The latest in the Meredith Kirchner story dominates the papers this morninmg along with the reaction to the Queen's speach

SHOCKING TRUTH OF STUDENT'S MURDER is the headline in the Express

STUDENT Meredith Kercher had her throat cut after she refused to take part in a sordid sex game with her flatmate and two men, police said last night.
Meredith, 21, was said to have struggled wildly as she fought off repeated attempts to force her into the perverted group sex session.

VICTIM OF A SICK FANTASY says the Mail

The American student accused of murdering Meredith Kercher told police she heard the 21-year-old die.
Amanda Knox said she heard screams coming from Meredith's bedroom where the student was with another of the accused, Patrick Diya Lumumba.
American Knox, 21, said: "Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith's bedroom while I stayed in the kitchen.
"I can't remember how long they were together in the bedroom but the only thing I can say is that at a certain point I remember hearing Meredith's screams and I covered my ears.
"I don't remember anything else. There is a lot going on in my head."

DID HE KILL MEREDITH asks the Sun

TRAGIC Meredith Kercher was killed by three lust-crazed pals as she fought off a savage sex attack, police said yesterday.

Both the Times and the Guardian lead with the Queen's speech

Flexible working hours for millions says the former

Millions more parents will be able to work part-time or at home under proposals that could extend the right to request flexible employment for those with children up to the age of 17.
In the first Queen’s Speech since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, the Government also outlined plans to make it easier to strike off doctors, legislation to protect “have-a-go heroes” and plans to require immigrants to learn English.
In total the speech contained 32 measures, one of the largest of recent years. The Conservatives accused Mr Brown of “magpie politics”, claiming that he had stolen their plans on flexible working.

Millions may get right to flexible work reports the Guardian

Gordon Brown used his first Queen's speech yesterday to set out a potentially costly and controversial work-life balance agenda that could give flexible working rights to as many as 4.5 million extra parents. Employees with children as old as 17 could be extended rights that have proved incredibly popular to parents with much younger families.

The Independent reaction is

Vision off the menu as PM puts bread-and-butter policies first

Gordon Brown sought to get his government back on track yesterday by putting flexible working, affordable housing and education at the heart of his first legislative package as Prime Minister.
Mr Brown ignored demands for him to use the Queen's Speech to make a vision statement as he concentrated on bread-and-butter policies that he said would meet the rising aspirations of Britain's "hard-working families".

PM Gordon's talkathon says the Mirror

There's only one thing to do when you find yourself stuck beside someone you really can't stand - just keep talking.
That was the strategy adopted by Gordon Brown as he was forced on an excruciating three-minute walk beside David Cameron yesterday.
Tony Blair always made the annual stroll from the Commons to the Lords to hear the Queen deliver the Government's programme seem like the highlight of his year. A cheery grin fixed to his face, he'd do his best to charm the dazzled Leader of the Opposition forced by tradition to saunter beside him.

Both the Indy and the Telegraph choose to lead with the economy.

According to the Telegraph

Rift with Darling puts King's job on the line

The future of Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, was under threat last night following a public split over the Northern Rock crisis with Alistair Darling, the Chancellor.Mr King used a wide-ranging interview to suggest that the Chancellor could have prevented the run on the bank had he acted on options presented to him in the week leading up to the crisis.

A financial crisis that began in the US is coming to a home near you is the front page of the Indy

No one knows where the bodies are buried. Indeed, no one is quite sure exactly how many bodies there are. But they are out there, and there are plenty of them: underperforming loans, worthless securities and overvalued assets, all safely buried well away from the banks' balance sheets. Buried – but not quite dead.

Meanwhile according to the Mail

Half the country will see house price falls in the next 18 months driven by the knock-on effects of the worldwide squeeze on credit, according to a study out today.
Mortgage lenders are taking a much tougher line on the amounts they will lend and which customers they will accept.


