Quite a varied look to the papers this morning,

The Sun finally take Big Brother off its front page and looks at the continuing trial at Woolwich Crown Court,

TRUE BRIT is its headline as the jury hears witnesses tell of the attempts to set off bombs on the tube.

BRAVE Tube passenger told the 21/7 trial yesterday how he confronted alleged terrorist Ramzi Mohammed after he detonated his “suicide bomb”.
Fireman Angus Campbell, 43, said he faced Mohammed in a smoke-filled carriage and yelled: “What have you done, what have you done? You are scaring us.”
He added Mohammed — said to be carrying a rucksack bomb that failed to explode properly — was “screaming and shouting”. He said Mohammed then replied: “This is wrong, this is wrong.”
Mr Campbell told how he tried to stop Mohammed fleeing but failed when the accused man made an adrenalin-fuelled run for it into the streets of London.

The Telegraph reports how

An off-duty fireman and a young mother yesterday relived the moment that an everyday journey turned to panic as an alleged suicide bomber, Ramzi Mohammed, touched together two wires and tried to blow up passengers on a Tube train.
"I was in such a panic," Nadia Baro told Woolwich Crown Court, "I thought we were going to die."

A strange headline in the Guardian tells us

'There is no war on terror'

The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a "war on terror" and calling for a "culture of legislative restraint" in passing laws to deal with terrorism.
Sir Ken warned of the pernicious risk that a "fear-driven and inappropriate" response to the threat could lead Britain to abandon respect for fair trials and the due process of law.

The Telegraph reports that

N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing

North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.
Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran's nuclear scientists.

The Times reports on a story which dominated yesterday,

Anglicans back right to deny gay adoption

The Church of England put pressure on the Prime Minister last night over the gay adoptions row with a letter giving warning that “rights of conscience cannot be made subject to legislation”.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York declared on the side of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster after Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor wrote to every member of the Cabinet stating that the Catholic Church could not accept a law forcing its adoption agencies to accept gay couples.

The Indy has a differing take on the story

Cherie Blair 'split Cabinet in Catholic adoption row'

Senior cabinet ministers have told MPs privately that Cherie Blair is the cause of the cabinet split over demands to exempt Roman Catholic adoption agencies from equality laws on gay adoption.
The row intensified yesterday when the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, was accused by gay rights campaigners and some Labour MPs of trying to blackmail the Government.



Many of the papers focus on the report on supermarkets published yesterday by a government watchdog

Big grocery chains face town by town check on trading

Says the Guardian

The big supermarket chains are to face a comprehensive, town by town, investigation into whether they force small retailers out of business.
Details of the new inquiry, which is scheduled to take six months, emerged as the Competition Commission unveiled the initial findings of its full-scale investigation into the £123bn UK grocery market.
The competition watchdog acknowledged that there is a "fear factor" among some farmers and suppliers in their dealings with the big supermarket groups. However, it rejected claims that Tesco owns so much land on which to build new stores that it will soon control nearly half the market. It said there was little evidence that the grocers were using their muscle to squeeze suppliers' profits and that food and drink manufacturers, and wholesalers, were in "reasonable shape".

The Telegraph reports that

Supermarkets 'fuelling binge drinking'

Supermarkets were accused yesterday of fuelling binge drinking by selling alcohol at below cost price.
The Competition Commission said major retailers were using alcohol as a loss-leader, pricing it at excessively low levels to tempt customers away from rival stores.
The accusation was contained in a paper described as "emerging thinking" on the grocery market.

The Mail takes a different view

Doom for the High Street as 10,000 family stores are driven out

Thousands of community stores and specialist butchers, bakers and greengrocers have been lost in the last six years as Britain becomes a supermarket state.
More than 9,600 independent convenience stores, many of them family businesses, have put up the shutters since 2000

Another 2,830 butchers, bakers, greengrocers and fishmongers have gone forever because they cannot compete with identikit supermarkets.
At the present rate of loss, independent convenience stores could be all but gone within 15 years.

And staying with supermarkets,for the third day running,the Inddpendent continues on its crusade on packaging

Supermarkets told to come clean about packaging

With its front page telling us 10 ways in which we can cut waste,according to the paper

The increasing momentum behind The Independent's push to cut the volume of retail waste came as dozens more readers voiced their anger at the excess of plastic wrapping and campaigners called on Britain to learn lessons from other European countries.
Environmentalists pointed to a range of initiatives in Europe - from vending machines in Belgium which refund deposits on plastic and glass bottles, to bins at the checkouts in German supermarkets for customers to throw away excess packaging - and warned that Britain was lagging behind.

The Mirror headlines with scenes from Devon's beaches,

BEACH BUMS

SCAVENGERS turn an idyllic World Heritage beach into a litter-strewn tip yesterday in their sickening greed for loot.
In shameful scenes condemned worldwide the vultures arrived from up to 280 miles away to snatch goods washed ashore from the stricken container vessel MSC Napoli.
Some came with crowbars. Kids were dumped as parents plundered.
Branscombe beach, in Devon, was left looking like a landfill site with rubbish as far as the eye could see.
A salvage official said: "It was disgusting and utterly despicable."
More than 1,000 scavengers piled in from up to 280 miles away to grab their share of £2million booty from the wrecked freighter MSC Napoli.

The results of a survey into our Britishness are reported in the Guardian

Less than half of the public say that "British" is the best or only way to describe themselves, according to the Social Attitudes survey. The decrease in a sense of Britishness, long established in Scotland and Wales, is partly explained by a rise in a feeling of Englishness, according to researchers. Four in 10 people in England now regard themselves as solely or primarily English

Don't call us British, we're from England

Says the Mail.

The Times reports on the growing scandal of the costs of the Olympics

Spiralling Olympic costs 'inexcusable'

The Labour-dominated Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee will launch a stinging attack on ministers today for miscalculating the cost of the 2012 Olympics.
The committee will also urge Gordon Brown to meet the current £900 million shortfall by dropping the 12 per cent tax on lottery tickets, which raises £500 million a year for the Treasury.
Its report also cautions that the London Development Agency, which is buying land for the Olympic site in East London, should not benefit from the profits. “We do not believe that the LDA should be the ultimate beneficiary from the sale of the land acquired for the Olympic Games,” it says. “We believe that the best use for such funds would be to meet any Games costs which are outstanding.”

News of Britain's success in the nominations for the Oscars is well covered,

For Queen and country, the Britons are coming - again

Says the Guardian

Battle of Britain's leading ladies says the Telegraph telling that

Dame Helen Mirren will be representing Britain at the Oscars ceremony alongside two other of the country's finest actresses for her portrayal of the greatest British woman of them all — the Queen.
If Dame Helen does succeed, she will become the first British winner of the award since Emma Thompson in 1992.
But she faces stiff competition at next month's ceremony from fellow nominees Dame Judi Dench, a previous Oscar winner, and Kate Winslet.
The trio are also up against Penelope Cruz, for Volver, and Meryl Streep, the two-time Oscar winner, for her fearsome editor in The Devil Wears Prada.

Finally The Telegraph covers the story of

Man whose head was 'swallowed' by great white shark lives to tell the tale

An Australian diver fought his way out of the jaws of a great white shark after the creature "swallowed" his head and upper body.
In a rare escape from one of the ocean's deadliest predators, Eric Nerhus frantically hit the 10ft shark in the head as the force of its bite crushed his face mask and broke his nose.