has put up a record £1.5 million reward for the safe return of Madeleine McCann.
Stars and business leaders have donated huge sums in an unprecedented show of support for our Find Maddie campaign — to make up the largest award in newspaper history.
After we kicked off the fund with £250,000, Harry Potter author JK ROWLING put up a staggering amount — the largest single donation. But she asked us not to reveal the exact figure.
Others include
Topshop tycoon SIR PHILIP GREEN matched our £250,000 and said: "I hope this makes a difference."
Virgin's SIR RICHARD BRANSON put up £100,000, saying: "I'd like to appeal as a father to whoever is holding her to please bring her home safe."
MUM'S BIRTHDAY PLEA FOR MADELINE headlines the Mirror
IT was the cruellest day any mother could face. She should have been celebrating her little girl's fourth birthday at a party packed with friends, family and laughter.
Instead Kate McCann, sleepless with anxiety, greeted dawn with a growing despair as the hunt for missing Madeleine today enters another unbearable week.
In a statement read on her behalf she pleaded" "On Madeleine's birthday, please keep looking, please keep praying, please help bring Madeleine home."
For the first time Kate has begun to fear that Portuguese police could wind up their search with her daughter still not returned to her and no clear leads.
Whilst the Express leads with
DONT GIVE UP ON OUR MADDY
The papers are of course dominated by this weeks political stories,the Observer reporting a
Poll surge as Brown unveils policy blitz
Gordon Brown is to set out a wide-ranging blueprint for a new Britain as he attempts to prove that he will be a Prime Minister for the whole country rather than sectional interests.
As a new poll shows Labour has gained a bounce in the polls, the Chancellor is set to unveil a host of new policies on the environment, the treatment the public can expect from doctors and fundamental changes to the constitution designed to show the broadness of his political vision and that he can outmanoeuvre David Cameron on the key issues.
According to the Sunday Times
Brown to build five eco towns
GORDON BROWN will attempt to trump David Cameron on green issues by announcing that he will create five new environmentally friendly towns when he becomes prime minister.
The chancellor, now certain to succeed Tony Blair and enter No 10 on June 27, will tomorrow set out his plan to build 100,000 houses in the five eco-towns, likely to be dubbed “Brown towns”.
The idea, his first detailed policy announcement since declaring his candidacy for the Labour leadership on Friday, is crucial to putting increased home ownership at the heart of his premiership.
The new towns — with up to 20,000 homes in each — are modelled on the “green” developments pioneered by Prince Charles. They will be built on brownfield sites, the first of which will be at the abandoned Oakington Barracks in Cambridgeshire.
Queen and Brown join forces to save Union reports the Mail
The Queen is to join forces with Gordon Brown to prevent the break-up of the Union between Scotland and England.
Mr Brown, who shares the Queen's grave fears about independence for Scotland, will travel to Balmoral, her Highland residence, shortly after he is confirmed as Prime Minister.
Palace source said: "In her five decades on the throne, the Queen has been careful to stay above party politics. But if there is one thing she cares passionately about, it is the Union."
The Royal summit is expected to take place in early September. Mr Brown will stay overnight at Balmoral and is likely to be accompanied by wife Sarah and sons John, three, and baby Fraser.
The Independent strangely focuses on the other current inhabitant of Downing Street on its front page
Cherie's parting shot
Cherie Blair last night made her first foray into British politics since her husband announced he was standing down as Prime Minister by attacking the Government for sending pregnant women to jail.
In what will be interpreted as Mrs Blair's first attempt to stake out her own political credo even before the couple leave Downing Street, the human-rights lawyer has warned that sending mothers to prison increases the risk of their children turning to criminality later in life.
As new government figures showed that about 100 babies a year are born to mothers behind bars, Mrs Blair called for "alternative sentences" for all except the most serious women criminals. Speaking exclusively to The Independent on Sunday, Mrs Blair warned that society will pay the price of removing children from their mothers' care while they are in jail.
