Green issues still take up space in the papers this morning.

Tory 'tax on homes abroad' will hit 400,000 headlines the Telegraph

David Cameron risks alienating more than 400,000 voters who own "a place in the sun" with plans for a tax on air travel, experts warned last night.
The Tory leader plans a higher rate of aviation tax for anyone who makes more than one short-haul flight per year.

Telling us that

About 400,000 voters own second homes abroad. On average, they make three visits per year to their properties, meaning they would be hit twice by the proposed tax.
Relatives going to visit families living abroad - flying so-called love miles - would also be affected if they made multiple trips. Academics also warned that the tax would have to be high to deter Britions from travelling abroad since so many are wedded to their foreign homes.
Mr Cameron was yesterday

The heat is on as Brown and Cameron go head-to-head in battle for green vote says the Independent

Gordon Brown has tried to regain the upper hand on the environment by announcing plans to help consumers "go green" and save money at the same time.
The two men who are expected to do battle at the next general election went head-to-head as Mr Brown attacked David Cameron's proposal for a "green air miles" scheme as "ill-conceived, short-termist, unworkable" and unfair.
The Chancellor produced a package of more voter-friendly energy-saving measures, saying the Government should provide "incentives in preference to penalties". But senior ministers admitted privately that the Tories were making the running on the environment and said Labour needed to fight back.

Two rival visions that put the planet at the heart of policy according to the Times

After Mr Cameron announced measures to tackle climate change with plans to increase aviation taxes, the Chancellor adopted what officials said was a more voter-friendly approach by promising that every home would be properly insulated by 2010, with the work being done free for low-income families, and with discounts for the better off.

Brown vs Cameron: free home insulation against higher air tax is the Mail's verdict

But Mr Cameron promptly accused Mr Brown of "recycling" old announcements - and said Tory plans for new levies on polluters would help pay for broader tax cuts for families.
In a clear attempt to draw battle lines for the next election, Mr Brown went out of his way to contrast his stance with Mr Cameron's proposal to tax air travel more heavily.

And it returns to homes for its lead this morning

'Raise interest rates or face economic disaster'

Interest rates need to go above eight per cent to control booming house prices, a leading economist has warned.
Martin Weale said that unless the property market is restrained it will suffer a crash, devastating those who look upon their home as their pension.
He spoke out as official figures revealed that average prices are rising by more than £4,100 a month. If they kept up this pace, they would leap by almost £50,000 this year, more than double the average worker's salary.

The Express sticks to the theme

Eight buyers chase every house its front page tells us

DESPERATE house buyers are fuelling a new boom in prices as they rush to move up the property ladder.There are eight buyers chasing every house for sale, with huge demand from families looking for bigger and better homes.The average cost of a three-bedroom semi has broken through the £200,000 barrier, as house prices soared by almost 11 per cent. Experts predict the spring will see a new wave of buyers looking for homes, forcing prices even higher.

The Guardian features an interview with former cabinet minister Peter Mandleson on its front page who talks about the Northern Ireland peace process

Blair guilty of capitulating to Sinn Féin - Mandelson says the paper

Peter Mandelson has accused the prime minister of "unreasonable and irresponsible" behaviour in the way he granted concessions to Sinn Féin during Downing Street's attempts to broker a peace deal in Northern Ireland. As Mr Blair tries once again to revive power sharing, he is criticised by one of his closest political allies of "conceding and capitulating" to republican demands, which alienated unionists.
In a Guardian interview for a series examining the prime minister's handling of the peace process, the former Northern Ireland secretary praised Mr Blair for his commitment to the process, dating back to when he became Labour leader in 1994. But he added: "In order to keep the process in motion [Tony] would be sort of dangling carrots and possibilities in front of the republicans which I thought could never be delivered, that it was unreasonable and irresponsible to intimate that you could when you knew that you couldn't."

The front page of the Independent proclaims

Your country needs you... but not you: Soldiers' mother faces deportation

Joy Bowman encouraged her Jamaican sons when they told her they wanted to join the Army in their adoptive country.
She watched them flourish as the youngest joined the British Army's Royal Logistics Corps and saw duty in Basra, while the eldest featured in a recruitment campaign to persuade more people from ethnic minorities to join the Army.
But five years after supporting her son during a perilous tour of Iraq, Mrs Bowman and her 15-year-old daughter, who is preparing for GCSEs, face being deported tomorrow - further victims of a Home Office that places its removal targets ahead of the role in British life played by those it is deporting.

