The Sun describes the collapse of the court martial against soldiers serving in Basra as

£20m War Crimes Farce

ARMY hero Colonel Jorge Mendonca told last night of his two-year ordeal before being cleared of war crimes — and praised his troops’ bravery in an Iraqi hell-hole.
He spoke as lawyers were accused of “political correctness” in bringing the £20million court martial over alleged abuse of nine Iraqi prisoners.
After the trial collapsed yesterday, emotional Col Mendonca, 43, said: “For 25 years I have served my country and done my best.
“The last two years have been difficult — and the past five months of this trial have been particularly stressful. But actually it is my family who have borne the brunt of the pressure.
“I had the privilege of commanding a superb battalion in operations in Iraq. I remain convinced they did an enormous amount of good.

The Mail is a little more direct in its verdict quoting from the Commons

Ministers 'not fit to polish boots' of cleared Iraq war hero

The Telegraph also leads on the story telling that

Colonel 'victim of witch-hunt'

Col Jorge Mendonca, who was commander of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, had been charged with negligently performing a duty after an Iraqi died in his battalion's custody in 2003.
The most expensive court martial in British history, estimated to cost more than £20 million, has sparked criticism of the Army Prosecuting Authority and the conduct of the Attorney General in supervising the prosecution.
Since investigations started against Col Mendonca, there have been claims that he was charged because Army chiefs and politicians wanted officers on trial alongside their men.
The claims were backed by documents written by a senior Army commander and obtained by The Daily Telegraph which suggested that there was a determined effort to identify officers who could be put on trial for the misconduct of their troops in Iraq.

Elsewhere the papers cover the jailing of an Angolan 18 year old for two murders.

Thirty years for teenage robber who killed woman cradling baby at christening,says the Guardian

teenager from Angola who shot one woman dead as she cradled a baby and went on to fatally stab another 15 days later was jailed for a minimum of 30 years at the Old Bailey yesterday. Roberto Malasi was the eldest of a gang of armed robbers who burst into a christening party and fired a pistol shot into the air which killed Zainab Kalokoh, 33, a mother of two, instantly.
Two weeks later, as police sought him for the killing of Mrs Kalokoh, he dragged Ruth Okechukwu, a pastor's daughter aged 18, from her car and stabbed her through the heart because he believed she had shown him disrespect. He was 16 at the time. The judge said Malasi's actions were "the more chilling" because he killed so soon after shooting Mrs Kalokoh in south London in August 2005.

WEEPING MUM DAMNS TEENAGE KILLER THUG is the Mirror's verdict

A DEVOUT Christian mum yesterday refused to forgive a teenager who knifed to death her 18-year-old daughter.
Weeping Pauline Okechukwu spoke out after Roberto Malasi, 18, was jailed for a minimum 30 years.
Pitiless Malasi murdered Ruth Okechukwu 15 days after shooting dead Zainab Kalokoh, 33, as she cradled her six-month-old niece at a christening.
Pauline sobbed: "That man robbed me of my daughter. I loved her so much and I can't forgive him. May God forgive me, but I cannot turn that cheek.
"I'll never see Ruth's laughing and smiling face again. I'll never see her get married, have her own family, or live her life to the full.
"The last time I saw her she was leaving church. She died in her own blood just a street away from the safety of our home.

Why can't we deport evil double killer, asks judge says the Mail

A judge has expressed his frustration at being unable to order the deportation of an asylum seeker convicted of two murders.
Roberto Malasi, 18, stormed into a christening party in August 2005 and shot a woman in the head as she cradled a six-month-old baby.

The outbreak of shootings in South London is also covered,the Independent headlining

Met calls crisis talks after third youth shot dead

Britain's most senior police officer has ordered an emergency meeting with detectives following the third fatal shooting of a teenager in south London in less two weeks.
The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, will meet officers from the force's Specialist Crime Directorate today to discuss the recent spate of gun attacks in the capital.
The latest murder came yesterday afternoon, when a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in his own home in the Clapham North area.
Detectives have not discovered any connection between the three murders, but the swift succession of killings is likely to add to a public perception that gun crime in the capital is almost out of control.
Yesterday's victim, who has not so far been named, was found with a gunshot wound by a member of his family. Paramedics were called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

It leads with the reporting of the launch of a campaign to stop te replacement of Trident

Not in our name: campaign launched against Trident

A powerful coalition of 100 scientists, lawyers, church leaders, actors, writers and MPs is today demanding a halt to the rush by Tony Blair towards a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system.
Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist, is among the prominent figures fronting the campaign, which will strengthen growing demands in Parliament for the vote on the replacement of the nuclear weapons system to be delayed until a full debate on the options has taken place.

The Guardian also leads with a story on one of its causes

Consumers misled by food labels - report which the paper says

The food industry's new nutrition labelling scheme makes its products look healthier than they really are and is fundamentally flawed, a report published today says.
The manufacturers' labelling scheme has been adopted and promoted by at least 21 leading food companies and supermarket groups since January in opposition to the traffic light labelling scheme proposed by the government watchdog the Food Standards Agency.
But the new industry labels, which tell shoppers how much sugar, fat and salt products contain as a percentage of their total "guideline daily amount" (GDA), use figures that are "misleading", the National Heart Forum says.

