The papers have a varied look this morning,the Mirror stays on the theme of the Virginia Tech shootings,havin tracked down the aging grandfather of the killer.

SON OF A BITCH

THE grandfather of Cho Seung-Hui said yesterday: "Son of a bitch. It serves him right he died with his victims."Kim Hyang-Sik, 82, said he had a doom-laden dream of Cho's parents the night of his murderous rampage - and woke to hear the news of the massacre and his grandson's death.He watched Cho's sick video of himself holding a gun to his head.His sister Kim Yang-Sun, 85, who also saw it, told the Mirror that afterwards her brother was so distraught he had "gone away for a few days to calm himself down and avoid more questions".She too repeatedly referred to the killer as "son of a bitch" or "a***hole" and said his mother Kim Hyang-Yim had problems with him from infancy.

The Sun finds a British victim

Brit: Cho shot me then himself

A STUDENT was shot three times by Virginia Tech maniac Cho Seung-Hui — then listened as the killer blew his own brains out.Colin Lynam Goddard — whose father is British — was the last victim targeted by Cho during Monday’s rampage in which 33 died.Incredibly all three of the madman’s shots MISSED vital organs — striking his leg, shoulder and buttock.And wounded Colin listened as Cho, 23, then turned a gun on himself and slumped dead in a US university classroom.

Series of missed chances that let a potential killer slip through the net says the Times

Police and university officials struggled to explain yesterday how Cho Seung Hui was allowed to remain at Virginia Tech after he was declared “mentally ill” and “an imminent danger to others” nearly 18 months ago.As more teachers came forward to say that they had raised concerns with officials as long ago as 2005 over Cho’s violent and sexually disturbed writings, Tim Kaine, the Governor of Virginia, announced an independent review of how the police and university dealt with the massacre, and why Cho appeared to have been unmonitored despite his treatment in a mental health facility in December 2005. “Why he slipped through the net is a very valid question,” Mr Kaine said. “The team will be looking into aspects of this troubled young man who received treatment in some instances.”

The Guardian leads with Britian'sown gun laws,

Police call for tougher gun crime laws

One of the UK's most senior police officers has called for new laws that would compel the public to give information to the police about gun crime - whether they want to or not.In an interview with the Guardian, Bernard Hogan-Howe, the chief constable of Merseyside police and a contender to be next commissioner of the Met, said it was clear that more and more young people were getting involved in gun crime and that they were being protected by a wall of silence.He said the only way to address this was to adopt laws similar to those in Australia "where people have a duty to report information about gun crime to the police". He also believes the laws should extend to victims of gun crime who survive being shot but refuse to make a complaint because of fears of reprisals."The challenge is: people who survive do not want to complain and the best witness is quite often the victim who can help provide a description and motive. By refusing to help it can put the investigation on to the back foot."

Health is once again a topic in many of the papers

Dental patients in CJD alert is the lead in the Telegraph

Dentists have been told not to re-use instruments for root canal work because they could infect patients with the human form of mad cow disease.Although there have been no known cases of anyone contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from dental work, Dr Barry Cockcroft, the Chief Dental Officer for England, said instruments that were difficult to clean should not be used more than once "because of a possible risk of infecting patients". About a million NHS root canal treatments, in which the nerve is removed from a tooth and replaced with a filling, are carried out every year in England and Wales.

NEW ALERT OVER DANGERS IN FRUIT claims the Express

TOXIC chemicals have been found on fruit given to millions of schoolchildren every day under a Government healthy-eating scheme.Three quarters of the fresh produce provided free to youngsters is contaminated with potentially harmful pesticides, tests revealed yesterday. Apples, bananas and pears were among the most polluted.The results raise fears that pupils as young as four are being exposed to a “cocktail” of cancer-causing chemicals. Children are known to be in the greatest danger because their bodies are still developing.

Scientists prove that salty diet costs lives says the Times

Eating less salt reduces the chances of suffering a heart attack or stroke, the first long-term study of salt’s impact on health confirms today.The findings, from a 15-year study, offer the clearest evidence yet that cutting salt consumption saves lives by reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease. People who ate less salty food were found to have a 25 per cent lower risk of cardiac arrest or stroke, and a 20 per cent lower risk of premature death. The results, published in the British Medical Journal, underline the need for population-wide salt reductions in the diet, the scientists conclude.

The Independent presents the evidence that global warming has reached a critical point in one part of the world

Australia's epic drought: The situation is grim

Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.The Murray-Darling basin in south-eastern Australia yields 40 per cent of the country's agricultural produce. But the two rivers that feed the region are so pitifully low that there will soon be only enough water for drinking supplies. Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns attributed to global warming and a government that is only just starting to wake up to the severity of the position.The Prime Minister, John Howard, a hardened climate-change sceptic, delivered dire tidings to the nation's farmers yesterday. Unless there is significant rainfall in the next six to eight weeks, irrigation will be banned in the principal agricultural area. Crops such as rice, cotton and wine grapes will fail, citrus, olive and almond trees will die, along with livestock.

