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11:45 UK time, Wednesday, 17 August 2011

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Although the riot coverage has calmed down and disappeared off most of the front pages, the papers are still concerned about the aftermath, political fall-out and any disorder-related celebrity photo opportunity.

The Sun's double-page spread has a heady mix of riots and football. It has a picture of Spurs star Peter Crouch getting his hair cut by 89-year-old barber Aaron Biber, whose Tottenham shop was wrecked by looters.

It's touching stuff and his haircut isn't too bad either.

The Daily Mirror has another celebrity story and it's not just any celebrity but Brangelina no less, who chartered a train to ferry themselves and their brood from London to Scotland. Yes, they hired a whole Virgin Pendolino train for the five-hour trip to Glasgow. If there was a step above A-list, they deserve to go full steam ahead.

The Daily Mail is almost as renowned as the Sun for its page three beauties and it has pulled out all the stops today with a picture of a glum-looking gorilla.

Nico is celebrating his 50th birthday and the Mail has solved the age-old problem of what to buy a primate for such a milestone birthday.

It says he turned his nose up at a bunch of red roses but he was definitely more impressed with the banana-shaped birthday cake, surrounded with fresh fruit (to ensure Nico gets some of his five-a-day no doubt).

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