The Times' lead this morning announces that

Catholics set to pass Anglicans as leading UK church

Roman Catholicism is set to become the dominant religion in Britain for the first time since the Reformation because of massive migration from Catholic countries across the world.
Catholic parishes will swell by hundreds of thousands over the next few years after managing years of decline, according to a new report, as both legal and illegal migrants enter the country.
It says that the influx of migrants could be the Catholic community’s “greatest threat” or its “greatest opportunity”.

The Mirror on its front page carries an interview wit poultry magnate Bernard Matthews

MATTHEWS: NOT MY FAULT

Millionaire Matthews, 77, speaking publicly for the first time since the outbreak at his Suffolk plant 15 days ago, said he was desperate to discover how it had been contaminated.
And the farmer, famous for his "Bootiful" catchphrase on TV adverts, strenuously denied claims there had been attempts to mask his firm's links to Hungary - where the same strain of bird flu has been found in geese.
He said: "There's been absolutely no cover up at our end. I've been upset about allegations that we may have withheld information. That is completely untrue.

The Telegraph describes a

'Devastated' Matthews denies virus cover up

According to the Sun,

Matthews has flown the coop

BERNARD Matthews steps on to the tarmac in the South of France — as the bird flu row rumbles on.
The 77-year-old, wearing a trilby hat, looked gaunt as he got off a private jet before being driven to his holiday home yesterday.
The tycoon said he was "sorry" about the Bird Flu outbreak but insisted "it's not my fault".

The Times reports on yesterday's sad news

I’ve had hepatitis C for over 30 years, says Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop famous for her ethical business stance and clean living, announced yesterday that she is suffering from hepatitis C.
Dame Anita, 64, said that she contracted the disease through an infected blood transfusion in 1971 during the birth of her youngest daughter, Sam. The condition went undiagnosed for more than 30 years until a blood test in 2005.

The Express headlines on its front page that

HOME LOAN RATES TO SOAR AGAIN

MILLIONS of households have been warned to brace themselves for another punishing rise in the cost of home loans.The head of the Bank of England warned that interest rates would have to rise again, leading to another jump in mortgage repayments.Governor Mervyn King signalled that a quarter-point increase was needed to keep inflation in check.Any such move would come as a blow for home owners still reeling from last month’s rise of 0.25 per cent.

The Telegraph reports on last night's Brits

Amy goes to Rehab and finds a dose of success at the Brits

Amy Winehouse, the hellraising singer whose drink and drug problems threatened to overshadow her career, underlined her rehabilitation last night when she walked away with one of the most coveted Brit Awards.

The 23-year-old singer, famous for her tattoos, beehive hairdo and fifties vamp fashion sense, thwarted Lily Allen and Corinne Bailey Rae, to snatch the title of best British Female Solo artist.
Winehouse, discovered while performing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, was signed to part of the media empire of Simon Fuller, the founder of Pop Idol. She has admitted at one point to spending £200 a week on cannabis.

The Guardian concentrates on another successful band

Victorious Monkeys miss the Brits

For the second year running they failed to show. But that did not stop taciturn trailblazers Arctic Monkeys, credited with kick-starting a boom in young British guitar talent, picking up the two main awards at last night's Brits.
But their non-appearance - they dressed up first as characters from the Wizard of Oz and then the Village People to say their brief recorded thank-yous - left the stage clear for Take That to steal the show.

The Independent reports from Central Asia

Oil-rich Turkmenistan begins 'new era' as president is sworn in

Power has changed hands for the first time in two decades in the authoritarian energy-rich state of Turkmenistan after a new president was sworn in, raising hopes of a break with the country's reclusive past.
High-level international delegations flocked to see Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a 49-year-old former dentist, take the presidential oath in the capital, Ashgabat.
The strategic importance of the event was underscored by the presence of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher as well as senior delegations from Iran and China at the ceremony. Mr Berdymukhamedov may be a complete unknown but his every word was noted.

The Guardian reports

Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.
The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and hit global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded 39 cases of polio in Pakistan in 2006, up from 28 in 2005. The disease is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province, where 60% of the refusals were attributed to "religious reasons".

According to the Times,

Bush tones down 'Axis of Evil' rhetoric

President Bush retreated yesterday from earlier claims, made by the White House and US military commanders, that Iran’s government had authorised the supply of weapons to Shia militants in Iraq.
He said it was well-known that components of deadly improvised bombs, which have been responsible for killing at least 170 American soldiers, had been provided by al-Quds force, an Iranian paramilitary organisation.

The Telegraph picks up on the story that

America closed its doors to Anne Frank

The growing desperation of Anne Frank's family to flee Nazi-occupied Holland was revealed yesterday in a series of letters written by her father to officials and friends in America.
Otto Frank, whose daughter's diaries provided one of the most moving testaments to the plight of the Jews under the Nazis, tried to arrange US visas for his family.

However, he was blocked by America's restrictive immigration rules.
Although the immigration restrictions were supposedly to protect national security, critics now claim that they were essentially anti-Semitic

Finally the Express is defending our Green and Pleasant Land and how we can defend it

Britain's lost landscape

OUR green and pleasant land is in danger of being lost for ever because of a dramatic decline in farming, a survey has warned.It said the most vulnerable counties were Cumbria and Devon, whose beautiful landscapes pull in millions of tourists every year.The face of our countryside has been shaped by farmers who over the centuries have created and maintained hedgerows, dry stone walls, meadows, ponds and copses.Without farmers to work the land, fields would lie fallow and ungrazed pastures would turn into vast wastelands or be prey to greedy developers.But Country Living Magazine, which carried out the survey, said shoppers could stop the rot by buying British.