
The Independent continues its comment on the visit of the Saudi royals and the other papers start to join in
King Abdullah flies in to lecture us on terrorism,in an article by Robert Fisk,the paper says
In what world do these people live? True, there'll be no public executions outside Buckingham Palace when His Royal Highness rides in stately formation down The Mall. We gave up capital punishment about half a century ago. There won't even be a backhander – or will there? – which is the Saudi way of doing business. But for King Abdullah to tell the world, as he did in a BBC interview yesterday, that Britain is not doing enough to counter "terrorism", and that most countries are not taking it as seriously as his country is, is really pushing it. Weren't most of the 11 September 2001 hijackers from – er – Saudi Arabia? Is this the land that is really going to teach us lessons?
Welcome to Britain. But don't mention bribery and corruption. This is business says the Guardian
He may be only a couple of weeks old, but Jacob Miliband suceeded yesterday where a wide array of human rights activists, dissidents and the Liberal Democrats had failed - he managed to upset the intimate relationship between Britain and Saudi Arabia.
By arriving in the world earlier than scheduled, Jacob, David Miliband's American adopted son caused the foreign secretary to be away in the US collecting him on a day he was supposed to be meeting the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, on the eve of what it had been hoped would be a carefully choreographed state visit.
Queen left to paper over Saudi diplomacy cracks says the Times
The Queen will attempt to smooth over relations with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia today after a state visit to London got off to a bumpy start. adding that
Before his arrival on the first state visit for 20 years, King Abdullah used some very undiplomatic language to criticise his hosts for Britain’s failure to combat terrorism.
Truth about the savage House of Saud says the Mirror
Downing Street is rolling out the red carpet. And Abdullah has been promised a ride in the Queen's carriage and a dinner at the Palace.
But those flags should be hanging at half-mast in shame to see the Queen so closely associated with the leader of this blood-stained regime.
Abdullah may be king of Saudi Arabia but to many observers he is also a king of torture and corruption.
The papers have a distinct leading towards immigration and immigrants this morning
Lessons in hate found at leading mosques is the lead in the Times
Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of Britain’s leading mosques, according to research seen by The Times.
Some of the fundamentalist works were found at the bookshop in the London Central mosque in Regent’s Park, which is funded by the Saudi regime and is regularly visited by government ministers. Its director, Ahmad al-Dubayan, is also a Saudi diplomat and was among those greeting King Abdullah when he arrived in Britain last night for his official state visit.
Most of the papers report on the
300,000 migrants left out of official statistics
Peter Hain, the Work and Pensions Secretary, admitted that 300,000 foreign citizens working in Britain were left out of official statistics.
Some 1.1 million people from abroad have taken jobs in Britain since 1997, the Government said. The previous figure was 800,000.
The misleading figures had been given to MPs in written parliamentary answers. says the Telegraph
The 300,000 foreigners that Labour forgot to count is the Mail's take
The Guardian leads with
Labour plans migrants points system
Ministers will close the door to Bulgarians and Romanians hoping to live and work in Britain today as the government tries to deflect criticism that it has lost control of the immigration system. The move, which maintains the tight controls introduced last year, means they are still being refused the rights given to migrants from six other eastern European accession countries.
The Foreign Office has raised protests in Whitehall, but pressure to act has been driven by the scale of recent migration projections and concern that the issue is a big negative factor for Labour in its private polling. The government's advisory Migration Impacts Forum told ministers this month that immigration is now seen as the number one issue facing Britain.
And the rubbish theme also returns
WARNING OVER UK LANDFILL TARGETS reports the Express
Britain faces fines of up to £180 million a year from the European Commission if it does not reduce the amount of rubbish dumped at landfill sites, a committee of MPs warned.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee accused ministers of being too slow to react to a 1999 EU directive on waste and warned there was a "significant risk" that new rubbish incinerators and composting plants would not be in action in time to meet its targets.
Bin tax muddle leaves green policy in disarray reports the Telegraph
Gordon Brown's green policies were thrown into confusion yesterday after ministers confirmed that they would be pushing ahead with pilot schemes for controversial new "pay-as-you-throw" bin taxes.The Prime Minister had been anxious to distance himself from what he saw as unpopular "waste taxes" – which could cost typical households £250 a year – and No 10 claimed last night that plans for new schemes would not be rolled out across the country.
