The Guardian carries an interview with the Home Secretary this morning under the headline,
Reid: worst is yet to come - but I won't quit
He gives the analogy
If you renovate a house you start by taking the wallpaper off. It is only then that you discover more problems. That's what it is like in the Home Office,
"These problems don't leave me beleaguered. If we weren't discovering more we wouldn't be reforming the Home Office. Indeed I expect more problems." He also makes clear he has no intention to quit.
"I was sent to the Home Office to do a job. Being home secretary is my biggest challenge. But it isn't mission impossible. Judge me not on the challenges but on my response to them.
The Times on the same theme tells us
Reid urged to free thousands as jail conditions worsen
Britain’s jail watchdog will heap further pressure on the Home Secretary this week by giving warning that prison overcrowding is putting the public at risk.
Anne Owers will say that the overcrowding in England and Wales is hitting rehabilitation programmes intended to make offenders less likely to return to a life of crime.
She will also highlight the position of foreign national prisoners who remain in prison awaiting deportation despite having served their sentences.
The Mirror leads with
2,500 MORE PRISON PLACES
JOHN Reid will today go for a quick fix in the prisons crisis with a plan to provide 2,500 new places by the end of 2007.
The Home Secretary is accelerating a Government pledge to create 8,000 more places by 2011.
To save time, he will build cells on existing prison sites and re-open disused jail buildings rather than commission prison ships, which he fears would take too long.
As the prison population hits the 80,000 bursting point, an aide said: "He wants to get this done as soon as possible and it makes sense to target existing prison compounds to create extra places for prisoners."
The Indy meanwhile has a little twist on the story claiming
Veteran peace protester sent to jail despite prisons crisis
A peace campaigner has been jailed for failing to pay a £50 fine, despite the crisis of chronic overcrowding in Britain's prisons.
Magistrates jailed Lindis Percy, 64, after she failed to pay fines and court costs relating to a protest outside the United States Signal Intelligence Station, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Percy had expected to be back at home on Friday night after an appearance at Harrogate magistrates' court where she argued, on a point of principle, that she would not pay the fine and £150 costs. But she was handed a seven-day sentence and sent to Low Newton jail in Co Durham.
The Telegraph has set the news agenda this morning with nits story that
Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'
Forty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain, a legal system based on the teachings of the Koran. The figure among over-55s, in contrast, was only 17 per cent.
The study, by the Right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange, also found a significant minority who expressed backing for Islamic terrorism.
One in eight young Muslims said they admired groups such as al-Qa'eda that "are prepared to fight the West".
Not suprisungly the Mail also features the story highly
Multiculturalism 'drives young Muslims to shun British values'
The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found.
In stark contrast with their parents, growing numbers sympathise with extreme teachings of Islam, with almost four in ten wanting to live under Sharia law in Britain.
The study identifies significant support for wearing the veil in public, Islamic schools and even punishment by death for Muslims who convert to another religion.
Most alarmingly, 13 per cent of young Muslims said they "admired" organisations such as Al Qaeda which are prepared to "fight the West".
The Times leads with the story that
Pub law U-turn will curb opening hours
The Government is preparing to make a substantial U-turn over 24-hour drinking by making it harder for pubs to open later in future amid the first signs they realise that the policy went too far too fast.
Tessa Jowell will unveil the latest controversial change to social policy tomorrow by announcing the location of Britain’s first super-casino, which will bring £1 million slot machines into this country for the first time.
But The Times can reveal that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is attempting to curb the development of a 24-hour drinking culture by changing the guidance to councils to spell out that there is “no general presumption in favour of lengthening licensing hours”.
The Guardian amongst many reports on
Historic vote ends Sinn Féin's long battle with the police service in Northern Ireland
By an overwhelming majority at the extraordinary conference, or Ard Fheis, in Dublin backed a motion giving the leadership the power to participate in the province's policing and justice structures. The decision overturned a century of opposition to any UK policing presence in Ireland. There were no walkouts by disaffected members. The final vote, not counted, showed probably little more than 5% of delegates opposed to the leadership.
Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin's president, called the vote "one of the most important decisions in the recent history of our country" and urged Unionists to respond. Downing Street said Tony Blair welcomed the decision and "recognises the leadership it has taken to get to this point".
The Telegraph on the same topic announces
After 86 years, Sinn Fein supports police
It carries the Unionist view
Ian Paisley, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, has warned Sinn Fein that for power sharing to resume it had to show "visible and open" support for the police. "Only with real delivery can the way be cleared for a full return to democracy and a facing up to the everyday needs and requirements of the people of Northern Ireland," he said.
"All Ulster people, across both the religious and political divides, know that it is now or never."
The Independent's front page returns to a familiar theme,
Global Warming: The vicious circle
The effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are being felt on every inhabited continent in the world with very different parts of the climate now visibly responding to human activity.
These are among the main findings of the most intensive study of climate change by 2,000 of the world's leading climate scientists. They conclude that there is now little doubt that human activity is changing the face of the planet.
In addition to rising surface temperatures around the world, scientists have now linked man-made emissions of greenhouse gases to significant increases in ocean temperatures, rises in sea levels and the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice over the past 35 years.
A draft copy of the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that global temperature rises this century of between 2C and 4.5C are almost inevitable. Ominously, however, it also says that much higher increases of 6C "or more" cannot be ruled out.
The same paper reports from Iraq
US soldiers in Iraq kill 250 men from 'apocalyptic cult'
American and Iraqi troops killed about 250 armed men alleged to belong to an apocalyptic Islamic cult who were planning to attack the religious leadership of the Shia in the holy city of Najaf, according to Iraqi political, military and police sources.
The battle took place in the orchards around Najaf and a US helicopter was shot down during the fighting, killing two crewmen. Hundreds of fighters drawn from the Sunni and Shia communities who gathered amid the date palms were followers of Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni who claims to be the vanguard of the Messiah according to Iraqi politicians. His office in Najaf had been closed 10 days ago.
The Times reports form Idaho as Hillary Clinton begins oficially her race for the White House
Clinton juggernaut rolls into living rooms looking for hearts and minds
This Midwestern farming state takes extremely seriously its status as the “first in the nation” to select presidential candidates. Consequently, most of those aspiring to the White House have to take Iowa — and the 2,000 precinct caucus meetings it will hold in about a year’s time — very seriously.
The Guardian says
Mrs Clinton set out on the long presidential campaign trail at the weekend, holding her first rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Although the election is still 23 months away, it was the first of the full-blown rallies, complete with a 12 piece jazz band, hundreds of placards reading "Iowa Welcomes Hillary For President" and more than 1,000 people, nearly all Democrats or undecided, crammed into the East high school gymnasium.
The Telegraph reports on another election campaign
Royal's gaffes allow Sarkozy to steal ahead
Ségolène Royal returned from a trip to the French West Indies yesterday to a poll showing that less than a third of France found her presidential campaign credible, and to the news that a leading Socialist ally had been excluded from the party for racism.
The poll in Le Parisien confirmed that a string of gaffes in recent days by Ms Royal, the Socialist candidate in April's election, is having a disastrous effect on her campaign, despite her triumphant victory in party primaries in November.
The Sun has rather a strange exclusive on its front page.Under the headline
STATE X RAY SPIES TO SEE YOU NUDE
OFFICIALS are bracing themselves for a storm of public outrage over their controversial X-ray cameras scheme.
As part of the most shocking extension of Big Brother powers ever planned here, lenses in lampposts would snap “naked” pictures of passers-by to trap terror suspects.
The proposal is contained in leaked documents drawn up by the Home Office and presented to PM Tony Blair’s working group on Security, Crime and Justice.
But the prospect of the State snooping on individuals’ most private parts is certain to spark national fury.
And officials are battling to find a way of dealing with that reaction.
The Telegraph reveals
Make-over shows are to blame for the growing liposuction craze, say surgeons
The number of British women having liposuction, the procedure to remove excess body fat, nearly doubled last year according to figures released by plastic surgeons today.
