Sleaze is the latest crisis to hit the government.Following the Mail on Sunday's exposure of the secret Labour party donations,the paper leads with

Sleaze comes back to haunt Brown as Labour chief resigns over donations row

Labour's most senior party official was forced to quit yesterday as sleaze allegations over funding returned to haunt Gordon Brown.
General Secretary Peter Watt resigned after admitting that he knew a wealthy businessman tried to give the party nearly £400,000 in secret - which is against the law. adding that

it emerged that the tycoon, David Abrahams, secured planning permission for a multi-million-pound business park, which had earlier been refused, after handing over £200,000 donations to Labour in only six months.

Secret donor row claims Labour chief is the lead in the Guardian,

Labour's attempt to reclaim control of the political agenda was derailed last night when the party's most senior official resigned after admitting he knew a millionaire businessman was using intermediaries to secretly donate hundreds of thousands of pounds. and in the Telegraph

Brown in row over donations scandal

On a day that saw the resignation of the Labour Party's general secretary, the International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, and the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, also found themselves embroiled in the controversy.The Prime Minister was facing questions about how much he knew about the secret donations totalling more than £550,000 from a property developer, as opposition parties called for a full-scale police inquiry.

The uprising against facism: Students storm Oxford Union debate is the front page of the Independent

The principle that everyone is entitled to their say, however obnoxious their opinions might be, was put to the test at the Oxford Union last night as hundreds of protesters gathered to voice their disapproval of the two men from the extreme right whom the illustrious debating chamber had invited there to speak.
One of the guests, the BNP leader Nick Griffin, heads an organisation that wants to see millions of people deported from the UK because they do not regard them as truly British.

Irving and Griffin spark fury at Oxford Union debate says the Guardian

Scuffles broke out in the hall as the demonstrators - there to voice their opposition to the presence of discredited historian David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin - clashed with organisers and security guards.
Order was eventually restored and the event went ahead with Griffin and Irving forced to speak in separate rooms as hundreds of students and anti-fascist campaigners surrounded the venue chanting and singing.

Nearly all the papers carry front page pictures of the teacher facing lashes in Sudan

The Mirror leads with the story

Beyond Reason says the paper

Briton faces lashes in Sudan over teddy named Mohammed says the Telegraph

Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, claim she made an "innocent mistake" by allowing the class of seven year-olds to choose the name. But she has been accused of insulting Islam’s holiest prophet, arrested and imprisoned.If charged and found guilty of blasphemy she faces punishment under Sharia law.

Muslims insulted by teddy says the Sun

Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old described as “timid and polite,” has been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam’s prophet.
The teacher, from Liverpool, let her class of seven-year-olds choose the teddy’s name as part of a project at Unity High School in Sudan’s capital Khartoum.

Many of the papers report on a Middle East breakthrough

The Times says

Israeli and Palestinian leaders appeared close to a breakthrough last night in efforts to kick-start the Middle East peace process.
As President Bush opened a three-day summit in Washington, Israel and the Palestinians said that they were near agreement on a joint document outlining the terms of new negotiations. The document, which the parties had previously failed to agree, could trigger within days the first formal peace talks between two sides for seven years.

Bush 'optimistic' as he launches drive for peace in Middle East says the Independent

Frantic bid to bridge Middle East divide reports the Guardian

At a dinner for the delegates last night, Mr Bush warned of hard bargaining ahead: "We've come together this week because we share a common goal: two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security. Achieving this goal requires difficult compromises, and the Israelis and Palestinians have elected leaders committed to making them."

The Telegraph reports on the continuing rioting in Paris

Thirty police officers have been injured in a second night of violence between youths and officers in the flashpoint suburb of Villiers-le-Bel in Paris.
About 160 riot police came under attack in the notoriously crime-ridden district, 20 miles north of the centre of the French capital. The violence spread from Villiers-le-Bel to several other areas, police said.

Youths riot again in French suburbs as two die says the Independent

A similar incident two years ago led to three weeks of rioting in poor, multi-racial suburbs across France. Despite appeals for calm by the dead boys' families, a mob of 200 youths burned a nursery school and other buildings last night. They hurled petrol bombs, stones and fire-crackers and fired airguns at police in running battles on the edge of the town.

