Shannon Matthews continues to feature on the front pages this morning.

Shannon and her mother reunited for just TWO minutes - and were not even allowed to touch reports the Mail

It was the moment Karen Matthews hardly dared dream of for the last painful 24 days - her reunion with her nine-year-old daughter Shannon.
But as she reached out to hug her little girl, the reality that the family's nightmare is not yet over hit home as police protection officers explained that even touching Shannon could destroy vital forensic evidence.

Why was Shannon laughing asks the Express

POLICE want to examine the exact nature of the relationship between Shannon Matthews and the man who is suspected of abducting her.
The mystery of how she came to be found hiding under a bed in a shabby upstairs flat with her stepfather’s uncle, Paul Drake, is now the key focus of their investigation.
In a shock twist last night, it emerged that neighbours of Drake have told police that they heard the youngster laughing and joking with him.

The Observer reports that

Police 'ignored' crucial clues in Shannon hunt

Police faced growing questions last night over why it took 24 days to find missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews when her alleged kidnapper, Mick Donovan, was a relative who had been reported by neighbours as suspicious.
As Shannon's relieved mother returned home and said she 'just couldn't stop crying' when she saw her nine-year-old daughter again, there were calls for a review of the police investigation and an overhaul of procedures for dealing with missing children.

and according to the Telegraph

Police were tipped off a week before they raided Shannon Matthews flat

A neighbour of the man arrested in connection with her disappearance rang a helpline to suggest that officers investigate the top-floor flat.
But it was not until six days later that police knocked on the door of Michael Donovan's home in Lidgate Gardens, in the Batley Carr district of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Moments later they found Shannon hidden in the base of a divan bed

The News of the World tells of

Shannon man's vile sex secrets

In an exclusive interview Sue Bird told how Mick Donovan's sick lust was sensationally exposed when horrified teachers found graphic sex notes he'd put in his own DAUGHTER'S lunch box.
He was then BARRED from seeing 12-year-old Jane and sister Mary, aged 10, but SNATCHED them from council care and hid away with them in Blackpool for three days

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Mick Donovan kept Shannon Matthews locked up while he played bingo says the Mirror adding

And he casually strolled to his local off-licence every day to stock up on lager while the nine-year-old was hidden away on her own

The Observer leads with the story that

Put young children on DNA list, urge police

Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was needed on how far Britain should go in identifying potential offenders, given that some experts believe it is possible to identify future offending traits in children as young as five.
'If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,' said Pugh. 'You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won't. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.'

Acording to the front page of the Mail

the Queen is furious with Gordon Brown after she was not consulted on plans for patriotic oath

The Mail on Sunday has been told by senior Royal sources that the Queen was angered by last week's controversial Government-commissioned report, which recommended school leavers should pledge an oath of allegiance – but not necessarily to the Monarch.
They made it clear that the Queen had nothing to do with the review on citizenship, carried out by former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on the Prime Minister's orders.

Bad news for the government on the front of the Sunday Times

Support for Labour hits 25-year low

Labour has slumped to its lowest poll rating since 1983, when Michael Foot was leader, as voters delivered a withering verdict on last week’s budget.
Gordon Brown’s party slipped to 27% – 16 points behind the Conservatives – amid growing concern about the government’s economic competence, a YouGov survey for The Sunday Times shows today.
If the results of the poll were repeated in a general election, David Cameron would storm into Downing Street with a landslide majority of 120 and a string of high-profile cabinet ministers including Alistair Darling, the chancellor, would lose their Commons seats.

The Telegraph reports for its main story that

Tory tax cut ruled out for four years

Philip Hammond, the shadow Treasury chief secretary, said that the Conservative Party was following a two-term strategy - in which it would spend its entire first period of office making efficiency savings rather than cutting taxes.Mr Hammond disclosed the policy in an interview in The Telegraph in which he said that tax reductions would be "the great bonus of the second election

There is much continued coverage from Tibet

Beijing locks down Lhasa as crisis grows reports the Observer

China brought flooded the streets of Lhasa with riot police, yesterday, as the international community urged an end to the bloodshed in Tibet that has already claimed at least 10 - possibly dozens more - lives.
Security forces were also used to regain control of a second community yesterday as a protest in Xiahe, Gansu province, followed the worst riots in Lhasa in almost 20 years. Thousands of protesters smashed government offices in Xiahe after marching through the streets chanting support for the Dalai Lama, according to overseas support groups. Observer correspondent Tania Branigan said the crowd was dispersed with tear gas, but quickly regrouped

According to the Independent

Chinese authorities in Tibet said 10 people have been killed in riots in the capital, Lhasa, although Tibetan exile groups say that the figure is nearer 25. Security forces in Tibet had locked down the city after days of fires and rock-throwing, but reports from Lhasa yesterday suggested there had been more violence, and that police on the streets were shooting on sight. Eyewitnesses quoted by the Free Tibet Campaign and ITN said that 80 had died.


The Telegraph reports on

200 casualties in Albania explosion

A series of explosions at an army base near the Albanian capital Tirana killed or injured more than 200 people, including Nato troops, government officials said last night.The victims of the explosions, including women and children injured by flying glass and shrapnel, were rushed to several hospitals in the capital.
More than 200 were injured and four deaths were confirmed by late yesterday, but officials feared a much larger toll.

