Pictures of the derailed London to Glasgow virgin train are on the front of a number of the Sunday's with the crash getting widespread coverage.

THE HERO AT 95MPH says the Mirror

THE train driver who heroically risked his own life to save 100 passengers in the Cumbrian rail crash said from his hospital bed last night: "I don't remember a thing."
"Reluctant hero" Iain Black, 46, fought desperately to control the Virgin tilting train when it leapt from the tracks at 95mph and snaked out of control after apparently hitting faulty points.
After activating the emergency brake, Iain fought for over half-a-mile to keep the train from crashing. Amazingly, he managed to bring the nine carriages to a virtual standstill before they rolled 40ft down the embankment.
One passenger - Margaret Masson, 84 - died and 11 others, including Iain, were seriously injured when the 17.15 London to Glasgow train left the track at Grayrigg near Kendal in Cumbria on Friday night.

The Sunday Times reports on its front page that

Faulty points blamed for fatal rail crash

FAULTY set of points was blamed last night for the Virgin Express train crash that killed a woman pensioner and injured 22 other passengers.
Network Rail began investigating up to 700 sets of similar points across Britain after police confirmed that points were at the centre of their investigation of Friday night’s crash in Cumbria.
Witnesses reported that nuts and bolts were missing from the points the London-Glasgow train passed over at 90mph before derailing and plunging down an embankment.
The rail expert Christian Wolmar said he understood that the points at the crash site in Grayrigg, near Kendal were in a similar condition to those in the 2002 Potters Bar crash, which killed seven people, with nuts missing and the stretcher bar between the rails loosened.
Last night Network Rail, the in-frastructure company responsible for maintaining the track, admitted that the points, which are deployed only to divert trains during engineering works, were not examined during a routine inspection of the track last Sunday. They were given a clean bill of health on February 11, however.

Rail defect blamed for crash says the Observer

Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin, yesterday blamed a points failure for last week's fatal train crash in Cumbria and demanded action on the ageing railways to prevent a repeat disaster.
Network Rail announced last night that safety checks on up to 700 sets of points across the network were already under way 'as a precautionary measure' and should be complete within 24 hours. The tests are being carried out on high-speed rail lines on older tracks where trains travel above 85 miles per hour.

The Mail claims

Train crash: It could have been sabotage

Rail crash investigators were facing up to the possibility that the Virgin train derailment could have been the result of sabotage.
Four vital steel bolts from a set of points that the train had just crossed were found lying at the side of the track
The bolts should have been firmly fixed to a track stretcher bar on the high-speed West Coast line at Grayrigg, near Kendal, Cumbria.
Network Rail, which is responsible for track maintenance, said it would require a specialist heavy spanner used by rail engineers to remove the bolts.
One senior railway executive told The Mail on Sunday last night: "Four bolts were lying there neatly. They had been removed recently. It's very odd. It's a mystery. We cannot give a rational explanation. We have to try to find out who has been there recently and why somebody would do this. Sabotage cannot be ruled out."

The Telegraph leads with

Secret report: Terror threat worst since 9/11

The number of British-based Islamic terrorists plotting suicide attacks against "soft" targets in this country is far greater than the Security Services had previously believed, the government paperwork discloses. It is thought the plotters could number more than 2,000.
Under the heading "International Terrorism in the UK", the document - seen by The Sunday Telegraph - states: "The scale of al-Qaeda's ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we had previously judged."
It warns that terrorist "attack planning" against Britain will increase in 2007, and adds: "We still believe that AQ [al-Qaeda] will continue to seek opportunities for mass casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure. These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives."

The papers though cannot agree this morning on the leads,the Observer's front page reveals

Row over family values splits Cabinet

A leading minister is to rally to the defence of single parents amid a growing cabinet split over whether the government should champion marriage. Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, will warn that family policy should not be based on 'the prejudices of yesterday's generation' or hung up over whether parents are married or not, but focused on what children need.
His words will be seen as a sharp change of direction from the line championed by the Work and Pensions Secretary, John Hutton, backed by Number 10, arguing that two parents may be better than one for children and that the benefits system at present discriminates against marriage.

