The Mail leads with the story that will effect Middle England
Millions of holidaymakers face chaos over anti-terror regime
Families heading for Spain this summer face long airport delays because of a new security regime.
The Spanish system, which comes into effect in three weeks, will require every one of millions of travellers to provide detailed personal information before they fly.
Some airlines will be able to collect these details via their websites or travel agents.
But others, including big package holiday companies, do not have this facility, meaning that check-in staff must take down the information using pen and paper.
The Spanish system, which comes into effect in three weeks, will require every one of millions of travellers to provide detailed personal information before they fly.
Some airlines will be able to collect these details via their websites or travel agents.
But others, including big package holiday companies, do not have this facility, meaning that check-in staff must take down the information using pen and paper.
The Mirror continues its coverage of the Maddy affair
A FATHER'S PAIN headlines the paper
ANGUISHED Gerry McCann fought back tears as he read heartfelt messages of hope for his missing daughter Madeleine yesterday.
The 38-year-old spent 15 minutes gazing at thousands of yellow ribbon tributes in his village of Rothley, Leics.
Gerry told friends: "The support is fantastic. We are planning a big party when we return with Madeleine. We've seen all the support here on the TV from Portugal and it has really helped us. People's reaction has been incredible."
The 38-year-old spent 15 minutes gazing at thousands of yellow ribbon tributes in his village of Rothley, Leics.
Gerry told friends: "The support is fantastic. We are planning a big party when we return with Madeleine. We've seen all the support here on the TV from Portugal and it has really helped us. People's reaction has been incredible."
Meanwhile most of the papers carry pictures of the burnt out Cutty Sark, the Independent leads on its front page
Cutty Sark: The ship that defined an age
There is no ship anywhere like the Cutty Sark. She is the last, beautiful remaining product of the golden age of sailing ships, when Britain had world's greatest navy and had perfected the technology to make some of the most elegant cargo ships in history.
Since she has been dry-docked at Greenwich, 15 million people have paid to look inside her, and up to seven million people a year pass through Greenwich gardens to see her from the outside.
There are people in Falmouth who remember her from when she was dry-docked there, and thousands who went through training as naval cadets in Greenwich who remember her from those days. And now she lies charred in her dock, seemingly the victim of arson.
Since she has been dry-docked at Greenwich, 15 million people have paid to look inside her, and up to seven million people a year pass through Greenwich gardens to see her from the outside.
There are people in Falmouth who remember her from when she was dry-docked there, and thousands who went through training as naval cadets in Greenwich who remember her from those days. And now she lies charred in her dock, seemingly the victim of arson.
As does the Sun
THE BLACKENED PEARL
POLICE were last night hunting arsonists believed to have torched the legendary Cutty Sark.
The 138-year-old ship — the last surviving tea clipper — was left a smouldering shell after she was ravaged by 30ft flames.
The 138-year-old ship — the last surviving tea clipper — was left a smouldering shell after she was ravaged by 30ft flames.
Minutes earlier CCTV cameras had picked up figures near the ship, a world-famous landmark which has pulled in 15million visitors. A silver car was also spotted leaving its dry dock in Greenwich, south-east London, around the time the blaze broke out at 4.45am.
Residents reported hearing an EXPLOSION moments earlier. And bosses overseeing the ship’s restoration said NO work was being carried out at the time.
Police Superintendent Martin Mitchell confirmed: “At this stage the fire is being treated as suspicious and we are carrying out a number of lines of inquiry.”
Residents reported hearing an EXPLOSION moments earlier. And bosses overseeing the ship’s restoration said NO work was being carried out at the time.
Police Superintendent Martin Mitchell confirmed: “At this stage the fire is being treated as suspicious and we are carrying out a number of lines of inquiry.”
Has fire finally clipped the wings of record-breaking sailing ship? asks the Times
Ali Sandeghi was woken just after 5am yesterday by something he took to be a crack of thunder.
But what had seemed like the opening salvo of a storm was really the sound of one of the great deck planks on the Cutty Sark splitting as fire tore through the old ship.
Opening his curtains, Mr Sandeghi saw tall yellow-or-ange flames leaping skywards from the centre of the vessel.
