Both the Sun and the Mail lead with a harsh condemnatio of the governments mistakes over the immigration figures

MIGRANTS? LABOUR HASN'T GOT A CLUE says the Sun

LABOUR were accused of being CLUELESS over immigration last night.
The charge was made as ministers admitted 1.5million foreign workers have surged into Britain since 1997. That’s nearly DOUBLE their original estimate. And the figure — changed from 800,000 to 1.1million on Monday night — was revised heavily upwards for the second time in 24 hours.


THE MIGRANT JOBS FIASCO is what the Mail says

The number of jobs being snapped up by migrants has been greatly underestimated, Ministers had to admit yesterday.An official figure was virtually doubled - but critics said the true total was higher still.
In a day of confusion, Whitehall departments contradicted each other as the issue threatened to become a full scale Government crisis.
The chaos appeared to undermine Gordon Brown's pledge of "British jobs for British workers".

Ministers ignored calls to improve migration figures says the Guardian

Attempts to shore up the credibility of immigration statistics were undermined yesterday as it emerged that ministers have been under pressure from officials and local authorities for years to spend more money on producing reliable figures.
Richard Alldritt, head of the official watchdog on statistics, told the Guardian he had been campaigning for more than four years to persuade ministers to spend "tens of millions" to increase the accuracy of work on entries, exits and movements within the UK.

Away from that story the papers cover a variety of leads

Make it easier to get an abortion, say MPs is the main story in the Telegraph

The science and technology committee, which has been running an inquiry into the laws, sees no scientific evidence to justify supporting a reduction in the current 24-week limit for abortions.
Currently, two doctors are required to give consent for an abortion. The MPs' report suggests that one doctor or even a nurse could give such authority in future. It also says that women should be allowed to take drugs to induce a medical abortion at home.
The proposals have sparked a bitter rift within the committee, with pro-life MPs attacking the recommendations. Two members have published a minority report advocating cutting the time limit and tightening the law.

The Times goes with

£100,000 tax relief as Gordon Brown gives way

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are to bow to pressure from business by retreating on key tax reforms made in the Government’s autumn Budget statement, The Times has learnt.
Three weeks after Mr Darling announced his plan for a single 18 per cent rate of capital gains tax he is to soften the blow by giving £100,000 in tax relief for small businessmen who sell up and retire.

Labour slips behind Tories as election delay harms Brown image reports the Guardian

Labour's majority could have been threatened if Gordon Brown had pressed ahead with plans to hold a general election tomorrow, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll. Support for the party has fallen to its lowest level in any ICM survey since Tony Blair left office.
Carried out last weekend, at a time when parties would have been scrambling for real votes had a contest been called for November 1, the poll gives the Conservatives a clear five-point lead over Labour.

It leads though with more bad news for the government

Rising fear of energy crisis this winter

Britain faces the prospect of power shortages and soaring prices this winter after the National Grid warned of a shortfall in electricity-generating capacity yesterday. The alert coincides with a surge in gas prices, which are now 40% higher than in continental Europe, and the confirmation that a vital import plant in South Wales will not be operational this winter.
And it emerged last night that the energy minister, Malcolm Wicks, met power providers and users last week to discuss mounting concerns that the UK was heading into another winter of soaring prices and power shortages, similar to the one that forced some manufacturers to shut down capacity 24 months ago.

There is continuing coverage of the Saudi visit

Shouts of 'murderers' and 'torturers' greet King Abdullah on Palace tour reports the Independent

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was officially welcomed by a guard of honour with the Queen at Horseguards Parade. Gordon Brown, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, and the Foreign Office minister Kim Howells joined dignitaries on the dais. The King then lunched with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in the Bow Room at the Palace before being shown a specially created exhibition of Saudi items from the Royal Collection.
Beyond the gates of the Palace, however, the growing outcry continued. Protesters calling for the reopening of a corruption inquiry into a multibillion-dollar arms deal for Typhoon fighters from the UK jeered the Saudi King as the Government rolled out the red carpet to greet him. Scores of protesters shouted "murderers", "torturers", and "shame on you" at King Abdullah as he passed by in a gilded horse-drawn coach.

According to the Times

David Cameron challenges King Abdullah over extremist material in mosques

The Conservative leader will ask the Saudi King to curb the export of fundamentalist religious ideology in books and pamphlets that advocate the suppression of women’s rights, hatred for non-Muslims and the execution of lapsed Muslims.
His intervention will further destabilise the course of the Saudi state visit, which started badly when King Abdullah criticised Britain’s record on fighting al-Qaeda terrorism.

SAUDI YOU DO.. says the Mirror

Despite the controversy surrounding his visit, the Queen told guests in her speech that both nations were working together to beat terrorism.
She said: "We also continue to work together in the search for a more peaceful Middle East."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron were among 170 guests. But the event was boycotted the Lib Dems. Prince Harry also gave it a miss by going out on the town.


All the papers report that

Police quiz Prince Harry over rare bird deaths

The Prince and a friend were contacted after two hen harriers were killed on the Queen's 20,000-acre estate in Norfolk.
The birds are a protected species and police have launched an investigation to track down the culprit, who faces a fine of up to £5,000 and the possibility of six months in jail.
At the time of the incident, which occurred last Wednesday, the Prince and his friend were close to the Dersingham Bog nature reserve where the birds were killed.

