The papers round on the Metropolitan Police Chief Ian Blair this morning
Met chief Ian Blair urged to quit over shooting says the Times

Britain’s most senior policeman was fighting to keep his job last night after his force was found guilty of catastrophic failures that led to the shooting dead of an innocent man.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, insisted that he would not resign despite an Old Bailey jury verdict that his force conducted an error-strewn operation that ended in the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. The fallout from the Stockwell Tube shooting is set to continue and Sir Ian faces a battle to retain public confidence.

Guilty, but Blair refuses to go says the Guardian

He said: "Every single failure here has been disputed. Some of these failings have been simply beyond explanation. There has been no single admission to any one of the alleged 19 failings."
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats demanded Sir Ian resign as commissioner of the Met. But he was given public backing by home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and prime minister, Gordon Brown.

The Telegraph reports that

The trial judge, Mr Justice Henriques, said a "corporate failing" was to blame for the tragedy - leading senior MPs to say that as head of the Met Sir Ian should take overall responsibility and step down.
It was Sir Ian's personal decision to contest the case, which has cost the taxpayer £3.5 million, despite "overwhelming" evidence of a series of blunders by his force.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said Sir Ian's position was "untenable", while Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said it was "unavoidable" that the commissioner should resign.

Man without honour says the front page of the Mail adding

no individual officers have been charged with criminal offences over the case.
A number have already been told they will not even face any disciplinary charges, meaning that nobody might ever be held personally accountable for the shambolic operation which resulted in Mr de Menezes being shot seven times after being mistaken for a terrorist.

A baffling litany of bad luck, tragic errors and panic in high places is how the Independent describes the shooting

The call that came to Scotland Yard's CO19 firearms unit at 5.05am on 22 July, 2005 was categorical. Armed officers were needed to support colleagues watching a flat in south London "as soon as practicable". Given that the apartment in question was the suspected address of two fugitive suicide bombers, it was expected that the team would move immediately.
The reality was tragically different. The members of Trojan 805 were not briefed about their role until four hours after that order. En route to their holding point, some of the officers had enough time to stop at a petrol station and fill their cars with fuel, unaware that, barely two miles away, events were unfolding that would shake Britain's largest police force to its foundations.

The Express for the first time in a long while chooses not to lead with Maddy,instead it tells us that

MIGRANTS TAKE ALL NEW JOBS IN BRITAIN

Foreign workers have taken every new job in Britain for the past four years, astonishing figures show.
The total of migrant employees since 2003 has soared by 740,000, while the number of Britons in work has gone into reverse and dropped by 120,000. This means that foreign workers filled all the extra 620,000 jobs which were created during those four years.

Tories renew call for migrant limit as diligent Poles impress Britons reports the Independent

David Cameron, the Tory leader, has renewed his call for an annual ceiling on the number of people coming to Britain from outside the European Union.

He claimed that the confusion this week about the number of foreign workers coming to Britain was evidence of an "unmistakable whiff of decay" about the Government, and added: "There's no doubt our population is growing at a very fast rate. Part of that is from immigration and we need a proper debate about that. Currently about 200,000 people, net, are coming into this country each year, I think that's too high, and we would like to see a substantial cut in that."
His comments came as a survey revealed that most people in Britain regard the Polish as more diligent than the British, with 67 per cent believing that Poles "often work harder".


The Telegraph meanwhile reports that an

Inquiry launched into migrant council housing

A major independent inquiry to determine whether immigrants are given unfair access to council housing was announced yesterday by Britain's race watchdog and local authority leaders.
Trevor Phillips, the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said there was a "widespread public perception" that new migrants had "unfair advantages to which they are not entitled".
He announced that his commission and the Local Government Association (LGA) would launch a study to determine whether the perception was correct, and would stop any abuse it uncovered.

Gifted and talented’ programme extended to one million pupils reports the Times

England’s million brightest pupils will be targeted by a new champion for gifted and talented children, under plans to ensure that the most able youngsters make it to university regardless of their social background.
The first priority for John Stannard, a former director of the National Literacy Strategy, will be to target the 300 secondary schools that up until now have refused to take part in the government’s gifted and talented (G&T) programme – often because of ideological opposition to selection

On the same subject the Guardian reports

Test results for third of primary students wrong, says study

As many as one in three primary school children is given the wrong marks in national tests, according to a report on standards in primary schools.
Sats for seven- and 11-year-olds, which are used to assess their progress and feed into national school league tables, are unreliable, put pupils under psychological pressure and have had little impact, the report says.
The researchers accuse the government of ignoring academic evidence, backed by the then Statistics Commission, that the dramatic rises in results in the run-up to 2000 were "exaggerated".

Iran gains a fair amount of coverage in the papers,staying with the Guardian

Brown considers plan to give Iran limited supply of uranium

Gordon Brown is considering a Saudi plan to limit the supply of uranium to potential nuclear weapons states and will call for new EU sanctions against Iran in the next few weeks, most probably in the form of an end to export credit guarantees.
US-allied Gulf states said yesterday they were planning a consortium to provide enough enriched uranium for Iran's civil nuclear programme, which they believe could be a deterrent against the development of nuclear weapon.

Bahrain accuses Iran of nuclear weapons lie reports the Times

In an interview with The Times the Crown Prince has become the first Arab leader to jettison the language of diplomacy and directly accuse Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons.
“While they don’t have the bomb yet, they are developing it, or the capability for it,” he said – the first time one of Iran’s Gulf neighbours effectively has accused it of lying about its nuclear programme.

