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11:26 UK time, Monday, 9 November 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Why does the Times front page story about serious offences being dealt with by cautions lack the impact the same story has in the Daily Mail?

The reason is .

Great pics make all the difference, a point further underlined in the story that Morrissey stormed off stage after being hit by a bottle.

The Mail, and the Independent, have a photo of , unlike .

But if there's one person who probably wished his picture was not in the papers today, it's probably Gordon Brown, photos of whom are used for purposes that have nothing to do with flattery.

The Sun accuses him of failing to bow his head at the Cenotaph as he laid a wreath, but uses as evidence.

And the Mail mounts , entitled "A RUNNING JOKE".

It lambasts him for his T-shirt, trackie bottoms and trainers - an outfit, columnist Julie Welch concludes, is for the "morbidly obese".

She says Mr Brown's gritted teeth, sweat and clenched fist - standard hallmarks of exercise, some might say - are evidence of middle-aged poor health.

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