The exclusive interviews with the freed British captives appear in the papers today along with some hostile reaction.

FAYE MY ORDEAL is the Sun's front page

FREED British hostage Faye Turney told last night how she feared she was being measured for her COFFIN by her evil Iranian captors.
The sickening charade was an act of mental torture — but to Navy sailor Faye it was terrifyingly real.
The 25-year-old mum was kept in total isolation for five of the 13 days she was held in Tehran.
She recalled: “One morning, I heard the noise of wood sawing and nails being hammered near my cell. I couldn’t work out what it was. Then a woman came into my cell to measure me up from head to toe with a tape.

ARTHUR: I WAS FROZEN WITH TERROR.. TO BE HONEST I JUST CRIED LIKE A BABY as the Mirror interviews the youngest member of the group.

The 20-year-old sailor Arthur - youngest of the 15 Brits snatched by the Iranians - bravely battled to retain his composure but eventually broke down and sobbed like a baby in his tiny cell because he was sure execution was imminent.
He also revealed that Faye was convinced she was going to be raped after fanatical Revolutionary Guards who seized them became agitated on discovering they had captured a woman.
Arthur said: "The blood drained from her face and Faye whispered 'There's going to be a rape involved in this'."

The Mail though can only express its

Outrage as Iran captives cash in

Captured sailor Faye Turney and her fellow hostages were accused of 'behaving like reality TV stars' after being given permission to cash in on their ordeal.
The 15 sailors and Marines have been told they can sell their stories to the media by the Ministry of Defence, which bracketed the "exceptional circumstances" surrounding their 13-day ordeal with winners of the Victoria Cross.
News that Mrs Turney alone is likely to make at least £100,000 was condemned by former Defence Ministers, ex-soldiers - and families who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Grieving mother attacks MoD over sale of stories reports the Times

The mother of a 19-year-old service-oman killed in Iraq yesterday condemned the Ministry of Defence for letting 15 freed sailors and Marines profit from media interviews.
Sally Veck told The Times: “If you are a member of the military, it is your duty to serve your country. You should do your duty and not expect to make money by selling stories.”
Her daughter, Eleanor Dlugosz, a medic, was one of four British colleagues killed with their interpreter when a roadside bomb destroyed their Warrior Armoured Vehicle in Basra last Thursday.
Her mother joined veterans and opposition MPs criticising Defence Secretary Des Browne’s unusual decision to let the Iranian detainees sell their stories.

Anger over Iran hostages' media deals reports the Guardian

Critics said it was a politically inspired move, but the MoD argued that the families of the service personnel had already been offered large sums of money to tell their stories and by allowing the former captives to speak it was able to retain some control over the story. The announcement also risked diminishing sympathy for the 15, who had been nervous of the reaction in Britain after they were seen on television in Tehran confessing to entering Iranian waters - a claim they retracted on their return.

The Independent's leading article asks: He who pays the piper calls a dubious tune

The official reasoning seemed to be that the stories of the 15 would get out sooner or later, probably sooner, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. The rulebook might say that serving personnel were not allowed to enter into financial arrangements with media organisations, but what could prevent their nearest and dearest? Far better, officials could - and did - argue that the Navy and the MoD would "have sight" of what they were going to say and provide "proper media support".
Such an explanation invites two responses. It smacks, first, of abject defeatism. What price any rule if those entrusted with enforcing it say they cannot, or choose not to? The 15 ex-captives are military personnel, subject to military discipline. If they cannot be bound by rules, who can? It goes without saying that their story, told in their own words, will command far more credence (and so a higher price) than a story passed by even the best-informed third party.
Which prompts the second response. If the Navy and the MoD are to "have sight" of these interviews and provide "proper media support", how far will they also dictate the content? Are we talking truth here, or censorship and, perhaps, spin? How accurately will these interviews reflect what these former captives experienced? Could we actually be looking at military or political propaganda by other means? We are entering murky waters, where the border between fact and fiction could be every bit as treacherous as that between Iraqi and Iranian waters.

