Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Suspect No2 is the headline on the font of the Mirror with a picture of a man being working behind a bar with his face covered.

"THIS is Ripper suspect number two Steve Wright who was yesterday held over the string of prostitute murders in Ipswich.
Police arrested the truck driver at his home in the town's red light area, just five doors from where victim Paula Clennell lived."


The Sun reports that

The dad-of-three Steve Wright was seized at 5am yesterday at his flat in the red-light area of Ipswich.
He was last night being quizzed by cops on suspicion of killing five vice girls from the town.
Ex-police Special Constable Tom Stephens was held 22 hours earlier. He was still being questioned last night.
A police source described lorry driver Wright’s detention as “a far more significant arrest”.


Both the Telegraph and the Express lead on the story that the suspect in the kiling of the special constable fled wearing a veil

Murder suspect fled under Muslim veil

is the Headline in the Telegraph,the Express reports that

Britain's border controls were condemned as "non-existent" after it was claimed that the suspected murderer of a policewoman fled the country by disguising himself as a veiled Muslim woman.
Police reportedly believe that Mustaf Jamma, a prime suspect over the fatal shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, used his sister's passport and wore a full niqab to evade checks at Heathrow airport.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis insisted there should be an urgent inquiry.


Staying with crime and many papers reporton this story in the Mail

A quarter of young people break the law

One in four young people aged between 10 and 25 committed a crime last year, a Home Office report has revealed.
This amounts to 2.8 million offenders of whom 1.6 million are 17 or under.
Seven per cent of all young people are frequent offenders who have committed at least six crimes in the last year and are responsible for more than four-fifths of all the youth offences


The Front page of the Indy carries a picture of a smouldering village in Darfur

The village is still smouldering. A girl combs through the remains of a burnt-down hut with her bare hands, trying to salvage knife blades and rakes that were not consumed by the fire. Two women, with tears in their eyes, have broken down in front of a pile of ash, wailing violently.

in a special report,it claims.

It is a tragically familiar scene in Darfur, the province of western Sudan where more than 200,000 people have been killed and at least two million brutally forced from their homes - a genocide unleashed and sustained by the Islamist government in Khartoum - but this man-made inferno now sweeping across the plains is taking place across the Sudanese border in Chad. The pattern is identical to events in Darfur, where the well-armed Arab raiders allied to the Sudanese government set villages ablaze, rape the women, and leave a trail of dead black Africans in their wake. Just as in Darfur, the Sudanese government is being accused of being behind the violence in Chad, an accusation which is rejected by Khartoum.

The Guardian leads on the opinion polls which say

Tories at their strongest for 14 years - poll

David Cameron has led his party to its strongest sustained position in 14 years according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today, which shows the Conservatives have extended their lead over Labour to eight points at the end of the new Tory leader's first year in office.
The poll puts the Conservatives on 40%, three points up on last month's Guardian/ICM result. Labour remain on 32% while the Liberal Democrats fall four points to 18%, their lowest rating in a Guardian poll since the summer.


The Indy reports that,

David Cameron has challenged Labour to call a snap general election soon after Tony Blair stands down as Prime Minister next year.
The Tory leader believes Gordon Brown will succeed Mr Blair and will be tempted to call an immediate election, possibly as early as next autumn, because he is likely to enjoy a honeymoon period with the voters.


And the Telegraph reports more controversy for the governement

Beckett admits 45-min claim was wrong

Margaret Beckett reopened the controversy over the Government's dossier about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction when she admitted yesterday that ministers had realised before the invasion the claim that they could be deployed in 45 minutes was probably wrong.
The Foreign Secretary said the 45-minute claim was of "little relevance" and used only once
.

The Guardian reports

Anger as Libyan retrial hands death sentence to medics

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV were sentenced to death for a second time by a court in Libya yesterday, drawing widespread international condemnation.
The UN human rights office urged Libya not to execute them, saying there were "very serious and credible concerns" about the fairness of the trial.
The six deny infecting 426 children with HIV at the hospital in the late 1990s. More than 50 have since died, say Libyan authorities. Many western diplomats and scientists believe poor hygiene standards were responsible for the infections and that the medics became scapegoats.

The Bishop of Southwark's interview on the BBC is reported in the Sun

Bishop: I have amnesia

THE Bishop of Southwark, who lost his belongings and suffered head injuries after a Christmas party, has hit out at claims he was drunk, saying it it would have been "entirely out of character".
In an interview with Radio 4's Today programme, The Right Rev Tom Butler also said claims of him throwing toys around in the back of a parked Mercedes as "very strange".
But he did admit he couldn't remember his journey home from a party at the Irish Embassy in London earlier this month.
Dr Butler, who is having tests for his memory loss, said: "It's very worrying, I still have amnesia.

The Indy on the same story headlines

From altar to altercation The Bish, the bash and the bosh on the head

The Times reports that,

John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, has spent £645 updating the sign on the front of his office. To ensure that visitors don’t get confused, the old sign, “Office of the Deputy Prime Mininster”, has been replaced by one saying “Deputy Prime Minister’s Office”.

The changing climate is featured,the Guardian tells us that

Warming seas drive shoreline species north

Climate change has forced seashore creatures around Britain to relocate, with warming seas pushing many species of barnacles, snails and limpets north in search of cooler areas of coast, according to a new study.

Meanwhile the Telegraph comments on the movements of the swollow.

Birds and bees in winter denial

Maybe the hard frosts have given them the hint but less than a week before Christmas there were reports of swallows still swooping for insects across the country.
These summer migrants might usually be expected to be 5,000 miles away in southern Africa instead of cluttering up the rarity sightings section of bird watchers' websites.





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