But what had seemed like the opening salvo of a storm was really the sound of one of the great deck planks on the Cutty Sark splitting as fire tore through the old ship.
Opening his curtains, Mr Sandeghi saw tall yellow-or-ange flames leaping skywards from the centre of the vessel.
It leads though with yesterday's announcement that
Fast-track planning for nuclear plants and superstores
Ambitious proposals to fast-track the construction of nuclear plants, airports and motorways and allow the spread of out-of-town shopping centres were outlined yesterday in the biggest reform of planning for 20 years.
Environmental groups immediately gave warning that plans to restrict public consultation on projects would lead to civil disobedience and direct action.
The Government’s long-awaited White Paper recommends a complete overhaul of planning, merging eight separate systems. Officials claim that the move could save £1 billion within a decade.
It also proposes speeding up home improvements and small commercial investments by allowing them to proceed without planning permission. But ministers bowed to rural concerns by dropping plans to restrict the green belt by developing urban fringes.
Environmental groups immediately gave warning that plans to restrict public consultation on projects would lead to civil disobedience and direct action.
The Government’s long-awaited White Paper recommends a complete overhaul of planning, merging eight separate systems. Officials claim that the move could save £1 billion within a decade.
It also proposes speeding up home improvements and small commercial investments by allowing them to proceed without planning permission. But ministers bowed to rural concerns by dropping plans to restrict the green belt by developing urban fringes.
Kelly move to cut planning red tape angers Greens says the Guardian
Government moves to liberalise the planning system, from domestic conservatories to nuclear power stations, were hailed by business leaders and excoriated by environmentalists last night.
Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, called the streamlining of the often tortuous procedures which bedevil major infrastructure projects as delivering "a planning system fit for the 21st century". A new independent planning commission will take charge of the process for all major projects in an effort to end the years of delay at planning inquiries.
Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, called the streamlining of the often tortuous procedures which bedevil major infrastructure projects as delivering "a planning system fit for the 21st century". A new independent planning commission will take charge of the process for all major projects in an effort to end the years of delay at planning inquiries.
Its main lead though moves to Iraq where it claims
Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq
Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.
"Iran is fighting a proxy war in Iraq and it's a very dangerous course for them to be following. They are already committing daily acts of war against US and British forces," a senior US official in Baghdad warned. "They [Iran] are behind a lot of high-profile attacks meant to undermine US will and British will, such as the rocket attacks on Basra palace and the Green Zone [in Baghdad]. The attacks are directed by the Revolutionary Guard who are connected right to the top [of the Iranian government]."
"Iran is fighting a proxy war in Iraq and it's a very dangerous course for them to be following. They are already committing daily acts of war against US and British forces," a senior US official in Baghdad warned. "They [Iran] are behind a lot of high-profile attacks meant to undermine US will and British will, such as the rocket attacks on Basra palace and the Green Zone [in Baghdad]. The attacks are directed by the Revolutionary Guard who are connected right to the top [of the Iranian government]."
The same paper continues to report on the mounting crisis in Lebanon
Army pounds refugee camp as death toll rises in conflict with Islamist militants
Plumes of thick black smoke towered into the sky against a backdrop of the Mediterranean yesterday as shells rained on a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.
Shrouded in dust from the explosions and with fires breaking out in breeze block apartment buildings, Nahr el-Bared camp, home to 40,000 Palestinians, suffered a second day of intense fighting which raised the death toll in the latest crisis to engulf Lebanon to more than 70.
Shrouded in dust from the explosions and with fires breaking out in breeze block apartment buildings, Nahr el-Bared camp, home to 40,000 Palestinians, suffered a second day of intense fighting which raised the death toll in the latest crisis to engulf Lebanon to more than 70.
A front-row seat for this Lebanese tragedy according to Robert Fisk in the Independent
There is something obscene about watching the siege of Nahr el-Bared. The old Palestinian camp - home to 30,000 lost souls who will never go "home" - basks in the Mediterranean sunlight beyond a cluster of orange orchards. Soldiers of the Lebanese army, having retaken their positions on the main road north, idle their time aboard their old personnel carriers. And we - we representatives of the world's press - sit equally idly atop a half-built apartment block, basking in the little garden or sipping cups of scalding tea beside the satellite dishes where the titans of television stride by in their blue space suits and helmets.
