The Hunt for Irish pork is uppermost on the thoughts of many papers this morning

Rush to get Irish pork off the shelves says the Times

The Telegraph reports that

Consumers across the UK have been warned not to eat Irish pork after contaminated animal feed was traced to farms in Northern Ireland. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued the advice after it emerged that nine farms in Northern Ireland have used the same feed substance that prompted a recall of all pork products processed in the Republic following its discovery in pig farms south of the border.

The Guardian leads with child labour used to make NHS instruments

British hospitals are buying surgical instruments produced in dangerous working conditions in Pakistan using child workers as young as eight, the NHS has admitted. In some workshops, products such as scalpels, clamps and scissors to be used in NHS operations are made by workers paid as little as 170 rupees (£1.40) a day

Schools told reading is top priority reports the Independent

A drive to improve reading standards which includes encouraging parents to read to children will be outlined today in the most far-reaching review of primary schooling in 20 years.
Evidence shows that children from the poorest homes hear only 13 million words by the time they are aged four, 32 million words less than children from affluent households.

The Guardian reports that

Traditional lessons in history, geography and science should be removed from the primary curriculum and children taught their essential content through cross-curricular themed classes, the biggest inquiry into primary schooling in a generation will report today

Straw to get tough and reform 'villains charter' is the lead in the Mail

Jack Straw plans to overhaul the Human Rights Act amidst concerns that it has become a charter for criminals.
The Justice Secretary wants to reflect complaints that the act protects rights but says nothing about responsibilities.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, he says he is 'frustrated' by the way the legislation he introduced ten years ago has sometimes been interpreted by the courts. He blames 'nervous' judges for refusing to deport extremists and terrorist suspects despite assurances by ministers that their removal is in the national interest.

There is much speculation about the speaker,the Telegraph reveals a plot by Labour MP's to remove him adding that

The position of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin is looking increasingly precarious after a poll of MPs found more than 30 backbenchers say they have lost confidence in him.

The Independent says that

Senior MPs expressed profound concerns about Mr Martin's position as some warned that backbenchers would move to block his reappointment if he attempted to carry on beyond the next election

Taliban destroy 100 trucks reports the Guardian

Gunmen mounted the biggest attack yet on Nato supplies going to Afghanistan yesterday, torching more than 100 trucks carrying equipment at a depot in north-west Pakistan, the main route for supplies to troops in land-locked Afghanistan.
Security guards at two depots in Peshawar were outnumbered by more than 200 militants at around 3am. About 70 Humvees, which were loaded on some of the trucks, were destroyed. Most of the vehicles were reduced to charred hulks of metal. "They fired rockets, hurled hand grenades and then set ablaze 96 trucks," said a senior police officer in Peshawar, Azeem Khan.

Pakistan to swoop on militant leaders reports the Independent

Pakistan's security forces were poised last night to arrest the leaders, dismantle the infrastructure and close the training camps of Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Islamic militant group held responsible by India for the killings of 171 people in Mumbai, government sources said

The Telegraph reports that

Thousands of protesters battled police in central Athens, smashing the windows of shops and banks with Molotov cocktails, and sending three officers to hospital, said police, who used tear gas to disperse the rioters.
Police said more than 34 people had been injured, including one woman with a serious head wound, while 20 were detained.

It follows

Two Greek police officers were arrested Sunday over the killing of a 15-year-old boy

According to the Mail

Jobless could hit 3.5m in two years as service sector tipped to slash hotel, travel and retail staff

The middle classes are facing a jobs bloodbath as the recession hits service industries, business leaders say.
Their warning comes after a leading economist predicted that around 3.5million people could be out of work by the end of 2010.
The Confederation of British Industry says hotels, restaurants, shops and travel firms are all predicted to slash their staff as consumers tighten their belts.

The Sun meanwhile reports

STORES are braced for a manic Monday — as Christmas shoppers flock to their computers in a £13BILLION online spree.
The scramble for bargains will begin around noon today — when office workers log on during their lunchbreaks.
Despite the credit crunch, experts were last night predicting a frenzy to top last year — when the second to last Monday before Christmas set a record for internet sales.

more questions for council that failed Baby P reports the Guardian

Police are investigating allegations of serious abuse of a five-year-old victim of child trafficking while he was in the care of Haringey, the London council that failed to prevent the death of Baby P.
The Metropolitan police child abuse team launched the investigation last month after claims that the child was being beaten while in the care of his adoptive family. Concerns were raised by Dr Hamish Cameron, a consultant child psychiatrist, after the boy was taken to hospital

First Briton to die at Swiss euthanasia clinic had fled Nazis reports the Independent

The 90-year-old Briton, who only wanted to be known in reports by his first name, Chris, died on Friday afternoon in the company of his wife and a close friend after being cleared by British and Swiss doctors to fly to Switzerland to take a lethal dose of barbiturates.

Now a tax on Tree Houses says the Express

HOME owners who put a tree house in their garden will see their council tax bills rocket under Labour’s latest stealth tax on struggling families.
In an attempt to squeeze households for ever more cash, the Government will classify a tree house as a home improvement which adds value to a property.

The Sun leads with Vinnie's rage

RAGING Vinnie Jones rains punches on a 26-stone pool player — after being glassed in the face in a bar brawl.
The soccer hardman turned Hollywood star — captured on CCTV — was later arrested in hospital. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted of assault.
The shocked drinker told last night how he emerged from a bar’s loo — and was beaten up by a crazed Jones, his face pouring with blood.

Finally the Independent reports that

A collection of letters and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde, seemingly lost for more than 50 years have been rediscovered by academics.
The nine manuscripts and four letters that illuminate the life and work of the celebrated writer, dramatist, wit, and self-proclaimed "lord of language", were donated to The Morgan Library in New York. Among the pages is the earliest surviving letter from Wilde to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he called Bosie, which documents the start of his doomed gay relationship with the Magdalen College undergraduate in the early 1890s