Cash for honours 'cover-up' email sparked Goldsmith gag says the Telegraph
Party fund-raiser had been obtained by the BBC which was preparing to read excerpts on air as evidence of a Downing Street "cover-up".
The email is understood to relate to Ruth Turner, the head of government relations, and Lord Levy, Labour's chief fund-raiser, who have both been arrested over the alleged awarding of honours in return for big loans to the party.
Whilst the Mail leads with
Law chief wanted secret gag on the BBC
Tony Blair's most senior law adviser tried to impose a draconian ban to prevent the public learning about the gagging order that stopped the BBC revealing a major police breakthrough in the loans-for-peerages scandal.
Whilst the paper reveals that it has also been the subject of an injunction
The extraordinary news came as Attorney General Lord Goldsmith threatened a similar injunction against The Mail on Sunday.
The newspaper was last night given a ten-minute deadline to provide an undertaking not to publish the findings of our own inquiry into new evidence uncovered by police.
The Observer has an interview with the Prime Minister in which admits
my mistakes over plan to quit
Tony Blair has admitted for the first time that he regrets the way his lengthy departure has created 'uncertainty' for a government now racked by a divisive battle over who will succeed him.
In a wide-ranging interview with Mary Riddell in today's Observer, the Prime Minister spoke frankly of his doubts over whether he had done the right thing by pre-announcing that he would not fight a fourth election. But he suggested the upheaval could have been worse if he had not been open about his intentions, and said he hoped his departure would finally draw the sting over the war in Iraq. Blair also quashed speculation about a snap election to give Gordon Brown a mandate as leader, suggesting it would be a 'significant time' before Britain next goes to the polls.
The Sunday Times reveals
Blair’s billionaire buddies
TONY BLAIR is wooing some of America’s biggest billionaires with a Downing Street reception during his final days in power, including the tycoon who hired Bill Clinton after he left office.
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, regarded as one of London’s most influential political hostesses, has arranged the select gathering. At least seven billionaires with a combined worth of more than £25 billion are on the guest list.
Among those invited are Ronald Burkle, the financier and grocery retailer who gave Clinton a multi-million-dollar post as adviser to a private equity fund. The event will offer a key networking opportunity for Blair as he prepares for life after government.
Invitations have been discreetly circulated among the super-rich in New York society in recent weeks. If wealthy benefactors are willing to donate at least $25,000 (£13,000) to the Tate gallery, they are automatically invited to meet Tony and Cherie Blair in Downing Street.
It leads though with the story that
Children of 11 to be fingerprinted
The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports.
The Home Office expects 545,000 children aged 11 and over to have their prints taken in 2011, with the figure settling at an annual 495,000 from 2014. Their fingerprints will be held on a database also used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to store the fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. The plans are outlined in a series of “restricted” documents circulating among officials in the Identity and Passport Service. They form part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards.
DNA 'WILL BE STOLEN' FROM ID CARDS says the Express
FORMER Home Secretary Charles Clarke has called for DNA details to be put on the identity cards database – despite warnings it will be accessed by crooks.Mr Clarke argues that current Government plans for ID cards are too timid and that the more information placed on them, the safer they will be from abuse.But last night the Home Office admitted fraudsters can already scan biometric passports without our knowledge.
According to the front page of the Independent
Women's deaths soar in NHS midwives crisis
Record numbers of women are being harmed or dying as a direct result of childbirth in what doctors are labelling a "crisis" in maternity care.
There has been a rise of 21 per cent in deaths of pregnant women in the care of NHS maternity services. Deaths over the past three years now total 391, up one fifth on the comparable period, and 17,000 women have suffered physical harm while on labour wards.
The scale of the maltreatment has led to soaring medical negligence claims from mothers. The bill to the NHS has hit £1bn for the past five years. Two-thirds of the 100 largest payouts by NHS trusts for medical negligence are now to women who have suffered traumatic childbirth experiences, according to figures published this week by the Government.
