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11:40 UK time, Wednesday, 3 June 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Satirists and folk who like to poke fun at the media are on notice, according to Newsbiscuit - "".

What is funny, is the bloke who tweaked Gordon Brown's chin during a prime ministerial meet and greet (see Daily Mirror story, ), thereby bringing some levity to an otherwise heavy political news day.

Has the chin-tweaker in chief, Muhibuzzaman Reza, started a new trend? Paper Monitor keenly awaits a rash of articles in coming days in which hacks write about what happens when they try the greeting on their chums.

The Daily Mail, though, has got its teeth into a more pressing concern.

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Indeed, strawberry sales are down 9%. The causes, according to the Mail, are manifold, and can almost universally be laid at the door of the by now familiar peril - modern life.

Polytunnels, smoothies and the credit crunch.

Eventually writer William Sitwell concedes there may be a more rational explanation to the fall in sales - last year's run of bad weather.

"No one, not even mad people, buys strawberries when it's raining. It would be like drinking port by the swimming pool."

Er, quite.

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