The Sunday Times leads with the news that the Speaker is to seek a third term in office.

The paper reports that

MICHAEL MARTIN, the Commons Speaker, is preparing to defy his critics by seeking to stand for a third term.
The Glasgow MP has made it clear that he hopes to continue in the £78,575 post after the next general election, despite the furore over his handling of the police raid on the offices of Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister. With his MP’s salary Martin earns a total of £141,866.

The Independent says that

The vow by Commons Speaker Michael Martin to prevent "unauthorised" raids on MPs' offices in the wake of the Damian Green affair was seriously undermined last night as it emerged that the Government is preparing new laws to allow investigators to mount parliamentary searches without a warrant.

The Observer reports that

A formal complaint about Boris Johnson's involvement in the controversial Scotland Yard raid on the Houses of Parliament could lead to his suspension or removal as Mayor of London. He is accused of 'potentially corrupting' the Metropolitan Police investigation into leaks from the Home Office, which led to the arrest of the shadow immigration minister, Damian Green

Meanwhile the Mail says that

The Queen has dropped the wife of Commons Speaker Michael Martin from Buckingham Palace’s invitation list after she repeatedly failed to accept offers to attend State banquets.
Mary Martin has not accompanied her husband on any of the nine State banquets he has attended since becoming Speaker eight years ago.
Mrs Martin’s snub has led the Queen to take the extraordinary step of removing her from her invitation list.

The Observer leads with Mugabe must be toppled now - Archbishop of York

In an extraordinary and passionate outburst, the Archbishop of York is calling for President Robert Mugabe to be toppled from power and face trial for crimes against humanity,
Dr John Sentamu, writing in The Observer, said the world must recognise that the time for talks was over and Mugabe should be forced out. 'The time has come for Robert Mugabe to answer for his crimes against humanity, against his countrymen and women and for justice to be done. The winds of change that once brought hope to Zimbabwe and its neighbours have become a hurricane of destruction, with the outbreak of cholera, destitution, starvation and systemic abuse of power by the state,' he says.

The Independent feports that

Half a million people in Zimbabwe will go without food handouts this month, the UN agency responsible for feeding more than two-fifths of the country's population warned yesterday, as shortages of funds force further cuts in rations.

It leads with the story that London doctor is held as forced marriage hostage

British lawyers were this weekend working frantically to rescue a London doctor who has been beaten and held captive in Bangladesh in an attempt to force her into marriage. Dr Humayra Abedin, known as Dorothy to her friends, this weekend faces being forced to marry a complete stranger, unless efforts by lawyers to free her, using new powers, succeed.

Ministers fight to keep late abortions secret is the lead in the Telegraph

The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.
While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, "Ground E" of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality, right up to birth. There are continuing concerns that the law is being flouted to weed out "less than perfect" babies.

The Times meanwhile reports that

ALMOST all benefit claimants will be forced either to look for a job or prepare for work if they want to continue to receive state handouts, under a shake-up of the welfare state.
Single mothers of children as young as one and people registered unfit for work will be compelled to go on training courses and work experience or risk cuts to their benefits.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, said: “Virtually everyone will be doing something in return for their benefits.”

Hit squads tackle high-risk hospitals says the Observer

As the first healthcare system in the world to operate such a system, investigators from the Healthcare Commission, the NHS watchdog for England, will monitor hospitals using official data and 'soft intelligence' from complainants and whistleblowers. If high readings are determined they will send in the rapid intervention teams

The Telegraph says that

Ministers will this week launch a radical shake-up of social services across the country in the wake of the death of Baby P.

The lead story in the Mail concerns Northern Rock,reporting that

The bank that precipitated the credit collapse and was taken over by the Government has been accused of selling off job lots of repossessed homes at knockdown prices.
Northern Rock properties are being offered for sale with ‘get rich quick’ profits for fat-cat property developers based on exactly the same deals that triggered the banking system meltdown in the first place.