The Independent covers two stories,claiming in its lead that

5,000 child sex slaves in UK

An important study of global slavery exposes Britain as a major transit point for the movement of child slaves around the world. Commissioned by social research charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report paints a shocking picture of an international web of gangmasters exploiting children as young as five, as well as vulnerable women. Many are threatened with violence, then sold into the sex trade or forced to become domestic servants, says the report, to be published tomorrow.
The human trafficking trade now generates an estimated £5bn a year worldwide, making it the second biggest international criminal industry after the drugs trade. Children's charities in Britain say there has been a "dramatic" rise in referrals of trafficked children to sexual exploitation services.
An investigation by The Independent on Sunday has found that gangs, especially those from Romania and Lithuania as well as Africa, are increasingly targeting Britain because markets in other European countries such as Spain and Italy are saturated.

And also reporting that

Home Office backs heroin on the NHS in effort to cut crime

Heroin is to be prescribed on the NHS to hard-core drug addicts under secret plans being prepared by the Government.
The move to use injectable heroin follows the success of trials in London, Brighton and the North-east on drug users who fail to respond to treatment and who commit crimes to finance their habit.
The proposal follows a recommendation in a restricted Home Office report on crime, which proposes prescribing heroin to addicts and licensing sales of heroin and crack cocaine.
The paper, drawn up by the Home Office strategic policy team, a copy of which has been obtained by The Independent on Sunday, says: "The Home Office should consider wider rolling out of injectable heroin prescription for highly dependent users through the NHS."

Meanwhile the Times reports an extraordianary story that

Fat boy may be put in care

AN eight-year-old boy who weighs 14 stone, more than three times the average for his age, may be taken into care if his mother fails to improve his diet.
Connor McCreaddie, from Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne, has broken four beds and five bicycles. The family claims to have a history of intolerance to fruit or vegetables.
On Tuesday his mother and grandmother will attend a formal child protection conference to decide his future, which could lead to proceedings to take him into care.
Connor could be placed on the child protection register, along with victims of physical and sexual abuse, or on the less serious children in need register.
The intervention of social services is a landmark in the fight against youth obesity.

Continuing fears about Iran continue to occupy the broadsheets

Iran "ready for war" in nuclear sanctions row

Reports the Times

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that there is no stopping his country's work to produce nuclear fuel, comparing it to a train with no brakes, as as the United Nations Security council meets this week to discuss further sanctions.
One of his deputy foreign ministers is also reported as warning that the country is ready for any scenario it its nuclear row with the West, “even for war” as the country announced it had launched a rocket into space.
Mr Ahmadinejad said: “Iran has obtained the technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran’s move is like a train ... which has no brake and no reverse gear,” according to Iran’s student news agency ISNA.

Whilst the Telegraph reports that

US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran

In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.
The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime.
In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials.

The Observer reports from Spain where

Eta prisoner 'close to death'

leading member of the Basque terrorist group Eta was last night close to death following a hunger strike that has lasted more than three months and inflamed tensions in Spain.
Doctors treating the emaciated body of Inaki de Juana Chaos in a secure unit in a hospital in Madrid said his feeding tube had been removed to allow him to continue his hunger strike. De Juana, who has served a 20-year sentence for leading Eta's 'Madrid Commando' unit, which killed 25 people during the Eighties, has been on hunger strike since November.

Many of the papers pick up on yesterday's story about Rory Bremner impersonating Gordon Brown

Heard the one about Bremner fooling Beckett? says the Independent

Margaret Beckett has been tricked by the impressionist Rory Bremner into thinking he was Gordon Brown in a hoax call that led her to make indiscreet comments about colleagues.
In a taped conversation, the Foreign Secretary was taken in by a telephone call from Bremner and told "the Chancellor" that Patricia Hewitt was "out of her depth" while Alan Milburn, a close ally of Tony Blair, couldn't "hack it" as party chairman.
The call was made before the 2005 election when Mrs Beckett was Environment Secretary. It has never been aired for legal reasons.
Believing she was talking to Gordon Brown about a possible reshuffle, the cabinet minster took it upon herself to advise him not to bring Stephen Byers back into the Cabinet at that time. She also agreed with the impressionist that Alan Milburn had not worked out very well as Labour chairman.

Whilst according to the same paper

Now it's Dave the deadly deer stalker

David Cameron has a secret love of stag shooting it emerged last night, and is considered an expert at one of the most controversial blood sports. The Conservative leader is said by those who have hunted with him to be a keen shot who can fell two deer at once.
Mr Cameron has spent 20 years deer stalking and was introduced to the sport as a young man. He takes family holidays on the Scottish estate owned by Viscount Astor - his wife's stepfather - on the island of Jura, in the inner Hebrides, which has 6,000 deer.
Bruce Anderson, the political columnist who stalks with Mr Cameron, said that the Tory leader had a knack for shooting.

