Both the Times and the Observer lead with the same story this Sunday morning and the Donor scandal continues to dominate

Donorgate: 10 Labour bosses knew says the Times

THE property developer at the centre of Labour’s donor scandal has claimed that there are 10 party officials who were aware of his “illegal” arrangement to fund it secretly.
The details will be passed to the Metropolitan police, who are now investigating how more than £600,000 was paid by the developer to Labour through intermediaries.
The list includes two senior members of Gordon Brown’s party and government: David Triesman, the minister for intellectual property, and Jon Mendelsohn, Labour’s chief fundraiser.

more key ministers accused says the Observer

As Brown launched a desperate fightback after the worst week of his premiership by making a historic pledge to curtail trade union donations, he faced fresh pressure when the donor at the heart of the controversy warned that more senior party figures knew of the system of anonymous donations.

I accuse: Abrahams and PM's aide locked in bitter row over donations says the Sindy's front page

Undercover Labour donor David Abrahams last night accused Gordon Brown's chief fundraiser of knowing about his network of illegal proxy donations seven months ago – and deciding that they were "a good idea".
In an exclusive article for The Independent on Sunday, on page 38, the controversial Labour supporter insisted that Jon Mendelsohn discussed Mr Abrahams's system of donating through intermediaries with him at a dinner in London, five months before Mr Mendelsohn became Labour's head of election resources.

Labour to launch an inquiry into SECOND donor scandal says the Mail which broke the story a week ago

The focus of the sleaze scandal engulfing the Government switched dramatically last night to the Labour Party's second biggest donor - an Iranian-born car dealer who is not even entitled to vote in general elections.
Mahmoud Khayami, a French citizen, has given a total of £830,000 in the past eight months, making him Labour's biggest individual backer after Lord Sainsbury.

According to the paper which lists a number of issues

Khayami made his first donation - of £500,000 - just 24 hours after becoming legally allowed to do so, by having his name added to the Electoral Roll.

Gordon Brown pledges party funding clean-up says the Telegraph

The beleaguered Prime Minister, facing growing criticism of his leadership from his own side, battled to regain the initiative by taking the fight to the Conservatives.
However, he promised to "modernise" the way unions fund Labour and to bring them under a stricter regime - possibly including limiting their donations to the party to £50,000 a year. Mr Brown also sent a clear signal that he was prepared to consider a big increase in state funding for political parties. Such a highly controversial move is opposed by the Conservatives.

The other big story of the week also gets a lot of column inches

Jailed teacher 'in good spirits' as Muslim peers seek her release says the Observer

After hours of delicate negotiations between Sudanese diplomats and a UK delegation, hopes she could be released during the next few days grew as Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi prepared to meet President Omar al-Bashir, the only figure with the authority to lift the sentence, imposed for blasphemy.

'I'll miss my pupils,' says teddy bear teacher on eve of her release reports the Mail

The peers spent half an hour talking to Mrs Gibbons yesterday morning and reported her to be in "good spirits".
In comments relayed by her lawyer, Mrs Gibbons said: "I'm very grateful to all the people working on my behalf.
"I am in a calm place. I want people to know I've been well treated and especially that I'm well fed.

The Telegraph reports that

Uefa investigate match-fixing claims

European football faces a major match-fixing scandal after it emerged last night that the results of 26 games may have been manipulated by Asian betting syndicates. On the eve of today's draw for those finals, Uefa - European football's governing body - confirmed a report in a German newspaper that they have given Europol a list of fixtures that may have been influenced by irregular betting patterns from Asia.

Interpol called in over 15 'rigged' football matches says the Independent

The allegations were reported by the German magazine Der Spiegel. It alleged the vast majority of the clubs involved came from countries in eastern and south-eastern Europe, with Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and the Baltic states among those named.

The Times reports that

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen other British executives, including senior managers at British Airways and BAE Systems, are under investigation by the US authorities and could face criminal charges in America.

Twelve years on, a killer on the loose says the Observer

In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic's forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing. After being indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague he went into hiding and, despite a massive international manhunt, has evaded capture for the past 12 years. Ed Vulliamy, who covered the Balkan wars in the early 1990s, returned to Bosnia to speak to Karadzic's friends, family and foes to discover why the West has failed so abjectly to bring him to justice

Stop Vladimir Putin by spoiling vote, say rivals says the Telegraph

The call comes from former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, whose "Other Russia" coalition of anti-government groups is banned from standing after falling foul of tough new Kremlin criteria for registering political parties. He claims the election has been blatantly rigged to guarantee a landslide for President Vladimir Putin's favoured party, United Russia, which is tipped to get between 60 and 70 per cent of the vote for seats in the parliamentary Duma.

The front page of the Express tells us we have

100 DAYS TO HALT HOUSING CRASH

Unless interest rates come down in the next three months, home owners face seeing the value of their homes plunge on a scale not seen since the property recession of the early Nineties
Leading financial commentators fear that any crash could create a crisis like the one that has paralysed the United States property market, with homes being repossessed as mortgage borrowers fail to repay loans.

