
Only one story dominates the front pages of the paper's this morning and that is the parading of the 15 captured marines on Iranian Tv.
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Admadinejad says the Sun
Yesterday Britain proved that the Iranian mullahs are LYING when they claim they captured the Royal Navy team operating inside their waters.
Mrs Beckett hit back after footage of brave Leading Seaman Faye, 26, wearing a Muslim headscarf and praising her captors was shown on Iranian TV and beamed around the world.
She was forced on the orders of ranting president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to write a letter of apology to the Iranian people.
And the mum of one was ordered to write a letter to her parents — in which she says two small boats carrying 15 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines had entered Iranian waters.
Faye puffed nervously on a cigarette as she said on TV: "My name is Leading Seaman Faye Turney. I come from England. I’ve been in the Navy for nine years."
Mrs Beckett hit back after footage of brave Leading Seaman Faye, 26, wearing a Muslim headscarf and praising her captors was shown on Iranian TV and beamed around the world.
She was forced on the orders of ranting president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to write a letter of apology to the Iranian people.
And the mum of one was ordered to write a letter to her parents — in which she says two small boats carrying 15 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines had entered Iranian waters.
Faye puffed nervously on a cigarette as she said on TV: "My name is Leading Seaman Faye Turney. I come from England. I’ve been in the Navy for nine years."
The Mirror describes the incident as Outrage
CAPTURED Navy girl Faye Turney and her 14 fellow hostages were paraded on TV yesterday in an outrageous attempt to shore up Iran's shabby lies.
Iranian film showed scared mum Faye looking stressed and uncomfortable, declaring: "Obviously we trespassed into their waters. They were very friendly people."
There was also footage of a letter she was forced to write to her parents by her cowardly captors, again admitting that she and her colleagues were "apparently" in the wrong.
Iranian film showed scared mum Faye looking stressed and uncomfortable, declaring: "Obviously we trespassed into their waters. They were very friendly people."
There was also footage of a letter she was forced to write to her parents by her cowardly captors, again admitting that she and her colleagues were "apparently" in the wrong.
The Mail tells us"Paraded on Iranian Tv,forced to wear the Hijab,made to praise her Iranian kidnappers.And the thundering response form our might foreign office?This is unacceptable they squeaked.The paper reports
Tony Blair has vowed to "ratchet up" the pressure on Iran. It is understood that Mrs Beckett has been lobbying Iran's neighbouring states - including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Oman - to press Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release the Britons. She will ask EU leaders for support at a summit this weekend-In an interview broadcast on Iranian TV, Leading Seaman Turney said the group had been seized in the Gulf because they had "obviously trespassed" in Iranian waters. She said her captors had been friendly and that everyone was unharmed.
"Obviously we trespassed into their waters," she said at one point, her voice audible under a simultaneous-Arabic translation. "They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people." The broadcast included footage of other marines and sailors sitting in the same room eating a meal.
"Obviously we trespassed into their waters," she said at one point, her voice audible under a simultaneous-Arabic translation. "They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people." The broadcast included footage of other marines and sailors sitting in the same room eating a meal.
The Independent asks
A genuine confession or humiliation and cynical abuse of international law?
These were the questions being asked after the appearance of the British hostage Faye Turney on Iranian television last night.
Film footage of the servicewoman taken prisoner in the Persian Gulf, wearing a black headscarf, as she "admitted" to trespassing on Iranian waters, will become one of the iconic images of the crisis between Iran and the West. It also ignited an immediate international furore with the British Government lodging a vehement protest, demanding that diplomatic access be given to the 15 sailors and marines who have been held for six days.
Film footage of the servicewoman taken prisoner in the Persian Gulf, wearing a black headscarf, as she "admitted" to trespassing on Iranian waters, will become one of the iconic images of the crisis between Iran and the West. It also ignited an immediate international furore with the British Government lodging a vehement protest, demanding that diplomatic access be given to the 15 sailors and marines who have been held for six days.
