Supercasinos ,the continuing racism issues and Healthcare compete for the attention in this mornings papers.With the government to announce the locatio of Britain`s first supercasino this morning,the Guardian leads with the story,


Supercasinos: ministers to relax the rules

Ministers believe they will be able to swiftly relax the restrictions on super-casinos so that more than one Las Vegas style gambling resort can be built in the UK.
They hope to expand the number relatively quickly following the announcement today of the first in either Blackpool or the Millennium Dome, insisting they don't need primary legislation to do so, and that the benefits from regeneration will be shown to outweigh concerns over increased gambling.

The Telegraph also leads on a variation of the gambling story

Ban on gambling adverts on TV to be lifted

a ban on casinos, betting shops and other gambling operators advertising on television was relaxed by the Government on the eve of today's announcement of the first Las Vegas-style super-casino.
The decision to allow operators to advertise on television for the first time raised fresh concerns of an increase in problem gambling.

The Mail alerts its readers to

Secret explosion of the supercasinos in waiting

Labour has unleashed a gambling revolution by stealth, approving plans for major casinos in nearly 50 towns and cities.
The Daily Mail has revealed details of an astonishing 145 casino sites in 49 towns and cities which have already won approval under Labour.
In the last two years alone, 90 casinos have been given initial approval. These include 13 in London, ten in Glasgow, seven in Liverpool and Aberdeen, six in Birmingham and five each in Manchester, Newcastle, Swansea and Edinburgh.

The Independent has an take on a opticians chart on its front page which on closer inspection reads

NHS cash crisis deprives thousands of treatment for blindness

According to the paper

A legal campaign has been launched to eradicate regional inequalities in the NHS that deny treatment to thousands who are facing blindness.
The challenge is being spearheaded by a former Labour MP, Alice Mahon, who has pledged to force health bosses to provide the drugs to save her own sight - and that of other sufferers.
The condition at the centre of the battle is age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which affects 500,000 people in the UK. Mrs Mahon suffers from the "wet" form, of which there are 27,000 new cases a year in the UK.
Mrs Mahon said she would go to the High Court to compel her local primary care trust (PCT) to pay for a new drug that could prevent her going blind after the trust refused her request to fund it.

The Times leads on research carried out by the Daycare Trust which reveals

Soaring childcare fees hit parents

Working parents are being charged up to £19,000 a year to send their children to nursery — more than the fees for some of Britain’s most prestigious public schools.
New figures reveal that the cost of daycare for babies and young children has increased by almost 30 per cent in six years, more than twice the rate of inflation.

The Mail leads with one of its pet topics

Another dose of cash for GPs

Highly-paid family doctors are to be offered even more money to start working in the evenings and weekends again. The move comes just three years after the vast majority of GPs stopped out-of-hours work.
Since then GPs have seen their pay soar to an average of £118,000 under a new contract which scrapped their responsibility to patients outside normal working hours.

On the same theme,the Express tells us

Now it's harder to see a doctor

MILLIONS of patients are struggling to make appointments with GPs because they cannot get through on the phone.Lines are left unattended as doctors block patient access to hit waiting-time targets.Despite Tony Blair’s pledge to improve matters more people are now finding it harder to contact their family doctor, a survey has found.And when they do get through, one in three is not allowed to book an appointment more than two days in advance.

The Telegraph reports

The NHS should consider billing patients for ineffective treatments and drop all prescription charges, senior public health doctors said yesterday.
Spiralling health costs had to be controlled, said Dr Tim Crayford, the president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, and one way would be to charge patients for treatments for which there was not good evidence that they worked or when cheaper options were available.

The Independent covers yesterday's suicide bombing in Israel

Three Israelis were killed when a Palestinian blew himself up in a baker's shop in the first suicide bombing in the Red Sea resort of Eilat ­ and the first anywhere in Israel for nine months.
Police said last night that the 20-year-old bomber from Gaza, who came into Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel, from Egypt, had been recruited and directed by Islamic Jihad, responsible for sporadic suicide attacks since February 2005.
Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Authority, notably refrained from condemning the bombing, with one of its Gaza spokesmen, Fawzi Barhoum, calling it a "natural response" to Israeli military policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as its boycott of the authority. " So long as there is occupation, resistance is legitimate," he said.

Three Israelis dead as Eilat suffers first suicide attack says te Guardian

The bombing brought quick condemnation from Israel and the United States of the Hamas-led Palestinian government. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by two militant groups, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of the Fatah movement.

Cameron: Britain must face down extremists

Reports the Telegraph

The Tory leader said the moderate majority had to face down all extremists, be they BNP members or Islamic fundamentalists.
In some of his toughest language on the issue, he went on to argue that the immigration system was one of five "Berlin Walls of division" that must be torn down if different communities and faiths were to be able to live together.
There was no hope of breaking down barriers when immigrants were entering the country "at a faster rate than we can cope with," he said.