Failed asylum seekers face healthcare ban reports the Observer

Amid claims the move will place increased strains on hospitals and inflame community tensions, The Observer can reveal a joint Department of Health and Home Office review examining proposals to restrict free access to GPs' surgeries for failed asylum seekers and 'irregular migrants' is due to report in the new year.

More expulsions of violent children overruled says the Telegraph

Violent pupils expelled after stabbing classmates and assaulting staff are being allowed back to school against the wishes of their head teachers.Teaching unions have revealed a catalogue of examples where a head's decision to exclude a pupil permanently for appalling behaviour has been overturned by governors and appeal panels.

Mothers at risk: Britain's real labour crisis reports the Independent

Record numbers of women are dying during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, with maternal deaths in the UK at their highest for 20 years.

The findings are revealed in a new report, Saving Mothers' Lives, from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (Cemach) to be released on Tuesday. Almost 300 women died in childbirth between 2003 and 2005 from conditions relating to pregnancy, leaving 520 children motherless. In a damning verdict on the substandard care that is putting women's lives at risk, the report, seen exclusively by The Independent on Sunday, cites "avoidable factors" that have contributed to the death toll.

The Tabloids have gone Jungle mad

Our love-exclusive on the front of the News of the World

JUNGLE babe Cerys Matthews last night revealed the devastating magic moment she realised she'd fallen helplessly for I'm A Celebrity hunk Marc Bannerman. Fans were riveted as singer Cerys and the former EastEnder cuddled up on her bed and gazed at the stars in the Australian night sky.And when Marc kissed his Welsh beauty goodnight it meant so much more than the simple peck on the cheek viewers saw.

Meanwhile the Mirror has another jungle exclusive as

Biggins: My life
EXCLUSIVE: MY CELEB LIFE BY CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS

Christopher Biggins held court yesterday to celebrate his I'm A Celebrity triumph... and his new-found status as a national treasure.
He granted the Sunday Mirror an exclusive "royal" audience and, as he held his carved wooden sceptre aloft, he said: "I'm so proud to boast that I am the first I'm A Celebrity Queen to become King of the Jungle."
The loveable star - known to all his friends as Biggins - raised a cup of tea to his fans after scooping the crown on Friday night. Revelling in his new role, he said: "We humbly thank you, Great Britain, from the bottom of our heart. One was moved to tears. One loves you all, my loyal subjects."


Sunbed use in spotlight as skin cancer soars says the Telegraph

The Government is to order an investigation into the use of tanning booths with a view to introducing tougher regulations to deter people, particularly teenagers, from using them.Incidences of skin cancer are rising more rapidly in Britain than any other form of the disease. Cases of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous kind, have doubled in 15 years, with almost 9,000 diagnosed annually, and close to 2,000 deaths.

The Mail claims

Summer floods: A year before disaster struck, Defra warned Government needed to spend £150million on defence

Officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) argued in a policy paper written in June 2006 that an extra £150million was needed just to maintain existing flood defences – aside from the additional money needed to counteract rising sea levels.
The leaked document also reveals officials considered imposing a controversial "flood tax" on people living in high-risk areas to pay for extra defences.

The Mirror tells us that

New Maddy witnesses come forward


Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat is back in the frame after two new witnesses say they saw him the night the four-year-old disappeared.
The British expat has always insisted he spent the entire evening of May 3 inside his mother's villa.
But the new accounts - handed over to detectives hired by the McCanns - threaten to contradict his alibi.
Five people have now reported seeing Murat, 33, outside the McCanns' apartment that night.


IS POSH LOSING HER GREATEST ASSETS? asks the news of the World

The Spice Girls' £60 million comeback lifts off with a massive show in Vancouver tonight amid rumours of a string of bust-ups between the girls.But it's a bust DOWN that has left Victoria Beckham's male admirers worried it's not only record sales - single Headline peaked at number 20 - that have gone flat.
Posh was spotted in LA earlier this week looking chest a little less perky than usual... triggering talk that what goes up must come down - even for a Spice Girl.

Posh: My true fans burst into tears or pass out when they see me reports the Mail

Victoria Beckham has developed a bizarre system for rating the devotion of her fans.
The super-slim singer says "true fans" prove their dedication by bursting into tears when they spot her - or by falling unconscious.
But the star reserves her highest praise for those who work themselves into such a state they need emergency medical help.


Finally the Times tells us that

Love of broccoli begins in womb

WOMEN can give their children a lifelong taste for “healthy but horrible” foods such as broccoli and brussels sprouts simply by eating them during pregnancy or while breast-feeding, researchers have found.
The discovery could help avoid the battles over food and diet which dominate the dinner tables of many young families as parents try to persuade children to “eat your veg”.
It suggests that mothers should adopt a stealth approach, indoctrinating their offspring’s taste buds with a liking for cabbage, broccoli and other healthy vegetables even before they are born, say the researchers.