11th November

The not guilty verdicts against the leader of the BNP makes the lead story in the Times, along with an intervention from the Chancellor

Race-hate laws to be changed after BNP case fails

“NEW laws to clamp down on racism are being prepared by the Government after the leader of the far-right British National Party was cleared of stirring up racial hatred by attacking Islam.

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Gordon Brown swiftly pledged to bring in tougher powers to raise the chance of convictions in similar cases, calling the BNP’s statements offensive.
His intervention came after an all-white jury decided that Nick Griffin, the BNP chairman, broke no law when he condemned Islam as “a wicked, vicious faith” at a secretly filmed meeting.”

The Guardian concentrates on the aftermath of the mid term elections but with a British angle breaking the news that

“Labour has enlisted one of the engineers of this week's Democratic victory in the US midterm elections in an attempt to boost its flagging fortunes before the local elections in May.
Howard Dean, the former presidential candidate and one of the men credited with masterminding the trouncing of the Republicans, will visit the UK next month to brief party officials about his pioneering campaigning techniques.
"The Welsh, Scottish and local elections next year are our midterms," said Hazel Blears, Labour's chair. "It has to be done differently for us to carry on being successful ... We're looking at how [the Democrats] have upped their game."

The same paper reveals that Tony Blair is trying to play a key role in determining future American policy in Iraq when he makes a video appearance in front of James’s Baker’s committee

“Tony Blair is to urge the US administration next week to open talks with its great adversaries Syria and Iran, as a way to break the impasse in Iraq and the wider middle east.”

The Indie moves the debate away from Iraq and to the Gaza strip with its front page,

Gaza: While the world looked elsewhere, another week of death and misery

“The Western world, which was anyway more interested by the count in the state of Virginia than the catastrophe in Beit Hanoun, has no doubt already moved on”
This week it continues has seen a continuing of the suffering of the residents of this part of the middle east caught in the crossfire of the war between Israel and Hamas
"* SUNDAY
Two Palestinian militants are killed and several injured in an Israeli missile strike near Jabalya.
* MONDAY
Israeli missile aimed at a group of militants lands near a Palestinian kindergarten, killing a teenage boy, critically wounding a teacher and seriously wounding eight children. A female Palestinian suicide bomber blows herself up near Israeli troops in Beit Hanoun, injuring one soldier.
* TUESDAY
Eight Palestinians are killed by Israeli soldiers in separate incidents. Hamas fires six rockets into Israeli town of Ashkelon. Israel says it has completed its week-long Gaza operation in Beit Hanoun which killed 60 gunmen and civilians.
* WEDNESDAY
Nineteen civilians killed in artillery barrage in Beit Hanoun, including 13 members of a single Palestinian family.
* THURSDAY
Two Palestinians reported missing after Israeli missile attack on home of a militant leader. Israeli drones buzz funeral of victims of Beit Hanoun attack.
* YESTERDAY
The death toll from Beit Hanoun rises as Israeli hospital officials confirm that one of the wounded transferred to Israel, has died.

Its second major story is closer to home

Two friends, one knife, two lives ruined: just one more fatal stabbing

“It was a love of football that first drew together Tyrell Anderson and Tommy Winston as 10-year-olds.
When not playing for the same school or Sunday league team in north London, the two friends would often be seen kicking a ball around a park, seeking to emulate their heroes at Arsenal FC.
As their teenage years came to end, they appeared to share a bond that would continue into their adult lives. But that close friendship was ripped apart earlier this year over the seemingly trivial matter of a £20 debt.
The fallout from the dispute ended one boy's life, wrecked the other and provided another graphic example of the increasingly prevalent knife culture among young people in Britain.
In a fit of rage Anderson, now aged 19, attacked and stabbed his friend three times in the back, leaving him to die on a pavement outside a hairdressers in Kentish Town, north London.”

It is Remembrance Day today and the papers have a mixture of Stories

The Sun, in an edition filled with Remembrance Day stories headlines
Remember them at 11 o'clock

BRAVE Jamie Hancock’s dad told last night how his son’s death in Iraq hammered home the meaning of Remembrance Day.
As some in Britain questioned the relevance of wearing poppies and saluting our heroes, Eddie Hancock spoke from the nation’s heart.
He said: “Jamie’s death isn’t unique. People are dying in conflict all the time. But that’s why it’s all the more important to remember them at 11 o’clock.