Elsewhere the heat is on the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell after
Lords sink Jowell's casino gamble.The Telegraph reports that
Plans to build the first super casino in Manchester were thrown out by the House of Lords last night in a deeply embarrassing defeat for the Government.
Although MPs later backed the plans in a separate vote, the deadlock between the two Houses means that proposals for 16 other large and small casinos across the country have been blocked.A clearly-shocked Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, told MPs the Government wanted to reflect on the outcome of the votes and would come back to the "elected'' Commons in due course with proposals on how "we will take this policy forward''
Although MPs later backed the plans in a separate vote, the deadlock between the two Houses means that proposals for 16 other large and small casinos across the country have been blocked.A clearly-shocked Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, told MPs the Government wanted to reflect on the outcome of the votes and would come back to the "elected'' Commons in due course with proposals on how "we will take this policy forward''
The Times reports that
Peers deal new blow to ministers’ plans for a supercasino
The surprise defeat, master-minded by the Liberal Democrats and Bishops, sent the Government back to the drawing board and could jeopardise Manchester’s chances of ever getting a supercasino.
The defeat came after almost half the Labour peers abstained, with 105 turning out to support the government — a personal blow for the authority of Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary.
The vast majority of Tory peers also abstained, with only 30 of 200 siding with the Liberal Democrat attempts to bring down the plans. All 49 Liberal Democrat peers backed the party’s wrecking attempt.
Moments after the Lords defeat was announced, Ms Jowell’s plans were approved in the Commons. MPs backed the proposals by 274 votes to 250, cutting the Government’s majority from 67 to 24.
The defeat came after almost half the Labour peers abstained, with 105 turning out to support the government — a personal blow for the authority of Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary.
The vast majority of Tory peers also abstained, with only 30 of 200 siding with the Liberal Democrat attempts to bring down the plans. All 49 Liberal Democrat peers backed the party’s wrecking attempt.
Moments after the Lords defeat was announced, Ms Jowell’s plans were approved in the Commons. MPs backed the proposals by 274 votes to 250, cutting the Government’s majority from 67 to 24.
The Telegraph reports on more bad news for a cabinet minister
Beckett should be sacked over farm payments fiasco, say MPs
Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, and two senior officials should quit or be sacked for their part in last year's farm payments "catastrophe," a committee of MPs said yesterday.
The select committee, which is dominated by Labour MPs, took the highly unusual step of calling on all those responsible for the failure to pay English farmers their subsidies to "consider their positions".
Michael Jack, the chairman, said the report was "about a lack of accountability" as well as the fundamental failure of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to carry out its core function of paying farmers their entitlements.
The select committee, which is dominated by Labour MPs, took the highly unusual step of calling on all those responsible for the failure to pay English farmers their subsidies to "consider their positions".
Michael Jack, the chairman, said the report was "about a lack of accountability" as well as the fundamental failure of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to carry out its core function of paying farmers their entitlements.
The Independent reports on another vote,this time in America
Bush vents fury at Congress demand for troop withdrawal
Besieged as never before during his six years in the White House, George Bush lashed out yesterday at his Democratic foes in Congress, accusing them of making reckless "political statements" by insisting a deadline for a US force withdrawal is a condition of any further funding for the war in Iraq.
The President's tirade - delivered in the somewhat incongruous setting of an address to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - came the day after the Senate, hitherto a usually reliable bulwark in his defence, had followed the House of Representatives in setting a mid-2008 date for the departure of the bulk of US combat troops from Iraq.
Once again, Mr Bush repeated his threat to veto any bill that linked a deadline to the $122bn of new funding he has requested for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - even though without it, the White House maintains, money for the two wars will run out next month.
The President's tirade - delivered in the somewhat incongruous setting of an address to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - came the day after the Senate, hitherto a usually reliable bulwark in his defence, had followed the House of Representatives in setting a mid-2008 date for the departure of the bulk of US combat troops from Iraq.