Overall cosmetic plastic surgery procedures rose by 31 per cent last year compared with 2005 with an estimated 90,000 procedures carried out.
The dramatic rise in liposuction operations has been fuelled by the popularity of radical make-over television programmes, the desire to lose weight, affluence and the growing acceptability of plastic surgery procedures, the surgeons believe.
The papers couldnt ignore the end of Celebratory Big Brother last night,The Same paper saying
SHILPA Shetty’s performance on Celebrity Big Brother has been hailed as a turning point in defeating racism.
The stunning Bollywood star beat her tormentors Jade Goody and Jo O’Meara to a place in the final.
Now the Indian actress looks set to become the nation’s sweetheart after she dealt with racism and bullying with good grace and humour.
The Mirror headlines
SHILPA BEATS THE BB BIGOTS
As she hugged Big Brother host Davina McCall she gasped: "I'm in shock" - before adding with a grin "Chicken curry rules!" Shilpa triumphed thanks to a massive vote of public sympathy and outrage at the racist taunts she suffered at the hands of Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd and ringleader Jade Goody.
The Express carries a picture of the Bollywood actress on its front page but leads with one of its pet subjects
House prices to soar again
HOUSE prices are rising at their fastest for nearly four years with the property market showing no signs of running out of steam.Last night experts predicted that this year the value of homes will increase by an average £1,000 a month – or more than £30 a day.The Centre for Economics and Business Research said that, despite three interest rate rises, the property boom will continue in 2007 – and for the next three years.
Finally Charles and Camilla's tour of America is widely reported the Sun with the best story,
Do you think Cam sexy, Rod?
RANDY Rod Stewart met Camilla on her US tour — then admitted he fancies her.
The rocker, who also greeted Prince Charles, said later: “I can see what he sees in her.”
Rod described Camilla’s diamond and ruby necklace as “gorgeous” — and revealed the Duchess of Cornwall, 59, has his album Great American Songbook on her iPod.
Reid: worst is yet to come - but I won't quit
He gives the analogy
If you renovate a house you start by taking the wallpaper off. It is only then that you discover more problems. That's what it is like in the Home Office,
"These problems don't leave me beleaguered. If we weren't discovering more we wouldn't be reforming the Home Office. Indeed I expect more problems." He also makes clear he has no intention to quit.
"I was sent to the Home Office to do a job. Being home secretary is my biggest challenge. But it isn't mission impossible. Judge me not on the challenges but on my response to them.
The Times on the same theme tells us
Reid urged to free thousands as jail conditions worsen
Britain’s jail watchdog will heap further pressure on the Home Secretary this week by giving warning that prison overcrowding is putting the public at risk.
Anne Owers will say that the overcrowding in England and Wales is hitting rehabilitation programmes intended to make offenders less likely to return to a life of crime.
She will also highlight the position of foreign national prisoners who remain in prison awaiting deportation despite having served their sentences.
The Mirror leads with
2,500 MORE PRISON PLACES
JOHN Reid will today go for a quick fix in the prisons crisis with a plan to provide 2,500 new places by the end of 2007.
The Home Secretary is accelerating a Government pledge to create 8,000 more places by 2011.
To save time, he will build cells on existing prison sites and re-open disused jail buildings rather than commission prison ships, which he fears would take too long.
As the prison population hits the 80,000 bursting point, an aide said: "He wants to get this done as soon as possible and it makes sense to target existing prison compounds to create extra places for prisoners."
The Indy meanwhile has a little twist on the story claiming
Veteran peace protester sent to jail despite prisons crisis
A peace campaigner has been jailed for failing to pay a £50 fine, despite the crisis of chronic overcrowding in Britain's prisons.
Magistrates jailed Lindis Percy, 64, after she failed to pay fines and court costs relating to a protest outside the United States Signal Intelligence Station, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Percy had expected to be back at home on Friday night after an appearance at Harrogate magistrates' court where she argued, on a point of principle, that she would not pay the fine and £150 costs. But she was handed a seven-day sentence and sent to Low Newton jail in Co Durham.
