What will probably be Gordon Brown's last budget is featured in the papers although not always making the main headlines.

The Times reports on what was a

Black Tuesday for Chancellor

Ahead of today's budget statement,

Some of Britain’s highest-ranking officials said yesterday that they supported the devastating attack on Gordon Brown by Lord Turnbull, the former head of the Civil Service, who accused him of “Stalinist ruthlessness”.
The Times can disclose that Sir Gus O’Donnell, the current Cabinet Secretary, and other Whitehall heads are discussing Mr Brown’s style of government and whether and how it might be changed if he enters No 10. The Chancellor delivers his last Budget today battered by the revolt by officials, fears of rising mortgages, the worst inflation figures since 1991 and with one poll suggesting that David Cameron’s lead would stretch to 15 points if Mr Brown were prime minister.

Brown camp's fury at Stalin jibe says the Sun

GORDON Brown’s camp came out fighting yesterday after a former top civil servant compared him to murderous communist dictator Joseph Stalin.
His supporters hit back at ex Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull — who criticised the Chancellor for running the Treasury with a “Stalinist ruthlessness”.
The ex-head of the Civil Service sparked the storm by saying that Mr Brown had a “very cynical view of mankind and his colleagues” and adding that he “is not there when there is dirty work to be done”.

The Mirror looking forward to this afternoon pronounces

THE KIDS BUDGET

GORDON Brown will today put children at the heart of his final Budget - by pledging an extra £1billion to lift 200,000 kids out of poverty.
The Chancellor will give hundreds of thousands of struggling families a boost as he vows to hit Labour's target of halving child poverty by 2010.
He will set aside a hefty chunk of cash for poor families using the tax credit and benefit system.
Mr Brown will also launch the tightest public spending squeeze since Labour came to power in 1997 - but give a boost to schools with a £14billion jump in education spending to £90billion by 2011.

A view echoed in the Guardian,

Brown's final budget: £1bn extra for child poverty

Gordon Brown will announce today that the government is to spend an extra £1bn to lift 200,000 children out of poverty as he uses his final budget to help put Labour back on track to meet its target for alleviating deprivation among the young.
Stung by a UN report showing the UK as the worst place in the developed world to grow up, Mr Brown will increase spending on tax credits for the working poor and on raising child benefits.

The Telegraph though takes a differing line

Brown to cut corporation tax in final Budget

Gordon Brown is today expected to unveil a high-profile tax cut for business in a bid to trump David Cameron's Conservatives.
Last night, there was mounting speculation that Mr Brown would indeed use what he has already said will be a "Budget for business" to announce a cut in corporation tax.

And the Express warns of

COST OF HOME LOANS TO SOAR

HARD-pressed households face more crippling mortgage rate rises as the official cost of living continues to soar.
Family bills have been forced up by steeply increasing home loans, council tax payments and consumer goods prices.Millions of households are already facing unprecedented levels of consumer debt – and last night’s bleak news on mortgages came as Gordon Brown prepared to clobber families with more tax rises in today’s Budget.

Elsewhere the trial of Conrad Black is the lead in the Guardian

'Burglars use crowbars, robbers guns. He used memos and lies' as it reports on the opening evidence

For all his wealth and influence, media mogul Conrad Black is little more than a common thief - except he used arcane financial documents rather than crowbars and guns to seize his loot of $60m according to American prosecutors.
In an opening statement at Lord Black's trial on racketeering charges in Chicago, assistant US attorney Jeffrey Cramer told a predominantly female jury that the former Telegraph owner had lied and stolen to prop up his position of international political leverage and finance a lifestyle of corporate planes, exotic holidays, and prime New York apartments.
"Bank robbers are masked and they use guns. Burglars wear dark clothing and use crowbars. These men dressed in ties and wore a suit," said Mr Cramer, gesturing towards Lord Black and his co-defendants Jack Boultbee, Mark Kipnis, and Peter Atkinson, "they do it with memos and documents and a few lies".

The Telegraph follows the same news angle

'Lord Black like a bank robber in a suit and tie' with the prosecution painting a picture

of a peer who was not satisfied with owning small-town newspapers. "He wanted to influence events," he said of Lord Black, the former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph. "He wanted his voice to be heard across the oceans."
At the start of a case that is likely to last at least three months, Mr Cramer said Lord Black had kept the payments secret from Hollinger's board, which was made up of people who "trusted him implicitly".

Both the Mail and the Mirror lead on another trial outcome yesterday,

Sadistic foster mother's 19-year reign of terror says the former

A foster mother was found guilty today of subjecting three young children to a "horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment".
Eunice Spry, 62, routinely beat, abused and starved the youngsters in her care over a 19 year period.
The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down their throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.
As punishment for misbehaving, she would beat them on the soles of their feet and force them to drink washing up liquid and bleach.

The Mirror under the headline of MRS EVIL reports

EVIL foster mum Eunice Spry's three victims told a stunned court they were starved, beaten with sticks, forced to drink bleach and eat rat droppings during two decades of torture.
Jehovah's Witness Spry routinely inflicted horrific punishments on the two girls and a boy, saying they were possessed by the devil.
Child A, now 21, came into Spry's care when she was five. She said: "We were regularly beaten. We were starved or made to eat blocks of lard, drowned in the bath and kicked down the stairs.

The Sun reports on its front page

Maxine: I still love Huntley

SOHAM liar Maxine Carr has confessed she STILL loves child killer Ian Huntley.
Confused Carr, 30, bares her soul in a diary seen by a neighbour, who revealed: “She expressed feelings of love and loathing towards him.”
The revelation came as Huntley’s mum Lynda Nixon said he should NEVER be freed for killing ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Carr revealed her torment over Huntley, 33, in the diary — carelessly dumped among bags of NEW clothes left for binmen.
The stunned neighbour stumbled across the handwritten pages while retrieving the jeans and jumpers for recycling.

The Independent on its front page gives

50 reasons to love the European Union on its 50th anniversary

Finally the Guardian reports on

Dreaming of the seaside: Freud's travel letters tell of happy days in Blackpool

He loved the sand, he loved the sea, he even loved the weather and the food: a quarter of a century later Sigmund Freud's memories of the bliss of paddling in Blackpool were so vivid that he included them in his landmark 1900 work The Interpretation of Dreams.
His first visit to England in 1875, aged 19, when he stayed with relations in Manchester and then went beachcombing and rock pool hunting at Blackpool, was also his first sight of the sea.

A selection of his travel letters will go on display from tomorrow in the museum at his last London home, along with an exhibition of contemporary art inspired by one word in his 1908 letter from Blackpool - "Reisemalheurs", the woes of travel. The shock in the Blackpool letter was that apart from damp cravats and straw hats, there were no woes. "He was an unambivalent anglophile," said museum curator Michael Molnar. "He really loved England and English culture."