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12:58 UK time, Monday, 6 July 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

To all the Paper Monitor faithful, this could be the moment your loyalty pays off - in kudos form. Paper Monitor is surely not betraying any confidences in revealing that it is on first-name terms with another well-known Magazine strand, - the weekly news quiz.

Well, Paper Monitor has tipped off its quizzical chum about a headline from today's Independent that must surely now be in the running for the missing word question in this coming Friday's quiz.

"" tells a story of how the prime minister is trying to win over potentially rebellious Cabinet colleagues by inviting them to sample Mrs B's home cooking.

Actually, mention of lasagne is pretty arbitrary here given the quote from Gordon Brown's spokesman - "[W]e are not going to be running a commentary on the menu - whether it is lasagne, pasta or takeaway pizzas."

Sorry to be a pedant, but doesn't the word "takeaway" here rather undermine the point about troublesome MPs being mollified by home cooking?

Now here's a question for anyone with a long memory - does the name Andy Murray ring any bells?

Scottish... dour... tennis... 73 years of hurt...

The man who only three days ago was the great British tennis hope seems to have been all but expunged from Fleet Street's collective memory.

With Friday's four-set defeat at the hands of Andy Roddick, acres of prospective newsprint about Murray were instantly consigned to the spike.

The Times attempts a spot of CPR on Murray's memory, with about how, despite his defeat in the men's singles semi-finals on Friday, Murray has been catapulted into a marketing super league.

But after yesterday's gripping match between Roddick and Roget Federer, it all feels a little behind the pace.

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