The news that nurses will have the power to decide whether to resucitate people is the lead in the Times,Telegraph and the Mail this morning

Nurses to decide if patients are revived says the Times

Nurses are to be granted the power not to resuscitate people who stop breathing, under guidance published yesterday by medical leaders.
For the first time, senior nurses are being told that they can decide without a doctor if they think lifesaving techniques will not work.
It comes in guidance that also tells GPs or consultants not to try to save patients who have demanded the right to die.


Nurses to make life and death decisions says the Telegraph

The official guidance, issued by the British Medical Association, started a fierce debate last night. Although some medical professionals welcomed the new rules, patient groups voiced concerns that they could place unfair pressure on nurses.

Nurses given power to end a life is the headline in the Mail

Patients' groups criticised the move, calling it 'another nail in the coffin' of the safety of the elderly and vulnerable which would condemn many to an 'early death sentence'.
The rules, published by the BMA in conjunction with the Royal College of Nursing and the Resuscitation Council, aim to help medical staff decide whether to resuscitate patients if their heart or breathing stops.
It says medical staff should use their judgment over whether there is any point in using the most common resuscitation method - chest compression, or 'cardiopulmonary resuscitation'.
But for the first time, this includes 'suitably experienced nurses'.

The Independent leads with

Scotland 10 England 0: Scottish Nationalists proclaim the benefits of devolution

The Scottish Nationalists were in jubilant mood yesterday as they gathered for their annual party conference in the mountain resort of Aviemore. They are riding high in the opinion polls and seem intoxicated by 160 successful days in power.
Yesterday, Alex Salmond, the First Minister, was given a standing ovation as he poked fun at the Labour Party – which this year lost its first election in Scotland for half a century – before launching into a flurry of eye-catching policy pronouncements which included a £100m investment in colleges and universities.

Buoyant Salmond plays long game on independence vote reports the Guardian

In an interview with the Guardian, the first minister indicated that leading Scotland into a referendum on independence is no longer the main priority. His immediate aim is to keep the SNP in power.
His party has been forced to slow down its ambitious spending plans after failing to strike a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats and getting an "exceptionally difficult" budget deal from the UK government, leaving it £600m short.

The paper leads though with Iraq

Undiagnosed brain injury - the hidden legacy of Iraq

The Ministry of Defence is conducting a major study into brain injury in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan amid fears that thousands of soldiers may have suffered damage after being exposed to high-velocity explosions.
The US army says as many as 20% of its soldiers and marines have suffered "mild traumatic brain injury" (mTBI) from blows to the head or shockwaves caused by explosions. The condition, which can lead to memory loss, depression and anxiety, has been designated as one of four "signature injuries" of the Iraq conflict by the US department of defence, which is introducing a large-scale screening programme for troops returning from the frontline.

Military matters in the Telegraph which reports

RAF 'knew about Nimrod leaks before crash'

The RAF knew about fuel leaks on a Nimrod surveillance aircraft that exploded above Afghanistan killing 14 servicemen more than 10 months before the crash, the father of one of those that died has claimed.Senior officers were aware of faults on the 37-year-old Nimrod MR2 aircraft in December 2005, Graham Knight said.His son Sergeant Ben Knight, 25, was one of 14 killed when the plane exploded over Kandahar on 2 September 2006. It was the biggest single loss of life to Britain’s armed forces since the Falklands war.

The Independent reports that

Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention

An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the legal process for determining whether Guantanamo prisoners are "enemy combatants".
The whistleblower, an army major inside the military court system which the United States has established at Guantanamo Bay, has described the detention of one prisoner, a hospital administrator from Sudan, as "unconscionable". adding

His critique will be the centrepiece of a hearing on 5 December before the US Supreme Court when another attempt is made to shut the prison down.

The Mail returns to a story from earlier in the year

Revealed: Poisoned ex-Russian spy Litvinenko WAS a paid-up MI6 agent

The former Russian spy poisoned in a London hotel was an MI6 agent, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000 a month from the British security services at the time he was murdered.
The disclosure, by diplomatic and intelligence sources, is the latest twist in the Litvinenko affair, which has plunged relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the Cold War.

