The Sunday Times reports that

Iran ‘to try Britons for espionage’

FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.
A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.
Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.

The Observer on the same story says that

Seized Britons face prosecution after Tehran claims 'confession'

Iran defiantly rebuffed international demands yesterday for the release of 15 seized British naval personnel, claiming that the sailors and Royal Marines had confessed to entering its waters in an illegal act of aggression, and were now to be prosecuted in the Iranian capital.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, claimed in a statement that the Britons were engaged 'in illegal and suspicious' activities, suggesting that Iran might claim they were spying.

It leads though with

Miliband could still succeed me - Blair

Tony Blair has told his closest political allies that if David Miliband challenges Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership 'he will win'.
The explosive revelation came in a series of interviews with those closest to the outgoing Prime Minister. One member of his inner circle made it clear that the PM and his allies still think Brown can be beaten. 'I know what Tony thinks about this,' a senior Blairite who has been close to the Prime Minister since the Nineties told The Observer. 'He thinks that if David runs with conviction and mounts the right argument, he'll win. He'll win, because by the end of a leadership contest, the ground will move.'


Which may come sooner than expected if we beleive the front of the Telegraph

Police told Blair would resign if cautioned

Allies of Mr Blair indicated to Scotland Yard that his position as Prime Minister would become untenable if he were treated as a suspect, rather than simply as a witness.Detectives had hoped to question the Prime Minister under caution during the second of two interviews at No 10. It is understood that they wanted Mr Blair to clarify comments he had made during his first interview about an alleged cover-up by his senior aides.


Resignation threat 'saved' Blair in cash-for-honours scandal is the Indy's take on this

Police investigating the cash-for-honours scandal did not interview Tony Blair under caution because they were told he would resign if they did so, it was claimed last night.
A "political intermediary" told detectives that the Prime Minister's position would become untenable if they interviewed him as a suspect, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph. The newspaper claims detectives wanted to quiz Blair as a suspect on the second occasion they interviewed him over allegations that honours were exchanged for political donations.

The murder of Bob Woolmer and the speculation surrounding it dominates the Sunday's

The Mail leads with

Cricket murder: Woolmer case police in dramatic swoop on Pakistan team hotel

Pakistan's cricket captain, manager and bowling coach were quizzed by Jamaican police investigating Bob Woolmer’s murder.
Skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq, manager Tarat Ali and ex-player Mushtaq Ahmed had just lunched with the squad at their hotel when police arrived unannounced to question them.
The move came three hours before the team was due to fly out of the West Indies. Inzamam had been preparing to leave the hotel when police appeared. He was seen walking with his luggage to reception.

Woolmer inquiry focuses on team dispute says the Telegraph

Officers suspect that an explosive argument - rather than a hitman - was behind the murder of the former England batsman hours after Pakistan had crashed out of the contest following an unexpected defeat by Ireland eight days ago.
There were widespread rumours yesterday of an angry clash between Mr Woolmer, who coached the Pakistan team, and a player, or players, on the bus back to the hotel after the match.

Whilst the Observer reports that

In a day of dramatic developments police interviewed captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed and team manager Talat Ali in connection with the investigation launched after the killing last weekend of their English-born coach in his hotel bathroom.
Talat was asked why he had switched hotel rooms on the night after the murder, using the false name 'Newman', while Mushtaq was quizzed over cuts to his face. The trio were eventually cleared by police to rejoin the rest of the team, and last night flew out of Kingston on their way home to Pakistan. Inzamam denied they were suspects and said they were merely completing formalities.

Woolmer quit as coach hours before his murder reports the Times

BOB WOOLMER sent an e-mail resigning as Pakistan’s cricket coach just hours before he was strangled in a Jamaican hotel, write Jonathan Calvert and Richard Luscombe.
The 58-year-old was planning to retire from cricket so he could spend his remaining days with his family in Cape Town.
His resignation was e-mailed from his laptop to Nasim Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan cricket board. He wrote: “I would like to praise my association with the Pakistan team but now I would like to announce my retirement after the World Cup to live the rest of my life in Cape Town.”

Prince Harry dominates the Red Tops this morning,

ORF HIS HEAD says the Front of the News of the World

FIGHTING drunk Prince Harry exploded into booze-fuelled rage on Saturday after being caught on a secret date.
Our astonishing pictures show the paralytic prince crashing onto his backside as a minder tries to manhandle him into his car.

STRESSED HARRY BLOWS HIS TOP says the Express


TROUBLED Prince Harry was clearly showing the strain early yesterday after appeals from his girlfriend not to go to Iraq.
In the final weeks before the young soldier is posted to the front line, Chelsy Davy has told him that she cannot cope with the length of time they spend apart.And at 3am the tension of heading for the most dangerous place on earth – and risking losing the love of his life – proved too much.

Whilst the Mirror leads on his brother

COME BACK TO MY PALACE

A BLONDE student told yesterday how Prince William took her back to his barracks after they had dirty danced in a nightclub in front of astonished revellers.
Boozed-up William, who was downing pints of Stella Artois and shots of sambuca, spotted pretty Lisa Agar, 19, in the Elements nightclub in Bournemouth, Dorset, early on Friday.
They gyrated hip to hip on the nightclub's podium, "bumping and grinding" before the Prince begged Lisa to return to his barracks at Bovington Camp which was 20 miles away. William's antics will undoubtedly infuriate Kate Middleton, his girlfriend of four years, to whom the Prince is widely expected to become engaged soon.

