The Telegraph leads with the continuing developments in the fire at a warehouse on Saturday morning.
Migrants may be victims of arson killers
The death toll in the warehouse blaze that killed four firemen could rise amid fears that the bodies of migrant workers may be found inside, fire chiefs warned yesterday.Rescue crews, who have entered the building for the first time looking for the firemen, were told to expect the possibility that a number of vegetable packers failed to escape. As tributes for the dead poured in, police said they were treating the fire as a suspected arson attack.
The Times reports that
The wealthy owners of a warehouse business feared to be the scene of the deadliest blaze for firefighters for 30 years are expected to be questioned about possible breaches of safety laws.
Wealmoor Atherstone, a vegetable packing company, is owned by Ratilal Dhanani, 77, whose family fortune is estimated at £5.2 million.
The weekend's events in Pakistan are also covered widely
Musharraf warned: hold elections and quit as army chief is the Guardian's lead
The US and Britain are today expected to demand that Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, honour pledges to hold elections in the next two months and step down as the army chief, or face a cut in western support.
The diplomatic showdown will come in the form of a meeting in Islamabad between the Pakistani leader and a group of ambassadors, two days after he declared emergency rule - and three days after giving assurances to the prime minister, Gordon Brown, and the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, that he would stick to an election deadline in mid-January, and step down as head of the country's army.
US threatens to withhold aid as Pakistan swings from democracy to dictatorship says the Independent reporting that
Dozens of other political opponents were on the run – among them the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan – and human rights activists were rounded up as the authorities sought pre-emptively to stamp out opposition to General Musharraf's move to sack and arrest seven Supreme Court judges and invoke a state of emergency. The judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, were under house arrest while television channels remained off the air.
Criminals ‘must have terms cut in full jails’ is the lead in the Times
Thousands of criminals could have their jail terms cut after one of Britain’s most senior judges said that courts were justified in giving lower sentences where prisoners faced overcrowded jails.
Sir Igor Judge, who is the first Head of Criminal Justice, believes that judges should reduce the “punitive” element of a sentence if prisoners are going to be locked up in “dreadful conditions”.
Judges, he believes, are justified in cutting jail terms if two prisoners would be confined to a cell designed for one or if they were denied exercise facilities. That, in his view, is the “correct approach to sentencing arising from prison overcrowding”.
The front page of the Mail tells us that
Police now hold DNA 'fingerprints' of 4.5m Britons
More than one million people's genetic fingerprints have been added to the police DNA database in only ten months.
The "Big Brother" system, already the biggest in the world, now permanently stores the details of more than 4.5million individuals.
The rise is the equivalent of 150 new entries every hour. The database now covers one in 13 of the population - around 7.5 per cent.
The astonishing pace of growth has intensified concerns that the Government plans to create a universal genetic database by stealth, building a system which treats every citizen as a potential criminal from the day they are born.
Rise in child drinkers needing treatment reports the Telegraph which says that
Children as young as 10 are being placed in rehabilitation programmes, according to statistics from the Government's National Treatment Agency (NTA), while the number of under-18s admitted to hospital for alcohol related illnesses also shot up.
Health experts warn that the trend is encouraged by cheap drink promotions and easy access to alcohol.
Most of the papers report that
Rivers of blood’ candidate forced to resign
A Conservative candidate who said that Enoch Powell was right about immigration resigned yesterday, insisting that he had done nothing wrong.
Nigel Hastilow, a former newspaper editor and until yesterday the Tory candidate for the marginal seat of Halesowen in the West Midlands, quit after a meeting with Caroline Spelman, the party chairman.
He had been asked to apologise for an article he wrote for the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton in which he invoked Mr Powell’s infamous “Rivers of blood” speech. “When you ask most people in the Black Country what the single biggest problem facing the country is, most say immigration,” he wrote. “Many insist: ‘Enoch Powell was right.’ reports the Times
ENOCH IS ENOUGH says the Mirror,the paper using the incident to portray
THE NASTY PARTY
The Tories are no strangers to offensive behaviour on race issues.
At Conservative conference last month, photos emerged of researcher Emily Pentreath being blacked up by pal Philip Clarke.
The Mail reports that
Britons 'squeezed out of workforce by foreigners', says Treasury
Foreign-born workers are taking hundreds of thousands of jobs each year previously filled by British-born employees, Treasury figures reveal.
In the past five years the immigrant workforce has grown by almost a million, while the number of native-born workers has plummeted by around half a million.
That means immigrants have accounted not only for every additional job created but also for huge numbers of jobs which used to be done by native-born workers.
The tragic killing in Italy is also covered by many of the papers,the Sun reports that
COPS have found fingerprints on two phones belonging to murdered language student Meredith Kercher, which they believe will lead to her killer.
The English and Italian mobiles were in undergrowth near the cottage in Italy where the 21-year-old was discovered with her throat slashed.
