The Guardian reports that
The suspect being questioned last night over the murders of five sex workers in Ipswich is a former special constable who was originally interviewed by police four days after the first woman disappeared, it emerged yesterday.
Detectives have confirmed that Tom Stephens, 37, a Tesco shopworker who spent five years as a police constable in neighbouring Norfolk, was questioned informally shortly after Tania Nicol, 19, went missing on October 30. At that time the other four women were still working in the red light area of the town. Mr Stephens, who is divorced, was spoken to once in his car and on other occasions at a police station last month.
The Sun headlines
Strangler suspect was a cop
The Mirror claims that
EXCLUSIVE: HE HAD HOUSE PARTY WITH THE 5 GIRLS
Police believe the five murdered women were among eight street girls driven to Tom Stephens' new home for the all-night housewarming party.
The Mail asks
Suffolk strangler or just a fantasist?
His arrest came after Stephens gave a series of media interviews in which he tearfully admitted he knew all five girls - and said he had no alibis for the times they disappeared.
Stephens, who began using prostitutesafter his marriage broke down 18 months ago, told how he became the girls' 'protector' and would have had 'complete opportunity' to carry out the murders because 'the girls trusted me so much'.
The Telegraph asks
The school nerd who liked to help vice girls
The Sun however tells us
AN ex-prostitute pal of Stephens insisted last night he was innocent.
Jacci Goldsmith, 34, got to know him on his nightly visits to the red light district where she used to work.
She said: “He was nice and sweet with no nasty bone in his body. He has not got it in him to hurt anyone. I can’t believe he has done any wrong.”
The Times brings us back to earth
First suspect held — but hunt for killer goes on
Detectives interrogating a former special constable about the murders of five Ipswich prostitutes fear that the real killer may still be at large.
Police close to the investigation told The Times that they were looking at five other suspects and that they were no more than 50 per cent sure they had their man.
The Independent is the only paper that leads on a different story
The betrayal of a soldier: Coroner in blistering attack on ministers at inquest
The first British soldier to die in combat in Iraq was killed by friendly fire because of the Army's "unforgiveable and inexcusable" failure to equip him with body armour, an inquest has found.
According to the coroner
"To send soldiers into a combat zone without the appropriate basic equipment is, in my view, unforgivable and inexcusable and represents a breach of trust that the soldiers have in those in government," concluded Andrew Walker, Oxfordshire's assistant deputy coroner, at the end of an inquest which uncovered a litany of flaws in Britain's preparations for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Staying in the region,the Telegraph reports
Failures in Iraq had placed Britons at greater risk of terrorist attacks at home, David Cameron said yesterday.
The Conservative leader, who continues to back the Iraq war, said there was a "wider effect" of British foreign policy to be taken into consideration.
He said a Conservative policy group's analysis, that the threat to Britain was bigger now than before the war, was "a statement of fact".
The Guardian focuses on the Pm visit to the Middle East
Blair makes one last push in Middle East with Palestinian funding plan
Tony Blair yesterday proposed a controversial plan to bolster Mahmoud Abbas in his escalating battle against Hamas by funnelling millions of pounds in aid directly to security forces under the Palestinian leader's control.
The risky move, probably Mr Blair's last power play on the Palestinian territories before he leaves office, has been agreed with the US and is designed to break the deadlock that has held back progress in the Middle East for months.
The Times reports on the conclusion to the case of the killing of a police officer last year.
Three convicted of killing policewoman
The widower of a murdered police officer sat in court on his birthday yesterday as a jury returned guilty verdicts against three of her killers.
Paul Beshenivsky, 44, saw Yusuf Jama, a 20-year-old Somali, convicted unanimously of murdering PC Sharon Beshenivsky during a bungled robbery in Bradford. Two brothers, Faisal and Hassan Razzaq, were acquitted of PC Beshenivsky’s murder but found guilty by a 10-1 majority of her manslaughter.
The Mirror shows pictures of the three
THESE are the yobs behind the brutal gun murder of Sharon Beshenivsky, the unarmed police officer cut down on her daughter's fourth birthday in a botched robbery.
One of the killers Muzzaker Shah larks around with friends in a restaurant. Another pictures shows him with his classmates at school, years before he turned to crime.