Says the Telegraph

The Independent leads with

The face of a doomed species

The disastrous impact of poaching and the destruction of the natural habitat of one of the planet's most threatened animals will be made clear tomorrow when the Indian government is told that its remaining tiger population could be as low as 1,300.
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will be told that drastic action has to be taken against the two forces threatening the big cat's chance of survival.
"That size of a population is scientifically not viable," said Valmik Thapar, a tiger expert and member of the National Board of Wildlife, which is due to convene in Delhi for a meeting chaired by Mr Singh. "But in the real world you have to try as hard as you can."

After four-month court case, Spain is braced for verdicts in train bombings that killed 191 reports the Guardian

The verdict on those accused of involvement in Europe's worst Islamist terrorist attack will be announced in a Spanish court today after a trial that has lasted four months and 17 days and heard testimony from more than 300 witnesses.
If found guilty, 19 men, mostly of Moroccan origin, will be sentenced on charges of planning and carrying out the bombings on the morning of March 11 2004, as thousands of commuters made their way to work. Ten bombs packed with dynamite and nails exploded on four trains heading into central Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring nearly 1,800. It was the worst act of terrorism in Europe since the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in 1988, which claimed 270 lives. Nine Spaniards, including one woman, are also accused of providing the explosives used by the alleged terrorists.


Burmese army 'abducts thousands of children'reports the Telegraph

Human Rights Watch has claimed that children are picked up at train and bus stations and markets and told they will be arrested if they refuse to join the army. Some children are beaten until they agree to "volunteer".
The Burmese army continues to expand even as it faces high rates of desertion. Analysts believe recruitment may become even harder since troops were ordered to fire on revered Buddhist monks in September.

Iraqi dam burst 'would drown 500,000' reports the Indy

The dam, which is near Mosul in the north of the country, was built in 1984 on a bed of water-soluble rock and is in imminent danger of collapse. "In terms of the internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world," said a report by the US Army Corps of Engineers. "If a small problem [at] Mosul dam occurs, failure is likely." The collapse of the two-mile long, earth-filled dam would release eight billion cubic metres of water in the lake behind it in a giant wave which would flood Mosul – a city of 1.7 million people 20 miles downstream – to a depth of 60ft.

The Times reports on the latest from the Diana enquiry

Paparazzo called British paper to offer pictures of dying Princess for £300,000

Romuald Rat, a French photographer who was among the pack of paparazzi that had been chasing the couple since they landed in Paris the previous day, called The Sun newspaper from the scene of the crash inside the Alma tunnel, the court was told.
The pictures “leapt off the screen” when they were wired through from Paris, Kenneth Lennox, who was then the paper’s picture editor, said. “The first photo I opened up was of Diana sitting in the back seat . . . She has a trickle of blood on her face.” The second was of a doctor attending to the Princess and apparently administering oxygen. The photographer had described the Princess as “lightly injured” and Dodi as “very badly injured”.

Paparazzi are 'self-serving' liars says the Mail

The French paparazzi were branded "self-serving" liars more interested in selling pictures of dying Princess Diana for up to £300,000 than saving her life, the inquest heard yesterday.
Motorcyclist Stephane Darmon and his passenger, photographer Romuald Rat, were first to arrive at the Paris underpass where Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed lay in the wrecked Mercedes.


The latest installments of the Maddy story are on the front of the Express and the Mirror

POLICE TO TURN HEAT ON MURAT says the former

DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to interview official suspect Robert Murat again.
New police chief Paulo Rebelo ordered his elite team to conduct a fresh interrogation of the first official suspect in the case after they staged a dramatic reconstruction at the crime scene this week.

The Mirror has a similar take

MADDY POLICE TO QUIZ MURAT AGAIN

Officers want to clear up inconsistencies linked to his interviews after he was arrested in May.
A police source said: "He has not been ruled out." The 33-year-old expat, left, said he was unconcerned.


The Times reports

Service families ‘are suffering the strain of war in silence’

The private suffering and anguish experienced by the families of Service personnel returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan is laid bare in the first survey of army dependants.
One third of army families who responded to the survey by the Ministry of Defence said that they had been aware of “a change in behaviour”, and most of them admitted that it had had a negative impact on family life.

BRITAIN'S 30-YEAR WAR ON TERROR reports the Sun

BRITAIN faces a 30-YEAR war to crush terrorists intent on mass slaughter here, Gordon Brown’s security supremo warned yesterday.
Admiral Lord Alan West dramatically DOUBLED his earlier estimate of 15 years to make the UK safe from attack.
He told The Sun: “I now realise that we are talking about a generation — and by that I would say 30 years.” In an exclusive interview, the former head of the Navy went on: “That doesn’t mean necessarily that we are going to stay at a severe level of threat for all those years.



Finally the Telegraph reports that

'Britons deciding not to carry on camping'

For decades the camping trip has been a British holiday staple alongside a stay at Butlins or a weekend in Scarborough.But new research suggests a succession of miserable summers and the proliferation of budget overseas air travel may finally be causing its popularity to wane.According to Mintel, a market research company, the number of people taking a break under canvas has fallen by a fifth since 2002, from 14 million to 11 million this year. Mintel predicts the total will fall by a further 23 per cent over the next five years.