Pay-as-you-throw is back as town halls get bin tax powers says the Mail.
Town halls will get powers to introduce pay-as-you-throw bin taxes after all, it emerged yesterday.
The plans were due to be announced by ministers last week but were shelved after pressure from Downing Street.
Instead, they were hidden away in a 145-page report on the Climate Change Bill released yesterday by the environment department Defra.
Defra insisted the new powers would only cover "pilot" schemes.
The Tabloids have gone Maddy crazy again,all lead with a variation on the story
FURY OF TAPAS 7 says the Sun
THE Tapas Seven pals of Gerry and Kate McCann yesterday denied sharing a “pact of silence” over what happened the night Madeleine went missing.
And they angrily insisted there was no “secret” between them.
The seven friends — including Jane Tanner — have faced Portuguese press accusations that they “covered up” and “lied” for Kate and Gerry after Maddie, of Rothley, Leics, vanished from her Algarve holiday villa days before her fourth birthday in May.
There have been claims of inconsistencies in statements given to police by the group, who were eating with Kate and Gerry in a Praia da Luz tapas bar when Kate, 39, found Maddie missing.
NOW POLICE BELIEVE US OVER MADDY says the Mirror
Kate and Gerry McCann got a massive boost last night as Portuguese police finally acted on their unwavering conviction that Madeleine was kidnapped.
Six months into the case, officers staged a reconstruction of the night the four-year-old was taken from her holiday flat.
Both the Express and the Mail choose to lead with
MCCANNS USE FUND TO PAY MORTGAGE
KATE and Gerry McCann have paid their mortgage with some of the £1million donated to help find Madeleine, it emerged yesterday.
Contributors to the fund immediately complained that they did not expect their money to be used to cover the cost of the McCanns’ four-bedroom home worth £600,000. says the former and the Mail adds
Neither has worked since Madeleine vanished on May 3, although Mr McCann is due to return to his £75,000-a-year post as a hospital consultant this week.
Mortgage repayments on the couple's £500,000 detached home in Rothley, Leicestershire, are believed to be £2,000 a month.
The Telegraph reports on its front page on a
Fresh charity status threat for private schools
Charity officials may carry out snap inspections of independent schools to make sure they are benefiting poor pupils, it has emerged.They will have the power to strip schools of their charitable status – collectively worth £100 million a year – if they fail to pass the new test of "public benefit".
Other schools failing to comply could have their trustees suspended or bank accounts frozen.
Many of the papers report on the
Ferry officer ‘left sailors to drown’
Three City workers were left to drown after the officer in charge of a cross-Channel ferry ignore evidence that he had struck or swamped their yacht, a court was told yesterday.
James Meaby survived for at least 12 hours while Jason Downer and Rupert Saunders were left floundering in the water for more than three hours before drowning.
Michael Hubble, who was on watch on the 37,600-tonne Pride of Bilbao, is alleged to have simply “crossed his fingers” and failed to alert the authorities after passing the 25ft (8m) yacht Ouzo off the Isle of Wight. The failure by Mr Hubble, an experienced officer, to stop the ferry, start a search or alert the coastguard led to the deaths of all three men, Winchester Crown Court was told.
LEFT TO DROWN is the Mirror's headline
US soldier's family brings legal action against British private security firm,the Guardian reports
A British private security firm hired to protect the oil installations of post-invasion Iraq is being sued for causing the death of an American soldier.
The case against the Erinys security firm, which reportedly has close ties to the former Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, is believed to be the first brought against a private security contractor operating in Iraq by a member of the US military.
Bicycle bomber kills 28 in Iraq as decapitated bodies found reports the Independent
A suicide bomber riding a bicycle detonated explosives packed with iron balls in a crowd of police recruits in Baquba yesterday, killing 28 people and wounding at least 20 others.
"I saw many bodies covered in blood," said Ali Shahine, a shopkeeper in the city in Diyala province, north-east of Baghdad. "Some were dying, some had arms and legs blown off." He saw the bomber cycle through a gap in a concrete security wall before blowing himself up.
The Iraqi police also announced yesterday that they had found the decapitated corpses of 20 unidentified people near the city.