Poll gives Hillary Clinton big lead over Giuliani reports the Telegraph

The survey, conducted by the respected Pew Research Centre, is one of the largest taken during the campaign, involving 2,000 prospective voters.
It placed the former first lady eight percentage points ahead of the Republican former New York mayor - by a margin of 51 per cent to 43 per cent - and showed that she is making ground among areas of the electorate that have been solid Republican for the past two to three decades.

The Mail reports that

Heart transplants halted after seven die at Papworth Hospital

A spokesman for the pioneering hospital in Cambridgeshire confirmed it had launched an investigation after seven of 20 adult patients - 35 per cent - died within 30 days of surgery in the first ten months of the year.
Typically, only 10 per cent of patients - or two in this case - would be expected to die within that period.

A strange front page for the Independent

The mouse that shook the world

Scientists have been astounded by the creation of a genetically modified "supermouse" with extraordinary physical abilities – comparable to the performance of the very best athletes – raising the prospect that the discovery may one day be used to transform people's capacities.
The mouse (pictured on the front page) can run up to six kilometres (3.7 miles) at a speed of 20 metres per minute for five hours or more without stopping. Scientists said that this was equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break. Although it eats up to 60 per cent more food than an ordinary mouse, the modified mouse does not put on weight. It also lives longer and enjoys an active sex life well into old age – being capable of breeding at three times the normal maximum age.

Cameron scorn for Brown over election day that never was reports the Guardian

A resurgent David Cameron yesterday marked the day Gordon Brown had planned to call an election by deriding him as "the bureaucrat in chief", left on the wrong side of the tide of ideas.
Mr Brown had been planning to hold an election on November 1, but pulled back partly after examining polls in marginal seats suggesting he might not win a big overall majority.

Brown 'did not discuss rights' says the Indy

Gordon Brown did not raise alleged human right abuses in Saudi Arabia during his talks this week with King Abdullah, the Saudi Foreign Minister confirmed yesterday.
"We haven't talked of human rights," Prince Saud al-Faisal told Sky News. "Human rights is the responsibility for the government of its own people, not of other governments. We are doing what our people expect us to do."
The Prime Minister's failure to raise the issue during the King's state visit was attacked by Labour MPs and a British engineer who claims he was tortured when he was held in a Saudi jail on fabricated terrorism charges.

Many of the papers report that

Sharon Beshenivksy suspect is captured in Somalia and flown to Britain

An alleged armed robber who became the subject of an international manhunt after the murder of a policewoman was flown to Britain yesterday after being captured in a remote African village.
Mustaf Jama, 27, was charged last night with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, who was shot in 2005 outside a travel agency in Bradford. Mr Jama, who became Britain’s mostwanted man after the killing, was seized by troops this week in a semi-lawless region of northern Somalia, where he is thought to have been hiding for the past two years. reports the Times


The Mirror claims on its front page

Exclusive: 'I saw Madeleine taken away in a taxi'

A woman yesterday told how she watched helplessly as a little girl with Madeleine McCann's distinctive eye mark was driven off in a taxi.
Naoul Malhi, 30, spotted a blonde girl with a bruised face being dragged along by a Moroccan woman. And when she looked in the child's eyes she saw a flecked iris identical to Madeleine's. Naoul said: "It was Madeleine. There's no mistaking that mark."

Not surprisingly the Sun uses its front page to launch an attack on Lady McCartney

MUCCA MAULS MACCA

RANTING Heather Mills stuck the knife into hubby Sir Paul McCartney again yesterday as their divorce war hit a new peak of fury.
Heather, 39, followed up Wednesday’s string of British TV outbursts by flying to America to launch more tirades.
Mucca accused Sir Paul, 65, of being to blame for the failure of their marriage and failing to help when he knew she felt suicidal.

Hingis: I failed cocaine test at Wimbledon reports the Mirror

Tennis champ Martina Hingis yesterday announced that she was retiring after tests showed she had taken cocaine.
The former world number one denied she had ever used illegal drugs and said she was "shocked and appalled" by the accusations.
Martina, 27, took a routine drugs test at Wimbledon back in June after crashing out to Laura Granville 6-4, 6-2 in the third round. Players' identities are kept secret until any appeal is heard but Martina has decided to waive her anonymity.
She said: "I've never taken drugs and I am 100 per cent innocent.


Finally the demise of Richard and Judy is well covered

The daytime chat is over as Channel 4 drops Richard and Judy says the Mail

The Richard & Judy show is to be axed by Channel 4, it was announced.
The decision follows a dip in ratings and the phone-in scandal over the programme's You Say We Pay quiz earlier this year.
Husband-and-wife presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan were also upset when Channel 4 cut back their shows to make way for Paul O'Grady's arrival.
The decision to end their daytime chat show, said to be by mutual consent between Channel 4 and the duo, comes six years after they joined the channel.


THERE THINK IT'S ALL SOFA says the Sun

TELLY couple Richard and Judy have officially QUIT their teatime Channel 4 show, The Sun can reveal.
The husband and wife duo will front their final programme on their famous sofa together at the end of next summer – just as we predicted.
The announcement from the former This Morning couple brings to an end two decades of live TV.