With the news that a 48 year old man has been charged with the murders of 5 women in Ipswich breaking overnight,the papers have changed the headlines on their final additions this morning.

Dock worker charged with serial killings

Headlines the Telegraph

A former dock worker was charged last night with the serial killings of five prostitutes in Ipswich.
Almost two months after the first of the vice girls disappeared from the red light district of the Suffolk county town, Det Chief Supt Stewart Gull, who is leading the investigation, said Steve Wright, 48, from Ipswich had been charged with the murders of the five young women — Tania Nicol, Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell.

The Sun has a picture of the accused across its front page with the headline

Strangler suspect No2 charged.

The Mirror

CHARGED WITH FIVE MURDERS

Along with pictures of the five victims

Elsewhere the fog blanketing the country is prominent this morning.The Front page of the Indy has

A sorry story that highlights the flaws of aviation policy

Its travel writer Simon Calder writes

Another day at Heathrow, another debacle. The fog grew thicker; the queues longer, deeper, more desperate, and, in true Christmas-tale fashion, no more hotel beds were to be had within miles of the world's busiest airport. And today, it will get worse - nearly 200,000 are due to travel through the airport today.
Everyone had a sorry story: from the couple emigrating to Australia; to the student trying to make a connecting flight from Washington; to the family of five huddled together in a freezing tent with blankets, but without food or luggage. And because Heathrow is key to the nation's aviation system, the chaos was spreading to other airports.
Yesterday, Heathrow saw its aircraft handling capacity reduced by 40 per cent compared with normal operations.
About 300 flights were cancelled, bringing to 700 the total since the fog descended on Tuesday - the vast majority short-haul operations. British Airways again axed all its domestic flights to and from Heathrow, plus 100 European services. Lufthansa, BMI and Alitalia also experienced significant levels of cancellations.

The Mail headlines

We haven't the foggiest!

It means Christmas is cancelled for thousands of holidaymakers.
They face spending days in packed airport buildings, hoping the backlog from hundreds of cancelled flights can be cleared.
There are fears the disruption will spread to long-haul flights, with a record three million Britons planning to fly out to foreign destinations over the next two weeks.

The Guardian reports that

Four US marines charged with Iraq murders

Four US marines were last night charged with murder and a further four with failure to investigate and report the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians, in the biggest American criminal case to arise from the Iraq war.
The eight include Frank Wuterich, 26, who was charged with the murder of 18 Iraqi civilians in the episode that has come to be known as the Iraq war's My Lai - a reference to the notorious massacre of civilians in the Vietnam war.

The Times carries an interview with the Defence minister Des Browne in which he claims

Army too small, too busy and has no time to train, minister says

fears about how much longer the Army can cope with the commitments without there being the risk of serious consequences

Exercises have had to be cancelled and crucial battle-group formation training, involving the full panoply of tanks, artillery and armoured personnel carriers — carried out regularly during the Cold War — have been severely reduced.

The news of the death of the Turkmenistan widely reported

The Indy reports

Farewell to the Turkmenbashi

Turkmenistan may be in mourning but fans of opera, ballet, circuses and orchestras - and even owners of car radios - in the central Asian nation will be quietly celebrating the passing of Saparmurat Niyazov, possibly the most eccentric dictator in the world.
The self-declared Turkmenbashi, or father of the Turkmen, ruled the energy-rich but impoverished country according to his very peculiar peccadillos, outlawing a host of products and practices that most wielders of absolute power have not ordinarily been bothered by.

The Guardian reveals that he

outlawed opera, ballet and men listening to car radios. He decreed that the month of January should be named after him and April after his mother. He published a book of his spiritual thoughts that became required reading not only in schools, but for all those wishing to pass their driving test.

But warns

if life under Turkmenistan's dictator was dangerous and bizarre in equal quantities, the sudden release from his 21-year grip on power yesterday left a gaping vacuum in a land with the world's fifth largest reserves of natural gas.

The Telegraph reports on yesterdays agreement on European fish quotas but warns

An opportunity to spare the endangered cod was squandered by EU fisheries ministers yesterday after a tactical blunder by Joe Borg, the fisheries commissioner.

Instead of setting a zero quota for cod, as scientists urged because of the risk of stock collapse, fisheries ministers decided to cut North Sea cod catches by 14 per cent, from 23,205 tons to 19,957 tons, at their annual talks in Brussels.

The Sun,as with a number of the papers reports on the omgoing BBC license negotitions

BBC licence award slashed

MONEY-grabbing BBC bosses’ demands for a whopping licence fee deal are to be crushed, The Sun can reveal.
Ministers have ruled out an inflation-busting payout and will give less than HALF what they wanted.
Beeb executives will be horrified by the news, to be officially announced next month.

And the same paper gives us an exclusive on the Xmas Tv schedules

It's the Ender of telly's Pauline

TRAGIC Pauline Fowler lies dying under a Christmas tree in a fittingly gloomy end to her life.

The soap legend suffers a brain haemorrhage and collapses in the snow near her beloved Arfur’s bench in Albert Square.