Asbos are the story of the day with both the Guardian and the Times leading on a report that suggests that they are seen by youngsters as purely a badge of honour.

Half of antisocial behaviour orders are breached by teenagers, who regard them as a “badge of honour” among their friends, according to a critical report published today.

According to the Times

The research for the government's Youth Justice Board says many of those involved in tackling youth offending, including magistrates, have serious reservations about their effectiveness and question how much they change the behaviour of teenage tearaways

Says the Guardian

This comes on the back of a report that

Britain's teenagers 'amongst worst behaved in Europe'

Again for the Times

The research, which was conducted over recent years, reveals that British 15-year-olds are getting drunk more often, are involved in more fights and a higher proportion have had sex compared with their counterparts in Germany, France and Italy.
The Telegraph tells us that

Britain: the most spied on nation in the world
The combination of CCTV, biometrics, databases and tracking technologies can be seen as part of a much broader exploration, often funded with support from the US/UK 'war on terror', of the use of interconnected 'smart' systems to track movements and behaviours of millions of people in both time and space," the report says.

A theme that the Indie also takes up

Big Brother Britain 2006: 'We are waking up to a surveillance society all around us'
Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.


The Independent returns top the Global warming theme examining airlines

In its headline,”Plane crazy”

Britain's airports are planning to treble the number of flights by 2030, despite the recent Stern report's grave warnings about the environmental effects of expanding air travel in the UK.

A tragic housefire is the lead in the Sun

Angels never stood a chance

"ALL the windows and doors of a house in which a mum and four daughters died screaming were locked from the INSIDE before it was torched.

And accelerants were used to boost the fire at several places throughout the building, police said last night.

Detectives revealed details of the shocking inferno as they waited to question the dead girls’ dad.
Mohammed Riaz, 49, was the only survivor of the 2am blaze which killed his wife Caneze, 39, and their daughters Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 13, Alicia, ten and three-year-old Hannah.
Last night he was critically ill in hospital suffering from serious burns and smoke inhalation."

After a fire in Accrington in the early hours of yesterday morning

The Mirror refers to it as

MURDER OF THE ANGELS
Arson kills mum and her 4 girls

Also reporting on the jailing of another arsonist

“AN ARSONIST who murdered a man and his three stepchildren was jailed for at least 35 years yesterday as a relative said: "He shouldn't be let out. We don't ever want to see him again."
The Star meanwhile leads with

COMIC Russell Brand has been axed by the BBC for being “too wild”.
He was shown the door by BBC 6Music, despite helping the station enjoy a 40% ratings boost.

Elsewhere in the Red Tops

FUMING Coronation Street stars snubbed the National TV Awards party for the second year running after losing out to EastEnders. as reported in the Sun

And reports of deadly spiders in Devon
“A MUM told yesterday how she faced losing her leg after being bitten by a poisonous spider in her bed.
Leoni Kibbey, 32, spent nearly a YEAR in hospital after she woke in agony — with her left leg swelling to THREE times its size.

The mother of two, who is terrified of spiders, revealed how she pulled back the duvet and found a huge creepy crawly — later identified as a Brown Recluse from South Africa.”


Whereas the Mirror claims that

“KEN Livingstone was three days away from being assassinated in the 80s, the Loyalist hitman hired to pulled the trigger claimed yesterday.
Michael Stone said the Ulster Freedom Fighters ordered him to kill Mr Livingstone because of his outspoken support for Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.”