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12:24 UK time, Monday, 30 November 2009

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

It's the story that has the whole of Fleet Street purring like, well, a cat.

It has all the ingredients - the world's richest sportsman, who is also one of the most fiercely private, involved in a mystery crash, with a name - Tiger Woods - that is ripe for animal puns.

So the News of the World on Sunday came up with the priceless headline: "TIGER'S NOT A LION CHEETAH BUT HIS WIFE STILL WENT APE"

The story even makes the front of the Daily Telegraph on Monday, with a big picture of the New York nightclub hostess who has denied any romantic link with the golfer. Is it too predictable that she's dubbed "Tiger's birdie"?

The paper, which recently appointed a former Daily Mail man as editor, fills page three with more on the story, after Woods made a statement in which he took all the blame.

While the tabloids take the greatest interest, all the papers fall into fe-line. The Independent also devotes page three to it, and in its sport section it questions where it leaves Woods's golf committments.

The enduring image of Woods being freed from the wreckage by his wife using a golf club makes for what could be seen as a good day to bury bad new for one other sportsman at the top of his game - Andy Murray.

The British tennis number one has split up with his girlfriend Kim after reaching a mutual agreement.

No mention of anyone wielding tennis rackets.

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