Once again, Mr Bush repeated his threat to veto any bill that linked a deadline to the $122bn of new funding he has requested for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - even though without it, the White House maintains, money for the two wars will run out next month.
The Express is the only paper this morning to use a different lead story
HUGE WATER BILL RISES FOR MILLIONS
Inflation-busting bills of around £312 a year for water and sewerage services will begin landing on door mats next week.The seven per cent extra which a typical family will have to find comes on the back of a raft of crippling increases in other expenses.Gas prices have doubled in the past three years and electricity is almost two-thirds higher, while a series of interest rate rises has sent mortgage repayments through the roof.
The Guardian reports on
Former transport chief describes his new role: £3,200 a day for doing not much
He was brought to the UK to become the capital's first transport tsar, with a salary and trappings to match. Bob Kiley quit his job as London's transport commissioner in 2005 after rows with mayor Ken Livingstone and his own staff. But, courtesy of the London taxpayer, he still has an income most public servants could only dream of.
In a newspaper interview yesterday, Mr Kiley admitted he is receiving up to £737,500 over two and a half years for doing "not much". The 72-year old American, who once worked for the CIA, is also still in the £2m Belgravia townhouse Mr Livingstone purchased for him on behalf of Transport for London.
In a newspaper interview yesterday, Mr Kiley admitted he is receiving up to £737,500 over two and a half years for doing "not much". The 72-year old American, who once worked for the CIA, is also still in the £2m Belgravia townhouse Mr Livingstone purchased for him on behalf of Transport for London.
A lot of the papers follow up on one of yesterday's top stories,
LINDSAY'S DAD IN EMOTIONAL VOW says the Mirror.
THE devastated dad of murdered teacher Lindsay Hawker last night vowed not to rest until the brute who killed his daughter was caught.
Clutching a final photograph of the 22-year-old, Bill Hawker said he believed trusting Lindsay was lured to her death by a crazed loner who claimed he wanted language lessons.
He spoke as police confirmed the kind-hearted young teacher had been badly beaten and probably strangled or suffocated before her naked body was dumped in a bathtub full of sand at suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi's Tokyo apartment.
Clutching a final photograph of the 22-year-old, Bill Hawker said he believed trusting Lindsay was lured to her death by a crazed loner who claimed he wanted language lessons.
He spoke as police confirmed the kind-hearted young teacher had been badly beaten and probably strangled or suffocated before her naked body was dumped in a bathtub full of sand at suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi's Tokyo apartment.
The Times reports that
'Bathtub murderer stalked victim in days before death'
The English language teacher found buried in a bathtub filled with sand had been stalked by her suspected killer in the days before she was killed, The Times has learnt.
Lindsay Hawker and her women expatriate colleagues at a language school in Tokyo had grown concerned at the attentions of Tatsuya Ichihashi.
Her friends were dismayed when she agreed to give him a private English conversation lesson at his flat because she wanted to raise money to return to England.
Lindsay Hawker and her women expatriate colleagues at a language school in Tokyo had grown concerned at the attentions of Tatsuya Ichihashi.
Her friends were dismayed when she agreed to give him a private English conversation lesson at his flat because she wanted to raise money to return to England.
Finally according to a report in the Telegraph,
75pc of Britons 'are in the wrong job'
The study of more than 2,300 adults, in which they were asked to select one of four shapes and eight colours which they felt described themselves, revealed that three-quarters were in jobs that did not suit their characters.
It found that 40 per cent of bankers and accountants described themselves as “warm” and “people-oriented”, and a similar number of secretaries thought they had leadership skills.
The personality test, conducted by private healthcare provider Bupa, also discovered that only 6 per cent of those in creative jobs saw themselves as “expressive and eccentric” while only one in ten politicians and civil servants chose shapes and colours which suggested they had people skills and logical personality traits.
The personality test, conducted by private healthcare provider Bupa, also discovered that only 6 per cent of those in creative jobs saw themselves as “expressive and eccentric” while only one in ten politicians and civil servants chose shapes and colours which suggested they had people skills and logical personality traits.
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