And now the Sun trashes the NOTW...

Poor Cheryl Cole. The question of whether Ashley has done anything - and who with - has now ceased to be important; now, the story is all about sister papers scrapping in public.

You'll recall that yesterday's News of the World had offered Cheryl the chance to tell the world that Ashley can't hold an erection while he's drunk, to counter The Sun's claims that he'd had sex with a woman who was not in Girls Aloud.

This morning, The Sun counters that Cole's "people" offered to pay for an abortion for Aimee Walton. Cole hadn't worn a condom because, he's supposed to have said that he didn't "do that shit".

Abortions; refusal to wear condoms; and - it turns out - three separate shags. It's surprising how much colourful detail Walton had forgotten to mention the first time she sold her story to The Sun.