Adding that
Her comments also offer a fascinating glimpse into what friends say are her own deeply rooted political views, and throw into stark relief the expected contrast between Mrs Blair's role in Downing Street and that of her successor, Sarah Brown.
Back to the Mail which reminds us of the problems of leaving Downing Street
It is the ultimate culture shock: loss of political top-dog status, exit from one of the best tied cottages in town and a sad farewell to Chequers, a splendid weekend retreat where the PM's family is pampered to such an extent that the staff even leave the Radio Times open at the correct day.
Writes Carol Thatcher
Her driver would avoid using Whitehall because, as the car passed Downing Street, she would look up, wondering why they hadn't turned in. Then she would remember: she didn't have a job there any more.
Benn caught in sleaze row over family shares reports the Telegraph on its front page
The Government has been plunged into a new sleaze row over a £233,000 "conflict of interest" shareholding held by Hilary Benn, the International Development Secretary.
Revelations by The Sunday Telegraph about Mr Benn's stake in a company that does work for his Whitehall department are a major blow to his political future. They threaten to derail his campaign to be elected Labour's deputy leader, but he is also strongly tipped to become foreign secretary when Gordon Brown takes over from Tony Blair.
Some of the shares are understood to have come from his Left-wing firebrand father, Tony.
Bloodshed rises in Iraq as US demands 'victory' reports the Independent
It will be a long war. The rumble of artillery, broken by the clatter of helicopters passing overhead, resounded across Baghdad late last week as US forces fought insurgents in their stronghold in the sprawling district of Dohra, in the south of the capital. Early yesterday, five US soldiers were killed and three are missing after an explosion in Mahmoudiyah, near Baghdad.
The three-month-old US plan to regain control of Baghdad is slow to show results, despite the arrival of four more US brigades. Security in the heart of the city may be a little better, but the US and the Iraqi government are nowhere near to dealing a knockout blow to the Sunni insurgency or Shia militias.
The Sunni guerrillas trying to isolate Baghdad from the rest of the country exploded truck bombs on three important bridges last week, killing 26 people. One blew up in a queue of cars on the old Diyala bridge, just south of Baghdad. Two minutes later a truck exploded on a newer bridge over the same river. North of Baghdad, at Taji, long a centre for insurgents, a third vehicle bomb made impassable a bridge linking Baghdad with northern Iraq.
This is the situation as Tony Blair, with President George Bush the chief architect and defender of the Iraq war, prepares to leave office. But as the fierce fighting continued, far to the south Mr Bush's Vice-President, Dick Cheney, was proclaiming defiance to Iran. "With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends and adversaries alike," he told sailors assembled on one of the carriers. "We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating the region."
According to the Times
Al-Qaeda planning militant Islamic state within Iraq
The Telegraph reports from Afghanistan where
US to build Afghan super-madrassas
Work has started on two "super-madrassas" in Paktika, which borders Pakistan, and more are planned. The American government is also paying for the refurbishment of mosques in the area, in the hope of winning over religious leaders. The coalition has been under growing pressure over the deaths of civilians and American military commanders say they hope the moves will convince Afghans - many of whom rely on madrassas to provide bed and board for their children - that they are on the same side.
27 killed, dozens wounded as Pakistan's crisis erupts reports the Observer
At least 27 people were killed and dozens more wounded in the city of Karachi yesterday as Pakistan's political crisis escalated into fierce gun battles.
The crisis, sparked by President Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, on 9 March, exploded into lethal clashes on the streets of Karachi when Chaudhry tried to visit the city for a political rally of his supporters.
The suspension of Chaudhry over allegations of 'misconduct' has outraged the judiciary and the opposition, and rapidly turned into the most serious challenge to Musharraf's authority since he seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup.
The Mail leads with the story that
Network Rail is using convict labour to carry out vital track maintenance
Convicts are being used as cheap labour to perform vital repair and maintenance work on one of Britain's busiest railway lines.