The Telegraph leads with a different angle

Fury as bishops back Iran

The Roman Catholic bishop who oversees the armed forces has provoked fury by praising the Iranian leadership for its "forgiveness" and "act of mercy" in freeing the 15 British sailors and marines last week.

The Bishop of the Forces, the Rt Rev Tom Burns, said that the religious beliefs of the Iranians had played a large part in their decision to release the hostages after holding them for more than two weeks.His words were echoed by a leading Anglican figure, the Right Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, who said Iran had acted within the "moral and spiritual tradition of their country" and contrasted this with Britain's "free-floating attitudes".

Pope condemns the continuing slaughter in Iraq and hunger in Africa reports the Times

In an implicit rebuke to Tony Blair and President Bush, the Pope lamented yesterday that “nothing positive” was coming from Iraq.
The country had been “torn apart by continual slaughter”, he said, while in Afghanistan there was growing unrest and instability. “How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world,” he told the tens of thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square to here his traditional Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World) Easter address. “Peace is sorely needed.”
Pope Benedict XVI’s shimmering gold vestments contrasted with his list of world tragedies. He said that he was thinking of “the scourge of hunger, of incurable disease” and of “terrorism and kidnapping of people, of the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion, of contempt for life, of the violation of human rights and the exploitation of persons”.

The Times reports that

Tory candidate accused of echoing the BNP message

The future of a Conservative candidate was hanging in the balance last night after he became embroiled in a race row over his campaign literature, The Times can reveal.
Luke Mackenzie, a Tory candidate in a British National Party (BNP) target ward in Basildon, was accused of peddling scare stories by suggesting that people who wanted to stop asylum-seekers being given council houses should vote Conservative.
David Cameron faced calls to disown the candidate last night, but the Conservative Party avoided immediate action, saying that it would examine the election leaflet this week. This contrasted with the swift action last month to dismiss Patrick Mercer from the Tory front-bench after he referred to “black bastards” in the Army.

Staying with the Tories the Independent reports that

Terminator to attend Tory conference

Arnold Schwarzenegger is to exchange Sunset Boulevard for the Golden Mile as a guest of honour at this year's Conservative Party conference in Blackpool.
The Austrian-born actor, best known as the Terminator before becoming the Republican governor of California four years ago, will also deliver a keynote address to the Tory faithful.
He was invited in recognition of his environmental track record in California, which has become the first US state to impose a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

The other news that has dominated the weekend is the continued violence in our cities,

East London stabbing victim 'had suffered earlier knife attack at school' reports the Guardian

A schoolboy murdered in an east London block of flats was transferred to a new school by his concerned parents after "bullies" stabbed him last year, his aunt said yesterday.
Paul Erhahon, 14, collapsed in the street in front of his screaming mother after he and a friend were stabbed repeatedly in Leytonstone by a gang of up to 15 youths, just before 8pm on Friday.
He died later in hospital, becoming the sixth Londoner under 17 to be murdered since the end of January. Boys of that age group are being shot or stabbed to death in the capital at the rate of one every 10 days.

Head of stab boys' school speaks of shock says the Telegraph

The headmistress of the school where two pupils have been stabbed to death in less than a month told last night of her shock at the tragedies.Speaking for the first time, Joan Deslandes, head of Kingsford Community School in Beckton, east London, insisted Adam Regis and Paul Erhahon had not been murdered because of gang rivalries in her classrooms.Adam, the 15-year-old nephew of Olympic sprinter John Regis, was killed on his way home from the cinema on March 17 while 14-year-old Paul died after a gang attacked him outside a block of flats on Good Friday.

Man held over killing of pregnant woman reports the Times

Detectives hunting the gunman who shot dead a pregnant woman at her home were questioning a man last night after he walked into a police station. A Scotland Yard spokesman said that a man aged 40 walked into a South London police station yesterday morning. He had been living with his elderly mother a few hundred yards from the scene of the shooting on Good Friday.
Detectives had revealed that they believed the killing could be linked to a row dating back “many months” over loud music and parking.

