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| Front pages: Mandela and O'Toole share headlines | Front pages: Mandela and O'Toole share headlines |
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| Two men from very different walks of life dominate Monday's front pages - Nelson Mandela and Peter O'Toole. | Two men from very different walks of life dominate Monday's front pages - Nelson Mandela and Peter O'Toole. |
| A third - Andy Murray - will most likely share billing in the later editions but his victory in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year contest came too late for many of the first takes. | A third - Andy Murray - will most likely share billing in the later editions but his victory in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year contest came too late for many of the first takes. |
| Every paper uses an image of O'Toole in his most famous role, Lawrence of Arabia, to illustrate its coverage, with the word "hellraiser" used more than once to describe him. | Every paper uses an image of O'Toole in his most famous role, Lawrence of Arabia, to illustrate its coverage, with the word "hellraiser" used more than once to describe him. |
| The funeral of Nelson Mandela is generally pushed into at least second place, but is movingly described in the Daily Telegraph, for one, as "a vast display of pomp so unlike the man they came to bury". | The funeral of Nelson Mandela is generally pushed into at least second place, but is movingly described in the Daily Telegraph, for one, as "a vast display of pomp so unlike the man they came to bury". |
| Discussing the papers for the BBC's News Channel, Pippa Crerar, from the London Evening Standard, said it would be "really interesting" to see how the BBC reacts to a scathing report by MPs on severance payments for senior executives. | |
| "I suspect there will be self-flagellation in public," she said, but what happens behind the scenes matters more - whether director general Lord Hall and BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten "decide that now is time to really draw a line under it, stop these bad headlines and move on". | |
| Hugh Muir, from the Guardian, says the BBC will be able to say that action is already being taken because Lord Hall has capped severance payments. | |
| But, he adds, there will still be "a lot of pressure on Lord Hall, and also on Mark Thompson, because... he was responsible for agreeing a lot of the severance payments". |