It is often that the newsspaper review starst with the Express but its front page this morning

MELTDOWN with a picture of a baby seal can't fail to pull at the heartstrings

BABY seals are dying in their thousands as global warming turns the ice fields where they are born into a watery wasteland.
Thousands of baby seal are perishing as high temperatures break the ice into millions of tiny pieces, hurling the youngsters into the treacherous seas.Unlike the parent animals with their coats of thick, insulating blubber, the cubs cannot swim and have no way of staving off the bone-chilling cold of the late winter seas.Once they slip into sea they quickly succumb to the cold and exhaustion.

On the same theme the Independent reports

Wars of the world: how global warming puts 60 nations at risk

Scores of countries face war for scarce land, food and water as global warming increases. This is the conclusion of the most devastating report yet on the effects of climate change that scientists and governments prepare to issue this week.
More than 60 nations, mainly in the Third World, will have existing tensions hugely exacerbated by the struggle for ever-scarcer resources. Others now at peace - including China, the United States and even parts of Europe - are expected to be plunged into conflict. Even those not directly affected will be threatened by a flood of hundreds of millions of "environmental refugees".
The threat is worrying world leaders. The new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told a global warming conference last month: "In coming decades, changes in the environment - and the resulting upheavals, from droughts to inundated coastal areas - are likely to become a major driver of war and conflict."

Both it and the Observer lead on fertility

IVF Exclusive: Donor eggs to be rationed

Women unable to conceive naturally will be limited to a single egg transplant under new "rationing" plans for fertility treatment.
Thousands of women may be denied the chance of having a baby because of the moves to limit to one the number of embryos implanted. The UK's fertility watchdog, the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA), will this week call on clinics to allow women to have only a single egg fertilised and implanted in the womb, instead of the two at present.
The watchdog claims this will limit risky multiple births following a huge rise in the number of twins born because of women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. Twin births have nearly doubled over more than three decades, from 6,000 in 1975 to 10,000 today.

Women face fertility curb after IVF health scare reports the Observer

The HFEA will unveil a series of measures based on an approach called 'single embryo transfer' under which women normally receive only one embryo, except for a minority - including older women - whose medical condition means they need two embryos to stand a realistic chance of conceiving.
Women who have had IVF immediately criticised the changes for reducing the chances of infertile women becoming pregnant.

The Iranian crisis is not far from the headlines

Ministers seek deal with Iran for captives

The Telegraph reports that it

has learnt of plans to send a Royal Navy captain or commodore to Teheran, as a special envoy of the Government, to deliver a public assurance that officials hope will end the diplomatic standoff.The move, which was discussed at a meeting of Whitehall's Cobra crisis committee yesterday, came as Downing Street officials explicitly cautioned against hopes of a speedy outcome and said that families of the hostages should prepare for the "long haul".The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, have been warned that the impasse may develop into a long-term stand-off. Privately, officials are speculating that the crisis could continue for months.

According to the Times

Power struggle in Iran over hostages

THE fate of the 15 British marines and sailors held in Tehran may depend on the outcome of a power struggle between two of Iran’s top generals, write Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin.
According to an Iranian military source, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards has called for them to be freed.
Major-General Yahya Rahim Safavi is said to have told the country’s Supreme National Security Council on Friday that the situation was “getting out of control” and urged its members to consider the immediate release of the prisoners to defuse tension in the Gulf.
However, Safavi’s intervention was reportedly denounced by another senior general at a meeting of high-ranking commanders yesterday.

Now Navy captives face show trial in Tehran says the Mail

The 15 British sailors and Marines kidnapped by Iran may face a jail sentence after a humiliating show trial. A senior Iranian diplomat and an MP in Tehran yesterday called for the Britons to stand trial for straying into Iran's waters.
They face at least 12 months jail if found guilty of illegally entering Iran. They were thought less likely to face the more serious charge of espionage.

It though continues to report on the Bob Woolmer case,its front page asking

Did Woolmer die in fall after downing bottle of whisky?

The revelation has fuelled mounting speculation that the Pakistan cricket coach's death was not murder but a tragic accident. A witness described how the 58-year-old sat alone in the bar of the Hotel Pegasus in Kingston after Pakistan crashed out of the ICC Cricket World Cup and 'drowned his sorrows' with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label.
The claim adds considerable weight to suggestions by forensic experts that a tiny bone in Mr Woolmer's neck could have been broken as a result of a fall rather than by strangulation.

The Mirror leads with

BOB WAS POISONED

CRICKET coach Bob Woolmer was poisoned by an ancient drug used by witches in the Middle Ages, detectives believe.
Aconite, which causes death by asphyxiation, has also been used in a series of assassinations in Pakistan.
It comes in the form of a white powder which is believed to have been sprinkled over Woolmer's sleeping tablets or into his diabetes medicine.
The breakthrough comes after a man, thought to be from Pakistan, phoned police on Monday claiming that aconite killed the former Kent and England star.

