Britain battered by storms and the continuing row over Big Brother dominate this morning's headlines.

The Telegraph reports

100mph storms leave trail of death and chaos

Whilst the Times headlines,

Blown to a halt by the great gale

The fiercest winds to hit Britain in almost two decades brought destruction to large parts of the country yesterday, leaving at least 11 people dead, wrecking transport networks and causing damage worth millions of pounds.
A two-year-old boy was among those killed by the storms, while hundreds more were taken to hospital as trees were uprooted and pylons and walls blown down. Rescue services described the day as the busiest in a decade as dozens of major roads were closed by the winds. Gusts of up to 80mph swept across the country; in the worst areas they came close to 100mph, according to the Met Office. Thousands of households had their electricity cut off and there was widespread disruption on rail lines, including the closure of the Eurostar service, as well as air and sea routes.

The Express has KILLER STORM across its front page and the Mail reports that

More than 100,000 homes were left without electricity as power lines were torn down.
Motoring organisations reported their worst day for accidents in ten years and motorists were stuck for up to five hours in the worst jams.
Motorways and ferry ports were closed, airports cancelled flights and rail services were paralysed as fallen debris blocked lines.

The Independent reports that

Big Brother backlash begins as sponsor pulls out and contestants lose contracts

As Channel 4 continued to defend the show, which has been registering a huge increase in viewers since the row over alleged bullying and racism against contestant Shilpa Shetty, Carphone Warehouse, its £3m sponsor, asked for its name and branding to be removed from the show with immediate effect.
At the same time, the retailer selling Jade Goody's Shh... perfume announced it was withdrawing the product from its shelves. Danielle Lloyd, the glamour model, lost a six-figure modelling contract.

The Guardian reports that

The culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, said: "I think this is racism being presented as entertainment, and I think it is disgusting." She said that any formal adjudication was a matter for the media regulator, Ofcom, which has had 33,000 complaints. But she added: "My personal view is that this [programme] has caused enormous offence not only abroad but to the Indian community here."

The Tabloids are less understanding,The Sun asking its readers to EVICT THE FACE OF HATE

BULLYING Jade Goody will be rushed to a safe house by cops when she gets the Big Brother boot tonight — after branding her enemy “Shilpa Poppadum”.
The dimwit dreamed up the fresh taunt for Bollywood babe Shilpa Shetty, but insisted it was NOT racist.

Away from Big Brother,the Telegraph leads on

Chinese missile destroys satellite in space

The missile, which hit a 4ft-wide obsolete Chinese weather satellite 530 miles above the Earth, is thought to have been launched from the Xichang space centre in -China's Sichuan province.

It suggests that the Chinese have developed a major new capability that underscores the communist regime's desire to use its military might as well as burgeoning economic power to expand its influence.
"The US believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of co-operation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area," said Gordon Johndroe, spokes-man for the US National Security Council, yesterday. "We and other countries have expressed our concern regarding this action to the Chinese."

The Guardian meanwhile leads on

Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming

Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than scientists expected, raising fears that humankind may have less time to tackle climate change than previously thought.
New figures from dozens of measuring stations across the world reveal that concentrations of CO2, the main greenhouse gas, rose at record levels during 2006 - the fourth year in the last five to show a sharp increase. Experts are puzzled because the spike, which follows decades of more modest annual rises, does not appear to match the pattern of steady increases in human emissions.

Many of the papers are following the Chancellor's visit to India,the same paper eveals that

Gandhi will be my inspiration, says Brown

During a day in which he announced a full-scale shakeup of Britain's fight against terrorism, the chancellor said the cheerful mood evident on his three-day visit to India was the result of him being free to talk about matters outside his Treasury remit. Laying a wreath at the Gandhi memorial in Delhi, he praised the courage shown by the leader of the fight for India's independence, and Margaret Thatcher's struggle against communism.

Gordon Brown: Call me Gandhi says the Sun.

Back in the Uk more trouble for the Prime Minister,the Independent reporting

Britain rebuked for dropping bribe inquiry

Tony Blair suffered a humiliating rebuke from an international financial watchdog after it condemned the Government's decision to abandon a fraud inquiry into a £40bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expressed alarm that Britain could have breached its promise to combat corruption in the developing world.
Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, also confessed to his unease with the scrapping of the Saudi investigation.

Whilst also revealing

Blair accused of nuclear waste 'cover-up'

Two scientists who sat on a nuclear waste committee have alleged that chaotic organistaion drove the committee to approve an option for deep storage of high-level nuclear waste.

Professor Ball and Dr Baverstock accused Tony Blair of "manipulating" the committee's decision for "political ends". They believe its recommendation for deep storage of high-level waste was used to push through the Cabinet the decision to go ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations.

Its front page though concentrates on Iraq,

The battle to save Iraq's children

The desperate plight of children who are dying in Iraqi hospitals for the lack of simple equipment that in some cases can cost as little as 95p is revealed today in a letter signed by nearly 100 eminent doctors.
They are backed by a group of international lawyers, who say the conditions in hospitals revealed in their letter amount to a breach of the Geneva conventions that require Britain and the US as occupying forces to protect human life.
In a direct appeal to Tony Blair, the doctors describe desperate shortages causing "hundreds" of children to die in hospitals. The signatories include Iraqi doctors, British doctors who have worked in Iraqi hospitals, and leading UK consultants and GPs.

The agreement on the BBC Licence fee is widely reported,the Telegraph saying

BBC anger at £2bn licence fee shortfall

The BBC warned last night that it faced a £2 billion funding shortfall after the Government rejected calls for an above-inflation rise in the licence fee.

The Mail warns

£4 rise in BBC licence means more repeats

Efficiency savings at the BBC are now likely to result in more redundancies at the corporation, which is already in the process of axing 4,000 jobs.
A number of the BBC's more ambitious projects are expected to be shelved, with less money spent on expensive types of programming such as drama and entertainment shows.
A senior insider said that plans to cut the number of repeats on prime-time BBC1 are likely to be dropped.

The Guardian reporting the comments of Mark Thompson who said

it was "a real disappointment" and that the amount available to spend on content and services would fall in real terms. But he added: "Although this is a tough settlement, this amount of money could still leave the BBC very well placed in comparison to the rest of the media."

Finally the Teleegraph reports on

Jungle girl found after 20 years

A Cambodian woman who emerged naked from the jungle to scavenge for food is thought to have lived like an animal for almost 20 years.
Villagers in Rattanakiri province, close to the Vietnamese border, spotted the woman trying to steal food.
After her capture a village policeman identified her as his long-lost daughter.