Another day of varied headlines in the papers.

The Independent has nine passport sized pictures of Stg John Jones under the headline

Turner-prize winner's true portrait of war

It is an image of war that the Ministry of Defence never wanted to see published: an intimate family photograph of a British soldier killed in Iraq which, taken with nearly 100 others, forms the official portrait of the conflict by the Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen.
As the finished work, For Queen and Country, was unveiled in Manchester last night, McQueen said it had been completed in the face of two years' opposition from the MoD, which had offered only a limited glimpse of the conflict, refused him access to the families of British casualties and asked why he could not produce "a landscape" portrait instead.
To the astonishment of the 98 bereaved families who have worked on the project with McQueen, the Royal Mail chairman, Allan Leighton has also declined the artist's personal request that the stamps be turned into a real commemorative issue, to mark the lives laid down in the conflict.

Both the Mail and the Telegraph lead with medical stories,the latter reporting

Leading headache pills 'put strain on the heart'

Regularly taking some of the most popular painkillers on the market is linked to a much greater risk of stroke and heart attack from higher blood pressure, according to research published yesterday.
Participants in a large American study who took paracetamol, aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen six or seven days per week over a two-year period were between a quarter to a third more likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Those who took 15 pills per week, regardless of type, have almost a 50 per cent risk of higher blood pressure than those who do not.

Whlst the Mail under the headline

Mail launches campaign to end restrictions on Alzheimer's drugs

launches a campaign to end the restrictions on drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Already 750,000 Britons are affected by dementia - more than half of them with Alzheimer's - at an estimated cost to the nation of £17billion a year.
Within two decades the number of victims will have risen to a million, with the bill soaring by many more billions. Yet the NHS's rationing watchdog NICE has banned Alzheimer's drugs which could hugely reduce that bill - even though they cost just £2.50 per patient per day.
That is why we are inviting our readers to join our For The Sake of £2.50 campaign, backing the Alzheimer's Society, which is mounting a legal challenge to the NICE decision in the High Court.
It needs to raise many thousands to pay for the action, expected to start next month, which it is hoped will prove the process leading to the restrictions was unfair. The drug companies Eisai and Pfizer are leading a separate legal action on the restrictions - and are not contributing to the Alzheimer's Society campaign.

The Times leads with a report that

Random breath tests to hit drink-drivers

Ministers believe that giving the police the power to stop any driver, regardless of how they are driving, would be a powerful deterrent.
Research has shown that many drivers exceed the alcohol limit because they believe that they can still drive safely and they know that there is little chance of being caught. At present, the police can stop only those drivers who have committed a moving traffic offence or those who they suspect have exceeded the limit.
The number of people killed in drink-drive crashes has risen by a fifth in the past seven years, from 400 in 1999 to 480 in 2005. Over the same period, the number of breath tests carried out by the police has fallen from 765,000 to 578,000.

As with all the papers it also covers the preliminary results of the weekend's train crash

Fatal crash was caused by blunders in rail track maintenance

British Transport Police are conducting a criminal investigation after Network Rail admitted that a maintenance error was almost certainly to blame for Friday’s fatal train crash in Cumbria.
A key component in a set of points where the Virgin train was derailed was missing at the time of the accident and vital bolts were not in place, an interim report has said.
Network Rail also failed to carry out a scheduled visual inspection of the points six days before the crash at Grayrigg, in which an 84-year-old woman died and five people were seriously injured.
The company admitted responsibility and apologised to the 115 people on board the train and the families of Margaret Masson, the dead woman, and the injured.

The Mirror asks

TRAIN CRASH: HOW COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?

BROKEN points caused the Cumbria rail crash after a routine safety check was not carried out, a damning report said yesterday.
A metal stretcher bar, which keeps moving rails a set distance apart, was missing. Two more stretcher bars were fractured and retaining bolts were not in place.
Incredibly, the faults were similar to those which led to the 2003 Potters Bar train disaster in which seven people died and 76 were hurt.
Last night appalled MPs, unions and relatives of victims were asking: How on earth could such a thing happen AGAIN?

Fathers told: do more for your children is the lead in the Guardian

Fathers-only parent evenings at schools and other special events are to form a big part of a new parenting strategy to be outlined by the education secretary, Alan Johnson, today.
He will present his plans in a speech drawing on research that shows disengagement of fathers is a crucial source of the relative failure of boys in schools. The strategy is also designed to counter rising crime and educational failure.
Though the initiative is likely to be criticised by some family campaigners, Mr Johnson believes there is merit in fathers-only parent evenings, at which they would hear reports from teachers about the progress of their children.

