The Mail leads this morning on the tragic case of Sally Clarke,
Sally Clark - wrongly jailed for killing her sons - found dead
Her family said in a statement she was found dead at her home Friday morning.
The cause of the 42-year-old's death has not been revealed. But relatives said she never recovered from the appalling miscarriage of justice she suffered.
The cause of the 42-year-old's death has not been revealed. But relatives said she never recovered from the appalling miscarriage of justice she suffered.
The paper continues
Mrs Clark, was a solicitor from Wilmslow, Cheshire, when she was convicted of smothering 12-week-old Christopher in 1996 and eight-week-old Harry a year later, on the evidence of paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow.
He told a court the odds against two cot deaths in the same family were 73million to one.
He told a court the odds against two cot deaths in the same family were 73million to one.
According to the Times
The cause of death is not known although her family’s solicitor said last night that Mrs Clark, whose body was found at home yesterday morning, had not been in good health.
In a statement last night, her family said that she had never got over her conviction in 1999 and subsequent prison term. They described her as a “loving and talented wife, mother, daughter and friend”.
In a statement last night, her family said that she had never got over her conviction in 1999 and subsequent prison term. They described her as a “loving and talented wife, mother, daughter and friend”.
The Guardian reports from
The wasteland - inside Mugabe's crumbling state on its front page,the paper reports
Among the many signs of a country sliding into chaos, one has gone largely unnoticed: Zimbabwe's morgues are filling up. It's not only that more people are dying, but also that the families of those who are cannot afford to pay their medical bills any longer. To escape them, relatives are registering the sick under false names. When they die, the bodies cannot be claimed.
The practice is just one of the increasingly desperate measures Zimbabweans are taking to survive in a collapsing economy where inflation runs at 1,700% a year and the value of local currency can plummet in a few hours.
The practice is just one of the increasingly desperate measures Zimbabweans are taking to survive in a collapsing economy where inflation runs at 1,700% a year and the value of local currency can plummet in a few hours.
The Mirror asks
IS IT THE END FOR MUGABE?
violence and brutality have been the hallmarks of his regime. A means of suppressing critics outside his ruling Zanu-PF party and a warning to those within who are challenging his rule.
That violence and his own political genius have allowed Mugabe to thwart his rivals for 27 years, living a life of unrivalled luxury while millions of his countrymen starve thanks to his policies.
But there are signs that he is weakening.
That violence and his own political genius have allowed Mugabe to thwart his rivals for 27 years, living a life of unrivalled luxury while millions of his countrymen starve thanks to his policies.
But there are signs that he is weakening.
Zimbabwe is Africa's shame, Tutu declares says the Independent
The assault on the opposition leader provoked an outraged response from around the world and appears to have reunited a fractured opposition in the crisis-stricken country.
However, the chorus of disapproval has not been heard in neighbouring South Africa, where the Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu strongly rebuked African leaders yesterday for their failure to rein in Robert Mugabe.
"We Africans should hang our heads in shame," said Dr Tutu of the largely lukewarm response from African leaders, who have hitherto given Mr Mugabe a lifeline despite his ever escalating human rights abuses. Dr Tutu, who together with Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as South Africa's moral conscience, asked in a statement yesterday. "How can what is happening in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from us leaders of Africa?" The bishop, who once described Mr Mugabe as either "mentally deranged" or "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator," said all leaders in Africa should condemn the Zimbabwe government. Dr Tutu seemed to have been particularly angered by the South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has not commented on this week's turmoil in Zimbabwe.
However, the chorus of disapproval has not been heard in neighbouring South Africa, where the Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu strongly rebuked African leaders yesterday for their failure to rein in Robert Mugabe.
"We Africans should hang our heads in shame," said Dr Tutu of the largely lukewarm response from African leaders, who have hitherto given Mr Mugabe a lifeline despite his ever escalating human rights abuses. Dr Tutu, who together with Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as South Africa's moral conscience, asked in a statement yesterday. "How can what is happening in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from us leaders of Africa?" The bishop, who once described Mr Mugabe as either "mentally deranged" or "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator," said all leaders in Africa should condemn the Zimbabwe government. Dr Tutu seemed to have been particularly angered by the South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has not commented on this week's turmoil in Zimbabwe.
It leads with the headline
The Battle of Newquay: Green lobby launches war to curb domestic flights
Next Tuesday, a British Airways 737 jet will begin taxi-ing on the runway at Gatwick airport in preparation for the short flight to Newquay in Cornwall. If BA bosses' ambitions are met, up to 140 passengers paying as little as £69 return could be kicking back in their seats ahead of the one-hour hop ahead of them.
The 260-mile flight will be the first of a daily service to the popular Cornish resort. But those on board will find themselves unwitting players in an acrimonious confrontation between "the world's favourite airline" and the increasingly powerful environmental lobby determined to bring the booming aviation sector back down to earth.
For green campaigners, Newquay represents a dangerous escalation in Britain's love affair with air travel and could signal one of the most significant battlegrounds in the increasingly bitter war between environmentalists and the airline industry.
The 260-mile flight will be the first of a daily service to the popular Cornish resort. But those on board will find themselves unwitting players in an acrimonious confrontation between "the world's favourite airline" and the increasingly powerful environmental lobby determined to bring the booming aviation sector back down to earth.
For green campaigners, Newquay represents a dangerous escalation in Britain's love affair with air travel and could signal one of the most significant battlegrounds in the increasingly bitter war between environmentalists and the airline industry.
According to the lead in the Times
Timebomb of listeria in poisoned sandwiches
Thousands of sandwiches on sale in schools, hospitals, sports centres and council canteens throughout the South of England were at the centre of a food poisoning alert yesterday.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a warning about the possible threat to human health because symptoms — fever, flu-like illness and diarrhoea — sometimes take two to three months to become apparent.
