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• Fuel panic dominated the headlines
• Peter Cruddas’ resignation over the donor scandal, and George Galloway’s surprise by-election victory covered lots
• A major report on last summer’s riots, Spain’s most austere budget since the 1970s, and the final changes to the legal aid bill covered little

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Covered Lots

• There was panic at the pumps as Britons prepared themselves for a possible strike from fuel tanker drivers, 251 articles
• Peter Cruddas resigned after being secretly filmed claiming that a donation of £250,000 gave ‘premier league’ access to the Prime Minister, 170 articles
• George Galloway once again became an MP by winning the Bradford West by-election, 128 articles

Covered Little

• Spain unveils its most austere budget in a generation as a 24 hour strike occurs, 21 articles
• A report detailing the causes behind the riots last summer concluded social deprivation was a major factor and that people need more of a ‘stake in society’ to stop it happening again, 13 articles
• The legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill cleared the Lords with minor amendments and now returns to the Commons for final approval, 8 articles

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

• David Cameron, 616 articles (+8% on last week)
• George Osborne, 383 articles (-61% on last week)
• Ed Miliband, 316 articles (+38% on last week)
• Francis Maude, 241 articles (+991% on last week)
• George Galloway, 128 articles (from 5 last week)
• Tony Blair, 120 articles (+11% on last week)
• Boris Johnson, 102 articles (-4% on last week)
• Nick Clegg, 96 articles (-46% on last week)
• Ed Balls, 92 articles (-12% on last week)
• Theresa May, 74 articles (-6% on last week)

Celebrity vs Serious

• Kim Kardashian says she is ready to date again and Kris Humphries has stipulated terms of her divorce, 43 articles vs. the government announced they would protect greenbelt sites with revised planning reforms, 27 articles
• Rihanna visited London last week to promote her film debut, 29 articles vs. UK’s GDP for Q4 was revised and found to have contracted, 29 articles
• Lady Gaga celebrated her 26th birthday, 34 articles vs. a health database containing 500,000 peoples medical records go online, 4 articles

Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)

• Nicolas Sarkozy (France), 103 articles (-26% on last week)
• Angela Merkel (Germany), 46 articles (+142% on last week)
• Mariano Rajoy (Spain), 43 articles (+291% on last week)
• Mario Monti (Italy), 20 articles (+18% on last week)
• Enda Kenny (Ireland), 12 articles (-8% on last week)
• Lucas Papademos (Greece), 9 articles (-25% on last week)
• Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg), 8 articles (-11% on last week)
• Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), 2 articles (+-67% on last week)
• Jyrki Katainen (Finland), 2 articles (no change from last week)

No other Eurozone leaders were mentioned in UK press coverage.

Who wrote a lot about…George Galloway

• Helen Pidd, The Guardian, 5 articles
• Toby Helm, The Observer, 3 articles
• Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 3 articles

Long form journalism

• 5,030 words. Should science journalists read the papers on which their stories are based?, James Randerson, The Guardian
• 3,499 words. America’s dream unravels, Edward Luce, The Financial Times
• 3,389 words. The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam, Tom Holland, The Guardia

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