And then comes the crackle-crackle of rifle fire and a shoal of bullets drifts out of the camp. A Lebanese army tank fires a shell in return and we feel the faint shock wave from the camp. How many are dead? We don't know. How many are wounded? The Red Cross cannot yet enter to find out. We are back at another of those tragic Lebanese stage shows: the siege of Palestinians.
And then comes the crackle-crackle of rifle fire and a shoal of bullets drifts out of the camp. A Lebanese army tank fires a shell in return and we feel the faint shock wave from the camp. How many are dead? We don't know. How many are wounded? The Red Cross cannot yet enter to find out. We are back at another of those tragic Lebanese stage shows: the siege of Palestinians.
Whilst
Israeli woman killed by rocket fired from Gaza by militants
An Israeli woman civilian was killed by a Qassam rocket last night after Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians - including all four members of an Islamic Jihad rocket launching cell.
The woman was three metres from a car hit by a rocket near the commercial centre of the southern border town of Sderot. Her death was the first in the current spate of rocket attacks by Gaza militants on Israel. One man was injured.
Cabinet ministers had warned yesterday that a range of Hamas officials -including the Damascus-based leader Khaled Mashaal - would be regarded as legitimate targets in response to the rocket attacks.
The woman was three metres from a car hit by a rocket near the commercial centre of the southern border town of Sderot. Her death was the first in the current spate of rocket attacks by Gaza militants on Israel. One man was injured.
Cabinet ministers had warned yesterday that a range of Hamas officials -including the Damascus-based leader Khaled Mashaal - would be regarded as legitimate targets in response to the rocket attacks.
The debate about Grammer schools continues
Cameron attacks ‘deluded’ grammar school defenders reports the Times
David Cameron stokes the row over grammar schools today with an attack on his critics’ “ideological self-indulgence” – despite warnings from Conservative MPs that activists are threatening to quit the party over the issue.
The Conservative leader promises in an article in The Times today not to be distracted from his education policy by the internal backlash. Mr Cameron writes that he is “determined to move on from a sterile debate about building a few more grammar schools”.
He argues: “Parents will not forgive any political party’s ideological self-indulgence on education, at a time when 355,000 pupils are failing to get five good GCSEs, including English and maths.”
The Conservative leader promises in an article in The Times today not to be distracted from his education policy by the internal backlash. Mr Cameron writes that he is “determined to move on from a sterile debate about building a few more grammar schools”.
He argues: “Parents will not forgive any political party’s ideological self-indulgence on education, at a time when 355,000 pupils are failing to get five good GCSEs, including English and maths.”
CAM GRAMMAR ROW FURY says the Mirror
The Tory leader could be hit by a string of resignations - and was also branded "pathetic" by Tony Blair.
Mr Cameron appeared embarrassed and agitated when quizzed at a news conference over ending support for grammar schools and selection.
Sounding increasingly tetchy and petulant, he said the debate was "fantasy - it's delusional to talk about these things in the future when we didn't do them in the past.
Mr Cameron appeared embarrassed and agitated when quizzed at a news conference over ending support for grammar schools and selection.
Sounding increasingly tetchy and petulant, he said the debate was "fantasy - it's delusional to talk about these things in the future when we didn't do them in the past.
The Guardian reports that
TV film claims Tesco and Sainsbury's stores flout hygiene rules
Two of Britain's biggest and most profitable supermarkets are tonight accused of putting public health at risk after secret filming revealed members of staff deliberately extending sell-by and use-by dates on fresh food - and of selling food unfit for human consumption to unsuspecting customers.
In a series of health and safety legislation breaches being broadcast in a programme for BBC1's Whistleblower, counter staff at two branches of Sainsbury's and Tesco falsify food temperature records and flout basic rules of food hygiene such as using different knives for fish, raw meat and cooked meat to prevent cross-contamination of bacteria.
In a series of health and safety legislation breaches being broadcast in a programme for BBC1's Whistleblower, counter staff at two branches of Sainsbury's and Tesco falsify food temperature records and flout basic rules of food hygiene such as using different knives for fish, raw meat and cooked meat to prevent cross-contamination of bacteria.
