Another mixed bag of headlines today across the papers

According to the Indie,

“Up to 500 Britons a day are acting on their dreams of upping sticks and moving to a new home. Record numbers emigrated from the UK last year, with Australia, Spain and France topping the list of preferred destinations. “

The Telegraph meanwhile seems to suggest that if you like seafood,it wont really matter where you are

"The world's stocks of seafood will have collapsed by 2050 at present rates of destruction by fishing, scientists said yesterday.
A four-year study of 7,800 marine species around the world's ecosystems has concluded that the long-term trend is clear and predictable.”

A story also picked up in the Express which as usual has a rather British take on the story

The end of fish and chips?

FISH could be off the menu forever in 40 years because of plummeting stocks, scientists warned last night.Children born in two generations’ time may never get the chance to eat cod and chips or prawn cocktail.

The Guardian leads with a survey that suggests

“British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il”

“America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.”
Which is probably quite worrying if yopu then read the Times which tells us that
The United States is lobbying to put an American, possibly a general, in charge of all UN peacekeeping operations in a move that could offer Washington an exit strategy in Iraq.


Still staying with the Guardian

Two-thirds of teenagers too fat to be soldiers

The British army is planning to extend its training for young recruits because so many potential soldiers are obese, an official report discloses today. The military has had to relax its criteria over the physique and weight of recruits as a result of the problem.

The Times has a differing angle on the same story

“The Armed Forces are operating with at least 5,000 fewer men and women than are needed to meet Britain’s defence committments around the world, the goverment spending watchdog says today.”

The Sun meanwhile in an exclusive examines the crazy world of Pc gone mad in two stories

Ruined by black Jelly Baby

TWO Tube workers have been cleared of racially harassing a colleague with JELLY BABIES.
A jury took just one hour to acquit Carlo Rozza, 45, and Victor Cooney, 47, at the end of a farcical eight-day trial that cost £250,000.
They had denied taunting black colleague Daniel Jean-Marie with black Jelly Babies.

And

Council axes Guy Fawkes

A POLITICALLY correct council has sparked fury by axing Guy Fawkes from its annual Bonfire Night party — and replacing him with a BENGAL TIGER.
Officials in Tower Hamlets, East London, say the 400-year-old English story of the Gunpowder Plot is now old hat.
There will be NO traditional bonfire and NO Guy.
Instead the centrepiece of Sunday’s £75,000 celebration in Victoria Park will be a Bengali folk tale called the Emperor and the Tiger.

The Mirror meanwhile has a football and sex story on its front page

EXCLUSIVE: MISS CHEAT BRITAIN

FRIENDS of shamed Miss Great Britain Danielle Lloyd last night told how she broke down in tears when axed over her relationship with judge Teddy Sheringham.
The 22-year-old was accused of bringing the contest into disrepute after confessing she was seeing the West Ham star BEFORE the competition - and posing topless for Playboy. She and Teddy, the only judge to vote for her, had insisted they only got together at a party on the night of the pageant in February.

Whilst the Star has bad news for reality Tv fans

I’M A CELEBRITY fans are about to be hit with a shock jungle blackout. ITV bosses have slashed their round-the-clock live coverage of what the stars get up to in the Aussie outback.Now in the new series – which features former Hear’Say babe Myleene Klass, 28 – viewers will get just ONE hour of live feed from Oz instead of 10.

Back to more serious issues and the Guardian reports on the case of

“A hospital radiographer who smothered his three-year-old elder daughter with a rag soaked in chloroform after discovering his wife was having an affair with a married judge was jailed for life yesterday.”

The Mirror follows up on yesterday’s story on the house fire in Lancs claiming that

ARSON HORROR MUM'S MARRIAGE WAS OVER

A HUSBAND suspected of murdering his wife and four daughters by setting their home ablaze feared she was having an affair.

The Indie picks a story that broke early yesterday

“The family of the Brazilian electrician killed in London after being mistaken for a terrorist reacted with fury yesterday to reports that one of the police marksman involved in his death has shot dead another man.
The firearms officer involved in the latest shooting - of a suspected armed robber - was one of two men who shot Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station in July last year. The two officers were cleared to return to full operational duties in July this year after the Crown Prosecution Service decided no individual officers should be charged.”

The Guardian reports on crisis time in Italy where

“Italy's centre-left government was facing an outcry yesterday over law and order after figures emerged linking a wave of gangland murders to a mass pardon rushed through parliament soon after it took office.
In an effort to defuse the crisis the prime minister, Romano Prodi, visited Naples, where 12 killings in 10 days - several carried out on crowded streets - prompted calls to send in the army.

Kate Moss is featured in the Mirror

“KATE Moss has fuelled civil war in Colombia by glamorising cocaine, the country's vice president claims.”
Reminding us that they of course broke the news of the models Cocaine addiction.

The Front page of the Indie is obliterated by the picture of the painting that sold for £73m yesterday
The painting entitled No5 1948 was painted by Jackson Pollock in 1948

Finally I couldn’t help but pick this story in the Telegraph

The man who listens to test card tunes by choice

“As hobbies go, Keith Hamer is a master of his art. As an 11-year-old, he decided to find out what was broadcast on television in the gap between afternoon and evening programmes and settled down one day as the BBC went off air to see what happened next.
When the test card appeared accompanied by its incidental music, Mr Hamer was seduced. He set up a tape recorder he had been given for his birthday and began recording the music — and didn't stop until the card was taken off air 20 years later. As a result, he has 3,500 pieces of accompanying music and stills of every test card produced. His knowledge is so vast that the BBC consults him when making dramas set in the 1950s, 60s, or 70s, not just to get the right test card, but also the correct accompanying music.”