The Mail on Sunday and the Independent break the news that

Exclusive: Cameron DID smoke cannabis

According to the Mail,

David Cameron narrowly avoided being expelled from Eton College when he was involved in the school's worst-ever drugs scandal, it has been revealed.
Police were called in and seven pupils were thrown out after boys were caught dealing in and smoking cannabis.

The future Tory leader - who until now has refused to say if he took drugs - was caught after another pupil informed on him. Cameron, who at the time was just 15, was hauled in by the headmaster, who forced him to admit he had smoked cannabis.

The Independent on its front page reveals

Yes, I took drugs, says Cameron

The disclosures that Mr Cameron has smoked cannabis came in a new biography serialised in today's paper. It is expected to mark a watershed in the debate about drugs in Britain, making him the first party leader and prospective British prime minister to confess to breaking the law over its use. The disclosure - in a biography written by Independent on Sunday journalists Francis Elliott and James Hanning - is conclusive evidence of Mr Cameron's drugs past.
As a schoolboy, Mr Cameron owned up to teachers at Eton after being named by a fellow pupil as a cannabis user, and was disciplined by the school. He has maintained a complete silence on his drugs history since winning the Tory leadership contest, insisting that his life before entering politics was private.

Another public figure is exposed on the Front of the News of the World

DUKE & THE HOOKERS: He pays for sex as soldiers risk lives

WHILE 900 courageous Territorial Army heroes put their lives on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan their multi-billionaire boss is home revelling in seedy sex with a procession of vice girls.
A News of the World investigation exposes The Duke of Westminster— Britain's richest man, Prince Charles' best friend, full-blown major-general and married dad of four—as a serial cheat and user of £750-an-hour hookers.

The Mirror outs another celeb on its front page

KELLY'S SECRET DATE.. WITH HER EX
EXCLUSIVE WHAT KELLY TOLD HER EX JASON ABOUT HER & BILLY ZANE:

BEAUTIFUL Kelly Brook has been on a secret "date" with her ex-boyfriend Jason Statham... three years after they split up.
During their reunion Kelly poured out her fears that her engagement to fellow movie star Billy Zane is in trouble.
Model Kelly, 27, got back together with the star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for an intimate pub lunch near her home in Kent.

The People reports

JADE MUM IN BENEFIT PROBE

JADE Goody's mum Jackiey Budden is to be quizzed by social security officials over the amount of money she has earned while claiming benefits.
Foul-mouthed Jackiey, 49, has had a string of payments for TV shows and magazine and newspaper articles over the last 18 months.
She will also get around £50,000 for her Celebrity Big Brother stint - although this cash has not yet arrived. But she gets £126 income support a fortnight, £64 disability living allowance a month and an undisclosed amount in housing benefit.

The Telegraph's lead is

Give City's bonuses to the poor, urges Hain

City high-fliers should lose two thirds of their bonuses to deprived communities, claims Peter Hain, a candidate for Labour's deputy leadership. Their firms could otherwise face heavier regulation and tax.

The Northern Ireland Secretary said that multi-million-pound bonuses created a "grotesque" wealth gap that fuelled envy and crime.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, he warned companies to take action to self regulate or face "a big fight".
"There's a real problem of people on average incomes feeling there's a sort of super rich class right at the top," he said. "What is it? Four thousand city workers receiving more than a million pounds each in bonuses. People don't feel that's proportionate.

The Sunday Times stays with the topic of avian flu

Scandal over ‘bird flu’ imports

THE government allowed Bernard Matthews to continue importing turkey meat from a bird flu-hit region of Hungary even though it suspected the area was the source of the British outbreak.
A consignment of 20 tons of turkey was imported last Tuesday from a slaughterhouse in Hungary, three days after avian flu was confirmed at the Bernard Matthews plant in Suffolk.
Government inspectors knew in advance that Bernard Matthews intended to import the meat from a slaughterhouse only 30 miles away from the Hungarian outbreak – but did nothing to stop it.
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) yesterday admitted that it had the power to block such meat imports but had decided not to do so.