The Independent asks

Red, white, or none at all? The great poppy debate

Sales of red poppies look set to reach a record 37 million this year, fuelled in part by public sympathy for the troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Legion raised £75m last year to help present and former servicemen and women and their families.

Whereas

The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), meanwhile, which began producing and distributing the white poppy in association with the Co-operative Women's Guild in 1934 after falling out with the Legion over the wording of the tribute, is hoping to sell a more modest 45,000 paper flowers this year. It will barely cover its costs

The Mirror tries to usurp the Star as the champion of reality Tv,

I'M A CELEB FREAKY

“FORGET the horrifying spiders, the snakes with enough venom to wipe out a small town and the hideous flesh-crawling insects.
Because the only nightmarish jungle creature scaring the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here girls is ... oddball fellow contestant David Gest.
Writer Lauren Booth admitted the mere thought of perma-tanned plastic surgery fanatic Gest, whose has tattooed-on eyebrows and endures regular Botox jabs to banish wrinkles, is giving her sleepless nights.
Lauren said: "He's even scarier than his pal Michael Jackson. I mean, I wish him well but he's got an ironing board face. I'm terrified. I'm really scared to be around someone who's got tattooed eyebrows."




The Star counters with

Jungle babes' den of desire

“JUNGLE contestants will find themselves having to cope like the survivors in TV series Lost when I’m A Celebrity kicks off on Monday.But there is some good news: They are getting their own private lovenest – a luxury treehouse for just two of the stars.And if one of the jungle babes is put in the private pad with a fella, bosses are hoping things will get really steamy in the jungle.”

The Express returns to its weather theme with another warning about the forthcoming winter

“BRITAIN is facing a series of short, sharp cold spells this winter.Forecasters predict that parts of the country will enjoy a white Christmas. And temperatures could plunge as low as -14C in February and March.But despite the heavy rainfall in October, there is still the prospect of a third dry winter on the trot.Warnings of Arctic snaps raised fears that the elderly could be at risk.”

And with Christmas fast approaching it reports that

Christmas cancelled...but the boss is doing nicely

The former boss of collapsed Xmas savings club Farepak will

“celebrate the festive season in style.”

And

“can enjoy spending the festive season in the lap of luxury at his £2million secluded eight-bedroom mansion in Sevenoaks, Kent”


The Telegraph reports on

“A colossal hurricane-like storm with a well-developed eye ringed by towering clouds has been observed churning at Saturn's south pole, the first time such an event has been detected on a planet other than Earth.”

And continues


“The storm on the giant, ringed planet measures about 5,000 miles wide, roughly two thirds the diameter of Earth, with winds howling clockwise at 350 mph. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which swirls counter-clockwise, is far bigger, but is less like a hurricane because it lacks the typical eye and eye wall.”

The Times has a musical story
Islamic hip-hop artists are accused of indoctrinating young against the West

HIP-HOP and rap artists are teaching young Muslims the ideology of radical Islamism through songs about the war in Iraq, the oppression of Muslims and the creation of an Islamic state governed by Sharia, or religious law.
Intelligence agencies have identified music as a “tool for indoctrination”. The phenomenon began with an American group called Soldiers of Allah. The group has since disbanded but its music and lyrics remain popular on the internet. Other groups in Britain, France and the US have been identified as giving cause for concern. Many use the derogatory term “kufur” to describe non-Muslims.

The Guardian reports on the story of a painting reputed to be of the executed Lady Jane Grey

“The National Portrait Gallery has bought a painting believed to be of Lady Jane Grey - until now the only English monarch since Henry VII thought to lack a contemporary or near-contemporary portrait. But the gallery's purchase has been derided by court historian David Starkey, who said: "It's an appallingly bad picture and there's absolutely no reason to suppose it's got anything to do with Lady Jane Grey. But if the National Portrait Gallery has public money to burn, then so be it."