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Paper Monitor can reveal it played no part in the engagement of footballer Frank Lampard and TV presenter Christine Bleakley - unlike the Daily Mirror, which claims that it %3Ca%20href="%3Ca%20href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/06/16/how-the-daily-mirror-played-cupid-to-frank-lampard-and-christine-bleakley-115875-23204176/">">"played cupid" to the couple.

The Daily Star gets in on the act by reminding readers that %3Ca%20href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/196153/Frank-Lampard-pops-the-question/">"way back in August" it predicted that the pair would wed. Given the amount of long-running speculation, the odds were pretty high.

Speaking of odds, the newspapers continue to feature Royal Ascot and bizarre hats. The Sun wins Ascot headline of the day with: "And they're off... their heads". The Sun reports that %3Ca%20href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3640370/Cops-drug-blitz-at-Royal-Ascot.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News">police have launched a crackdown on drug-use at the racecourse, so that the Queen can be spare the spectacle of punters getting high.

The article features a picture of a "drugs honesty box", but doesn't reveal how the narcotics will be disposed of.

The Times, in an editorial, moves on Wednesday's debate about Libyan officials' possible entitlement to London 2010 Olympics, by imagining the leaders of countries with human rights issues %3Ca%20href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/leaders/article3063466.ece">meeting up at a during the event . Under the headline: Means to an End - Villainous despots at the Olympic Games? Bring it on, the paper writes:

Syria and Belarus are also competing. As are Angola, Sudan and North Korea. That raises the prospect (unlikely, but nevertheless worth contemplating) of President Assad and President Lukashenko mingling over the canapes with President dos Santos, President al-Bashir and Kim Jong Il, a man whose taste for scantily clad women, fine food and Hennessy cognac rivals even that of the most hedonistic rap star. Gold medal winners in oppression, every last one of them.
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