The Mirror which has covered the story more than most leads with
EXCLUSIVE: 7 BOMBS.. 2 BOMBERS
POLICE fear a deranged driver with a grudge may have linked up with an animal rights maniac to wage a joint letter bomb terror campaign.
Three of the seven booby-trap parcels have gone to offices linked to motoring fines or charges.
Another three went to firms providing the criminal justice system with forensic or DNA services - and one of them contained the name of a jailed animal rights extremist who died on hunger strike.
Detectives say that could mean the two fanatics have got together to sharing expertise - while pursuing very different agendas.
And in another exclusive reports
EXCLUSIVE: VICTIM'S CALL AFTER BOMB NO 7
THE latest victim of a letter bomb maniac called her boyfriend after the blast and said: "Hi babe - I've been blown up."
Brave Karen Andrews, 35, suffered eye and hand injuries yesterday as she opened the deadly package - the SEVENTH bomb to be posted in the last three weeks, injuring nine people.
Karen was blasted in the face when the package blew up in the parcels office at Britain's driving licence headquarters in Swansea. Three other workmates were also taken to hospital.
Both the Telegraph and the Times also lead on the story
Office staff on alert for 'Jiffy' bomber
Detectives investigating the attacks, five of which resulted in small explosions, are baffled by the motive. Animal rights extremism and people with grudges against motoring regulations or forensic science organisations are all candidates.
Says the Telegraph,
The Times reports
Letter bomber - seven strikes and counting
Whilst the Express says
Reid: Find the letter bombs maniac
The Guardian leads with the story of
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.
Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"
Spend! Spend! Spend! London is the new plutocrats' paradise
Is the front page of the Indy,the paper devoting its first seven pages to
Art sales break records as wealthy collectors bid £210m in London auctionsProperty boom hits new peak as buyers queue up to acquire £84m penthousesLondon eclipses New York as world's financial centre with £29bn of flotations .
Britain has become a magnet for a select group of high rollers - international billionaires who are choosing London above competitors such as New York and Dubai to make their homes.
The Sun continues its theme of the week,under a picture of the wreck of Matt Hull's vehicle it has tracked down the pilot of the US plane.
THIS is the horrific friendly fire devastation left by American pilot Colonel Gus “Skeeter” Kohntopp.
Lance Corporal Matty Hull stood no chance as the flier strafed these armoured vehicles with the 30mm cannon from his A10 Thunderbolt.
The tops of the eight-ton Scimitar reconnaissance vehicles were ripped off, leaving a blazing tangle of metal.
Colonel Kohntopp can be named by The Sun today as the reservist at the controls of call sign POPOV36, who attacked a British convoy of four vehicles in Iraq.
And in a second development, we can also reveal how the official British and US reports into the attack on March 28, 2003 widely differ.
The Independent reports the comments of one of the released men from the Birmingham arrests
Britain is a 'police state for Muslims'
One of the nine men arrested under anti-terror laws has described Britain as a "police state for Muslims".
Abu Bakr, one of two suspects released early yesterday by West Midlands Police, said he was "taken aback" when he learned of the alleged plot to behead a Muslim soldier.
As the Government launched a fresh attempt to combat the growth of Islamic extremism, tensions were said to be running high in parts of Birmingham.
"It's a police state for Muslims," Mr Bakr told the BBC. " It's not a police state for everyone else, because these terror laws are designed specifically for Muslims," he said.
"That's quite an open fact because the people who have been arrested under terrorism laws, the groups that have been banned under the terrorism laws, the people that have been affected by terrorism legislation, have been Muslims.
"So we are feeling the brunt of it all. We are the ones that are being locked up, detained, and then told to go back to our lives."
The Times reports
Anger at release of two held over ‘beheading plot’
Muslim leaders reacted with anger last night after two of the nine suspects alleged to be involved in a plot to kidnap and kill a British soldier were released without charge.
West Midlands Police were told by a judge, sitting behind closed doors, that they had either to charge or release the two. They chose to release them.
There was also concern that the two men had not been released on police bail — allowing officers to monitor their movements — suggesting that Nicholas Evans, the district judge, may have refused such a request from the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Indy reports on the latest moves to reform the Lords which were introduced to Parliament yesterday
Straw may force through plans for Lords reform
The Parliament Act could be used to force through proposals for the reform of the House of Lords, Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons, said yesterday.
He is seeking to break the deadlock that has existed over Lords reform for nearly 100 years by allowing preferential voting.