The Times report on a resolution to one of last week's stories

Gay adoption laws will have no exemptions, Blair tells Catholics

Tony Blair bowed to his Cabinet and party last night by accepting that there would be no exemption from antidiscrimination laws for Roman Catholic adoption agencies.
In an attempt to soften the blow, the agencies will be given 20 months to prepare for the new laws. Until then there will be a “statutory duty” for religious agencies to refer gay couples to other organisations.

The Mail reports on the same story

Tories' anger as Cameron backs Blair on gay adoption

David Cameron has been accused of driving away traditional Tories after he backed Labour over gay adoption.
He caused a furore among the Conservative grass roots by revealing that he would vote with the Government to impose anti-discrimination regulations.

The Mirror carries the story

'I'VE JUST KILLED 4 MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY'
WHAT GUNMAN TOLD THE POLICE

A GULF War veteran calmly walked into a police station, put a self-loading pistol on the counter and announced: "I have just killed four members of my family."
David Bradley, said by relatives to have been "possessed by some other entity" was caught on CCTV also handing over the gun's silencer, a pump-action shotgun, more than 400 rounds of ammo and a homemade nail bomb. He tells the woman desk sergeant: "There is no need to be alarmed" but she runs for cover.
Bradley puts his hands on his head, then walks outside with PC Andy Ritchie and confesses with the calmness of a man "admitting the theft of a bar of chocolate", a court was told yesterday.
Police went to his home with the keys he gave them and found his aunt and uncle Peter and Josie Purcell, both 70, and their sons Keith, 44, and Glen, 41, shot in the head.
Bradley, 41, pleaded guilty to murder due to diminished responsibility.
The court heard that two leading psychiatrists - for the prosecution and the defence - agreed he was suffering from severe mental illness at the time.

On the same story the Guardian tells us

A Gulf war veteran who slid into despair and self-loathing after leaving the army admitted yesterday that he had cold-bloodedly shot dead four members of his family after finally "flipping".
David Bradley, who lived like a hermit with a stash of military magazines and an illegal arsenal of weapons, planned the killings on the lines of a military ambush in a homely end-terrace in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ths Sun dedicates its front pages to a crusade against racism with its front page declaring

What do we all have in common?

and pictures of children holding up placards with racist words.

It says
THEY are some of the most offensive and ugly words in the English language.
Words like nigger, spic and raghead.
But today The Sun makes no apology for printing them — or the pictures showing children who are the innocent victims of such repugnant insults.
The youngsters, whether Muslim, Jewish, Sikh or Christian, have two things in common.
Like Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty, they have encountered racism in this country. But they are also all BRITISH.

In a courageous act of defiance, they held signs showing the sickening words sometimes hurled at them, their friends or their families. And here they reveal the bullying they have experienced or witnessed.
The youngsters also explain how they feel about bigots who plague our streets and shame our nation.

In its leading article it says

Beat race hate

OUR top story today tells you all you need to know about racism in Britain today.
All of these youngsters from different backgrounds have to put up with labels which offend.
Some may be intended as light-hearted playground stuff. But it’s bigotry all the same.
Jade Goody proved to the world that teasing can all too easily turn into ugly racist bullying.
Britain’s overwhelming vote to make Shilpa Shetty Celebrity Big Brother winner shows, thank goodness, we are a nation that hates racism.
But the show also proved how name-calling can become racist viciousness. The impact on society of offensive labels can be dangerous.
Shunned minorities retreat into ghettos and nurse their grievances.
At a more sinister level, as new polls show, it splits society and turns thousands of young Muslims into al-Qaeda sympathisers.
This is more worrying now than at any time in recent memory.
Tory leader David Cameron rightly blames multiculturalism and unchecked immigration for stoking the flames. But he puts his finger on another key factor — education. Ignorance breeds prejudice.
It is in our homes and classrooms that lifelong attitudes are ingrained.
We must stamp out abuse by good parenting and sensible teaching.

The Mirror's lead is an interview with the winner of Big Brother

SHOCKED Shilpa Shetty yesterday saw the full footage of her ordeal at the hands of racist bullies Jade, Jo and Danielle for the first time - and gasped: "I'd no idea it was so bad."
As the 31-year-old Bollywood beauty watched the three bullies spitting out cruel taunts and foul-mouthed insults behind her back, she said: "I didn't know all that had gone on. They are so mean. Why didn't someone stop them? It hurts me deeply. Look at me . . . I am shaking."

Finally the papers cover star of Harry Potter,Daniel Radcliffe's first foray into nudity

The Sun headlines

Harry Hotter & the buff bod

ACTOR DANIEL RADCLIFFE looks a million miles from Hogwarts as he sports a rippling six-pack for a West End theatre role.
Daniel, 17 — famed as movie wizard Harry Potter — bulked up in the gym for his role as a stable boy in Equus.
Insiders say his body drew gasps from cast pals. One said: “Everyone’s jaw dropped. He’s a man now.” Daniel has his first sex scene in Equus, which opens in London on Feb 27.