The Telegraph has set the news agenda this morning with nits story that
Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'
Forty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain, a legal system based on the teachings of the Koran. The figure among over-55s, in contrast, was only 17 per cent.
The study, by the Right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange, also found a significant minority who expressed backing for Islamic terrorism.
One in eight young Muslims said they admired groups such as al-Qa'eda that "are prepared to fight the West".
Not suprisungly the Mail also features the story highly
Multiculturalism 'drives young Muslims to shun British values'
The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found.
In stark contrast with their parents, growing numbers sympathise with extreme teachings of Islam, with almost four in ten wanting to live under Sharia law in Britain.
The study identifies significant support for wearing the veil in public, Islamic schools and even punishment by death for Muslims who convert to another religion.
Most alarmingly, 13 per cent of young Muslims said they "admired" organisations such as Al Qaeda which are prepared to "fight the West".
The Times leads with the story that
Pub law U-turn will curb opening hours
The Government is preparing to make a substantial U-turn over 24-hour drinking by making it harder for pubs to open later in future amid the first signs they realise that the policy went too far too fast.
Tessa Jowell will unveil the latest controversial change to social policy tomorrow by announcing the location of Britain’s first super-casino, which will bring £1 million slot machines into this country for the first time.
But The Times can reveal that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is attempting to curb the development of a 24-hour drinking culture by changing the guidance to councils to spell out that there is “no general presumption in favour of lengthening licensing hours”.
The Guardian amongst many reports on
Historic vote ends Sinn Féin's long battle with the police service in Northern Ireland
By an overwhelming majority at the extraordinary conference, or Ard Fheis, in Dublin backed a motion giving the leadership the power to participate in the province's policing and justice structures. The decision overturned a century of opposition to any UK policing presence in Ireland. There were no walkouts by disaffected members. The final vote, not counted, showed probably little more than 5% of delegates opposed to the leadership.
Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin's president, called the vote "one of the most important decisions in the recent history of our country" and urged Unionists to respond. Downing Street said Tony Blair welcomed the decision and "recognises the leadership it has taken to get to this point".
The Telegraph on the same topic announces
After 86 years, Sinn Fein supports police
It carries the Unionist view
Ian Paisley, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, has warned Sinn Fein that for power sharing to resume it had to show "visible and open" support for the police. "Only with real delivery can the way be cleared for a full return to democracy and a facing up to the everyday needs and requirements of the people of Northern Ireland," he said.
"All Ulster people, across both the religious and political divides, know that it is now or never."
The Independent's front page returns to a familiar theme,
Global Warming: The vicious circle
The effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are being felt on every inhabited continent in the world with very different parts of the climate now visibly responding to human activity.
These are among the main findings of the most intensive study of climate change by 2,000 of the world's leading climate scientists. They conclude that there is now little doubt that human activity is changing the face of the planet.
In addition to rising surface temperatures around the world, scientists have now linked man-made emissions of greenhouse gases to significant increases in ocean temperatures, rises in sea levels and the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice over the past 35 years.
A draft copy of the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that global temperature rises this century of between 2C and 4.5C are almost inevitable. Ominously, however, it also says that much higher increases of 6C "or more" cannot be ruled out.
The same paper reports from Iraq
US soldiers in Iraq kill 250 men from 'apocalyptic cult'
American and Iraqi troops killed about 250 armed men alleged to belong to an apocalyptic Islamic cult who were planning to attack the religious leadership of the Shia in the holy city of Najaf, according to Iraqi political, military and police sources.
The battle took place in the orchards around Najaf and a US helicopter was shot down during the fighting, killing two crewmen. Hundreds of fighters drawn from the Sunni and Shia communities who gathered amid the date palms were followers of Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni who claims to be the vanguard of the Messiah according to Iraqi politicians. His office in Najaf had been closed 10 days ago.