A gang of offenders - some of whom have convictions for violence - are being ferried by bus from their cells to work night shifts on the West Coast mainline linking London with northern England and Scotland.
It was from this 125mph line that a Virgin express train derailed near Grayrigg, Cumbria, three months ago, killing 84-year-old grandmother Margaret 'Peggy' Masson and seriously injuring the driver.
The Times reports that
Chinese students oust UK pupils from top universities
EVIDENCE that some top-ranking universities are willing to accept applicants from China and India who are less well qualified than those from the UK has emerged from a Sunday Times investigation, write Geraldine Hackett and Max Colchester.
The findings suggest that cash-strapped universities are bending the rules to admit international students who, unlike British students, pay the full £27,000 fees for an arts degree.
Admission tutors for different undergraduate courses at Edinburgh, Manchester and Sheffield said they would be prepared to accept an international applicant who had failed to achieve the normal A-level requirements for their course.
According to the Observer
Now drivers face ban on smoking at the wheel
Britain's senior road safety campaigners are calling for a ban on smoking while driving, in an attempt to cut the number of crashes.
The Department of Health said last night that it would seriously consider a ban, which is also being looked at in Germany, Australia and America. The move was backed by anti-smoking campaigners but drew criticism from others as an attack on personal freedom. From 1 July, England will join the rest of the UK by introducing a ban on smoking in enclosed public places and at work
ALL IS BUBBLY IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND reports the Express
KENT could become the new Champagne, say two brothers who are turning prime hop-growing land into vineyards.
The Garden of England has always been famous for producing the flower that puts the bite in a pint of beer. But Peter and Nicholas Hall say that our changing climate means it will soon be warm enough for growing the grapes needed for quality sparkling wines. In fact, they believe climate change could soon make traditional French vine-growing regions too hot to produce the correctly balanced grapes.
To the Tabloids and the News of the World has the headline TRAITOR across its front page
BIGMOUTH Paul Burrell plumbed new depths of treachery as he turned on Prince Charles and compared Camilla to a HORSE.
His attack came as our investigator, posing as a business backer, insisted Prince Charles has a caring side and shows great affection to Camilla.
Burrell snorted: "Yeah. Well he likes horses! I'm saying she runs in the 3.30 at Kempton!"
KYLIE AND HER MAN - THE TRUTH reveals the Mirror
THE new man in Kylie Minogue's life is a macho womaniser with a passion for dating celebrities.
Film director Alexander Dahm had flings with a Hollywood actress and a South American TV writer - then left them both heartbroken when he moved on.
And he has been openly boasting to friends about his blossoming friendship with pop starlet Kylie. Married father-of-one Dahm told a pal: "We have been having a telephone romance since we met."
He said Kylie originally wanted to visit him in his home of Mexico City. But he was worried that might upset his wife Laura Camacho, who is seven months pregnant.
According to the People
GRAHAM NORTON SHOW FAKED
FANS of comic Graham Norton's latest TV show have been conned by the BBC.
Producers FAKED part of last week's programme by hiring actors instead of using viewers for an outside broadcast.
The scam was exposed as Beeb bosses struggle to recover from a string of other scandals involving punters being duped.
The actors masqueraded as punters at a wine-tasting session at a brewery for a feature on The Graham Norton Show.
But in fact they were locked away in a studio only yards from where the camp comic's hit programme is filmed in front of a live audience.
And last night one of the performers said: "It was crazy - we were just in the room next door."
Finally the Mail brings us back to last week's exclusive
Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars...how BP spent £45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights
BP executives working for Lord Browne spent millions of pounds on champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative international oil contracts.
The company also worked with MI6 to help bring about changes in foreign governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil giant.
Les Abrahams, who led BP's successful bid for a multi-million-pound deal with one of the former Soviet republics, today claims that Browne - who was forced to resign as chief executive last month after the collapse of legal proceedings against The Mail on Sunday - presided over an "anything goes" regime of sexual licence, spying and financial sweeteners.
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