Last night an autopsy revealed Meredith had sex in the hours before she died, but was NOT raped.
WAS HER KILLER AT THE PARTY? asks the Mirror
Murdered student Meredith Kercher could have met her killer at a masked Halloween party the night before, Italian police believe.
The exchange student, 21, seen here posing at the party with a friend in a mask from the film Scream, was found with her throat cut on Friday at her home in Italian city Perugia.
Detectives are now scouring more than 50 pictures taken at the party last Wednesday -with most of the party-goers in costume or masks - at Merlin's bar in the city.
Tutankhamun fever has gripped most of the papers,the front of the Indy carrying
3,000 years old: the face of Tutankhamun
The true face of ancient Egypt went on public display for the first time yesterday, as archaeologists unveiled the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The golden death mask of the young king, which covered the mummy, has been a familiar image around the world ever since the British treasure-seeker Howard Carter located the tomb in 1922. But, 85 years to the day since Carter's discovery, the actual face of the 19-year-old monarch was put on view in his underground tomb at Luxor, when the linen-wrapped mummy was removed from its stone sarcophagus for display in a climate-controlled glass box.
And most carry pictures of Paula Radcliffe winning the New York marathon,
TOT SEES PAULA'S NEW YORK WIN says the Sun
SUPERMUM Paula Radcliffe won the New York marathon yesterday — 10 months after giving birth.
Following a nail-biting finish to her first marathon in two years, Paula, 34, held tot Isla and said: “I’ve had fun today and I am glad to be back.”
The paper leads with
NEWBORNS MUM DIES FOR JEHOVAH
PALS of pretty Emma Gough told last night how the devout Jehovah’s Witness cuddled her newborn twins – then died just hours later after refusing a blood transfusion.
Shopgirl Emma, 22 – whose life could have been saved after complications set in – ticked a form before the birth insisting she should not be given blood.
Medics begged husband Anthony, 24, and other members of Emma’s family to overrule her after she suffered severe blood loss and began slipping away.
The Express lead with the latest Maddy news
FARM TO BE SEARCHED AFTER NEW SIGHTINGS
The hunt for Madeleine McCann intensified last night as investigators prepared to search a farm in the Rif Mountains of Morocco.
A “little blonde girl” was said to have been spotted inside the remote walled farming compound outside the town of Karia Ba Mohamed.
Detectives called the sightings “highly credible”. The child was said to be living with an Arab woman of about 40 and a teenage girl.
Seven released after Sarkozy flies to Chad for talks on fostering case reports the Guardian
Three French journalists and four Spanish flight attendants detained in Chad over an alleged illegal attempt by a charity to fly African children to Europe were released yesterday after the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, flew to Chad.
The freed men and women were flown to Paris on the presidential plane after Mr Sarkozy had talks in the capital, N'Djamena, with the Chadian president, Idriss Déby. The seven were among those held after a French charity was accused of plotting to take African children from their families and transport them to Europe for adoption.
Turkey demands military deal with President Bush as price for holding back troops reports the Times
President Bush will hold crisis talks today in Washington where he hopes to stave off the prospect of a new and perilous front of fighting in Iraq.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, has delayed a final decision on whether to take military action against Kurdish rebels across the border with Iraq until he hears what Mr Bush has to say in their talks today.
Mexico faces aftermath of its own Katrina says the Indy
Rescue workers rushed to pick up victims of a catastrophic flood in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco over the weekend, where as many as a million people were reported to be homeless and the state Governor compared his capital, Villahermosa, to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Navy helicopters picked women and children up from the roofs of waterlogged buildings, while rescue workers on the surface helped elderly people into boats. Most able-bodied adults swam or waded through the filthy flood waters, which rose to four feet or more in the streets of the capital.
The Telegraph reports that
Pessimism is spreading in United States
A year before the United States elects its next president, most American voters are disturbed by their country's direction, pessimistic about the Iraq war and profoundly disillusioned with politicians of both parties. USA Today/Gallup poll found that more than two thirds of those surveyed were dissatisfied with President George W. Bush and the way things were going.
Back to the UK and
The Mail reports on the
Racist lorry driver escapes community service - because it would leave him too tired to drive
A lorry driver sentenced to 150 hours' community service for a drunken racist assault has been let off after probation chiefs claimed the punishment could breach EU working hours limits.
In a bizarre court hearing, probation bosses asked a judge to lift Elliot Carnell's sentence because they feared picking up litter would leave him too tired to drive his lorry safely.
Finally to the Mirror which reports on
Brothel call by the WI
Women's Institute members are urging councils to set up and run brothels.
They say prostitutes will be safer working from official brothels as they do in parts of Europe rather than walking the streets.
The Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes voted in favour of the move at a meeting in Basingstoke. Jean Johnson, 62, said: "It's the best way we can protect the women who work on the streets."
Monday, November 05, 2007
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