After the publication of the Diana report,it is only approprite that the Express is given the first chance to reply

DIANA: It's a whitewash is its front page

THE report into the death of Princess Diana has finally been delivered - and offered a nation desperate for the truth a whitewash.After three years, almost £4million of taxpayers’ money and a promise to uncover the truth behind her tragic death, Lord Stevens has fundamentally failed to answer a number of key questions.His conclusion – that Diana and Dodi Fayed’s deaths were the result of a simple accident caused by Ritz hotel driver Henri Paul speeding while over the drink-drive limit – flies in the face evidence he has gathered.

The Times decides that it is best to put the findings to bed

Princes William and Harry appealed last night for an end to the speculation surrounding the death of their mother after a three-year investigation demolished claims of a conspiracy to murder her.

But continues

the official police report into the deaths disclosed that Dodi Fayed had probably been intending to ask Diana, Princess of Wales, to marry him on the night she died.

The Guardian meanwhile concentrates on the aftermouth

Mohamed Al Fayed last night angrily condemned the Stevens report into the death of Princess Diana and his son Dodi after it concluded that they were not the victims of a conspiracy to murder them and that there was no cover-up after they died in the Paris car crash nine years ago.
In a bizarre press conference at his Harrods store he repeatedly claimed the report was "garbage" and reiterated his long-standing claims that Prince Philip and MI6 - "gangsters" - had engineered what he called the murder of the chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the couple because, he contended, they wanted to prevent Diana giving birth to a half-Muslim son.

The Mail announces that

Diana: Charles wanted rid of Camilla - so that he could marry Tiggy!

Princess Diana feared she and Camilla Parker Bowles were to be eliminated in a royal plot, paving the way for the Prince of Wales to marry another woman.
She believed the two rivals were to be 'put aside' to make 'the path clear' for Prince Charles to marry royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

The Telegraph prefers though to lead on

Police question Blair on honours

Tony Blair faced the humiliation yesterday of becoming the first serving prime minister to be interviewed by the police in a corruption inquiry as the "cash for honours" investigation moved to the heart of the Labour government.

But then accuse the Prime Minister of burying bad news

Downing Street was immediately plunged into a row over allegations that it had chosen the day of the publication of Lord Stevens's report into the death of Diana, Princesss of Wales in an attempt to "bury the bad news" of the police interview.

A charge that the Independent continues with

The Government also chose yesterday to announce that the Serious Fraud Office was dropping its long-running inquiry into a multi-billion-pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia and the closure of 2,500 post offices in the face of fierce opposition from rural areas.
The shadow Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, said: "Five years after Labour launched the concept of burying bad news, Mr Blair's spin doctors are back to their old tricks."
In a string of other announcements, the Transport Secretary, Douglas Alexander, published a progress report on the 2003 Aviation White Paper, and proposed the building of four new runways.

The news that the SFO is dropping its investigation is the lead in the Guardian

'National interest' halts arms corruption inquiry

A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems and its executives was stopped in its tracks yesterday when the prime minister claimed it would endanger Britain's security if the inquiry was allowed to continue.
The remarkable intervention was announced by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, who took the decision to end the Serious Fraud Office inquiry into alleged bribes paid by the company to Saudi officials, after consulting cabinet colleagues.

Its leader will leave the Pm in know doubt what the paper thinks

Yesterday will leave stains on Mr Blair that will survive any amount of scrubbing. They are serious contributions to the air of evasion and shabby practice which has already enveloped this government and which threatens to become Mr Blair's legacy to his successor. Things were not helped by the heavy-handed sense that Downing Street had scheduled the police interview, and perhaps the BAE announcement too, for a day when other news would minimise its impact.

The Sun reports the bare facts that

A MASSIVE corruption probe was sensationally ditched last night to save a Saudi arms deal and 50,000 UK jobs.

The Mirror still leads on the Suffolk murders with its front page claiming

I KNOW PAULA'S KILLER

THE grieving boyfriend of Ipswich Ripper victim Paula Clennell said last night: "I think I know who killed her."

Paul Turner, 44, told police hunting the murderer of five prostitutes that Paula had stolen £1,000 from a regular who was "smitten" with her.
He said the man could also have targeted other girls who had robbed him when he took them to his Felixstowe home for sex.
He added: "Maybe this guy had enough of being ripped off and lashed out."

The Telegraph reports on the latest developments

A car driven by a "chubby" man in the red-light district of Ipswich became a focal point yesterday of police attempts to catch the killer of five women.

Two of the victims were seen getting into a blue BMW shortly before they died, while a massage parlour doorman has given police details of a blue BMW with a driver behaving "very strangely" one night last week.

The Indy tells us

The man leading the hunt for the Ipswich serial killer warned yesterday that the murderer might strike in other parts of the country as it was confirmed that the fourth of five bodies to be found was that of the missing sex worker Paula Clennell.
Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull revealed that Suffolk police had urged neighbouring forces to implement preventative strategies to safeguard prostitutes in their areas.

it devotes its front page to what it beleives is the real conspiracy and that is over the Butler report on Iraq.

The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.

Barely a month after gaining control of the Senate,the same paper reports on a crisis for the Democrats

Senior Democrats were in a state of high anxiety last night as a Senator remained in hospital after undergoing emergency brain surgery - his condition raising the prospect that the Republicans could regain control of the chamber just weeks after they lost it in the mid-term elections.

Finally many of the papers report on a stange story from Belgium,as reported in the Telegraph

Belgians jammed government switchboards and ambassadors frantically called home after a hoax television broadcast interrupted normal programming to report that the king and queen had fled the country and an independent Flanders had been declared.
The country's French-speaking politicians accused broadcasters of fuelling separatist tensions in Belgium. State television broke from planned schedules at the peak viewing time on Wednesday night to show well-known journalists reporting that "the Flemish parliament has unilaterally declared the independence of Flanders".