Paper Monitor
13:14 UK time, Monday, 14 February 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's Valentine's Day, and Fleet Street is in love - with Colin Firth.
The Bafta-winning King's Speech actor grins from the front of every front page, apart from that of the Daily Star, which focuses instead on his co-star Helena Bonham-Carter, the paper's readership presumably not containing many thirtysomething female singletons for whom the memory of Mr Firth's appearance in Bridget Jones's Diary has particular resonance on this of all days.
Still, the feast customarily celebrated on 14 February is one that all titles feel obliged to mark - not least the Monitor, with the Shnookums Challenge.
Nonetheless, the prize for paying the most grudging of lip-services to the occasion must go to the Daily Telegraph - a paper, it must be said, that generally sets little store with being in touch with one's inner feelings.
Hence a feature on a man with deformities of the nasal passages is headlined
The Times is somewhat less curmudgeonly, reviewing the best Valentine's ready meals with - "it's hard not to be slightly impressed" by the offering from Morrison's, apparently, while that dished up by Waitrose is "such good value".
On a similarly spartan, post-credit crunch theme, Heston Blumenthal tells the Guardian that cheap food can be special, too.
"I like a kebab as much as the next person," somewhat defensively. "I like a pork pie, I like a sandwich. At home I'll open the fridge and if there's some ham and Hellmann's mayo, I'll eat that."
Paper Monitor knows what's on the menu tonight chez PM.
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