Media Brief
I'm the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what you need to know.
The all three main parties claim their man "won" the first TV election prime-ministerial debate.
Amid acres of coverage and analysis, there's wide agreement that Nick Clegg improved his position including from the and the .
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Rory Cellan-Jones tracked Twitter and other electronic monitors. 36,483 people tweeted.
The that Ofcom has announced some deregulation of commercial radio, allowing stations to co-locate and cut local programming. But the radio industry say it doesn't go far enough.
The science writer the cost of winning his lengthy libel battle.
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Most papers think Nick Clegg won the election debate and devote pages to the grounding of all planes by volcano ash .
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