The Sundays return to the topic of the cash for honours inquiry today after the Pm's interview by police during the week

The Times leads with

Police to quiz top Blair aide over honours

POLICE are to interview Tony Blair’s right-hand man under caution at No 10 as a key suspect in the cash for honours scandal.
The showdown between Jonathan Powell, the chief of staff, and detectives will take place next month after police uncovered e-mails implicating him in the scandal, according to Whitehall sources.

The e-mails are understood to discuss meetings between Blair and Lord Levy, his chief fundraiser, over forthcoming honours lists. They suggest that Levy had a role in the preparation of the lists.

The Telegraph reveals that

Tony Blair is "at war" with Lord Levy, his chief fund-raiser and former close friend, over the cash for honours scandal.
The Prime Minister is refusing to offer any public, or even private, backing to the man who helped secure £14 million in secret loans for Labour before the 2005 election. On a peacemaking trip to the Middle East yesterday, Mr Blair conspicuously declined to offer his fund-raiser, known as "Lord Cashpoint", any support. Lord Levy is one of only three people to have been arrested over the loans affair.

The Indy claims that

Cash for honours: donors say Blair 'misled' police

Millionaire Labour Party donors have contradicted Tony Blair's evidence to the police in the cash-for-honours affair - saying that they were nominated for their public service to the nation, and not for services to Labour, as claimed by the Prime Minister.
Secret No 10 papers, copies of which have been seen by The Independent on Sunday, back up their claims, putting fresh pressure on Mr Blair over the cash-for-honours affair.

The Observer reports that

Brown caught in honours dispute

A senior Labour party source has told The Observer Gordon Brown informally lobbied for two of his prominent supporters to be given peerages last year, despite flatly denying his involvement in the process of awarding honours.
The Chancellor took the unusual step on Friday of issuing a statement insisting he had no formal role in the process of distributing honours, adding that he 'has never made any such submissions nominating an individual or individuals in letters or statements'.

It chooses to lead on a revelation from a former home office advisor that

Downing Street blocked moves that would in effect have legalised prostitution because the Prime Minister was so concerned that 'hostile headlines' would wreck plans to make sex workers' lives safer.
In a passionate article in today's Observer, Katharine Raymond, a senior adviser to the former Home Secretary David Blunkett, reveals that he wanted to liberalise the law, allowing 'managed areas' for prostitutes similar to those in mainland Europe. Experts say that such areas would mean that sex workers, such as the five women killed around Ipswich over the past month, would be at less risk of attack.

The Ipswich attacks continue to dominate the news.The Mirror leads on the story that

A PRIME SUSPECT in the Ipswich Ripper killings can today be revealed as supermarket worker Tom Stephens, who has been questioned FOUR TIMES by police.
The Sunday Mirror tracked down the 37-year-old loner and he chillingly confessed between sobs: "I am a friend of all the girls, ...but I don't have any alibis."
Sobbing uncontrollably, recently-divorced Stephens, 37, says he became the girls' "protector" and would have had "complete opportunity" to carry out the crime as "the girls trusted me so much".

The News of the World has an exclusive claiming that

MURDERED Paula Clennell is pointing the finger at a senior policeman punter from beyond the grave, the News of the World can reveal.
The officer — who works for a neighbouring constabulary — was a regular client to her AND one of the Suffolk Strangler's other victims.

Many of the Broadsheets look in detail at the case and prostitutio in general.The Telegraph reports on our

" sordid society"

The killings in Ipswich have shone a dismal light on the extent of prostitution in Britain today. The figures are horrifying: more than 100,000 girls working in brothels, massage parlours and on the streets, while the number of men using their services, particularly in younger age groups, has doubled. and continues

The murders of the five prostitutes have shone a disturbing light on Britain's dark underbelly, a seedy world of desperate, drug-addicted women who sell their bodies for their, or their pimps', next fix of heroin or crack cocaine. And they have highlighted an explosion in the availability of – and demand for – "sexual services" in 21st-century Britain.

The Indy has an article by Joan Smith headlined

Hunt vicious men, not 'vice girls'

The Mail on Sunday claims

No. 10 secret memo: We are seen as a shambles

Labour has no chance of winning the next Election because voters think the Government is a shambles - and there is little Gordon Brown can do to stop David Cameron becoming Prime Minister.
That is the devastating verdict of a secret Downing Street memo drawn up for Tony Blair by his senior advisers and obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

The memo claims that

- Labour's standing is so low that the party's only hope of recovering may be to abandon Mr Brown and 'move to a new generation' by picking a much younger new leader - though it warns of the perils of being 'disloyal' to the 'greatly respected' Chancellor.
- The public believes the party is riven by 'internal conflicts' and shows a 'lack of grip and competence on key issues' such as Iraq, the NHS and immigration.
- People who voted Labour at the last Election 'are moving across' to the Conservatives and Labour is floundering 'on every major issue'.
- Mr Blair faces a 's*** or bust' decision on how to stop the rot.

The Sunday Express continues its crusade against inheritence tax with a front page story that

TWO sisters have vowed to burn down their home rather than sell it to pay inheritance tax.Joyce and Sybil Burden want the same rights as gay couples to put off paying the tax when one partner dies but the European Court of Human Rights rejected their case last week.

With a week to Xmas,the Sunday Times reveals

Official: men are terrible shoppers

social scientists believe they can explain why men are such unsuccessful Christmas shoppers and what they can do about it.

The solution, according to the report published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Consumer Research, is for women to depend less on hints and for men to ask more questions and to avoid overspending to compensate.

The Indy reports that

More alcohol than ever before will be consumed this festive season, prompting warnings from medical experts of a "health crisis", particularly among young women.
Over the 12 days of Christmas, the average Briton will get through 18 pints of beer, three bottles of wine, one bottle of spirits and four glasses of fortified wine - the equivalent of 137 units of alcohol in less than two weeks. This puts drinkers at real risk of liver disease and other alcohol-related conditions.

Amongst today's scandal,the News of the World reveals that

TOP Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik dumped his telly weathergirl fiancée Sian Lloyd— after spending naked nights in bed with one of the Cheeky Girls.
Flamboyant Opik, 41, a regular on TV comedy panel shows, secretly romanced 24-year-old pop babe Gabriela Irimia by phone after falling for her at a showbiz bash.

The Mirror reports on last night's x factor final

GOLDEN girl Leona Lewis was crowned the first girl winner of The X Factor last night, making her an instant millionaire.
Favourite Leona, 21, beat ex-soap star Ray Quinn after eight million fans voted following their dramatic head-to-head battle in the final.
On hearing she'd won, former pizza waitress Leona broke down and told host Kate Thornton: "I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless."

The People leads on an exclusive

LOVE cheat Chris Tarrant has fallen for a TV production girl 20 years his junior - just three months after his wife booted him out
Pretty brunette assistant Carol Williams has hardly left the 60-year-old star's side in the last few weeks"

The Mail reveals some of the hidden parts of the Steven's enquiry

One of Dodi Fayed's closest aides has broken a nine-year silence to reveal the truth about his relationship with Princess Diana - finally shattering his father's claims that the pair were in love.
Sara Blackiston told how Dodi two-timed Diana with his American fiancee Kelly Fisher - with neither woman aware that they were together in St Tropez with the same man.