Threat to food crops as Australia prepares to turn off farmers’ water says the Times

Australians have been told to pray for rain or face a ban on irrigation in the main food-growing region so that there is enough water to drink.The Prime Minister’s warning yesterday heralded a dramatic increase in food prices and the prospect of tens of thousands of farmers having to watch their crops fail.John Howard said that an expert panel had advised the Government that the worst drought in the nation’s history left it no choice but to turn off irrigation systems in the agricultural heartland of the Murray-Darling basin in the east.

One child under six is expelled every week reports the Telegraph

Official Government figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that increasing numbers of children are being barred from primary school for offences as serious as sexual assault, theft, racism and even drug dealing.In an alarming disclosure, it is revealed that 230 pupils are suspended and six are permanently excluded from primary schools in England every day during term time.In the reception year alone, 60 pupils aged four or five were expelled in just 12 months - a three-fold increase compared to year earlier. A further 960 - or five a day - were suspended.

The Mail leads with the story that

Complaints treble at the great British Gas bill swindle

The former state-owned company, which supplies both gas and electricity, was described as "in meltdown" by energy watchdogs.Customers have received estimated bills for far greater amounts of energy than they are actually using.Their direct debits have been set much too high and some complain that payments have still been taken from their bank accounts even though they have switched to a rival.

Renewables firms left idle as DTI halts green grants reports the Guardian

Renewables firms are laying off staff because the government has shut its grant scheme that helps households adopt green energy technologies such as solar panels. The grant suspension means not a penny has been committed to any household since March 1, leading to accusations that it has made a mockery of the government's green credentials.The Department of Trade and Industry has tried to support the fledgling renewables industry in recent years with a series of grant schemes designed to make technologies such as solar, wind and ground source heat pumps cheap enough to appeal to domestic users.

Most of the papers report on the story of

Found hanged: The bullied 11-year-old boy who even the bus driver called names

The Mail reporting that

When Ben Vodden told his mother he was being bullied on the school bus, she advised him to sit next to the driver.Yet rather than look after him, the driver joined in the taunts and called the 11-year-old names, it has been claimed.Ben finally was found hanged after enduring months of bullying by pupils on the bus, an inquest heard.The boy – nicknamed Giggles by his family because of his "fun-loving and enthusiastic" nature – was found with shoelaces around his neck and tied to his bunk bed.

MISS SENT TEXT BLITZ TO BOY, 15 reports the Mirror

A MARRIED teacher accused of seducing a boy of 15 bombarded him with up to 63 text messages a day, it was claimed yesterday.Jenine Saville-King, 29, sent the unnamed pupil 100 texts in two days while pregnant by her husband.Police also found 200 pages of emails sent to each other over just three months on his computer. Prosecutors allege she had a year-long affair in 2005 but they did not have full sex until he turned 16.She denies ever having sex with the schoolboy.

The Sun has an exclusive

Blair:No poll on EU treaty

TONY Blair’s last act as PM on the world stage will be to draw up a new EU treaty — WITHOUT giving voters a say.The PM last night admitted he will come under fire for agreeing to surrender power to Brussels.And he accepted the treaty — which would lead to a permanent EU president and foreign minister — would take away Britain’s veto on areas including law and order.But Mr Blair was adamant there will be no UK poll. He said: “If it is not a constitutional treaty so that it alters the basic relationship between Europe and member states, then there isn’t the case for a referendum.”

Which is also the lead in the Ft

Blair drops plan for EU referendum

Tony Blair has ditched plans to hold a British referendum on a new European Union treaty, and wants an agreement on a scaled-back version of the EU constitution at a Brussels summit in the days before he leaves office.The British prime minister is likely to be pilloried by the domestic media and his political rivals and accused of performing a U-turn.ADVERTISEMENTHe told the Financial Times, however, that a limited new treaty, focused on updating the EU’s rules and institutions, did not require a referendum.

Meanwhile the Independent reports that

Blair attacks Cameron for his 'lack of strategy'

Tony Blair will mount a strong attack on David Cameron today in which he will dismiss the idea that the Tory leader is his natural successor.In a speech in his Sedgefield constituency, the Prime Minister will admit the Conservatives have "learnt the tactics of opposition" but insist they do not have a "strategy for government". He will try to steady Labour's nerves by arguing that the Tories are "beatable" at the next general election.Mr Blair will make Labour's most detailed analysis of "the Cameron effect" in an attempt to halt the Tory leader's bandwagon ahead of next month's elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English councils.

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Asia's richest woman leaves clairvoyant £2bn

Mrs Wang, 69, died childless and had not named an heir to the Chinachem property empire she built up from the business of her husband, Teddy, who was kidnapped by gangsters in 1990 and never seen again.But reports in the Hong Kong media that a will, dated last year, names Tony Chan Chun-chuen as its sole beneficiary - albeit with a clause that the fortune-teller should use the money in a "good and proper way" - are likely to herald a new round of legal battles over her wealth. Two years ago she won an exhaustive fight against her father-in-law Wang Din-sin over her husband's third and final will. He had accused her of forging it.