The news that one of the four soldiers killed in Iraq was a friend of Prince William dominates the papers this morning along with further revelations from the returning Iranian hostages.

Prince mourns friend killed in Iraq is the front of the Telegraph

Joanna Dyer, 24, a 2nd lieutenant, died alongside three other soldiers and a civilian interpreter when their Warrior armoured vehicle was destroyed by a "colossal" blast in southern Iraq.
The other troops were named by the Ministry of Defence yesterday as Cpl Kris O'Neill, 27, Pte Eleanor Dlugosz, 19 and Kingsman Adam Smith, also 19.
Passing out in the same company as Prince William in December after a year's officer training, 2nd Lt Dyer decided to deploy immediately to Iraq to gain operational experience.
Attached to the 2Bn the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, she quickly gained a reputation as a highly competent officer. From her time at Sandhurst she would have also known Prince Harry, who deploys to southern Iraq next month with the Blues and Royals.
In a statement released by Clarence House, Prince William said he was "deeply saddened to hear the tragic news of Joanna Dyer's death".
The statement added: "Jo was a close friend of his at Sandhurst

WILLIAM'S GRIEF FOR IRAQ PAL headlines the Mirror.

PRINCE William was yesterday devastated to learn one of the two women soldiers killed by a Iraqi bomb was a close friend.
Second Lieutenant Jo Dyer, 24, left, trained alongside Wills at Sandhurst and they stayed in touch after graduating together. A spokesman said: "Prince William was deeply saddened to learn the tragic news of Jo Dyer's death. Jo was a close friend of his at Sandhurst and he is very much thinking of her friends and family right now. They will remain in his thoughts and prayers."


Prince William mourns friend killed in Iraq says the Mail

One, 24-year-old Joanna Dyer, trained with Prince Wiliam at Sandhurst and marched proudly alongside him at their passing-out parade just four months ago.
The other, Medical Corps Private Eleanor Dlugosz, 19 , from Southampton, was mourned yesterday as a caring girl devoted to helping others before herself.
Their deaths, and fresh revelations about the ordeal of sailor Faye Turney in Iran, last night threw the spotlight on to the role of women in the armed forces.

The Guardian leads with the treatment of the Iranian hostages

Someone said, 'Lads, I think we're going to be executed'

The British hostages held captive in Iran for a fortnight yesterday told of the moments they thought they were about to be executed by their captors as the first full account of their ordeal was made public.
The most frightening time was when the 14 men and one woman, Faye Turney, were lined up against a wall, handcuffed and blindfolded. They heard weapons being cocked and some of them thought they were about to be shot.

Bound and isolated — fighting back was simply not an option’ says the Times

The British captives held by Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen described yesterday how they were bound, blindfolded and lined up against a wall while weapons were cocked behind them.
Defending themselves against suggestions that they surrendered too readily and were too eager to cooperate with their captors, they said that they had feared the worst and that fighting back was simply not an option.
Watched by family members, six of the fifteen Royal Navy sailors and Marines arrived to prolonged applause at a press conference at the Royal Marine Base at Chivenor, North Devon, before outlining their two-week ordeal. With a Union Flag as a backdrop, they insisted that they were outside Iranian waters when captured. But they were told they faced seven years in jail if they refused to admit that they had strayed.

The paper though leads with events at home

Pregnant woman shot dead in parking row

A pregnant woman was shot dead in her hallway yesterday over a parking row between neighbours.
Krystal Hart, 22, was killed as she confronted a gunman who had gone looking for her boyfriend after an argument outside her home in an area of Battersea, southwest London, dubbed “Nappy Valley” because of its high number of preteenage children and “café culture” of middle-class, affluent families.
Police raided houses near the murder scene last night. Earlier they said that the killing yesterday morning seemed to have been the culmination of an escalating dispute between neighbours. Officers have not made any arrests but said they wanted to speak to a white man aged between 30 and 50.

Pregnant woman shot dead in 'parking rage' dispute says the Independent

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, of Scotland Yard, said last night that officers were examining the possibility that the death was connected to a "low-level" parking dispute with a neighbour that had been going on for "months". There may also have been an argument over noise.
He said police had some suspects "in mind" and had also searched a nearby property. Mr Sutton said Ms Hart had been shot at "very close range", probably with a handgun.

Boy, 13 arrested over another fatal stabbing reports the Mail

A 14-year-old was killed in the attack last night, becoming the sixth teenager to die in a knife attack in just a month.
Police said the two victims were friends and the 15 year old remained in hospital.
Police were called to Leytonstone, North-east London, shortly before 8pm yesterday after being told that two youths had received serious stab injuries.
Police have not named the teenagers but said both were black and lived in the Leytonstone area.

The Mirror meanwhile reports from the Japanese murder investigation

SICK TEEN FANTASIES OF LINDSAY SUSPECT

THE creepy fugitive suspected of murdering British teacher Lindsay Hawker wrote a teenage essay about becoming a Peeping Tom.
Tatsuya Ichihashi, 28, was 13 when he revealed his disturbing obsession after being asked by a teacher to describe his dreams for the future.
A friend said: "He wrote vividly about how he fantasised seeing girls up close as they were changing and going about their business.
"There was a huge commotion when he handed in the essay. It obviously wasn't appropriate and he was told to start again."
Loner Ichihashi has been hunted for almost two weeks since Lindsay's battered body was found buried in a bathtub of sand on the balcony of his fourth-floor Tokyo flat.


