Media Brief

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what you need to know.

The BBC reports that the company which licenses children's TV character Peppa Pig has withdrawn her from a Labour party election event. Peppa was due to visit a children's centre as part of Labour's launch of their manifesto for families. But E1 Entertainment said it had agreed the character should not attend the event "to avoid any controversy or misunderstanding"

According to the BBC and Guardian, the Scottish National Party is to lodge court papers today over its exclusion from Thursday's prime ministerial debate on BBC One. The party, which raised £50,000 to pay for the process, said it was not trying to stop the broadcast but it wanted an SNP politician included "for balance".

The Daily Mail says that Heather Mills has won free tickets for a Whitney Houston concert in a radio phone-in.

The BBC reports that the possibility of a hung Parliament again dominates newspapers' election coverage.

Links in full

BBC | No Peppa Pig at Labour event
BBC | SNP begins BBC debate legal bid
Guardian | Legal challenge to Salmond's exclusion from BBC debate
Daily Mail | Heather Mills wins free Whitney Houston tickets in radio phone-in
BBC | Newspaper review

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