Both the Sunday Times and the The Mail on Sunday lead with an interview with the widow of Litvinenko.

"They were the only words he had uttered all day. As Alexander Litvinenko lay in the intensive care unit of University College Hospital, he told his wife: "Marina, I love you so much."

is the headline in the Mail

"It was something he used to say to her every day - so much so that she would sometimes joke and ask her husband to tell her something she didn't know.
It was only later that Marina would realise just how important those words would become. That they would be the last thing he would ever say to her. The following day, Thursday, November 23, the former KGB agent was dead, killed by a lethal dose of polonium-210. "

The Times reveals that

"She said she had decided to speak out after becoming angry at “completely untrue” reports suggesting her husband was a man of dubious character. She said he had been an honest man, a crime fighter rather than a spy. "

The other papers have some varied headlines.The Indy leads with

Racist: A damning report on our schools

"A high-level official report has found a compelling case that Britain's schools are "institutionally racist", but ministers are refusing to accept that conclusion. The report, leaked to The Independent on Sunday, reveals "systemic racial discrimination" in the country's education system, with three times more black children being excluded than whites. "

In part of the report

Every year 1,000 black pupils are permanently excluded from school each year and 30,000 more are banned for a limited period. By contrast it found black children are five times less likely to be officially registered as "gifted or talented". It weighs up whether "out-of-school" factors such as street culture cause black pupils to behave more aggressively in school. But it concludes that black pupils are disciplined more frequently, more harshly and for less serious misbehaviour than other pupils.

The Observer leads on

Bring back Victorian values, says key Tory

In a story which contradicts David Cameron's view of the party

"The Tories are to launch the biggest crusade for personal morality since John Major's ill-fated 'back to basics' campaign, demanding the right for citizens to tackle teenage yobs physically and calling for a reduction in family breakdowns."

And in particular

"that people who slapped others or scuffled with youths while trying to stop crimes being committed should not be prosecuted."

The Telegragh leads with

Wounded to get millions in compensation

"Hundreds of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be awarded millions of pounds in compensation following a ruling by the Government that they are victims of crime not war."

A couple of items from abroad have prominence.In the Times,Christina Lamb,reports from Zimbabwe where

Mugabe feted as nation fails

The last official figures issued in October put inflation at 1,070%. But the cost of living shot up by almost 50% last month, according to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe. An urban family of six now requires Z$209,000 (£442) to meet its basic food, housing, transport and clothing needs for a month, way above the average wage of Z$50,000. So bad is the economic crisis that while people around the world are stocking up on treats for the festive season, Zimbabweans are staring at empty shelves.
“This will be the worst Christmas ever,” said Joyce Taravinga, a single mother in Mbare, one of many who lost their homes in the government’s slum demolition operation. She now has to live with relatives in an already overcrowded shack.
“It’s hard to imagine that we used to have meat and presents. This year it will be a bowl of sadza [maize porridge] and leaves.”

The Indy reports from another part of Africa

The rape of Darfur: a crime that is shaming the world

On the day that

"Thousands of people, mainly women, will march on the Sudanese embassy and Downing Street to highlight the increase in sexual violence. "

It reports from Darfur

Halima Bashir is a survivor. She was tortured and gang- raped for days as a punishment for speaking out about an attack on primary school children in Darfur.
Her crime was to tell people that a group of Janjaweed militia and government soldiers had attacked the primary school for girls, raping pupils as young as eight. She paid a terrible personal price.
"They were aged between 8 and 13," she said. "They were in shock, bleeding, screaming and crying. It was horrific. Because I told people what happened, the authorities arrested me. They said, 'We will show you what rape is'. They beat me severely. At night, three men raped me.
"The following day the same thing, different men. Torture and rape, every day, torture and rape."

The Observer reports from another African conflict

Clashes fuel fears of war in Horn of Africa

"Heavy clashes between Islamist militiamen and forces loyal to Somalia's government continued for a second day yesterday, as fears of an imminent war in the Horn of Africa
mounted."

The Day before Lord Stevens reports on the death of Diana,the papers are anticipating its final conclusion.

The Telegraph reports

Charles to brief princes on Diana report

"Prince Charles will be given a copy of the findings on Wednesday, about 24 hours before a press conference in London, which is expected to dispel a series of myths surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
French investigators are also eagerly awaiting Lord Stevens's findings. They are convinced the British police team will vindicate their original findings in 1999 that the death was an accident caused by a drunken, speeding driver."

The Observer in its focus section asks,


"Since her death in 1997, the princess has been at the centre of a maelstrom of conspiracy theories - many of them stretching the far limits of credibility. On the eve of Lord Stevens's report on the Paris crash, is it time to lay her ghost to rest? "

The Express still ontinues to speculate

"CHAUFFEUR Henri Paul was receiving cash handouts from spymasters on the night he died, the Sunday Express can reveal.Until now, Paul’s whereabouts in the hours leading up to the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed have not been known.Now it is thought he spent between 7pm and 10pm meeting a handler from France’s equivalent of MI5, the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire)."

Its front page leads on

The £1m homes club is booming

"ONE hundred thousand homeowners will find themselves on Millionaires’ Row by the spring.With no let-up in the house price boom another 384 middle-class families a week are being turned into bricks and mortar millionaires.Average property prices are rising by £41 per day, meaning the typical English home will be worth £200,000 within months. The boom is being fuelled by Labour’s failures as house building is not keeping pace with demand."

Amongst today's scandal,the Mirror leads on a former England cricketer

"STRICTLY Come Dancing star Mark Ramprakash has been cheating on his wife of 15 years.
The ex-England cricket batsman, 37, has been having a secret affair with striking Sadia Saleem, 27, for several years, the Sunday Mirror can reveal."

The People reveals

TV IDOL Ant McPartlin's cousin is a sleazy £190-a-time hooker who stars in depraved videos and brags she's a sex slave.
Michelle Rushfirth boasts how she and her "master" trawl porn clubs pedalling their perverted services to men AND women.
And she openly told how she loves to be tied up and WHIPPED during orgies with lust-crazed punters.