According to the front of the Express

SHOPPERS went on a recession-busting spending spree yesterday to lift the economic gloom.
Stores across the country took more than £1billion and sales figures in the run-up to Christmas now look set to top last year’s £13billion total.
Millions of families decided to take advantage of the reduction in VAT, lower interest rates and dramatic High Street price cuts to spend, spend spend. In London, two million shoppers flocked to the West End and shopping malls elsewhere reported frenetic trading.

Mumbai terrorist came from Pakistan, local villagers confirm reports the Observer

An Observer investigation has established that the lone surviving gunman caught by Indian police during last week's terrorist attacks on Mumbai came from a village in the Okara district of the Pakistani Punjab.
Ajmal Amir Kasab, interrogated in custody after last month's attacks, which killed 163 people, reportedly told Indian security officials that he came from a place called Faridkot in the Punjab province. His father was named as Mohammed Amir, married to a woman named Noor. During the past week, Pakistani sources have cast doubt on the authenticity of the leaked information, which has had a predictably explosive impact on relations between the two countries

The Times says that

THE 10 terrorist commandos who shot dead more than 160 people in Mumbai last month were among 500 trained to elite standards by Pakistan army and navy instructors, according to an Indian intelligence report seen by The Sunday Times.
Details were leaked as Indian officials accused Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) of directly supporting the attack. They claimed to have the names of the gunmen’s ISI trainers and handlers and to have intercepted internet phone calls between them.

Pakistan on full military alert after hoax call says the Independent

The call, to the Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, was purportedly from India's Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee. Made late on 28 November, at the height of the crisis between the two countries over Mumbai, the call was put through by Mr Zardari's staff without the usual checks on its authenticity. During the conversation Mr Mukherjee appeared to threaten Pakistan with war unless it acted against those who attacked Mumbai.

The Telegraph reports that

George W Bush would not have ordered the invasion of Iraq if the intelligence had shown that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, according to his former chief adviser and closest confidant.Karl Rove made the claim as the president's inner circle launched an unofficial "Bush legacy project", with their old boss preparing to leave the White House next month.

Many of the papers carry the story that Deadly contaminant found in Irish pork

CONSUMERS were warned last night to check the origin of all pork products after high levels of toxins were found in pigs slaughtered in Ireland. Last night the Irish government advised the public to destroy all pork products bought since September 1 and ordered an emergency recall

reports the Times

Another story that features is Sunny von Bulow dies after years in coma

After almost three decades in a coma, the wife of British society figure Claus von Bulow died yesterday aged 76. The heiress Martha von Bulow, who was also known as 'Sunny', died at a nursing home in New York.
Her estranged husband, who currently lives in London and writes arts reviews, was accused of inducing his late wife's vegetative state 28 years ago with two unsuccessful murder attempts

The Telegraph adds that

Despite strains in their marriage, the von Bulow's had been celebrating the start of Christmas on Dec 21, 1980, with relatives at her mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, when she was put to bed in an apparently confused and uncoordinated state.

The News of the World reports that

EVIL Karen Matthews had a sick SECRET AFFAIR with the misfit who helped kidnap her daughter Shannon, we can reveal today.
The twisted mum seduced sinister Michael Donovan at the FUNERAL of her pervert partner Craig Meehan’s dad.

Hardman Vinnie Jones's nose is 'cut to the bone' in bar brawl reports the Mail

Former football hardman Vinnie Jones had his nose ‘cut down to the bone’ in a vicious bar-room brawl that erupted after he was taunted about being a tough guy.
Jones, 43, who has starred in films such as Snatch, Gone In 60 Seconds and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, was smashed in the face with a beer glass during the fight late on Thursday night at Wiley’s Tavern in remote Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
He was arrested and charged with simple assault.

It's official: Men really are the weaker sex reports the Independent

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.
The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people

Finally the papers were rushing to the opening of the 2nd Lapland experience,the Times reports that

THERE should have been huskies, real snow and an ice rink, but yesterday the families turning up to the opening of a Lapland theme park were met by empty marquees, a muddy field and trading standards officers.
Lapland West Midlands, based in a field close to one of Britain’s busiest motorway junctions, had been abandoned not just by Santa and his elves but by its organisers, too.
It was the second such debacle in the space of a few days, following the collapse of a similar venture in the New Forest in Hampshire

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