The Telegraph reveals
Ukip official gave money to the BNP
David Abbott, a general practitioner who serves on Ukip's ruling national executive committee, made a donation to American Friends of BNP while he was living and working in the US.
He also attended a meeting in America at which Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was a guest speaker and the two men met afterwards. Later, having returned to Britain, Dr Abbott attended an annual dinner of the Trafalgar Club, a fund-raising group for the BNP, at which Mr Griffin was again present
The Sunday Mirror reveals what really happened in the divorce courts this week.Under the front page Beatled the paper reports
SIR Paul McCartney believes he is on the brink of a sensational victory in his divorce battle with Heather Mills.
After two days locked behind closed doors in court 47 at the High Court in London, he told friends: "The judge is a good guy. He's on our side. We've won every point to date."
The Sunday Mirror can today reveal exactly what happened when the warring parties in Britain's most explosive divorce came face-to-face in court this week before Mr Justice Bennett.
Heather's claims that Sir Paul physically attacked her and mocked her amputated leg were forensically dissected in a two-day assault on her credibility.
The News of the World meanwhikle exposes a soap star on its front page
CORRIE JIMMIE IN NEW DRUGS SHAME the paper prints a picture showing
THIS is the depraved, shameful moment drug-numbed Corrie favourite Jimmi Harkishin chucks his career down the pan.
Hunched and trembling in the corner of a club, loo roll at his feet, he vomits into a red bucket in front of shocked children's charity night guests.
As he hold his head in his hands and drools spittle, the actor is barely conscious after taking the hallucinogenic drug ketamine, a powerful horse tranquiliser.
And the report continues
But minutes after our exclusive pictures were taken his condition worsened dramatically.
Jimmi — womanising shopkeeper Dev in the soap — collapsed completely and had to be carried unconscious by bouncers into a back room.
One onlooker said: "It was alarming and humiliating for a celebrity. But Jimmi was so gone he wasn't even aware.
"It took two men to carry him and a third to carry the red sick bucket and loo roll."
The star refused to let staff call an ambulance. He later recovered and was heard complaining to a pal that something had been spiked. He said: "Someone's given me ketamine."
And more drugs in the Mirror where
SIENNA: DRUGS ARE A LOAD OF FUN
The actress said she tried heroin-substitute morphine to research her latest film role - in which she plays tragic addict Edie Sedgwick, who died of an overdose aged just 28. But Sienna's favourite drug was magic mushrooms. Asked why she thought people take drugs, Sienna said: "Because they're f***loads of fun."
The Independent reports on the growing crisis in the armed forces
Operation Overstretch: Armed forces are at breaking point as tours of duty get tougher
The past fortnight has seen a rush of announcements which emphasise the far-flung nature of Britain's military commitments since the start of the century. Tony Blair - who had earlier stayed away from a Commons debate on Iraq - told Parliament that the long-awaited withdrawal from the south of the country would begin with the departure of 1,600 troops this spring. A day and a half later, Des Browne, the Secretary of State for Defence, announced that 1,400 more troops would be sent to southern Afghanistan, where British forces had to fight desperately last summer to avoid being overwhelmed by the Taliban.
The Observer reports that
Kidnap Britons sighted in Eritrea
The five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia were sighted yesterday in an Eritrean army camp, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the border between the countries.
The sighting, in a camp near the village of Ara-Ta, confirms that the Britons are being held by Eritrean soldiers and not local people and suggests there has been a dramatic escalation in tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
British sources in Ethiopia confirmed the sighting of the five Foreign Office and British Council workers who were travelling in the area. The sources said the kidnap represented a calculated effort by the Eritreans to destabilise the border.
Moon turns red over Britain reports the Telegraph finally
The first total eclipse of the moon in three years was visible across swathes of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as a showery day gave way to a crisp night.
The surface of the full Moon first went dark before turning a coppery red, to the delight of the many people who went outside to watch the display
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