The hunt for a serial killer in the South of England features in a number of papers today.The Times leads with

Police hunting serial killer fear for fourth missing prostitute

Whilst the Mirror leads with

RIPPER: THIRD BODY FOUND - FOURTH PROSTITUTE MISSING

According to the Times


"Police hunting the killer of three prostitutes today announced that they were concerned about a fourth sex worker who has been missing since Saturday.
Paula Clennell, 24 was reported as missing by a friend and has not been seen since late on Saturday.
At a press conference in Ipswich today, Detective Chief Superintendant Stewart Gull said that Ms Clennell was not the woman whose naked body was found in a copse at Nacton, near Ispwich, yesterday afternoon."

The Indy's front page is dedicated to the life and death of General Pinochet who died yesterday.

Augusto Pinochet 1915-2006: He took his crimes to the grave

"His death from heart failure leaves a disputed legacy of brutal political repression; salvation from Marxism; and civil turmoil. "

And

"Pinochet has died, and I don't think he's going to heaven," commented the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.

Rupert Cornwall writing in the same paper says

"In the end it was probably right that Augusto Pinochet never faced justice meted out by a court of his peers for what happened in Chile between 1973 and 1990.
There was always something jarring about the prospect of a half-comprehending 91-year-old man brought to trial for deeds, however heinous, which he thought were the salvation of his country. Add to that the fact that many of his peers to this day agree with him. The verdict on Pinochet can only be delivered by history, and a case can be made in his defence - a far more credible case than can be made for Idi Amin or the genocidal Nazis to whom he is likened by his foes. For these latter however, there is one consolation. General Pinochet may not have died convicted. But he died in disgrace."

The Guardian reports that

"A spokesman for Lady Thatcher, the former prime minister who cherished Gen Pinochet's assistance during the Falklands war with Argentina, said she was "greatly saddened" and had sent her condolences to his family, but would not be issuing a formal statement."

The Telegraph leads on yesterday's government announcement on the Csa.

Absent fathers to be named and shamed

"Fathers who fail to pay maintenance for their children will be "named and shamed" on the internet as part of a Government drive to make them honour their family responsibilities."

"John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said yesterday that he is ready to "come down like a ton of bricks" on absentee parents who are "holding two fingers up to the rest of us by not paying".
Offenders with a record of non-payment could also be fitted with electronic tags, subjected to curfews or have their passports withheld, he said."

The suprise winner of last night's BBC sportsperson of the year is widely reported.

The Sun headlines

Zara's TV win just like mum

"THRILLED Zara Phillips followed in her mum’s footsteps by winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award last night.
The Eventing World Champion lifted the glittering trophy live on TV 35 years after Princess Anne.
In doing so Zara — granddaughter to the Queen — became the second Royal to receive the award."

The Telegraph says

Zara canters off with BBC sports award

But reports of the expected winner

"Miss Phillips, 25, had been expected to lose to the golfer Darren Clarke, who helped to win the Ryder Cup weeks after his wife Heather died from breast cancer.
But Clarke had said he did not want to win on a sympathy vote and last night it seemed as though the public had taken him at his word as he was beaten into second place by the Queen's granddaughter at the ceremony at Birmingham's NEC."


The Express breaks a story on its front page

Sacked because we are British

claiming

A GROUP of skilled craftsmen working on an NHS project have been sacked and their jobs given to migrant Polish workers.The 16 glaziers were axed from a hospital construction site even though one had just won an award for his dedication and professionalism.Polish workers are now in the jobs, leaving the sacked men to claim they are victims of cheap EU labour flooding into the UK.

The Telegraph covers comments made by the Home Secretary yesterday

Christmas terror strike 'highly likely'

"He told the GMTV Sunday Programme that an attempted attack over the Christmas period was "highly likely", adding: "We know that the number of conspiracies of a major type are in the tens — 30 or round about that."

The Guardian reports on the Iraqi recation to the Baker report

"Iraq's president Jalal Talabani, a key ally of the US, yesterday delivered a thunderous rejection of the bipartisan US Iraq Study Group, describing its findings as "dangerous" and saying that its recommendations were "dead in the water".

At his heavily fortified residence on the banks of the Tigris, Mr Talabani told the Guardian that the key suggestions of the long-awaited report by James Baker and Democrat Lee Hamilton were "the wrong medicine for the wrong diagnosis" and called them an unwarranted interference in Iraq's internal affairs that undermined the war-torn country's sovereignty at a crucial time."

The Indy reporting on the same topic that

"The President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, has broadly condemned the findings of President George Bush's Iraq Study Group as an "insult to the people of Iraq".

After last weeks weather Paul Simons,writing in the Times asks

Storms, floods, tornados, heat waves. So, what's new?

"But tornados have been ripping through Britain for centuries. London was hit by an even worse one almost exactly to the day 52 years ago, which left a scene of devastation reminiscent of the Blitz and ended up in Willesden, next door to Kensal Rise. And the deadliest tornado in British history struck in October 1913, when six people were killed at Edwardsville,Glamorgan"