The Times headlines-Trail of a serial killer
Whilst the Mirror describes it as-A FRENZY OF KILLING
"THE Ipswich Ripper is in the grip of an unprecedented killing frenzy, worried detectives fear.
By last night the madman had murdered five prostitutes whose bodies have been found in the past 10 days. It took the Yorkshire Ripper six years to kill his first five victims."
The Guardian's headline describes it as
Snatched, killed and discarded
And describes the discovery of the fourth body
"The man walking along Old Felixstowe Road, near the village of Levington, could not be sure at first. In the failing light he stepped off the road and approached the darkened form. Only then was he sure. She was naked, lying in the wet scrubland where she had been dumped. It was 3.05pm.
Forty minutes later a police helicopter hovered over the open ground south of Ipswich as detectives sealed off the area and covered the body with tarpaulin."
The Front page of the Indy meanwhile asks
Why these women are paying the price of a zero tolerance approach to street prostitution
In an article by Deborah Orr she tells us
"On average a prostitute is killed on the streets of Britain once every couple of months, and few people take much notice. "
"in one small town in England, and in chillingly similar circumstances. Killing one woman who is selling sex, it appears, is merely regrettable. Any more, and all hell breaks loose.
Elsewhere it is the Middle East that dominates
The Times reports on the latest atrocity in Iraq
Suicide bomber lures 60 to death with offer of work
"Dozens of labourers huddled in the cold in central Baghdad yesterday morning, eager for work. They waited, as they always do, in Tayaran Square, hoping that someone would pick them up so that they could feed their families.
With unemployment at 30 per cent or more, they were desperate. Young and middle-aged men were drinking tea, smoking cigarettes and eating egg sandwiches as they braced themselves for a hard day’s work.
Then two car bombs ripped through the packed square, killing at least 63 people and wounding 237 in the latest attack against Baghdad’s poor. The explosion smashed windows, gouged craters in the road and set cars ablaze. Most of the men were from poor Shia areas such as Sadr City. They knew the danger of waiting for work in Baghdad.
The Telegraph meanwhile reports form the holocaust conference
Iranian president tells Holocaust conference that Israel's days are numbered
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, yesterday said Israel's days were numbered in an address to a controversial Holocaust conference in Teheran.
"Thanks to people's wishes and God's will, the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards," Mr Ahmadinejad said.
"This is what God has promised and what all nations want. Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out."
The Indy reports on Tony Blair's comments on the events
"Mr Blair accused Iran of posing a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East.
Speaking at his monthly press conference, he said he had been so taken aback by the reports the Iran president had invited a leader of the Ku Klux Klan to the conference that he asked a No 10 aide to check on it, twice. "To go and invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust ... what further evidence do you need that this regime is extreme?"
The Guardian brings us up to date form Israel where its Prime Minister is under pressure
Calls for Olmert to resign after nuclear gaffe
"Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, was yesterday trying to fend off accusations of ineptitude and calls for his resignation after he accidentally acknowledged for the first time that Israel had nuclear weapons.
After decades in which Israel has stuck to a doctrine of nuclear ambiguity, Mr Olmert let slip during an interview in Germany that Israel did indeed have weapons of mass destruction.
He told Germany's Sat.1 channel on Monday evening: "Iran, openly, explicitly and publicly, threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel and Russia?"
Back to the Uk and the Telegraph reports that,
"Four centres of excellence should be established to carry out experiments on monkeys because of the "strong scientific case" for their continuing use in research of medical importance, an expert group says in a report."
The Guardian headlines
Highest inflation since Labour came to power fuels fears of big pay claims
"Britain's pay negotiators held the fate of interest rates in their hands last night after the highest inflation since Labour came to power fuelled Bank of England concerns about the looming wage round.
News that the measure of the cost of living used as the benchmark for negotiations between employers and unions rose to almost 4% last month - with further increases likely - left the City convinced that Threadneedle Street would raise the cost of borrowing in the new year unless there was a sudden weakening in the economy."
Amongst the tabloids,the Express still continues its Diana crusade
Diana: The 18 missing witnesses in £4m inquiry
claiming
"EIGHTEEN key witnesses have been ignored by the £4million Lord Stevens inquiry into the death of Princess Diana.Their evidence to French police had raised several questions about the fatal crash in Paris."
Finally the Silly Xmas stories continue today in the Telegraph
"For the first time in more than 250 years, children will not be allowed to carry candles at a cathedral service in case their hair catches fire.
There is no record of a child going up in flames since the Christingle service began at Chelmsford Cathedral in 1747. However, children this year will carry fluorescent glow sticks rather than the traditional candles set in oranges. "
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