The Independent continues where it left off last week on its front page.After apologising for its cannabis campaign,it today opens

The Great cannabis debate its leader saying

Our front-page headline last week, "Cannabis: an apology", certainly grabbed the attention of a lot of people. No issue since the Iraq war has provoked such a reaction from our readers and from other media. Today we publish a selection of letters, including many from people dismayed by our repudiation of our 1997 campaign to decriminalise cannabis.
Our front page was no mere attention-seeking device, however. The Independent on Sunday has changed its view because of the growing weight of evidence that cannabis contributes to mental illness. Yes, we sought to dramatise that change, not least in order to question some outdated assumptions and suggest people look again at the latest evidence.

The Times reports that

minister orders blacklist of civil servants

A GOVERNMENT minister ordered his civil servants to draw up a secret list of “negative” officials suspected of being opposed to legislation.
The instruction was issued by Gerry Sutcliffe, the prisons minister, in an apparent breach of rules that bar ministers from politicising the civil service.
Sutcliffe also wanted a list of officials who could be trusted to act as “positive champions” for the plans to privatise the probation service and be used to persuade rebellious Labour MPs to change their minds and avert a Commons defeat.
The instruction, detailed in an e-mail, has been acquired by The Sunday Times during an investigation by the newspaper which placed Sutcliffe at the centre of a lobbying story.

It is 25 years since the Falklands war and the Independent pens an article

The fallen & the forgotten: The Falklands War, 25 years on

Time has passed, but the memories will never fade for Tony McNally. There are "Bogies incoming", Argentine jets in attack formation sweeping across San Carlos Bay. There are the nights spent shivering in trenches, hoping the enemy will not attack. And there are explosions and men screaming in the agonies of death.
Mr McNally, then a gunner in the Royal Artillery, is still consumed by the events of 25 years ago on rain-sodden islands 8,000 miles from Britain. As the anniversary of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands approaches next week, an act that prompted "Maggie's Army" to steam from England to the South Atlantic, Mr McNally lives day and night with the horrors of war. And he is not alone.

The Telegraph follows the same theme

'They took Goose Green against huge odds. What they did was phenomenal'

Cradling her baby son in her arms, Catherine Dent watched the evening news and prayed for a miracle.Days earlier, she had been told that her husband, Parachute Regiment Captain Chris Dent, had been killed in action in the Falklands. Still, she clung to the hope that there might have been a terrible mistake and that he was still alive.Then, over footage of body bags being lowered into a mass grave, an Army padre read out the names of the fallen: "Colonel Jones. Captain Wood. Captain Dent."Stunned, Mrs Dent realised that, together with the rest of the world, she was watching her husband's funeral.
That was 25 years ago. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the occupation of South Georgia, and Capt Dent was one of 225 British servicemen to die in the ensuing Falklands conflict.

The Observer reports from

inside Burma's jungle gulagsShackles, torture, executions:

In Burma today, there is no free speech. The universities, historically a source of political activism, have been virtually dismantled by the regime. Owning a computer modem or a fax is illegal, and anyone talking to a foreign journalist is at risk of torture and jail.

The Times reports from two other parts of Asia

Thousands die in Thai shadow war

The insurgency is now the bloodiest conflict in southeast Asia. Yet it is a war of shadows. The militants issue no communi-qués. They have no known leaders. They have made no precise demands. If they are connected to the worldwide network of Al-Qaeda and its affiliates there is no proof.
There is a sense of siege over the hushed towns and quiet fishing villages in the palmy jungles of the far south of Thailand.

And from the Philipines where

The war the world forgot

Comrade Giegie is getting married. Her wedding will be held in a jungle clearing, which she will enter through an archway of raised assault rifles. The bride and groom will make their vows draped in a red flag bearing the spear and Kalashnikov of the 7,500-strong New People's Army (NPA). Then they will pledge allegiance to the masses, and promise to raise their children as revolutionaries. There will be no priest, no confetti, no wedding gown. So how will Giegie dress? "Like this," she smiles. Giegie, 22, is wearing a faded sweatshirt, jogging pants, wellington boots and an Ingram sub-machinegun.
Hidden in mountainous Mindanao in the southern Philippines, Giegie's platoon is fighting a rebellion older than most of its members. Her late father was an NPA rebel; her mother is a left-wing activist. Most of the platoon have family members or friends in the NPA; some have been branded from an early age and had no choice but to join.
If the army is diminishing, generation by generation (at its peak it had more than 12,000 members); if its raison d'être seems ever more confused in a post-communist world, Giegie seems unaware. There are few prospects for country girls like her and her sister Lenlen, a fellow fighter, other than becoming an overseas maid or sex worker. "There's no life for my sisters outside the NPA," she says.

Finally the England football team's latest game comes under much press scrutiny

BUNCH OF BLANKERS says the Sunday Mirror

ENGLAND fired blanks again as they drew their Euro 2008 qualifier in Tel Aviv last night.
Steve McClaren's men have now scored just one goal in five games as their form has stuttered.

The News of the World describes it as ISRA HELL