Tough restrictions will be kept for low-skilled workers from Europe reports the Times

The Government is to keep the tight restrictions on the number of low-skilled workers from Romania and Bulgaria that it will allow into Britain, despite pressure from employers.
Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister, is about to dash the hopes of the Bulgarian and Romanian governments that Britain’s labour market will be opened fully to their citizens.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that

Building 3m new homes will not end crisis, adviser warns minister

Plans to build 3m new homes in England by 2020 will not be enough to meet the deepening housing crisis, the housing minister's independent advisers warned yesterday. Another 250,000 homes might be required to ensure a generation was not prevented from joining the property ladder because of high prices.
The report from the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit takes account of rising demand for larger family homes, an increase in second home ownership, and a rise in empty properties.

Concerns raised over girls' cervical cancer jab reports the Telegraph

Concerns are mounting among family groups over the vaccination of schoolgirls against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The jab will provide protection against the human papilloma virus, which is sexually transmitted and is responsible for 99 per cent of cases of the disease.
Under the Government scheme, 12-year-olds will be vaccinated from September 2008, with plans to vaccinate those up to the age of 18 from autumn 2009.

Cervical cancer jabs for pre-teen girls could save 400 lives a year says the Times

The announcement yesterday, which was welcomed by health campaigners, comes after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the vaccine be given to all 12-year-old girls before they become sexually active. The JCVI has said that a catch-up programme for women is unlikely to be cost-effective but could benefit some individuals.

News from abroad and the Guardian reports that

Peace talks will fail, says rebel leader

Darfur peace talks due to begin today will fail and ultimately prolong the four-year conflict, the region's most influential rebel leader has predicted on the eve of the UN-brokered talks.
Abdul Wahid al-Nur, the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), has called on his followers not to attend the talks in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte, and shrugged off a UN threat to impose sanctions on groups "impeding" the conference.

We must bomb Iran, says US Republican guru reports the Telegraph

A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and "bunker busters" to set back Teheran’s nuclear programme by at least five years.

US missile plans echo Cuban crisis, says Putin says the Times

Vladimir Putin likened America’s plans for a missile defence system in Europe to the Cuban missile crisis today as he insisted that he would relinquish power in the next Russian presidential elections.
Mr Putin said that finding out about the US scheme to put interceptor missiles in Poland near the Russian border had echoed President John F. Kennedy’s discovery of Soviet missiles in the Caribbean in 1962.

The Independent reports that an

Austrian farmer executed for defying Nazis is on the path to sainthood

A poor Austrian farmer who was executed by the Nazis for refusing to fight for Hitler took the first step on the path to sainthood when he was beatified yesterday by a Vatican cardinal at Linz Cathedral, not far from the village where he was born.
Franz Jägerstätter was deeply obscure in his life and no less so in death. But the last man to speak to him before he was executed, a priest called Father Jochmann, said he was the only saint he had ever met. Yesterday, the Catholic Church endorsed his view.

The latest McCann instalment on the front of the Express this morning is

BE KND TO KATE

The mother of Kate McCann made a desperate appeal to the public last night.
Susan Healy insisted her daughter was not on the brink of a nervous breakdown but begged: “Please be kinder to her. She has enough to cope with.
“Yes, she is distressed at times and she can’t smile that often at the moment but she is very strong and she is going to fight on to get Madeleine back.”

Meanwhile the Mail carries

KATE STUNNED BY PSYCHIATRISTS VILE ATTACK


Kate McCann was left reeling yesterday after her tearful breakdown was savaged as "a circus act" by critics who claimed it showed she had "psychiatric problems".
Friends of Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry said they were stunned by the "vile criticism" about their behaviour during a television interview.
They are considering taking legal action against a Spanish psychiatrist who made the worst of the slurs.


£2m thief 'lived like a footballer's wife' reports the Telegraph

A financial director who stole more than £2 million from company accounts to live the "lavish lifestyle of a footballer's wife" has been jailed for five years.
Sharon Bridgewater, who was described as a "female Walter Mitty" by her own barrister, used the money to buy seven houses, a Spanish villa, a Ferrari, a BMW and six Porsches.
She spent £120,000 on an entertainment system at her home and £110,000 on a luxury kitchen, which was later featured in a national glossy magazine spread.