Foreigners target of fatal Pakistan blast reports the Observer

A bomb ripped through an Italian restaurant in Islamabad last night, killing a Turkish woman and injuring 10 other people in an attack that signalled a new departure in Pakistan's escalating campaign of militant violence.
A British diplomat and several Americans were among the injured at Luna Caprese, a restaurant in a busy shopping area popular with western diplomats, journalists and aid workers. It was the biggest attack on foreigners in the capital since 2002, when extremists hurled grenades into a Christian church in the diplomatic enclave, killing five.

The Times reports on

Sainsbury’s in £3m scandal over potato bungs

Sainsbury’s, the supermarket group, was this weekend embroiled in a £3m bribes investigation after one of its most senior buyers was arrested on suspicion of accepting backhanders from a potato supplier.
John Maylam, who has worked for the supermarket for more than a decade, was arrested last week over receiving irregular payments from Greenvale, which supplies nearly half of the chain’s potatoes.
City of London police said two people had been arrested on suspicion of corruption and money laundering. Residential and business premises have been searched in Shropshire and Cambridgeshire.

The front page of the Independent reports on

Britain's refugee shame

Ministers are preparing to expel hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe, seriously undermining Gordon Brown's publicly declared tough stance on Zimbabwe.
The Government has started a mass removal programme that could affect more than 1,000 Zimbabweans who have enjoyed protection in the UK under a moratorium on deportations.

The Telegraph quotes Rowan Williams who claims

Society can't handle science

Society is ill-prepared to handle scientific breakthroughs because it lacks understanding of human life, the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed.Dr Rowan Williams issued his warning as MPs prepare to vote on proposed laws which will allow scientists to create hybrid human-animan embryos for research.
The archbishop claimed that the planned reforms threaten to open the door to practice that conflicts with religious belief, and said that society does not have the "moral perspective" to cope with such momentous advances.

The Times claims that a

Developer gave secret donation to Ken Livingstone

Gerald Ronson, the tycoon jailed for his role in the Guinness share-dealing scandal, wrote a cheque to Livingstone for £4,990 – just £10 below the £5,000 threshold at which donations have to be publicly registered with the Electoral Commission. The disclosure raises questions over Livingstone’s use of a legal “loophole” which has allowed him to keep secret the identities of campaign donors

'We will clean up Parliament from within,' says Cameron
reports the Independent

David Cameron seized on public anger over MPs' lavish pay and perks yesterday, as he attempted to put the Conservatives at the heart of attempts to clean up Parliament.
The Tory leader used a speech at his party's spring conference in Gateshead to steal a march on his rivals on the vexed question of MPs' finances, with an assault on a system that guarantees them fat pensions, allowances and the right to vote on their own pay rises

The Mail reports on the

Vicar attacked for 'being a Christian'

A vicar was in hospital last night after being attacked in his churchyard by two youths in what is being treated as a 'faith hate' crime.
Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was kicked and punched in the head as one of the attackers screamed "f***ing priest".
He was left lying on the ground with deep cuts, bruising and two black eyes.

The Telegraph tells us that

A mother is threatening to sue the BBC because hundreds of gate­crashers descended on her home after a Radio 1 DJ announced her daughter's house party live on air.

Her daughter, Sarah Ruscoe, 17, had expected 300 people to attend the party on Friday night, but one guest contacted the Radio 1 DJ, Pete Tong, and asked him to do a "shout-out", encouraging many more party-goers to turn up.Pictures were ripped off walls, windows and mirrors were smashed, and chandeliers and doors were damaged. Repairs at the Grade II listed building are expected to cost more than £2,000

Amongst the tabloids the News of the World reports that

A HIGH-CLASS hooker reveals the inside story of the vice agency that served some of London's richest men—and brought down the governor of New York......The UK list included an EX CABINET MEMBER and a number of MPs, a SENIOR JUDGE, a prime-time TV IDOL, an A-list MOVIE STAR, two well-known FOOTBALLERS, a ROCK STAR and billionaire ARAB PRINCES

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The Sunday Mirror reports from

Chateau Angelina

the magnificent country house where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt hope to bring up their growing family.
The £10million seaside property is in a billionaires' paradise close to the French Riviera.
Neighbours on the same stretch of Provence coast include David and Victoria Beckham and Elton John

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The Mail produces

EXCLUSIVE: Casual sex, drink and drugs: The disturbing last days of murdered schoolgirl Scarlett revealed in her own diary

Murdered schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling was living a hedonistic life of sex, drugs and alcohol in the holiday haven of Goa in the weeks before her death.
Scarlett, who was raped before being dumped in the sea, was, according to her mother Fiona MacKeown, having "the time of her life" during an open-ended family trip to the hippy resort.

Glaciers melt 'at fastest rate in past 5,000 years' reports the Observer

The world's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for hundreds of millions of people and their eco-systems.
The details are revealed in the latest report from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and will add to growing alarm about the rise in sea levels and increased instances of flooding, avalanches and drought.

Men, women & the secrets of skin colour says the Independent

The fair maiden of myth appears to have a basis in scientific reality, according to new research. Scientists looking into attractiveness in men and women suggest that men of all races are subconsciously attracted to fairer-skinned women, while women are more drawn to dark-complexioned men

Finally the Times reports that a

Brain surgeon operates with DIY drill

An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine.
Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening tumours. Occasionally the battery has gone flat halfway through.

the paper adds

The operation is performed with the patients fully awake – a technique that fell out of use in Britain 50 years ago. Marsh said that Ukrainians could withstand such a practice because they were “very tough”.