The latest report on climate change is heavily featured,the Indy's front page shows four pictures of

The children who will pay the Price for Climate Change

Humanity will be divided as never before by climate change, with the world's poor its disproportionate victims, the latest United Nations report on the coming effects of global warming made clear yesterday.
Existing divisions between rich and poor countries will be sharply exacerbated by the pattern of climate-change impacts in the coming years, predicted in the study from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Increased drought, crop failure, disease, extreme weather events and sea level rise are all likely to fall much more heavily on struggling populations in Africa, Asia and South America than on the rich industrial societies of Europe, North America and Australia - who have done most to cause global warming through greenhouse gas emissions in the past, and who are best able to afford counter-measures to limit its consequences.

Scientists' stark warning on reality of warmer world reports the Guardian

The world's scientists yesterday issued a grim forecast for life on earth when they published their latest assessment of the impacts of climate change.
A warming world will place hundreds of millions of extra people at greater risk of food and water shortages and threaten the survival of thousands of species of plants and animals, they said. Floods, heatwaves, storms and droughts are all expected to increase, with people in poorer countries suffering the worst effects.

Global warming 'will kill billions' says the Sun

BILLIONS face death from hunger, drought, disease and natural disasters, the world’s climate change experts warned yesterday.
Years of rising sea levels will also destroy coastal cities like New York and Tokyo.
And a third of the planet’s animals and plants could be wiped out. The doomsday scenario is the bleakest yet from scientists, who blamed man-made greenhouse gases.
The shock report from the influential United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the leading world authority on the subject — said up to 3.2billion people will face water shortages within 80 years. A further 600million could be left starving. Millions more will die in heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and storms triggered by global warming.

IS THIS THE END FOR THE BRITISH GARDEN? says the Express

CLASSIC flowers like pansies, lupins and ­delphiniums may soon vanish from British gardens, experts warn today.
Lush green lawns and blooming borders – iconic symbols of Britain – could become extinct as we ­experience longer, hotter summers.Traditional plants will be replaced by Mediterranean varieties such as palm trees and cacti as soils dry out.Frustrated gardeners are already turning to plants more suited to drier climates and sales of tropical blooms are booming.

Violent past comes back to haunt English football fans says the Times

European football officials yesterday declared a state of emergency over the rising wave of clashes between police and English supporters in Italy and Spain.
Uefa, European football’s governing body, said that cultural differences between police and fans meant the sport was in danger of returning to the 1980s, when violence was endemic. It announced that it was to launch formal investigations into events in Rome and Seville where British fans claimed they were subject to violent attacks by police officers.
Yesterday John Reid, the Home Secretary, and Richard Caborn, the Sports Minister, expressed serious concern at the treatment of supporters of Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur by police in Rome and Seville respectively.

Are we returning to the dark ages? asks the Guardian

In this country there remains an undercurrent of football hooliganism but because it has been suppressed so well by the authorities we don't even think about it any more. So my first reaction when I saw the violence in Rome and Seville was disappointment - I thought we'd seen the last of this sort of thing.
Sadly the fact of the matter is there's always going to be an element that will simply not back down from confrontation. When you get that element released from the shackles imposed on them by the English authorities and they walk into an area where the police are very intimidating, if something does kick off they will react.


Road charges equipment introduced by stealth reports the Telegraph

The Government was accused of bringing in road charges by stealth last night as it emerged that technology capable of running the system is already being introduced.
Ministers have repeatedly insisted that no final decision has been made on pay-as-you-go road charges, proposals for which led 1.8 million people to sign a petition on the 10 Downing Street website against the idea.
But it has emerged that nearly £500 million is being spent by the Highways Agency to install communications equipment needed to make road pricing a reality.

The Sun leads with news of

Ant 'n' Dec's £40m Takeaway

ANT and Dec are set to pocket an incredible £20million EACH in their ground-breaking ITV deal.
The estimated £40million for the Saturday Night Takeaway hosts dwarfs deals agreed by TV kings Simon Cowell and Jonathan Ross.
X Factor’s Mr Nasty Cowell signed a £20million ITV contract in December while Ross clinched an £18million BBC deal last summer.

Finally two stories from the Holy Land.

Unholy dispute over sewage spoils Easter at the site of Christ's tomb reports the Indy

A fierce inter-denominational dispute over precedence at what Orthodox Christians believe is the Easter miracle of Holy Fire is holding up desperately needed repairs to the 122-year-old lavatory block at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the focal point of Christianity.
The latrines at the church in Jerusalem are currently emitting an acrid stench because of a blockage in a gradually descending drain that takes waste under the adjacent Coptic monastery.
Plans are being drawn up for a wholesale restoration of both the lavatories - originally constructed for monks living in the Church but now also used by the visiting and worshipping public - and the drainage system to prevent the frequent blockages.


The Guardian reports from

On Via Dolorosa, world's pilgrims gather by souvenir stalls

Miljkovic Milivoje, a Serbian iron worker, had been up since before dawn. Mid-morning yesterday, he was sitting on a low wall opposite the Sixth Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in the heart of Jerusalem's Old City. In his left hand was a walking stick and in his right a wooden crucifix he had bought earlier on his pilgrimage holiday after a long climb to the Greek Orthodox chapel on Mount Sinai in Egypt...........

These days the Via Dolorosa is paved with souvenir shops. Alongside the crosses and rosary beads on sale are baseball caps marked "Israel Army". T-shirts with messages such as "America don't worry, Israel is behind you" hang next to posters with pictures from the British Mandate era that read "Visit Palestine". The Old City was crowded with pilgrim tourists, partly because several of the largest Christian sects celebrate Holy Week and Easter Sunday on the same dates this year. The influx is partly due to the sense of greater security. After the eruption of the second intifada in 2000 and the wave of suicide bombings and Israeli military incursions into the occupied West Bank, tourists shied away. Now there are far fewer bombings.