Falling house prices 'to hit half the country'

Health matters are a concern in the Times

Excess weight to blame for one in 20 cases of cancer in women

Women who are overweight are at a greater risk of contracting a wide range of cancers, a study has shown.
The authors calculate that 6,000 cancers a year – 5 per cent of all cancers in women – can be attributed to being overweight or obese.
The effect is greatest in cancers of the oesophagus (gullet) and endometrium (lining of the womb), where the risks are more than doubled. But there are also significant increases in the risks of contracting kidney cancer, leukaemia, multiple myeloma, pancreatic cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, ovarian cancer, breast cancer in older women and colorectal cancer in younger ones.

At least 50 dead as bomber hits MPs' school visit reports the Indpendent

One of the worst suicide bombings in Afghanistan's history left at least 50 people dead in the northern town of Baghlan yesterday, including at least five MPs and many schoolchildren who had lined up to greet them when they arrived at a sugar factory.
The bomber infiltrated a large crowd of onlookers as the parliamentary delegation, on an economic fact-finding mission, moved between two lines of children towards the entrance to the factory. Witnesses said he detonated a bomb in his hand and a concealed explosives belt as the MPs were about to be received by officials and elders.

The Guardian reports the latest from Pakistan

Ex-chief justice urges lawyers to rise up against Musharraf

Pakistan's deposed chief justice urged embattled lawyers to defy President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown yesterday as the government considered delaying elections by several months.
Speaking from house arrest, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry told a gathering of lawyers in Islamabad to "rise up and restore the constitution".
"Go to every corner of Pakistan and give the message that this is the time to sacrifice," he said. "Don't be afraid. God will help us and the day will come when you'll see the constitution supreme and no dictatorship for a long time."

Imran Khan vows to stir youth of Pakistan into mass uprising says the Times

The former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan was in hiding last night after escaping house arrest as President Musharraf defied an international outcry and crushed a second day of protests against emergency rule.
Mr Khan, who leads a small opposition party, issued a statement through his British ex-wife, Jemima, pledging to lead an underground movement against the emergency imposed on Saturday. “The police have ransacked my house and ill-treated my family members,” said Mr Khan, who is regarded as a national hero. “Our aim is to continue the struggle and mobilise the youth of the country from underground. This move of Musharraf’s will ignite militancy and extremism.”

The Telegraph reports that

Bodies of three firefighters found

Rescue crews searching the vegetable packing warehouse destroyed by a huge blaze have recovered the bodies of the three missing firefighters.Hundreds of firefighters formed a guard of honour tonight as the bodies of three of their colleagues were retrieved from a burnt out warehouse.

Tribute to fire heroes says the Mirror.

The papers leads with the McCartneys

Heather rants at McCartney over dates

Angry Heather Mills blasted Macca yesterday over his secret dates with a married millionairess - and demanded: "Why didn't you tell me?"
Heather rang Sir Paul, 65, in a temper after the Mirror exclusively revealed he and Nancy Shevell, 47, had been seen kissing in New York.
A friend of Macca's said: "There was a huge row. Heather asked what the hell he thought he was up to."

On the same subject the Sun reports

THE married millionairess seen kissing Sir Paul McCartney is a breast cancer survivor — diagnosed just a year after the rocker’s beloved late wife Linda.
And last night she exclusively told The Sun she has separated from her lawyer husband, leaving her free to see the Beatles legend.
Brave US businesswoman Nancy Shevell, 47, revealed in an interview how she learned she had breast cancer in 1996.
She told in the 1998 article of her “desperation” after she was diagnosed.

The Telegraph reports that

Alien life is more likely than ever

The universe contains vast numbers of planetary systems similar to our own, increasing the chances of there being extraterrestrial life, astronomers have announced.Nasa scientists last night unveiled a newly-discovered planet orbiting a star in a system which now becomes the first known to contain at least five planets.
The layout of the planetary system - known as 55 Cancri - is similar to that of our own solar system, where four small rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, orbit close to the sun, and Jupiter and three other giant planets orbiting much further out.

Finally The Mail reports on the

Farm labourer inherits £2.3m farm he worked on for 25 years after two-year legal battle over will

As a dedicated farm labourer, David Thorner asked for little in return for his hard work. And for 25 years that is exactly what he got.
Board and lodging was all he received during all the years of service on his cousin's farm - and the promise that one day it would all be his.
When Peter Thorner died without leaving a will however, the 400-acre property was set to be passed on to his siblings instead.