Teacher sex case girl 'lied' reports the Sun
A GIRL who claimed she had an affair with a married teacher when she was 15 may face perjury charges after the judge branded her a LIAR.
The girl — who cannot be named — claimed she performed sex acts on Michael Taylor, 45, while playing the xylophone.
But Judge Peter Morrell cleared Mr Taylor at Leicester Crown Court and said the girl, now in her 20s, had lied on oath.
The girl — who cannot be named — claimed she performed sex acts on Michael Taylor, 45, while playing the xylophone.
But Judge Peter Morrell cleared Mr Taylor at Leicester Crown Court and said the girl, now in her 20s, had lied on oath.
The Express follows up on its lead of yesterday with a poll claiming that
90% SAY NO TO QUEEN CAMILLA
PRINCE Charles faces huge public opposition to Camilla becoming Queen despite a two-year charm offensive, a Daily Express opinion poll revealed last night.
Senior courtiers have admitted that he wants to leave the door open for his second wife to be given the title if the majority of the UK supports it.But our poll of thousands of readers yesterday showed that nine out of 10 people are resolutely opposed to a Queen Camilla.
The Mail asks
Were driver's high heels to blame for death crash?
A former model may have killed a cyclist because she was wearing stiletto heels while test driving a sports car, a court has heard.
Julie Hunter, 42, lost control of the Alfa Romeo Spyder as she drove around a parked car at 50mph in a 30mph zone.
The car spun on to the other side of the carriageway and ploughed into fitness instructor Debbie Riches, 21.
Hunter's two-and-a-quarter inch stiletto ankle boots probably contributed to her losing control.
Julie Hunter, 42, lost control of the Alfa Romeo Spyder as she drove around a parked car at 50mph in a 30mph zone.
The car spun on to the other side of the carriageway and ploughed into fitness instructor Debbie Riches, 21.
Hunter's two-and-a-quarter inch stiletto ankle boots probably contributed to her losing control.
Fashion is also a topic in the Indy
Size-zero debate: fashion industry is told to 'grow up'
The chairwoman of an independent inquiry into the fashion industry's relationship with size-zero models warned yesterday that it was time for the industry to grow up.
Baroness Kingsmill, a former deputy chairman of the Competition Commission, said stronger measures may have to be taken to protect young women aspiring to be top models.
She was speaking at the launch of the inquiry by a panel including a psychiatrist, an academic and leaders of the fashion world into the casting and selection process for models and the impact on their health of the demand for the super-skinny look.
Baroness Kingsmill, a former deputy chairman of the Competition Commission, said stronger measures may have to be taken to protect young women aspiring to be top models.
She was speaking at the launch of the inquiry by a panel including a psychiatrist, an academic and leaders of the fashion world into the casting and selection process for models and the impact on their health of the demand for the super-skinny look.
The Mirror looks forward to this week's football final
BEHAVE OR GET PAINTBALLED
LIVERPOOL fans will be pelted with paintballs if they cause trouble at the Champions League Final, Greek police have warned.
Up to 40,000 Reds supporters - many without tickets - are expected in Athens for tomorrow's big match against AC Milan.
And if they step out of line, they will be shot with red paint.
Police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said: "The paintball guns will be one of the weapons the riot police will use in case of fan clashes.
Up to 40,000 Reds supporters - many without tickets - are expected in Athens for tomorrow's big match against AC Milan.
And if they step out of line, they will be shot with red paint.
Police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said: "The paintball guns will be one of the weapons the riot police will use in case of fan clashes.
And yes finally Big Brother season is fast approaching.the Star revealing that
BIG BRO 3-IN-A-BED SENSATION
BIG Brother bosses will serve up a steamy treat for fans by forcing contestants to share a bed.The housemates will also be going round in circles this series because the new-look house has four secret rotating rooms.There are so few beds in the telly house that at least three will have to share when the Channel 4 show kicks off on May 30. It means things could get streamy, with babes - like last year's hotties Imogen Thomas and Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, pictured - forced to bunk up.But if they fancy a bit of privacy, they could try one of the rotating rooms. The floor of each one turns through 180 degrees, transforming the space.
No comments:
Post a Comment