The divorce of Chelsea boss,Roman Abramovich features on the fron of both the Mirror and the Sun this morning.

UNWED ROM says the Sun

MEGA-rich Russian Roman Abramovich’s divorce settlement is likely be the world’s biggest ever.
Irina Abramovich could have pocketed £5.5BILLION — half the oil tycoon’s £11billion fortune.
It would dwarf the current record payout of £1billion.
Details have not been revealed but would have taken months to hammer out.
The Chelsea owner’s wealth in cash alone is estimated at £8billion. He also has a collection of mansions across Europe — including the £8million, 420-acre Fyning Hill Estate in West Sussex and a £29million penthouse in Kensington, West London.

While the Mirror headlines

CHELSEA TYCOON ABRAMOVICH DIVORCES

CHELSEA boss Roman Abramovich announced his divorce last night just hours after the Mirror was stopped from publishing pictures of him with Russian beauty Daria Zhukova.
The £11billion tycoon revealed he had agreed in Russia a financial and family settlement with wife Irina, 39, mum of his five children.
He had previously denied Irina had filed for divorce. Yet for the last year he has gone to considerable lengths to keep his friendship with oil heiress Daria, 23, under wraps.

Why the former Mrs Abramovich may have had to accept 'just £1bn' reports the Telegraph

Had Irina Abramovich, a former air stewardess, chosen to pursue her husband through the British courts she could have been entitled to half his £11 billion fortune.
Although Mrs Abramovich was said to have consulted leading divorce lawyers, experts believed a private settlement was always more likely and said she might have had to settle for as little as £1 billion.

The paper though leads on the story that

Nurses will earn more if they go to Scotland

In an unprecedented development, Scottish ministers in the devolved assembly agreed to pay nurses an extra 2.5 per cent from next month. Nurses south of the border will have to wait until November for their full pay rise.

Labour MPs from the North East of England said they were worried that it could mean an end to national pay rates, which could disadvantage deprived areas of England, unable to match the more generous wages in Scotland.

Don't you dare be ill out of hours says the Mail

The shake-up of outofhours GP services was condemned as a 'shambles' yesterday.
Patients who become ill at night or weekends have been left battling to find proper NHS care since GPs handed over responsibility to primary care trusts.

Out-of-hours GP service 'good news for doctors and no one else' reports the Independent

Out-of-hours GP services provided to nine million patients a year in Britain are difficult to access, slow to respond and their overall performance is "not good enough," MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say.
Preparations for the new service, introduced from April 2004, were "shambolic" and "thoroughly mishandled" by the Department of Health, the MPs say. The Department of Health responded to the criticism by announcing random spot checks on the services to tackle "inconsistencies" in their quality in different parts of the country.
The Public Accounts Committee says the only people to benefit from the new service, which allowed GPs to shed their 24-hour responsibility in return for giving up £6,000 in pay, were the doctors themselves. The amount they gave up was not enough to fund the new service, run by primary care trusts using a mix of private companies and GP co-operatives, which cost £70m a year more than had been foreseen.

The growing rebellion over Trident as the commons votes tonight continues to get a lot of coverage.The same paper reports that

Only half of Labour MPs back new Trident

The poll of 174 MPs from all parties by CommunicateResearch reveals the Labour Party is split over the Commons vote tonight, fuelling the threat of the biggest Labour backbench rebellion since the Iraq war.
Tony Blair faces the humiliation of relying on Tory support to win tonight's vote on Trident. Last night the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, and the Defence Secretary, Des Browne, tried to head off the revolt by warning Labour MPs that they would be accused by the Tories of turning the clock back to the anti-nuclear "loony left" of the 1980s.

According to the Guardian though

Trident upgrade under way, MoD admits

Britain's Trident nuclear weapons are being secretly upgraded to increase their accuracy and ability to attack a wider range of targets, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers have repeatedly denied there are plans to refurbish Britain's nuclear warheads, arguing that it will be up to the next parliament to decide whether to do so. However, the MoD has now admitted that a new firing device developed by the US is to be installed in Britain's nuclear weapons system by scientists at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire.

SAFE: THE 5 HOSTAGES SNATCHED BY MISTAKE reports the Mirror as the kidnapping story comes to an end.

The four men and one woman were released in neighbouring Eritrea. The SAS were on the ground preparing to rescue the hostages who had been held for almost two weeks. But talks between the Ethiopian government and the gang led to a peaceful resolution.
It is thought the group, who went missing on a tourist trip to geological sites in the Afar region, may have been kidnapped by mistake.
Concerns remain for the Ethiopians seized during the same raid on Hamedali, a remote northern village.

The Guardian adds that

In the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, relatives were waiting to meet the British embassy staff and their friends who were freed into the hands of the authorities in neighbouring Eritrea early yesterday after intense diplomatic discussions. It is likely the British authorities will charter a plane to fly the hostages from Asmara, the Eritrean capital, to Addis, where they will meet their families before being flown on to London later today or tomorrow.

Its lead story continues yesterdays theme with more revelations of the Northern Ireland peace process

Blair's secret weapon in Paisley talks: religion

Tony Blair has forged a special bond with the Rev Ian Paisley, the DUP leader who holds the future of the Northern Ireland peace process in his hands, by discussing their common interest in and commitment to Christianity.
Spearheading a government charm offensive to win round the one time Presbyterian firebrand, the two men have been swapping religious textbooks over the past year.
Mr Blair's aim has been to win the confidence of Mr Paisley, a strident critic of the government's concessions to Sinn Féin, who has become the dominant force in Northern Irish unionism in recent years.