Krystal boyfriend's heartache reports the Sun

DEVASTATED boyfriend David Siveter lays flowers near the spot where Krystal was shot and sobs as he recalls the last time he saw her alive.
David, the father of Krystal’s unborn baby, visited the murder scene with a woman relative.
He told of the day she was killed, saying: “I kissed her goodbye and said I’d be back soon. I can’t believe I’m never going to see her again. I can’t believe she’s gone.”
He then tenderly placed the bouquet with a message reading: “To my baby girl. True love always and for ever.
“Everything I do now is for you Krystal. Missing you now and for ever.”

Most of the papers report

British woman's ordeal in Indian prison is over says the Indy

Daisy Angus dreamed of seeing the world during her gap year travels. Instead the young fitness instructor from Bournemouth spent nearly five years incarcerated in an Indian jail cell accused, and eventually convicted, of smuggling 10kg of cannabis.
During that time she was taken to hospital several times after contracting malaria. Her father, John, died of leukaemia and her mother, Nadine, fought an expensive and heartbreaking battle to free her, travelling to India whenever possible to be with her daughter and protest her innocence.
Yesterday, the young woman, now 26, who learned Hindi while in jail and taught her fellow inmates English, declared herself "over the moon" after all three of her convictions were quashed by the High Court in Mumbai.

Whilst its front page of the Indpendent asks

Who owns Britain? Biggest landowners agree to reveal scale of holdings

A complete picture of who owns modern Britain is to be created as part of the biggest survey of land ownership since William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday Book nearly a thousand years ago.
But the task is enormous as 40 per cent of land in England and Wales has not been registered by its owners. More than half of all rural land and rural buildings are unregistered.
Under the ambitious scheme sponsored by the Government, some of the country's oldest and most secretive families are to reveal the full scale of their private estates. The Queen and the Prince of Wales are among the biggest landowners who are co-operating with the Land Registry's attempt to plot every acre of land in England and Wales.

Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future as the Guardian looks forward to the future of the army

Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces. It includes an "analysis of the key risks and shocks". Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as "probability-based, rather than predictive".

The Easter sunshine features in the papers

Hats off to splash of Easter sunshine says the Telegraph

Britain basked in sunshine over the bank holiday weekend as temperatures approached 70F (21C).
And the warm spell looks set to continue, with the Met Office forecasting fair weather for the rest of the week and temperatures in the mid-70s on Thursday and Friday.

Including

Also enjoying the warm weather yesterday were the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Accompanied by others from the Royal Family and 400 members of the general public, they gathered at an Easter Sunday service at St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The Queen arrived in a car accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who married the Queen's youngest son, Edward, in the chapel in 1999.
The Queen, dressed in a long raspberry coat and maroon hat with a pink silk flower, paused briefly to wave to public before entering the chapel.

We've got the holiday hots says the Sun

BRITAIN melted in the Easter sun yesterday — and it’s going to get even HOTTER.
London was Europe’s warmest capital along with Athens in Greece as temperatures soared to 20°C (68°F).
And it will be 23°C (73°F) by Thursday or Friday, says the Met Office. It was a day for Easter burn-ies as thousands headed for the beach where temperatures hit 21°C (70°F).

Finally back to the exclusive interviews and the Mirror tells us

THE GOODIE BAGS? THEY WERE A RIGHT LOAD OF RUBBISH.. ..AND THE IRANIANS PINCHED MY IPOD

THE gifts the Iranians gave the crew were a load of junk - and nothing in comparison to what they stole, including Arthur Batchelor's iPod, he said yesterday.
Before their release the Brits were given shabby grey three-piece suits made by a local designer and a fake Hugo Boss shirt.
They also got a "granny bag" full of tat including toffees with a label saying "containing pistachio", a CD and DVD that don't work and 11 books.
These were in English and mostly aimed at trying to convert the reader to Islam with titles like Youth and Morals by Sayid Lari.
Arthur said of the gifts: "They're a bit pathetic. I don't know what they're trying to prove by giving us books on morality and their religion. My morals are fine, thank you very much. And those suits were an insult. Not only did mine not fit, but it was cheap and tacky and the Hugo Boss shirt was a fake. I could pick up a better outfit at a jumble sale."