With today’s forthcoming Stern report on the cost of climate,The Sun leads with the Headline
“Pay up or the Planet gets it”


As with the Sunday paper’s yesterday,it focuses on the cost of Green reforms announcing that

“HARD-WORKING families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes.
And quoting Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth “We don’t need a programme of green taxes: We need a green programme, full stop.“This is just a list of taxes when what we need is a system of mutually reinforcing carrots and sticks.”

The Guardian also leads with climate change with the news that Al Gore has been signed up by the government to advise on the environment

The paper focuses on what it believes the key issues in tackling the problem is,convincing the United States that they should tackle the problem

"The government hopes the review will gain traction in the US because it focuses on the economic case for change. Sir Nicholas's analysis warns that doing nothing about climate change will cost the global economy between 5% and 20% of GDP, while reducing emissions now would cost 1%, equivalent to £184bn."


The prime minister has said any such agreement needs the support of the US, which The Mirror continues to focus on the Corfu tragedy with it latest story

AGONY FOR CORFU TRAGEDY MUM
"SHARON Wood stares from the window of the Corfu chalet where her two little children died.. her face unable to hide the unbearable pain
It is an anguish too great to bear for Corfu tragedy mum Sharon Wood.
Her face contorted with grief she gazes from the chalet where her children Robert, six, and Christianne, seven, were gassed to death."


The Independent asks

Is this the dirtiest election ever? Republicans fear landslide defeat

As it focuses on the forthcoming American mid term elections.
It reports that

"Republican candidates across the United States are taking the dubious art of negative advertising and character assassination to unprecedented levels of toxicity as polls indicate possible landslide gains for the Democrats on 7 November in crucial mid-term congressional elections.

The Times offers a cautionary note on the results.

"PUNDITS predict that the Republicans will be swept from power on Capitol Hill on November 7 by an elemental force of voter anger aimed at President Bush and Congress. Some are forecasting a “Democrat tsunami”, while Charlie Cook, the pre-eminent American election guru, talks of a “Category 5 hurricane”.
But Democrats have learnt from bitter experience that breaching the Republican defences — even with an opinion poll yesterday showing them with a 14 per cent lead nationally — is harder than it looks. The more fatalistic among them point out that in the year since the Katrina disaster the US has received many warnings about other hurricanes heading towards it. All of these, without exception, have fizzled out into nothing more severe than storms."

Two stories from abroad are featured heavily in the papers.The Democratic republic of Congo awaits with baited breath the results of the election standoff between Joseph Kabila and Jean Pierre Bemba.

The Indie,says"

Congo waits for election result that could trigger new war

The Guardian reports that Kabila is favourite to win the election but" final results are not expected until mid-November because of the difficulties of collating votes in a country the size of western Europe but with only 200 miles of paved roads."
Officials with the UN peacekeeping force in Congo, the largest in the world at And

Meanwhile in nearby Nigeria

“spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims was among those killed when a plane carrying 106 people crashed in a storm near the capital, Abuja. The aircraft came down just after take-off and aviation officials said only seven people survived. “


Back to taxes and the Mail tells us that

Now a tax just for living in a nice area
"Families who live in desirable areas face massive increases in their council tax bills under plans being drawn up by Labour, it was revealed.
Homeowners in affluent neighbourhoods with good schools, low crime rates and clean streets could be charged thousands of pounds extra than those in more run down places. "

A story also headlining in the Express

£4,000 tax blitz to hit families

Which describes the news as
"BIG Brother database on every home is being compiled in a massive new double stealth tax assault."

The Sun is still following the Madonna adoption story:

Madge adopted tot joins jetset

"MADONNA’s adopted son David Banda took his first flight to mum’s home country yesterday as the family jetted to New York.
African lad David was dressed from head to toe in designer clothes for the flight
The millionaire singer, 48, strolled through Heathrow airport clutching the one-year-old with one arm while holding the hand of son Rocco, six. Daughter Lourdes, ten,
was close behind.


The Star leads with

Do a Di on telly

We are back to the McCartney’s
"FURIOUS Stella McCartney is urging dad Sir Paul to hit back if her stepmum Heather Mills "does a Diana".

Heather is said to be holding secret talks with telly chiefs to arrange an explosive interview.

Now fashion designer Stella wants Macca, 64, to get his own back by doing his own tell-all TV chat revealing what Heather is really like.