Kylie and Dido lauded by press. (Brits News).

Kylie Minogue and Dido were crowned queens of the Brits by the UK's national press as Fleet Street this year dwarfed even its 2001 blanket coverage of the annual music event.

LD Publicity's Bernard Doherty, whose company has handled publicity for the event over the past decade, notes that -- including Scotland's Daily Record -- seven national papers devoted part of their front pages to the Brits the morning after the Earl's Court ceremony.

"There was only The Guardian and The Independent that didn't put it on the front, but the one thing that was up on last year was that both The Express and the Mail went big," he says. "And the difference this year was that, because we're now in a position of being so huge, in the build-up we had two ...