And Somalian Yusuf Jama stares straight ahead in a police mugshot taken after he had gunned down the 38-year-old PC as his armed gang fled a travel agent's with little more than £5,000.
The loss of the Ashes is not unexpectedly heavily featured in the Sports pages.
Writting in the Telegraph,Geoffrey Boycott says
Fletcher must pay for lack of desire
Somewhere amid all the gongs, the sponsorships and the contracts, some crucial element of desire was lost. Suddenly England started drawing or even losing games they should have won.
And continues
This England team is not driven at the moment. And that is why we need a new coach, new backroom staff, and new ideas.
My view is that after the Ashes series has finished, the men in suits should talk to Duncan Fletcher. They should recommend that he takes the team through the triangular and the World Cup, and then retires. And they should start looking for a new coach for the beginning of the English summer.
The Sun headlines
Sorry England just Perthetic
SORRY England surrendered The Ashes in record time yesterday.
Freddie Flintoff’s Perth flops handed back the urn to Australia after just 15 days of Test cricket Down Under — the shortest defence in history.
Their 206-run Third Test humbling gifted Ricky Ponting’s men an unbeatable 3-0 series lead.
The Mirror says
DUMP DUNC
THE ENGLAND and Wales cricket board are clearing the way to dump Duncan Fletcher as England head coach after the World Cup in the wake of another disastrous Ashes campaign.
The Guardian reports that
Joe Barbera, one half of the creative duo that delighted generations of children with the homicidal spats between a cat and a mouse, the ranger-baiting activities of a delinquent bear and the adventures of a ghost-hunting great dane and his pesky friends, died yesterday. He was 95.
In partnership with Bill Hanna, Barbera gave the world such classic cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones and the Jetsons.
The Telegraph reports that
Windfarms to power a third of London homes
A licence to build the world's largest offshore windfarm in the Thames estuary was granted by the Government yesterday.
The London Array windfarm, 12 miles off Kent and Essex, should eventually consist of 341 turbines, occupying an area of 90 square miles between Margate and Clacton.
The Independent urges caution though
World's largest offshore wind farm plan given a stormy reception
Bill Boggia remembers well the last time Graveney was gripped by fears of invasion having arrived in this village of saltmarsh and sunken lanes in north-east Kent in 1940.
Then it was the Nazis who threatened to emerge from the shallow waters of Whitstable Bay. Now Mr Boggia, 77, and some 200 local residents are digging in for what they consider to be another struggle against an overwhelmingly powerful opponent.
A number of the papers reveal that
One of the most fashionable restaurants in London has been caught out for serving standard meat and chicken when its menu said it was organic.
Julie’s restaurant in Holland Park, West London — popular with celebrities such as Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kylie Minogue and Jeremy Paxman — was forced to pay more than £11,500 in fines and legal costs for misleading consumers. (Times)
Staying with food of a sort,the Guardian reveals that
All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US
Marijuana is now the biggest cash crop grown in the US, exceeding traditional harvests such as wheat, corn and soy beans, says a new report.
The study shows that 10,000 tonnes of marijuana worth $35.8bn (£18.4bn) is grown each year; the street value would be even higher. This dwarfs the $23bn-worth of corn grown, $17.6bn-worth of soybeans and $12.2bn-worth of hay. Marijuana is the biggest cash crop in 12 states, with the value of pot grown outstripping peanuts in Georgia and tobacco in North and South Carolina. In California, the biggest producer, it is worth $13.8bn.
The independent amongst other papers reveals the most popular google searches of the year.
The The life and death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin and tickets for Dirty Dancing appear to uppermost in the mind of Britain's internet users, according to a new survey.
The list in full
* video
* world cup
* steve irwin
* prison break
* wiki (online database)
* euro millions
* big brother
* lost
* tfl
* weather
Finally the Mail reports on the latest name phenonoma
Parents are putting Preston on the map
Not so long ago it was mainly known as a city in Lancashire with a 'proud' football team.
Then a pop star turned reality show contestant put it back on the map.
Now Preston is the fastest climber in the league table of names given to new-born boys, rising 1,346 places.
This clearly reflects the popularity among young parents of the lead singer of The Ordinary Boys, whose full name is Sam Preston.
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