes that slightly puffy eyes can no longer be tolerated in public anymore?

Over at the Sun, Jade Goody is back on the front after a break of, oooh, at least a couple of days. The exclusive in question is "Jade's last words" - a letter written by the late reality TV star to her sons shortly before her death.

The Star, however, acts as if it knew this was in the pipeline - and triumphs with this front page with "Jade's very [Paper Monitor's italics] last words". The lines in question not being those of a considered letter to her offspring but an off-hand putdown to husband Jack, complete with four-letter word.

Elsewhere, there's the usual 1 April stack of untrue stories - see for the Daily Telegraph's round-up.

And the day of leg-pulling would not be complete without the Guardian's byline anagram in its spoof story. This year it's about the paper switching to Twitter and the journalist is Rio Palof.

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