Ready-made sandwiches sold under the Anchor Economy, Anchor Gourmet or Pomegranate labels may have been contaminated with the listeria bacterium for more than three weeks. Almost 250,000 packs could have been affected.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a warning about the possible threat to human health because symptoms — fever, flu-like illness and diarrhoea — sometimes take two to three months to become apparent.
Ready-made sandwiches sold under the Anchor Economy, Anchor Gourmet or Pomegranate labels may have been contaminated with the listeria bacterium for more than three weeks. Almost 250,000 packs could have been affected.
The Telegraph as all the papers reports on the end of the inquest of Matty Hull,
Killing of British soldier by US pilot 'criminal'
At the end of a lengthy and controversial inquest into the death of Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, Andrew Walker, the assistant deputy coroner for Oxfordshire, said: "I don't think this was a case of honest mistake.
"I find there was no lawful authority to fire on the convoy. The attack on the convoy therefore amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it and in that respect it was criminal."
LCoH Hull's widow, Susan, 30, burst into tears as the coroner delivered his verdict. Afterwards she said it was the right decision and demonstrated that her husband's death was "entirely avoidable".
"I find there was no lawful authority to fire on the convoy. The attack on the convoy therefore amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it and in that respect it was criminal."
LCoH Hull's widow, Susan, 30, burst into tears as the coroner delivered his verdict. Afterwards she said it was the right decision and demonstrated that her husband's death was "entirely avoidable".
Matty killing was 'unlawful' says the Sun
Last night the 25-year-old soldier’s widow — who fought for four years for the verdict — thanked The Sun for producing a secret cockpit video as crucial evidence.
The defence began their evidence at the 21/7 trial and the Guardian reports that
Devices used in July 21 attacks were deliberately made not to explode, alleged bomber tells court
The man "principally responsible" for creating the explosive devices used in the failed "terrorist attacks" on London in the summer of 2005 defended his actions for the first time in public yesterday. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, the alleged bomber of the number 26 bus, took to the witness box at Woolwich crown court to explain that he made the devices in such a way that they would not explode.
At the start of the defence case, Mr Ibrahim was asked by his counsel to explain in a "very short sentence" why he had carried the device on to the bus on July 21 2005. He replied: "To protest against the plight of Muslims everywhere, especially in Iraq."
At the start of the defence case, Mr Ibrahim was asked by his counsel to explain in a "very short sentence" why he had carried the device on to the bus on July 21 2005. He replied: "To protest against the plight of Muslims everywhere, especially in Iraq."
It wasn’t a bomb, I was just making a protest, says the ‘21/7 ringleader’ reports the Times
Yesterday Muktar Mohammed Said Ibrahim, 29, offered his first public explanation of the events of July 21, 2005, when London was gripped by fears of a repeat of the suicide attacks that killed 52 innocent people a fortnight before.
The alleged ringleader of the 21/7 plot stepped into the witness box after the Crown closed its case at the end of the ninth week of the trial at Woolwich Crown Court. Mr Ibrahim, who came to Britain as a 13-year-old refugee from war-torn Eritrea, denied that he intended to be a suicide bomber.
Holding a copy of the Koran, he swore in the name of Allah to tell the truth.
The alleged ringleader of the 21/7 plot stepped into the witness box after the Crown closed its case at the end of the ninth week of the trial at Woolwich Crown Court. Mr Ibrahim, who came to Britain as a 13-year-old refugee from war-torn Eritrea, denied that he intended to be a suicide bomber.
Holding a copy of the Koran, he swore in the name of Allah to tell the truth.
The Sun leads with the story of
Potter Star's stalker terror
POLICE have quizzed a man in his 20s who stalked Harry Potter star Emma Watson.
The terrified 16-year-old was confronted by the fan when he gatecrashed her school.
Police were called after the man got into some of the open lectures she attends.
And in the meantime, Emma was given a private BODYGUARD until the stalker was warned off by officers.
The terrified 16-year-old was confronted by the fan when he gatecrashed her school.
Police were called after the man got into some of the open lectures she attends.
And in the meantime, Emma was given a private BODYGUARD until the stalker was warned off by officers.
Finally the papers are full of the royal visit to the Cheltenham festival,the Mirror reports
KATE A STAR
WONDER horse Kauto Star won the Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday - and punters didn't mind a bit that the 5-4 favourite had to share some of the limelight with wonder woman Kate Middleton.
For 65,000 racegoers took Prince William's 24-year-old girlfriend to their hearts as they gave the bookies an £8MILLION thrashing.
The second in line to the throne was unable to attend the National Hunt showpiece with her as he had done on Tuesday because he was preparing for his tank training exercises next week.
For 65,000 racegoers took Prince William's 24-year-old girlfriend to their hearts as they gave the bookies an £8MILLION thrashing.
The second in line to the throne was unable to attend the National Hunt showpiece with her as he had done on Tuesday because he was preparing for his tank training exercises next week.
Kate gets it right for Gold Cup Day reports the Telegraph
After her somewhat school-marmish first outing on Tuesday's Opening Day, when her unflattering, 'Brown Windsor' tweed suit prompted comparisons with older royals more than twice her age, Miss Middleton looked determined to win the fashion stakes on Gold Cup Day with a confident new image that was a slick mix of tradition and nonchalant, throwaway-chicHer snug-fitting little jacket, in eggshell-blue Harris tweed, sat neatly on her trim waist, over a tight, chocolate-brown, stretch-jersey skirt with an asymmetric hem which flared out at the knee over her favourite stretch suede boots.
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