The Sun asks HOW MUCH MORE?
TWO more British hostages were seen on Iranian TV last night “apologising” to their captors.
The men, wearing combat fatigues, were shown in short clips pointing to a map of the Persian Gulf.
The sick broadcast came as the British Embassy in Tehran was “bombed” by protesters hurling firecrackers and rocks.
A FORCED CONFESSION says the Mirror
IRAN'S leaders cynically stoked up the tension over the 15 Royal Navy hostages last night by parading two more crewmen on TV.
Royal Marine Captain Chris Air and Lieutenant Felix Carmen were made to point at charts that supposedly showed their patrol boats were in Iranian waters when they and their colleagues were snatched 11 days ago.
The two men appeared in separate video clips wearing military fatigues and pointing at the same charts. The charts had the words "the point where military boats were captured" scrawled on them in red pen.
The pair were clearly talking to the camera but Iran's state-owned Al-Alam TV station did not broadcast their voices. Instead, a newscaster said the two had "confessed" to illegally trespassing into Iranian waters.
The Independent's Robert Fisk leads with an article
The war of humiliation
Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it's definitely not the war on terror. It's the war of humiliation. The humiliation of Britain, the humiliation of Tony Blair, of the British military, of George Bush and the whole Iraqi shooting match. And the master of humiliation - even if Tony Blair doesn't realise it - is Iran, a nation which feels itself forever humiliated by the West.
It is 25 years since another foreign humiliation was heaped on the country and the Mail reminds us on its front page
Beckett insults Falklands dead
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has outraged Falklands veterans by expressing 'continuing regret' over both Argentinian and British casualties during the 1982 war.
They accused her of insulting the memory of 255 fallen comrades by putting their deaths on a par with those among the invaders of the islands.
The Foreign Secretary was also accused of showing dangerous weakness in the face of resurgent nationalism in Argentina, which is stepping up its efforts to reclaim the islands.
Veterans were furious that her statement marking today's 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion did not mention the heroism of the UK forces who liberated the islands 74 days later, after Margaret Thatcher sent a task force.
Twenty five years after the Falklands War, Britain and Argentina are as far from settling the dispute as ever, MPs have been warned.
Falkland Islanders marked the anniversary of the war by warning yesterday that calls for the "Malvinas" to be reclaimed are rising again in Argentina.
The cost of maintaining British forces in the Falklands is £143m a year but the British Government will not reopen discussions on the sovereignty of the islands, said Alan Huddle, the governor of the Falklands
The Times continues to lead on the pensions ramifications
Pensions scandal hits Brown leadership bid
The pensions scandal engulfing Gordon Brown last night fuelled speculation that he will face a serious challenge to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister. He also faces the prospect of an embarrassing Commons debate in which the Tories hope to have him made personally accountable.
John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, renewed his call for a contest for the Labour leadership as former ministers and senior MPs admitted that the furore had increased the chances of a serious challenger stepping forward. They said that it sowed serious doubts about Mr Brown’s judgment and economic competence.
The Guardian reports that
Pensions row: CBI denies backing Brown's cuts
The row over the government's pensions policy deepened yesterday as business leaders dismissed ministers' claims that they had lobbied for Gordon Brown's controversial tax changes in 1997.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act late on Friday showed that the chancellor was warned about his plans to remove a key tax benefit enjoyed by pension funds in his first budget. Civil servants warned that the cuts could lead to the closure of many occupational pension schemes.
Acording to the Telegraph
Brown could face pensions inquiry
A possible investigation by the influential Commons Treasury committee into one of the most controversial actions of his decade as Chancellor threatens embarrassing publicity during his leadership campaign this summer.
The Tory MP Michael Fallon, deputy chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said yesterday that he will propose an investigation into Mr Brown's 1997 decision, which ultimately cost pensions an estimated £100 billion and contributed to the collapse of hundreds of schemes.
It leads with the news that
Property market 'heading for a fall in 2008'
Soaring prices are putting properties out of reach for many, with unaffordability reaching the worst level since the end of the last major crash, according to figures produced for The Daily Telegraph.
The warning coincides with news that the average mortgage rate has reached seven per cent, with millions of households paying well above the Bank of England's 5.25 per cent.
The Express disagrees on its front page
The Guardian leads with the story that
British team grows human heart valve from stem cells
A British research team led by the world's leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled for later this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from heart disease within three years.
Sir Magdi Yacoub, a professor of cardiac surgery at Imperial College London, has worked on ways to tackle the shortage of donated hearts for transplant for more than a decade. His team at the heart science centre at Harefield hospital have grown tissue that works in the same way as the valves in human hearts, a significant step towards the goal of growing whole replacement hearts from stem cells.
The Times reports on the
Briton tells of his four-year ‘nightmare’ at Guantanamo
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee spoke yesterday of the sense of hopelessness he felt during his 4½year incarceration at the internment camp.
“My nightmare is finally at an end,” said Bisher al-Rawi, 39, after returning to his family’s home in New Malden, southwest London.
Mr al-Rawi was briefly detained for a security check at Luton airport on Friday night. But unlike other Britons who have been freed from the camp, at a US naval base on Cuba, he was neither arrested nor questioned by police about terrorist activity. Mr al-Rawi was detained in The Gambia in 2002 while on a business trip and flown to Afghanistan and then Guantanamo by the CIA. He said he had endured a “horrific experience”.
Log on, sell out: says the Indy.
Glastonbury tickets go in just 90 minutes
In the rebel days of the 20th Century, covert bands of tenacious campers mounted moonlit ascents of its fences or slipped £20 notes to security guards to enter its hallowed fields.
But in the information age, the Glastonbury Festival has moved away from its haphazard past and turned to technology to match its rising importance on the social and commercial calendar.
Fans wishing to attend Britain's biggest music festival had to supply their personal details and a passport photo in advance to acquire a ticket when they went on sale yesterday. All 135,000 were sold in 90 minutes, setting a new record.
The Mirror reports on the sad story that
SPIDER IN CAR LED TO KILLER CRASH
A MOTHER died the day before her son's wedding after being terrified by a tiny spider while driving.
Brenda Sharpe, 67, was on her way back from the final rehearsal for the ceremony when she saw the spider between the sun visors in her Peugeot 106.
She swerved across the road, smashed head-on into a bus and died from multiple injuries.
Her passenger Aileen Havice - the mother of the bride - had minor injuries
Pilot led from plane in cuffs reports the Sun
THE “drunk” skipper of a Virgin Atlantic flight was hauled off his plane in HANDCUFFS in front of shocked passengers.
Police swooped after being alerted by security staff who suspected the £120,000-a-year flier had been boozing.
The pilot, 47, was then breathalysed and arrested behind the controls — as more than 300 people on board flight VS003 waited to take off for New York.
Finally the Express reports that
CROSS-CHANNEL BRIDGE PLANS REVEALED
Holidaymakers could have paid just £5.60 to drive to France on a vast Channel suspension bridge if plans submitted to Margaret Thatcher's government had gone ahead, official records have revealed.
Dismissing the option of tunnelling under the water as "impractical", civil engineers submitted a detailed proposal to construct a three-lane motorway between the two countries.A span of 21 miles between Dover, or perhaps Folkestone, was suggested. Cars and freight traffic could drive 220 feet above the choppy waters of the Channel.Motorists, it was estimated, would pay a toll charge of £5.60 per person in their vehicle while lorry drivers could be charged £8 to use the route.
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