Much political speculation in the papers

The Times reporting that

Clarke ready to run for leader

Confidants of the former home secretary say he will consider a leadership challenge to deprive the chancellor of a “coronation” for the top job if the environment secretary refuses to do so.
A bid by Clarke would force a debate on the future of the Labour party and leave Brown little choice but to flesh out where he stands. MPs fear that a coronation without a heavyweight challenge could make the party look undemocratic and go down badly with voters.
Yesterday Clarke told The Sunday Times he would not rule out a challenge to Brown and would “make a judgment” when Tony Blair announces his resignation, expected to be soon after the local, Scottish and Welsh elections on May 3. “I am not going to rule out under any circumstances running,” he said.

Brown and Blair join forces against SNP threat reports the Telegraph

The Prime Minister and Chancellor will launch what could prove to be one of their last joint electioneering events before Mr Blair leaves office.
They will try to rally support on Tuesday following polls which show that the Scottish National Party is on course to overtake Labour as the largest party in the Scottish Parliament. Mr Blair is expected to warn voters that an SNP victory in the Holyrood election would be a step towards the break-up of the United Kingdom.

The Times reports

Police probe ‘web torture’ at top school

ONE of Britain’s top independent schools is under police investigation over allegations of pupil bullying involving the use of internet images of torture, murder and child pornography.
Officers are examining computers taken from the school, in southeast England, for any evidence of such extreme websites being viewed.
They launched the investigation after being told that the bullying involved forcible restraint in front of computers while horrific images were brought up on screen by the perpetrators. The “cyber-bullying” is alleged to have happened on numerous occasions over a period of about a year.

Spot the April Fool are they or arent they

Blair: I'll be treading the boards again reports the Observer

Tony Blair has agreed to resurrect his interest in acting when he leaves Number 10 after he was approached about a major stage role by his close friend, the artistic director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey, The Observer can reveal.
With speculation growing over the exact date of his departure from Downing Street and how he will handle life as an ex-Prime Minister, Blair appears to have taken Gordon Brown and his closest Westminster friends by surprise with the plan to star in an autumn production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. It is likely to be a sell-out.

BAE hired actresses for Saudis says the Times

A SECRET slush fund set up by BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest defence contractor, was used to pay tens of thousands of pounds to two British actresses while they befriended a senior Saudi prince and his entourage.
Confidential documents seen by The Sunday Times reveal that money from the £60m fund went on the mortgages and rent, credit card bills and council tax of Anouska Bolton-Lee and Karajan Mallinder. It even paid for language lessons.
BAE channelled the cash through a London travel company which financed “accommodation services and support” for Prince Turki bin Nasser and other Saudi figures responsible for the desert kingdom’s involvement in the £40 billion Al Yamamah arms deal.

Race uproar over Army troop quota is this or isnt it in the Mail?

Defence chiefs want to limit the number of Commonwealth troops in the Army to retain its "Britishness'.
Their proposed quota system is causing uproar in the Ministry of Defence because it could be depicted as racism.
Confidential papers prepared by the Army General Staff, headed by General Sir Richard Dannatt, suggest Commonwealth troops - mostly non-white - should be limited to 10 per cent of the 99,000 total.
Senior lawyers have sounded private warnings that the department could be accused under the Race Relations Act. And other opponents point out the plan could deny the Army access to a pool of heroes.

The News of the World leads with

TARRANT'S SECRET LOVER

TV STAR Chris Tarrant is enjoying a cloak-and-dagger affair with a sexy blonde ex-EastEnders star—and it could cost him a FORTUNE.
The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host secretly spent the night with actress Debbie Arnold, 51 at his luxury flat on Thursday.

According to the Mirror

COL'S SECURITY QUIZ BRIDE SHARING VENUE

NOTHING could wipe the smile off Catherine Adams' face yesterday - even when security guards for Coleen McLoughlin's 21st birthday party stopped her on her way to her own wedding reception.
The pair of heavies spoke to happy couple Catherine, 33, and David Steen, 32, in their vintage limousine.
Then, after assuring them they weren't gatecrashers heading for Coleen's huge circus-themed celebration just yards from their own £7,500 reception, the newlyweds were waved through.
Last night one of the wedding guests - who was also stopped by security - said: "Catherine and David were determined not to let Coleen's party ruin their day - but it was difficult not to notice the photographers, security guards, flashing fairground rides and huge marquee."

Finally is this an April Fool?The Indy reports that

Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain's garden centres

A chance discovery by a Berkshire allotment-holder that a plant widely available in garden centres has the same effect on men as Viagra has been confirmed by experts at one of the world's leading botanical institutions.
The plant is winter-flowering heather, and botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, many of them heather experts who have recognised the source of its active ingredient, now expect it to be the next must-have plant in British gardens. Demand is already high. Nurseries and garden centres in some areas are having trouble finding sufficient supplies as word spreads of the plant's unexpected properties.
A spokesman for Wyevale Garden Centres, which has 106 UK branches, said: "At first, it was just a trickle of inquiries, but now stores are virtually being besieged each weekend. We have had men buying dozens of the plants and, at one store in Croydon, there were men old enough to know better fighting over the last remaining trays."