The 21/7 trial has been out of the pages fro some time but returns this morning as the Telegraph reports

Jury sees replica of July 21 'bombs'

Footage of exploding hydrogen peroxide and flour devices - said to be similar to those used by the July 21 "bombers" - was shown in court yesterday.
A film of the moment the mixture was detonated by scientists from the Forensic Explosives Laboratory in Halstead, Kent, was shown to Woolwich Crown Court. The material, which was in a plastic tub, was set off in a quarry, while the scientists took refuge in a bunker behind a hill 400 yards away.
After the initial explosion, a large cloud of white smoke could be seen rising yards into the air.

Power of 21/7 gang's 'bombs' says the Sun

THE 21/7 terror trial yesterday witnessed the devastating power of the homemade explosives strapped to the alleged suicide bombers.
Jurors saw a video of replica devices being detonated by experts.
Boffins blended strengthened hydrogen peroxide hair bleach with chapatti flour to recreate the rucksack devices.
Then they triggered the mixture in a quarry while they sheltered in a bunker 400 yards away.

A number of the papers report this story in the Guardian

Gangs and ghosts push UK's homegrown cannabis harvest to a record high

Cannabis cultivation in Britain, whether in inner city lofts or on patches of remote farmland, is booming, according to new research published today.
Plants are being grown and harvested at record levels for the UK cannabis market, and more than 60% of hash sold on the streets is believed to be home grown.
The research, by the drugs charity DrugScope, reveals there are a staggering number of cannabis farms in operation, with the police raiding at least three a day. More than 1,500 have been shut down in London alone over the past two years.

The Times leads with a report that

Cut mobile phone bills in months, firms told

Huge cuts in the cost of making mobile phone calls abroad will be introduced within months, after a threat by Brussels to fast-track new “roaming” laws.
The move — which should cut the cost of making calls in Europe by up to 60 per cent by June this year — could also see the cost of sending texts and downloading music while abroad, slashed.
Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Information, Society and Media, has delivered an ultimatum to mobile operators on data charges, The Times can reveal.

The cash for honours story continues,the Telegraph reporting that

Levy asked me to lie, claimed Blair's aide

Lord Levy was thrust back to the centre of the cash-for-honours affair last night after it emerged that one of Tony Blair's closest aides, Ruth Turner, alleged that the Labour peer and fund-raiser "asked her to lie for him".

David Gest features on the front of both the Mirror and the Sun,according to the Mirror

EXCLUSIVE: GEST SET TO BE NEW X FACTOR JUDGE

DAVID Gest is in line to replace dumped X Factor judge Louis Walsh to boost the show's flagging appeal.
Bosses hope the I'm A Celeb star will add spice to the programme. They felt it had grown dull under Walsh and host Kate Thornton, who has also been axed.

Whilst the Sun claims

David Gest axed 'by mistake'

JUNGLE star David Gest was booted off I’m A Celebrity BY MISTAKE, leaked emails claimed yesterday.
More than 30,000 phone votes for Gest, 48 — favourite to win the ITV1 show — are alleged to have been lost.
Premium phone rate service regulator Icstis last night began an investigation into the new row over phoneline voting for top shows — and asked to see our files.
The probe came as the firm handling the votes claimed the emails were fakes.

Staying with TV and the Guardian reports that

Al Gore brings DIY television 'revolution' to Britain

Former US vice-president turned Oscar-winning environmental campaigner Al Gore yesterday unveiled the British version of his Current TV network, claiming it was the first example of "television for the internet generation".
He said the new service, which relies on viewer-created content for more than a third of its schedule, marked a media revolution that would prove as pivotal as the invention of the printing press.
Current TV, which launched yesterday on the Sky and Virgin Media pay-TV platforms, is aimed at the 18- to 34-year-olds increasingly turning to the net, mobile phones and a myriad of digital channels to complement mainstream media habits.

Finally the Mail asks

Why we don't know the man on the £20 note from Adam

On the day when Adam Smith replaces Sir Edward Elgar on the £20 note, three-quarters of Britons say they have no idea who he is.
Smith was an 18th-century philosopher and political economist who played a key role in the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment.

But that, say the public, does not qualify him to grace the reverse of the new notes. They have called for better-known British icons such as Winston Churchill, Emmeline Pankhurst and Princess Diana to be immortalised on our cash.