MPs are to be asked at the end of the month to vote by using a ballot form offering seven options for reform, including 100 per cent, 80 per cent or 50 per cent elected members in the Lords.
He said the last time MPs voted on reform, the Commons "ended up looking very stupid in a train wreck". But last night his plans appeared to be heading for the buffers again after a Government White Paper was attacked from all sides.
The proposals would cut the membership of the Lords from 750 to 540. Half would be elected and half appointed; of these, 30 per cent would be nominated by the political parties.
The Mail leads on a story that
A third of GPs have private health insurance
One in three NHS doctors has so little faith in the Health Service they would rather be treated privately according to a new survey.
The poll for Hospital Doctor magazine also reveals that 22 per cent of doctors in the NHS had actually taken out private medical insurance to avoid being treated on the Health Service.
The survey, of more than 1,700 GPs and hospital doctors, found that 33 per cent preferred to have private medical treatment - rather than treatment on the NHS.
And on the medical theme the Telegraph reveals
Search for a dentist sparks 200,000 calls to NHS hotline
Figures obtained in a parliamentary answer show that in the six months before the contract was introduced last April there were 147,929 calls to NHS Direct, most seeking help finding an NHS dentist. In the next six months this had risen by 43 per cent to 211,052.
The disclosures are the latest sign of the mounting NHS crisis after front-line trusts ran up deficits of £1.3 billion last year.
Following last weeks decsion on the supercasino the Times reports
Supercasino licence for Manchester is challenged by MPs
Manchester’s hopes of opening Britain’s first supercasino were dealt a blow last night after the Conservatives threatened to block the latest phase of the Government’s gambling revolution, The Times has learnt.
Amid signs of growing parliamentary revolt, the Tories have written to Tessa Jowell to express deep concern over the emergence of a potential legal loophole that could allow 14,000 high-value slot machines to be installed in casinos across the country.
Companies such as Rank, which operate existing casinos, are angry that the 17 new-style casinos will be able to open with ten times more slot machines than current premises, offering significantly higher jackpots.
They believe that the new casinos could be in breach of competition rules, and the courts could force the Government to allow the existing industry to install unlimited prize slot machines. Casino companies are desperate for high-value machines because they generate the most money, but experts caution that they are also the most likely to lead to problem gambling.
The Guardian reveals the truth about the winner of the Costa Prize
Agoraphobic tells of her struggle to win book prize
novel that had to be researched in the British Library because the writer was agoraphobic won one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes last night.
Stef Penney picked up a £25,000 cheque after The Tenderness of Wolves won the Costa book of the year - formerly the Whitbread prize, regarded as second only to the Man Booker award.
Armando Ianucci, chairman of the judges, said about two-thirds of the panel had voted for Penney's vivid account of life in a bleak landscape - northern Canada in the 1860s.
The Mirror has another exclusive
EXCLUSIVE: TORY CHIEF ON DRINK DRIVE RAP
THE head of former Tory leader Michael Howard's local party is due in court for drink-driving - after police allegedly saw him hit a car.
Jonathan Holborow, 63, was leaving a party dinner attended by Mr Howard when he is said to have reversed into another motor in the car park.
Officers, lying in wait to nail boozy motorists at the venue, seized him before he could drive off.
Extra police had been in the area for a Safer Streets campaign. One guest at last month's event in Folkestone, Kent, said: "It was quite a jolly affair and we took over the whole place for the night.
Meanwhile Shilpa's appearance in the Commons is covered by the Sun
BB Shilpa's in the House
CELEBRITY Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty breezed into Westminster yesterday — and had MPs falling at her feet.
The Bollywood beauty was treated like royalty as she visited the Commons and met Tony Blair.
She was showered with gifts during a six-minute audience with the PM in his private office.
Then she tucked into a lavish lunch in the Commons dining room where a dessert was named “Shilpa’s Delight” in her honour.
Shilpa-mania broke out in the stuffy world of politics after the actress was invited on a VIP tour by Labour MP Keith Vaz.
The sketch writers are of course out in force
Serene Shilpa rises above another House full of bullies
Says the Times
Shilpa Shetty fever gripped Westminster yesterday, and it was amazing to behold. It began with a near riot in New Palace Yard when the Bollywood star who won Celebrity Big Brother arrived for a photo opportunity. Grown men crushed round, as gooey as strawberries in jam, desperate to hear her views on her visit to this, the other House. Journalists asked really tough questions, such as “Can I have your autograph?” Shilpa herself, encircled by a garland of pink and white roses wrapped in lustrous pearls, radiated calm.
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