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Paper Monitor

11:05 UK time, Monday, 28 December 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Today is a day for names.

Top of the bill is Deathstroke Regina Chester Jefff Dave Dum Dee Dum Tumblepot.

Formerly known as Regina Gardner from Folkestone, Deathstroke etc is one of 50,000 British people who changed their name by deed poll in 2009, according to the Sun.

Another imaginative example is the choice of the man formerly known as Adam Osen, from Chingford. His new name is None Of The Above. "My wife hates it," he says.

Then there's Joanna Lumley. She hasn't changed her name to Person of the Year, but that's her new title in the Times, earned for her campaigning on behalf of the Gurkhas.

Others who missed out were Alistair Darling, James Purnell, Beth Tweddle and Ryan Giggs.

You can find out on Tuesday (men) and Wednesday (women) if any of them make it on to the Magazine's list of Faces of the Year.

Elsewhere in the papers, there are star names doing things and in typical Noughties fashion, this is big news.

So there are well-known names holidaying (Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Simon Cowell), others dressing in a way the paper deems to be inappropriate (Elton John twice, J-Lo, Rihanna, Charlize Theron) or just having dinner (Beckhams, Joe McElderry).

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