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Paper Monitor

14:44 UK time, Thursday, 25 February 2010

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

OK, time to right the FT imbalance. Yesterday's Paper Monitor did that old trick of taking an inherently trivial story (Ashley and Cheryl Cole's break-up) and running it through the Financial Times filter - all for the cheap laugh of finding that, surprise, surprise, it was the only paper not to have mentioned the story.

Let it not be said the great Pink 'Un is a bit of a blue stocking when it comes to news.

A quick search of the archive reveals the Coles haven't been entirely absent from the newspaper's pages.

Only last November, Robert Shrimsley, managing editor of FT.com, namechecked Ash and Chez (though not in that abbreviated manner, it must be said). .

And there is Paper Monitor's Thursday peccadillo - recently revived - of Martin Lukes' diary.

Lukes, a socially inept man, and the sheer embodiment of corporate venality, also happens to be married to a Cheryl, though in this case it's spelt Sherrill, which neatly sidesteps .

Given her experience of spousing a far from-universally admired other half, maybe the FT's Sherrill could teach her better known namesake a few things about coping.

It's as yet unclear, however, whether the FT's Sherrill has a tattoo on the back of her neck that reads "Mrs L".

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