On the same topic the Observer reports

Poultry import ban is urged

The Government was under mounting pressure last night to introduce tighter restrictions on imports of raw meat from countries infected by bird flu, as investigators worked around the clock to see if any contaminated food was on sale in British shops.
Both the National Farmers' Union and the government's chief scientist said there could be more checks on meat coming into the UK.
Charles Bourns, chairman of the poultry board of the National Farmers' Union, said: 'If you have H5N1 in a country, and obviously if it has come in from Hungary this time, then the measures that are being taken to prevent the disease entering the UK have broken down somewhere.

Its early editions before the Cameron story broke led reports of

Billion-pound boost for British universities

Elite universities led by Oxford and Cambridge will be able to build up endowments worth billions of pounds to rival their American counterparts under radical new plans to be announced by Tony Blair this week.
Philanthropists, former students and businesses who give cash gifts to universities will see their donations boosted by government money in a scheme that the Prime Minister hopes will embed a culture of charitable giving. Every £2 given to a university will be matched with £1 from public funds up to a maximum of £2m under the fundraising scheme.

All of the papers report on the launch of a Presidential campaign,the Times says

Obama stakes his claim to history

AS Barack Obama officially launched his campaign for president in Springfield, Illinois, the home town of Abraham Lincoln, his team was quietly beefing up his security. Mindful of the fate of the 19th-century president, who abolished slavery and was assassinated, friends say that new measures are being taken to ensure Obama’s protection on the campaign trail.
At the Old State Capitol building, comparisons with the gaunt, top-hatted president were inescapable. Springfield is where Obama, like Lincoln, served for eight years as a state legislator before entering national politics.
Thousands of eager spectators thronged the square in freezing temperatures waving Obama ’08 banners as he stepped on the stage and hugged his wife and young daughters, who were bundled up in hats and scarves.
Setting out what is likely to be his signature theme, he urged Americans: “Let’s be the generation” for change. “I know it’s a little chilly, but I’m fired up.”

Obama joins race with call to change

Says the Telegraph

Barack Obama, the charismatic Democratic senator, invoked the spirit of Abraham Lincoln yesterday as he launched his campaign to become America's first black president with a speech reflecting his trademark eloquence and optimism.
"It's time to turn the page, right here and right now," he told a crowd - chanting "Obama! Obama!" - outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.

The Sunday Express reports on its front page on

Revealed: concerts to save planet

NATIONS will rock to the world’s biggest concert as giants of pop music perform to save the Earth.The Sunday Express can now reveal the line-up of music legends who will take to the stage across the globe to highlight the terrifying threats posed by global warming following a top-secret meeting between former US Vice President Al Gore and music industry moguls in London.Emotional scenes unfolded as the stellar array shared a vision of staging a show on July 7 which will eclipse any music event the world has seen. Stars could include U2, Oasis, Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Keane, Kylie Minogue and Coldplay.

The Independent reflects on the friendly fire events this week

Fratricide: That's what the military calls 'friendly fire'

The Government faced a call last night for a full inquiry into the issue of "friendly fire" after it was revealed that one of America's top generals had disputed his own side's finding that two US pilots were not to blame for the death of a British soldier.

The Times stays with Iraq saying that

US ‘prepares for failure’ in Iraq surge

AS America’s troop surge in Baghdad gathers force, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, is already planning for failure. If the battle for security in Iraq does not succeed, he has told Congress he is prepared to move troops “out of harm’s way”.
Policy experts at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for a fresh change in strategy should it be required. “I would be irresponsible if I weren’t thinking about what the alternatives might be,” Gates said.
General David Petraeus, the “warrior scholar” and expert on counter-insurgency, took up command of his forces in Iraq yesterday as joint US-Iraqi security sweeps of Sunni and Shi’ite neighbourhoods got under way.
“The stakes are high,” Petraeus said at yesterday’s handover ceremony. “The way ahead will be hard but it is not hopeless. The mission is doable.”

The Obsrver reports on the comments of the Russian President Putin who it says

hits at US for triggering arms race

Vladimir Putin delivered the strongest attack of his seven-year presidency on the US yesterday, blaming it for fanning conflicts across the world through the unilateral use of 'hyper-force'. He said America was seeking to impose its standards on other nations, triggering new arms races and the spread of nuclear weapons, and threatening Russia through new missile shield programmes.
In a blistering assault that reflected the Kremlin chief's self-confidence and conviction that he has restored Russia's international clout after years of decline, Putin told a security conference in Munich that America was destroying the international system and seeking to eliminate nuclear deterrence through the uncontained use of its power. 'One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way,' he told dozens of Western ministers and policy-makers including the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, and a likely Republican presidential contender, Senator John McCain.