Jail for ex-soldier who urinated on dying disabled woman reports the Guardian

A drunken former soldier who urinated on a disabled neighbour as she lay dying after a fall in the street was jailed for three years yesterday and told that he and his friends had shamed a town. Anthony Anderson, 27, and a group of friends who filmed the humiliation of Christine Lakinski on a mobile phone, have been cold-shouldered in Hartlepool and turned away from shops and neighbours' homes.

Suspended sentence means Doherty is one offence away from a jail term reports the Independent

The threat of prison loomed over the troubled rock singer Pete Doherty yesterday when he was given a suspended jail sentence for a string of drugs and motoring offences.
The Babyshambles frontman was given a four-month custodial sentence suspended for two years. District Judge Davinder Lachhar also gave him an 18-month supervision order and a 12-month drug rehabilitation order at West London magistrates' court in Hammersmith. She also ordered that the singer pay a £400 fine for driving with no insurance and a £75 fine for having no MOT certificate.

The Sun and the Mirror concentrate on showbiz,the former leads with

TAKE THAT STARS AGONY

TAKE THAT’s HOWARD DONALD was in hospital last night with a collapsed lung after doing the splits on stage. Agonised Howard, 39, missed a show on the band’s Beautiful World tour and could be out of action for two weeks.
The singer is understood to have been performing a complex dance movement which also involves a backflip in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday.
He struggled through until the end of the show but was in so much pain that when the group arrived in Vienna next day he was taken straight to hospital.


Whilst the Mirror is concerned with X Factor

STROP IT says the paper

Simon Cowell has ordered fellow X Factor judges to stop the bickering that is blighting the hit show.
The furious boss gave Sharon Osbourne, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh an astonishing dressing down after getting fed-up with all the backbiting.
He told the trio: "Stop fighting and stop flouncing."
Cowell flipped after Sharon had a row with Dannii last week then walked off the show.


PETROL SOARING TO NEW RECORD PRICE reports the Express

Millions of motorists face a gloomy winter as petrol prices look set to reach a record high next week.
The soaring cost of crude oil, unrest in the Middle East and recent tax rises are pushing the cost of a litre towards the £1 barrier.
And motoring organisations have said the effects would be felt across the economy. A typical petrol tank now costs £6.06 more to fill than this time last year, meaning UK drivers are spending £8.3m extra per day.

The Sun reports on a tragedy in Snowdonia

A LAD of eleven died yesterday after plunging 200ft from a mountain ridge while climbing with his dad.
He suffered serious head injuries in the fall and was airlifted to hospital – but died soon after he arrived.
The boy from Liverpool, who has not been named, fell at Crib y Ddisgl on Mount Snowdon, North Wales.
He and his dad were part of a group including two other children and another adult.



Many of the papers report on the latest TV scandal

TV’s toughest nanny and the string of qualifications that do not exist says the Times

Channel 4 misled the public over the qualifications held by a celebrity nanny on the television series Bringing Up Baby, an investigation by The Times has learnt.
Claire Verity, 42, outraged children’s organisations with her strict routines, which included leaving babies to cry, limiting cuddling time to ten minutes a day and leaving them outside “to air”. The NSPCC said that her methods were “outdated and potentially harmful”, while the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said that her recommendation that babies sleep alone in a separate room contradicted Department of Health guidance on reducing the risk of cot death.

The Sun carries an exclusive

NO MORE SNOGWORTS

TEEN starlet Emma Watson is nursing a secret heartache as work starts on the new Harry Potter movie – she and her rugby hunk boyfriend have split. Emma, 17, Hogwarts beauty Hermione Granger – was last night said to be “distraught” over her break-up with strapping Tom Ducker.

Finally the Telegraph reveals

Pets and owners 'become more alike over time'

Prof Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, asked almost 2,500 people to complete online questionnaires about their characters and those of their pets.He found that many dog lovers, cat owners and even reptile keepers said they shared many of the same traits — such as happiness, intelligence, independence and sense of humour — as their pets.
But he also discovered that the longer an animal had been with their owner, the more likely they were to have picked up their characteristics.