The Times reports form Idaho as Hillary Clinton begins oficially her race for the White House
Clinton juggernaut rolls into living rooms looking for hearts and minds
This Midwestern farming state takes extremely seriously its status as the “first in the nation” to select presidential candidates. Consequently, most of those aspiring to the White House have to take Iowa — and the 2,000 precinct caucus meetings it will hold in about a year’s time — very seriously.
The Guardian says
Mrs Clinton set out on the long presidential campaign trail at the weekend, holding her first rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Although the election is still 23 months away, it was the first of the full-blown rallies, complete with a 12 piece jazz band, hundreds of placards reading "Iowa Welcomes Hillary For President" and more than 1,000 people, nearly all Democrats or undecided, crammed into the East high school gymnasium.
The Telegraph reports on another election campaign
Royal's gaffes allow Sarkozy to steal ahead
Ségolène Royal returned from a trip to the French West Indies yesterday to a poll showing that less than a third of France found her presidential campaign credible, and to the news that a leading Socialist ally had been excluded from the party for racism.
The poll in Le Parisien confirmed that a string of gaffes in recent days by Ms Royal, the Socialist candidate in April's election, is having a disastrous effect on her campaign, despite her triumphant victory in party primaries in November.
The Sun has rather a strange exclusive on its front page.Under the headline
STATE X RAY SPIES TO SEE YOU NUDE
OFFICIALS are bracing themselves for a storm of public outrage over their controversial X-ray cameras scheme.
As part of the most shocking extension of Big Brother powers ever planned here, lenses in lampposts would snap “naked” pictures of passers-by to trap terror suspects.
The proposal is contained in leaked documents drawn up by the Home Office and presented to PM Tony Blair’s working group on Security, Crime and Justice.
But the prospect of the State snooping on individuals’ most private parts is certain to spark national fury.
And officials are battling to find a way of dealing with that reaction.
The Telegraph reveals
Make-over shows are to blame for the growing liposuction craze, say surgeons
The number of British women having liposuction, the procedure to remove excess body fat, nearly doubled last year according to figures released by plastic surgeons today.
Overall cosmetic plastic surgery procedures rose by 31 per cent last year compared with 2005 with an estimated 90,000 procedures carried out.
The dramatic rise in liposuction operations has been fuelled by the popularity of radical make-over television programmes, the desire to lose weight, affluence and the growing acceptability of plastic surgery procedures, the surgeons believe.
The papers couldnt ignore the end of Celebratory Big Brother last night,The Same paper saying
SHILPA Shetty’s performance on Celebrity Big Brother has been hailed as a turning point in defeating racism.
The stunning Bollywood star beat her tormentors Jade Goody and Jo O’Meara to a place in the final.
Now the Indian actress looks set to become the nation’s sweetheart after she dealt with racism and bullying with good grace and humour.
The Mirror headlines
SHILPA BEATS THE BB BIGOTS
As she hugged Big Brother host Davina McCall she gasped: "I'm in shock" - before adding with a grin "Chicken curry rules!" Shilpa triumphed thanks to a massive vote of public sympathy and outrage at the racist taunts she suffered at the hands of Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd and ringleader Jade Goody.
The Express carries a picture of the Bollywood actress on its front page but leads with one of its pet subjects
House prices to soar again
HOUSE prices are rising at their fastest for nearly four years with the property market showing no signs of running out of steam.Last night experts predicted that this year the value of homes will increase by an average £1,000 a month – or more than £30 a day.The Centre for Economics and Business Research said that, despite three interest rate rises, the property boom will continue in 2007 – and for the next three years.
Finally Charles and Camilla's tour of America is widely reported the Sun with the best story,
Do you think Cam sexy, Rod?
RANDY Rod Stewart met Camilla on her US tour — then admitted he fancies her.
The rocker, who also greeted Prince Charles, said later: “I can see what he sees in her.”
Rod described Camilla’s diamond and ruby necklace as “gorgeous” — and revealed the Duchess of Cornwall, 59, has his album Great American Songbook on her iPod.
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