President Bush's speach late last night makes the later additions of the papers.

The Times announces

A last throw of the dice: Bush goes for bust with an extra 22,000 troops

President Bush gambled his final two years in office last night on the success of a new “Iraqi-led” plan to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad and tackle the gathering power of militias.

The President’s 20-minute prime-time address warned the Government of Nouri al-Maliki that America was reaching the end of its patience and promised that the new strategy “will change America’s course in Iraq, and help us succeed in the fight against terror”.

According to the Telegraph

President George W. Bush admitted this morning that “mistakes have been made” in Iraq and “the responsibility rests with me” but insisted the only way out of the dire situation was to send 21,500 more troops into the country.

The Independent not suprisingly takes the view of

Robert Fisk: Bush's new strategy - the march of folly

He writes

Mission accomplished. Wasn't that the refrain almost four years ago, on that lonely aircraft carrier off California, Bush striding the deck in his flying suit? And only a few months later, the President had a message for Osama bin Laden and the insurgents of Iraq. "Bring 'em on!" he shouted. And on they came. Few paid attention late last year when the Islamist leadership of this most ferocious of Arab rebellions proclaimed Bush a war criminal but asked him not to withdraw his troops. "We haven't yet killed enough of them," their videotaped statement announced.

The trend for medical stories continues in the Guardian with its lead revealing

Common cold virus may be new weapon to fight cancer

British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new way to fight cancer, which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common cold.
If successful, virus therapy could eventually form a third pillar alongside radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the standard arsenal against cancer, while avoiding some of the debilitating side-effects.

Staying with the health the Times tells us

Leaked memo reveals that targets to beat MRSA will not be met

The NHS will miss its target of halving superbug infections by 2008 and may never be able to control the problem effectively, the Government has admitted secretly.
A leaked Department of Health memo has revealed that officials believe that government pledges to cut cases of MRSA substantially are not achievable, while the even more deadly Clostridium difficile is now “endemic throughout the health service”.

The Tabloids concentrate on David Beckham's contract negotiations with Real Madrid.The Mirror leads on its front page with

ADIOS TO SPAIN FOR DAVID BECKHAM?

The Sun tells us that

FORMER England captain David Beckham is ready to wave goodbye to Madrid — and become a superstar in America.
Insiders say the sensational switch could turn the 31-year-old into a truly global phenomenon.
Last night a source close to Becks said: “The challenge in the States is to get American kids to fall in love with football.


The Telegraph leads with

The truth about maths and English GCSE

GCSE league tables of more than 1,000 schools, which have been compiled under new benchmarks, call into question Labour's claims to have improved the life chances of millions of children. Schools which had been lauded for their improvement in previous years now drop to the bottom of the table.

The Mirror follows up on yesterday's main story claiming

MINISTER WAS TOLD OF CONS CRISIS IN OCTOBER

HOME Office ministers were warned of the criminal records fiasco THREE MONTHS ago, it was claimed last night.
But when police asked for more money to deal with the crisis they were turned down.
The details emerged as officials tried to trace 280 criminals - including murderers, rapists and paedophiles - left free to work with children and other vulnerable people after being convicted of serious offences abroad.

A story also given prominence in the Indy which says

Last night, the Tories said that the position of two ministers was untenable after it emerged that the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) had written to the Home Office in the autumn telling it about the files listing crimes committed by Britons abroad.
According to ITN, the letter concluded: "I recognise you may feel this is something the Home Secretary might want to be briefed about, given the obvious links to foreign national prisoners."
The letter was sent to Tony McNulty, the Police minister, in October and acknowledged by Joan Ryan, the junior minister for immigration, last month. It is understood to have outlined the problems faced in processing.

The publication of Captain Scott's last letters is reported in the Indy

"To my widow" is an ominous beginning to a letter. One can only wonder at the effect those three words had on Kathleen Scott, the wife of the polar explorer Captain Robert Scott. Of course, she already knew the worst news: that not only had her husband been beaten to the South Pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, but that, along with his expedition party, he had died on the return.
If it was difficult to write ("because of the cold - 70 degrees below zero and nothing but the shelter of our tent"), it must have been shattering to read. Now, Scott's final correspondence to his wife, written in instalments over several weeks in February and March 1912, will go on display for the first time at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. It contains some sanguine reflections on the great explorer's final days in the Antarctic.


Finally,the Guardian reports on the swearing in of two South American presidents

'Socialism - or death! I swear it'

For a day of two inaugurations separated by 1,314 miles, a late flight and an ideological time warp, it was apt for one of the new presidents to quote Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, was sworn in for a third consecutive term at a morning ceremony in the capital, Caracas, and several hours later, in Managua, Daniel Ortega was sworn in as president of Nicaragua.