The Independent reports

Taliban offensive awaits British troops

Six years after the declaration of victory in Afghanistan the British government announced the dispatch of 1,400 extra troops yesterday in readiness for an escalation of the violence sweeping the country.
The sending of the troops, along with aircraft, armoured vehicles and artillery, will raise the total force there to 7,700 making it bigger than the one now deployed in Iraq

The Defence Secretary, Des Browne, admitted in the Commons that the Army could not maintain the increased commitment in Afghanistan - which is scheduled to last to 2009 - indefinitely. "Presently this situation is manageable, but I have conceded here at the despatch box that we cannot sustain this in the long term without doing damage to the core of our troops," he said.

Serbia condemned for Srebrenica despite acquittal on genocide charge reports the Guardian

The world court yesterday acquitted the state of Serbia of responsibility for genocide in neighbouring Bosnia in the mid-1990s.
But in an unparalleled case concluded at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the UN's supreme judicial authority delivered a damning verdict on Serbia's role in the 1992-95 war, finding that Belgrade did nothing to prevent what the court described as an act of genocide at Srebrenica in 1995 despite its close links with and support for the Bosnian Serb military.

The news that the Abu Quata is to be deported to his home country Jordan is greeted in the tabloids

Ta-Ta to hate monger atada! says the Sun

PREACHER of hate Abu Qatada is set to blow more taxpayers’ cash on a last-ditch appeal against deportation — despite a landmark ruling yesterday that he should be booted out of Britain.
The legal aid bill run up by Qatada, once described as Osama Bin Laden’s top henchman in Europe, is believed to have already cost £200,000.
And his lawyer immediately gave notice that leave would be sought to make a further appeal against yesterday’s judgment.
One senior Whitehall figure said: “How long will he be here — how long is a piece of string?

The front page of the Express asks

WHY CAN'T WE KICK OUT TIS EVIL MAN

Back to the Sun and its front page reports

JADE SAYS SARI

RACE-row star Jade Goody put her foot in it right at the start of her peace-making trip to India yesterday — by announcing: “Everybody knows I love an Indian.”
Food-loving Jade, 25, made the embarrassing pun to local reporters in Delhi shortly before scoffing a plate of masala dosa — an Indian pancake stuffed with potato and fried onions.
It was as crass as showing off her “kebab belly” on Big Brother in 2002. And it will not help her reassure the Indians — who are furious at her treatment of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Celebrity Big Brother.

Both the Telegraph and the Guardian have front page pictures of the supposed discovery of the tomb of Christ,

Did this casket contain Christ's bones? asks the Telegraph

A film director sparked religious controversy yesterday by unveiling what he claimed was the burial casket of Jesus Christ.
James Cameron, who directed the Oscar-winning Titanic, proudly showed off the 3ft long ossuary to a packed press conference in New York, claiming that it was proof that Jesus "walked the earth".

The Guardian reports

If it really were the most important archaeological discovery in history, the point of truth came with very little song or dance. There was no drum roll or fanfare, just the sweeping aside of black felt drapes to reveal a pair of simple stone boxes sitting side by side.
But for the panel of film-makers, theologians and statisticians at New York's public library yesterday, this really was the moment. As James Cameron, the director of the film Titanic who has lent his name to the project, said: "It doesn't get bigger than this".

Following yesterday's Oscars the Times reports

Queen awaits Her Majesty’s Pleasure

The Queen looks set to meet the Queen.
A day after Dame Helen Mirren became the toast of Hollywood, it emerged that the Oscar-winning actress may now receive her very own royal summons to Buckingham Palace.

The Mirror has a less flattering report under the headline

BURGER KING showing Mirren gourging on a burger after the ceremony

Finally the Guardian celebrates 100 years of the Old Bailey

From Rumpole to the Ripper, Crippen to the Krays: The Old Bailey turns 100

Nothing can have given the Queen more satisfaction during her long reign than the Old Bailey.
At a rough estimate, defendants who have stood in its fabled docks must have served tens of thousands of years "at her Majesty's pleasure" for the murders and frauds, the robberies and kidnappings of which they have been convicted. Today the Old Bailey will celebrate its hundredth birthday, having opened for business in its current form in 1907.