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What better proof of Pavarotti's ability to transcend opera 's elitist appeal than the fact that all grades of newspaper – red top (Sun), mid-market (Mail) and broadsheet (Telegraph) – are offering readers a free CD of the maestro.

Of course, all come with the big fella's trademark aria, Nessun Dorma… although only the Mail announces this on its front page.

Staying with the Mail, it's a marker of how serious things have got recently in the Madeleine McCann investigation that it has chosen to adopt the red, san-serif "MADELEINE" strapline so beloved of its rival, the Express.

Talking of which… rather like the observation that , if you splash with a story every day for several weeks, sooner or later the news agenda will catch up with you. So it is with today's Madeleine front page on the Express.

Aside from the aforementioned free CDs, there's a welter of promises about free DVDs this Saturday – indicating that with autumn settling in, the papers are gearing up for another spot of bruising rivalry. But what happened to wall-charts? It's been some months. Then again, new evidence reveals something of a backlash to the whole idea – witness burglar/graffiti "artist" Peter Addison's verdict on the Daily Mail's British Garden Birds wall-chart in the top photo on .

Finally, back to Pavarotti, or Pav, as the Sun is wont to call him… While the "qualities" roll out their resident opera critics to assess the big man's legacy, the Sun goes straight to the oracle on such matters - Paul Potts, winner of ITV's Britain's Got Talent.

So Paul, what's your take on the Maestro of Modena? "He was my idol, he brought opera to the masses… I couldn't replace him."

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