The Times leads with the story that

New band to double tax bills on £1m homes,the paper has learnt that

Anyone owning a house worth over £1 million in England faces a doubling of council tax, A report on local government finance, to be published with the Budget next Wednesday, is expected to recommend one or two new “top-rung” council tax bands.
At least 100,000 people who currently own houses valued at more than £1 million could see their annual council tax bill almost double — from an average £2,640 to £4,400 — under one plan being considered. A second option would be to increase bills by about £1,000 a year.

Iraq abuse case ends with soldiers acquitted reports the Indy

The most high-profile court martial over the Iraq war has ended with the acquittal of six British soldiers and accusations from the military over "politically motivated prosecutions".
The case also led to the disclosure that the Army high command had sanctioned brutal abuse of prisoners and condemnation from the trial judge of a cover-up surrounding the killing of Baha Musa, an Iraqi prisoner.
The six acquitted soldiers ­ all of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, now the Duke of Lancaster Regiment ­ had pleaded not guilty to charges linked to Mr Musa's death.

The Telegraph claims that following the verdict

Goldsmith under fire over Iraq 'abuse' trial

After more than three years of investigation and at a cost of £20 million, the case against a group of soldiers allegedly responsible for the killing of an Iraqi while in British custody ended after the last two defendants were acquitted.

A spokesman for Lord Goldsmith last night denied he had personally driven the prosecutions and said he was "just doing his job".

The Guardian is amongst many papers on the aftermath of the weekend's demonstrations in Zimbabwe

Battered Zimbabwe protesters sent from court to hospital

Battered and limping, Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, appeared in a Harare court yesterday before he and more than 50 other anti-government activists were taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Mr Tsvangirai had a deep gash on his head that had been sutured, and his face was swollen. Others were carried into court and many had bandages and slings.
Amid growing international outrage at the treatment of the activists, who lawyers say were beaten and tortured after being arrested on Sunday on their way to a prayer rally, ambulances and vans, under police escort, ferried the opposition activists to a nearby hospital for treatment. Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said the state intended to charge the activists with incitement to violence and refused to grant them bail. Under Zimbabwe's security laws they can be held for a further 72 hours without charges.

defiant in face of Mugabe headlines the Telegraph

Struggling to stand upright and with a deep gash on the side of his head, Morgan Tsvangirai was brought before a Zimbabwean court yesterday.
But the opposition leader refused any further medical treatment until all his fellow detainees were allowed to go to hospital.

The Times reports from China where alleges the paper

Schoolboy beaten to death as police stamp on Chinese bus fare protest

China sent in the Army to restore order yesterday after a student was killed and dozens of people were hurt when police in a remote town used batons to beat back 20,000 residents demonstrating against a steep rise in bus fares.
The unusually large and violent protest reflected the difficulties faced by hundreds of millions of poor farmers struggling to eke out a living on the land while market-oriented economic reforms are bringing prosperity much more rapidly to the urban population.
The protest is likely to embarrass the Government, which is holding the 12-day annual session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, in Beijing.

Global warming: The climate has changed hails the front page of the Independent

The Government has become the first in the world to commit itself to legally binding reductions in carbon dioxide emissions but will come under strong pressure to agree to bigger cuts when its landmark Climate Change Bill goes though Parliament.
In a draft Bill published yesterday, ministers promised to enshrine into law their commitment to cut emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Opposition parties and Labour MPs joined forces in calling for an 80 per cent reduction.
But even the Government's critics gave the Bill a broad welcome. Hailing a "historic day", Tony Blair said: "This is a revolutionary step in confronting the threat of climate change. It sets an example to the rest of the world but, as important as anything else, it listens and responds to the strong desire on the part of the British people to take the lead and keep it."

The Times also reports that

Britain sets toughest carbon targets to beat climate change

Tony Blair declared the proposals a “revolutionary step” as he unveiled the draft Climate Change Bill yesterday to an audience of teenagers at Downing Street. He said that the legislation would strike a balance between the needs of the economy and the requirement to limit the environmental and social havoc likely to be wreaked by climate change over the next century.

The front page of the Express though finds fault with the proposals

NOW GREEN SPIES WILL SNOOP IN YOUR HOME

AN army of eco-snoopers is to be unleashed in the Government’s drive to save the planet.Ministers announced plans yesterday for home energy audits which are expected to add hundreds of pounds a year to household bills.The reports – condemned as “intrusive” by campaigners – will catalogue in minute detail all the energy used and pollution caused by millions of homes.Insulation, double glazing and the efficiency of central heating systems and household appliances could all be inspected by specially trained “green” inspectors.

IS THIS THE ULTIMATE NANNY STATE STORY? not green inspectors but school inspectors

BABIES will be assessed on their babbling and gurgling in a national curriculum for the under-FIVES published yesterday.
Tots will also be tested to make sure their crying and squealing is up to scratch in a series of extraordinary government targets.
The 69 "early learning goals" unveiled yesterday mean that children will be constantly monitored from the moment they are born. says the Mirror