Back to the Uk and the News of the World reports on

BULLIED Ben Vodden hugged his mum, said "I'm sorry" then went to his bedroom and hanged himself.
The happy-go-lucky 11-year-old had only started secondary school in September, but school bus bullies stopped him seeing Christmas.
Last night his grieving parents Paul and Caroline relived the heartbreak of losing their son as they spoke exclusively to the News of the World, backHelping Hand campaign to stamp out bullying.

The Telegraph reports that

Corrupt officers damage Met, says report

A wide-ranging corruption investigation, carried out last month, found "inappropriate relationships or criminal associations" among police officers and civilian staff posed "significant threats" to the Metropolitan Police Force.
The report says a growing number of officers and staff are taking drugs off duty. Cocaine and cannabis are the "drugs of choice" and drug testing has been introduced for junior officers.
Further concerns include the number of police employees accused of domestic violence and sexual assault while off duty, misuse of the Police National Computer and abuse of warrant cards and security passes by both serving and retired employees.
The report also reveals growing complaints about discriminatory behaviour by police, despite anti-racism training.

One of the Mail's top stories this morning is

Fury as Labour allows betting shops to open 12 hours a day

The Government's close relationship with the gambling industry has come under renewed attack after it was revealed that betting shops are to be allowed to open for 12 hours a day.
Gambling addiction charities worried by the introduction of Las Vegas-style supercasinos have warned the new move could have devastating social consequences.

According to the Express

FREE TV IN JAILS BUT SOLDIERS PAY

CRIMINALS are being handedfree perks in prison, with taxpayers footing the bill for satellite TV to be beamed into hundreds of cells.Tens of thousands of pounds is being spent on flat-screen televisions with multi-channel entertainment for Britain’s villains.The perks contrast sharply with the treatment of Britain’s soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.Despite a multi-million pound revamp of sub-standard barracks across the country, Defence Ministers have told troops they must pay for their own TV licenses, sets and satellite channels.

The Times reveals the latest objects of Prince Charles' anger

Charles: let’s kill off the cul-de-sac

BRITAIN’S cul-de-sacs, long the butt of metropolitan snobbery, are now being targeted by the Prince of Wales as an environmental menace that foster crime, car dependence and obesity.
Prince Charles has persuaded Britain’s biggest housebuilders, including Barratt, George Wimpey and Bovis Homes, to halt the postwar spread of suburban closes, a boom reflected by the Channel 4 soap Brookside.
Under new guidelines, they will bring back higher density housing in Victorian-style grids, to encourage people to exercise by placing shops and amenities within walking distance.
Charles’s adviser, Hank Dittmar, director of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, which is drawing up the code, said the sprawling and looping design of cul-de-sacs forces people into their cars.

Finally back to Celebs and the Mirror in another exclusive reports

RALPH'S QUICKIE AT 35,000FT
LOVE RAT ACTOR'S FLING

HOLLYWOOD heartthrob Ralph Fiennes has joined the Mile High Club with an air hostess, it was claimed yesterday.
The Harry Potter star followed 38-year-old Lisa Robertson into the business class toilet, where he started getting "amorous".
The pair, who were overheard by crew standing outside, made separate exits to hide their antics.
A source said: "They flirted during the flight and then disappeared into the loos together. Ralph came out first and a few minutes later Lisa followed."
In a report to bosses at Aussie airline Qantas, Lisa is accused of having sex with the 44-year-old Lord Voldemort actor.

And the People claims an exclusive

WILLS & KATE NAME THE DAY: JULY 2008

PRINCE William will marry girlfriend Kate Middleton in July 2008, The People can reveal.
That is the same month his mother Princess Diana wed Prince Charles in 1981.
William, now 24, had said he had no intention of getting hitched until he was at least 28.
But advisers have convinced him that a delay would be grossly unfair on Kate, 25.