The Express leads with one of this week's main themes

BLAIR'S ROAD TAX LIES EXPOSED

MILLIONS of motorists will pay more under Labour’s road charging scheme – despite Tony Blair’s claim that it is not a new “stealth tax”.Official guidance to local authorities rules out cutting other motoring taxes when new road charges are brought in. Drivers will simply pay more.In an email to 1.8 million protesters last week, the Prime Minister insisted that the charges were designed to cut congestion, not to raise tax.“I know many people’s biggest worry about road pricing is that it will be a ‘stealth tax’ on motorists,” said Mr Blair. “It won’t – road pricing is about tackling congestion.”But guidance issued by the Department for Transport makes it clear that there will be no reduction in motoring taxes as new charges are rolled out across huge areas, including the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne.

The News of the World continues to focus on Britney Spears

I STILL LOVE BRITNEY is across its front page

THE estranged hubby of out-of-control superstar Britney Spears has done an astonishing U-turn to tell her: I still love you.

Wannabe hip hop star Kevin Federline visited her in rehab after having second thoughts about divorce.
In a 60-minute heart-to-heart the warring couple wept and hugged as he promised: "I'll stand by you if you clean up your act. I just want you to get well."

The Sunday Mirror meanwhile reports that

MUMBLEDORE - GAMBON TO BE DAD AT 66

HARRY Potter star Sir Michael Gambon is to become a father at 66 - with a woman who is not his wife.
The veteran actor, who plays the wizard Dumbledore in the hit films, has been seeing Philippa Hart, 41, for more than five years.
She is due to give birth to his baby in May.
He is still married to his wife of 45 years, Anne, although they are separated.
Gambon and Philippa, who are said by friends to be deeply in love, do not even live together.

The people leads with

DEC'S LOVE BROKE MY HEART

DANCING On Ice queen Clare Buckfield has been branded a homewrecker who turned to another girl's fiance while still living with Declan Donnelly.
Squeaky-clean Clare has always been portrayed as the complete victim of TV host Dec's two-timing fling with a lapdancer.
But The People can reveal that months before she and Geordie star Dec officially split, the "goody two shoes" blonde...

According to the Sunday Express,in an exclusive

MI5 warn Harry: You are a target

Mr Scarlett personally told the third in line to the throne of the grave risks he faces in going to Iraq, following a huge global intelligence-gathering operation.Harry was informed that code breakers have smashed Al Qaeda’s communications system and uncovered information which shows that he will be a prime target for the terrorist hit squads. Investigations by the Sunday Express also show that insurgents are desperately trying to crack the digital communications system used by our forces in Iraq.

The Mail reports that

Home Secretary Reid: 'I'm like Churchill'

Crisis-hit Home Secretary John Reid faced new criticism after controversially donning the mantle of Winston Churchill.
On the eve of a Whitehall shake-up that will put him in charge of the "War on Terror', Mr Reid described Britain's heroic Second World War leader as his role model.

But the Tories claimed it was 'risible' for the gaffe-prone Home Secretary to pose as the heir to Churchill.
Security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: "Winston Churchill was a man capable of inspiring words and decisive action. John Reid is a man composed entirely of hot air."

And on the same theme

'History will see Blair as Churchillian'

Tony Blair's backing for the Iraq war will be honoured by history in the same way as Churchill's decision to fight Hitler, Iraq's former prime minister has told The Sunday Telegraph.

In remarks that will be a welcome fillip to Mr Blair, Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that getting rid of Saddam Hussein would be a legacy that future generations of Britons would be "proud of".
Mr Jaafari spoke out at the end of a week in which Mr Blair faced some of his toughest criticism yet over his decision to back George W Bush and join in the 2003 invasion.

Finally the same paper reports

Hollywood got it wrong, this is how you stop an apocalyptic asteroid

Attempts to save mankind by smashing asteroids as they head towards Earth may do more harm than good, scientists believe.

Rather than Hollywood's preferred option, engineers are trying to develop unmanned rockets that can land on space rocks and use the asteroids' own material to propel them into a safer orbit.
The plan will be detailed at a conference, sponsored by Nasa next month, at which its scientists will reveal their -estimate that 100,000 asteroids orbiting near Earth are large enough to destroy a city. So far the agency has only been able to identify and track 4,000 of them.
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