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that
Key tribal leader on verge of deserting Taliban
The Daily Telegraph has learned that the Afghan government hopes to seal the deal this week with Mullah Abdul Salaam and his Alizai tribe, which has been fighting alongside the Taliban in Helmand province.
Diplomats confirmed yesterday that Mullah Salaam was expected to change sides within days. He is a former Taliban corps commander and governor of Herat province under the government that fell in 2001.
There is continuing speculation about the royal blackmail plot
Royal aide boasts on tape about his fling with an MP, says lawyer says the Times
A royal aide boasts about his fling with an MP in a tape at the centre of the sex-and-drugs blackmail plot concerning a member of the Royal Family, a lawyer claimed yesterday.
The assistant to a minor relative of the Queen also claims that the true medical cause of death of a member of the Royal Family may have been concealed from the public.
Meanwhile the Sun reports that
THE Royal embroiled in the “sex and drugs” blackmail case is on the brink of going public, The Sun can reveal.
Top Buckingham Palace aides have raised fears about the damage being done to the Royal Family as a whole by lurid speculation over the person’s identity.
As the scandal rages on, senior sources claim it is increasingly likely the person at the heart of the case will waive their anonymity.
Rhys Jones suspect named on video site reports the Guardian
The name of a teenage suspect in the murder of Rhys Jones, shot dead in Liverpool, has been given in a posting on the video website YouTube, detectives said yesterday.
Police confirmed that the site features the name of a suspect still at large more than two months after the 11-year-old was shot in the neck walking home from playing football in Croxteth on August 22.
The name appears in a comment section of the site attached to a four-minute video showing hooded members of a gang pointing guns, faces concealed with caps and balaclavas. One comment asks: "Why do you all call them child murderers? Rhys was hit by a stray bullet; it was not intentional."
Tesco invades England's smallest town reports the Independent
On the one side is Tesco, Britain's pre-eminent supermarket chain where a 270,000 strong workforce gleans an annual profit of some £2bn from its 2,000 stores each year. On the other is Manningtree, England's smallest town, home to 700 souls and one of East Anglia's best preserved Georgian shopping streets.
But, if campaigners are to be believed, the arrival of a new Tesco store, the 12th within a 10-mile radius of the town, is about to deliver a hammer blow to the character of this former wool and brewing centre where Matthew Hopkins, the 17th-century Witchfinder General, began his career
The Telegraph reports on
Simon Sainsbury's £100m art gift to Tate and National Gallery
The greatest British art bequest in decades, which will see 18 masterpieces valued at up to £100 million divided between the National Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, was revealed yesterday.The paintings, including two Monets, a Gauguin, three Lucian Freuds and a Francis Bacon, have been left to the nation by Simon Sainsbury, a scion of the supermarket family who died last October aged 76.
Serial jailbreaker makes explosive exit from yard of ‘Belgian Alcatraz’reports the Times
Europe’s most prolific jailbreaker was back on the run yesterday after staging his fifth and most daring escape, despite his stolen rescue helicopter crashing on take-off.
Nordin Benallal, 29, a violent criminal dubbed the most dangerous man in Belgium, was sprung from the high security prison where he was moved this year after a tip-off that he was planning another bid for freedom.
The Mirror reports on
David Beckham's 'respect' for Scientology
David Beckham has spoken of his respect for Scientology but denies showbiz pal Tom Cruise has tried to convert him to the religion.
The Hollywood star has helped the football ace and wife Victoria to settle in to life in America.
But Beckham, 32, insisted Tom and wife Katie Holmes have never tried to persuade them to become Scientologists.
Becks said: "We respect their religion. We respect everything they do and believe in.
Finally Heather Mill's comes in for critisism
Mucca 'scared my dog to death' reports the Sun
A FURIOUS neighbour claimed last night that a £10,000 fireworks display staged by Heather Mills killed her dog. Sandra Rowbury, 48, says her Weimaraner bitch Glow was terrified by the barrage of explosions and suffered a fatally bloated gut.
The 20 minutes of bangs and flashes — which came without warning in a quiet rural area — also caused 15 of her horses to stampede in terror, as animal rights activist Mucca and pals sipped champagne.
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