The Times leads with

Fee-paying schools strengthen hold on top universities

Private school pupils have tightened their grip on Britain’s top universities, despite huge efforts by the Government and admissions tutors to end the social class bias in higher education.
The claim, from the Independent Schools Council, coincides with a call from the new equality watchdog for schools to consider a new system of selection based on social class. This would achieve a mix of students in each state school by regulating the proportion of children from different social classes that are allowed in one institution.

The sleaze scandal has relegated Gordon Brown's latest policy announcements to the inside pages,the Telegraph reporting that

Gordon Brown to push unemployed into work

In a speech to business leaders, the prime minister said that private companies and charities would be offered new "incentives" for getting the long-term unemployed back to work and pledged to close loopholes in the benefits system.

More unemployed will lose benefits if they refuse work says the Independent

Lone parents, the sick and disabled and long-term unemployed will have to make more effort to find work as the Government moves towards the "workfare" system used in some US states.
The Prime Minister told the CBI's annual conference in London: "Rights and responsibilities will be at the heart of our approach so we will intensify compulsion while at the same time offering new incentives."

The Guardain reports that

Virgin holds on as preferred bidder despite objections

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group was in pole position yesterday to win the race for Northern Rock despite sharp criticism from shareholders and rival bidders who said the billionaire had undervalued the company and failed to answer many key questions about its financing.
Virgin's plans were given the backing of the government and the Northern Rock board yesterday after a flurry of meetings over the weekend.

But according to the Mail

Branson's Northern Rock deal rolls into trouble

Opposition politicians warned the Virgin boss's proposals could saddle taxpayers with billions of pounds of Northern Rock liabilities for years.

Familiar headlines on the front of the Express

MADELEINE DNA CLUES LOCKED UP

CRUCIAL evidence which could point the finger of suspicion at Kate and Gerry McCann is being kept under lock and key, it was revealed last night.
DNA tests are said to undermine their claims that they had nothing to do with the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.

The Sun also leads with a Maddy story

NEW SHOCK THEORY-PAEDO KILLED MADDY

A PERVERT sneaked into Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment – and killed the terrified tot to shut her up when she screamed, police now believe.
A team headed by top Portuguese cop Paulo Rebelo came up with the chilling new theory in a “root and branch” reinvestigation of the six-month-old mystery.
The astonishing U-turn means four-year-old Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry may NOT now be regarded as suspects.

Driest-ever autumn to follow wettest summer reports the Telegraph

Rainfall figures for September, October and the first half of November show Britain has seen an average total of 154.7mm (6.09in) of rain in that period - far below the long-term average total of 335.4mm for autumn.
Although Britain has suffered heavy downpours in the last few days, rainfall in the first two weeks of November was just 12 per cent of the monthly average for England.

No bin collection if lid is not shut reports the Times

A third of councils in England and Wales surveyed by The Times said that they would not empty bins if the lids were not shut properly. Critics have told the councils that the strict interpretation of the law will cause some homeowners to dump rubbish in neighbours’ bins, but the councils are adamant that the crackdown is necessary.

Heavily pregnant woman fined £90 for parking in mother and toddler bay at Tesco says the Mail

Heavily pregnant and already overdue, Laura Howard decided to pop to Tesco for some last-minute baby goods.
Because she was finding it hard to get around, she parked in a motherandtoddler space to be closer to the supermarket. Half an hour later she struggled back to the car with her shopping to find a £90 parking ticket on the windscreen.

The Sun reports that

A niche market hut is worth £280k

The 17ft by 15ft chalet boasts a tiny bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, double glazing – and NO central heating.
But it has the same price of a SEVEN-bed house in Hull thanks to its beach location at posh West Bexington, Dorset. Estate agent Jamie McKay said: “It’s in its own niche market.”


Finally the Guardian reports on

Career of tube voiceover woman hits buffers after online jokes misfire

Amid the packed carriages, interminable delays and passengers listening to their MP3 players too loudly, her voice has been an oasis of calm, soothingly reminding passengers on the London Underground to "mind the gap". But the career of Emma Clarke, the voice of the tube, may have come to the end of the line.
London Underground has said it will not be offering the voiceover artist any more work, after she appeared to criticise the transport system in a newspaper interview



According to the report

In one spoof announcement on her website she says: "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly."
But Londoners also come in for some not-so-gentle mockery: "Residents of London are reminded that there are other places in Britain outside your stinking city, and if you remove your heads from your backsides for just a couple of minutes, you may realise the M25 is not the edge of the Earth."