Crackdown on middle class wine drinkers is the lead story in the Times this morning





Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt.
Under the plans published today, a fresh audit is to be conducted by the Government into the overall costs of alcohol abuse to society and the National Health Service.
“We want to target older drinkers, those that are maybe drinking one or two bottles of wine at home each evening,” a Whitehall source said. “They do not realise the damage they are doing to their health and that they risk developing liver disease. We are not talking here about the traditional wino.”





And drinking also makes the front page of the Express





Now pubs told show warnings on drinks

PUBS and restaurants should be forced to carry posters warning drinkers how much alcohol they are consuming, doctors demanded yesterday.
But the move by the British Medical Association has sparked new fears that the Nanny State is now out of control.Doctors claim that the details of alcoholic units in beer, wine and other favourites listed on bar pumps and menus are not enough to alert customers to what they are drinking.

The Sun has an exclusive





Yobs told: Pay as you binge





BINGE drinkers will be made to pay for damage they cause and treatment they need for injuries when drunk, it will be announced today.
The new booze crackdown will see heavy drinking youngsters and middle-aged alcoholics targeted.
There will also be bigger fines for those selling drink to kids and better warnings about the dangers of alcohol.
A Government source said: “This is about targeting under-age drinkers, binge drinkers in the 18-25 group, and the chronic alcoholics in their 40s and 50s





Millionaire 'urged by voices to batter his little girl' is the lead in the Mail





A top City executive accused of a horrific attack on his toddler daughter may have a severe mental illness, it has emerged.
Millionaire insurance boss Alberto Izaga was said to have "flipped" for no obvious reason.
He is alleged to have launched a savage attack on two-year-old Yanire, punching and kicking her and hitting her head against a bedroom floor.





TOT INJURY TYCOON IS DETAINED says the Mirror





Spanish-born Izaga worked for the firm Swiss Re at their "Gherkin" office block in the City.
One employee said: "At the level in which he works, the pressure is enormous. They all work from early morning to very late at night.
"He is one of those guys who seems to have it all. He's very good looking, charming and funny."
Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman and comedian Frank Skinner also have flats in the block overlooking the Thames.





Which leads with another tragedy





FIRE DAD KILLS HIS KIDS





A JEALOUS dad killed himself and his two young children by torching his home yesterday.
Vengeful chef Iain Varma, 34, chose to die with son Zak, eight, and daughter Chloe, four, rather than lose them to his wife Alison.
Varma had kicked Alison, 35 - also mother of Lee, two - out of their home because he believed she was having an affair.
An appalled neighbour in North Tawton, Devon, said: "He said he was going to kill himself and the kids."





The Telegraph reports that





Bodies exhumed in care home inquiry






A police investigation into the deaths of seven elderly care home residents will take an extraordinary turn today when officers begin exhuming the first of three bodies.
The remains of Nellie Pickford will be removed from a graveyard so that a post mortem examination can be carried out to try to establish whether she was poisoned.

Nellie Pickford’s remains are to be exhumed by police
The bodies of two other former residents will be exhumed during the next five weeks, police will announce today. The exhumations - unprecedented in the history of Avon and Somerset police - follow the arrests in March, of Rachel Baker, 42, a registered nurse who ran the care home, and her husband Leigh, 48, a chef at the premises. They were arrested over the alleged poisoning of another resident, Lucy Cox, 98, who died on New Year's Day. They are on bail pending further inquiries.





The Guardian headlines





Rules to make migrants integrate

Ministers want to introduce a national British day to complete a "citizenship revolution" that would also toughen rules for migrants and try to instil community pride in all 18-year-olds.
Under the plans to be unveiled this week, every teenager in the UK would be given a citizenship pack when they became eligible to vote, and migrants would only be able to become British citizens if they could demonstrate good behaviour and a willingness to integrate.

Meanwhile the fall out from Presidnt Putin's comments continues,the same paper reporting

Bush flies into missile storm with Putin

President George Bush yesterday flew to Europe where he will confront Vladimir Putin over US plans to base a new missile defence system in former Russian satellite countries.
The White House described as unhelpful a warning by Mr Putin that if the US goes ahead with its plan, Russia will retaliate by training its missiles on European targets. Echoing the White House line, a Nato spokesman, James Appathurai, said: "These kind of comments are unhelpful and unwelcome."

West heads for showdown with Putin over Cold War rhetoric says the Times

The United States voiced surprise and dismay at Vladimir Putin’s threat to aim nuclear missiles at Europe, saying that the Russian President’s rhetoric appeared to be a throwback to the Cold War.
As President Bush arrived yesterday in the Czech Republic, a symbolic visit to the focus of Mr Putin’s anger, fast-deteriorating relations with Russia threatened to overshadow this week’s G8 summit in Germany.
Western leaders appeared increasingly prepared for a showdown. President Sarkozy of France promised a “frank discussion” with him, while Britain said that Mr Putin’s latest remarks threatened to undermine Russia’s influence on the world stage.

The Independent meanwhile carries an open letter to the summit

Yelena Tregubova: Why I fled Putin's Russia. And why the West must appease him no longer

I have personal experience of Vladimir Putin's regime and the way the Russian President operates. I have been forced to seek asylum in Britain for criticising the Kremlin as an independent journalist. I have come to realise that to return to my homeland would be suicidal for me.
But this letter is not about me. I am writing to you because I fear that a tragedy is befalling Russia, with the restrictions on political and personal freedoms worsening every day. Having done away with the domestic opposition, Putin, on the eve of the G8 summit, has now decided to deal with the external "enemies".

Whilst the same paper reports that

G8 nations urged to stand by Gleneagles Aids pledge

The world's richest nations were urged not to back away from pledges to tackle poverty in Africa as a leaked communiqué from this week's G8 summit suggested that plans to tackle Aids would fall far short of demand.
Campaigners expressed anger that the document pledged to provide life- saving antiretroviral drugs for five million Aids sufferers, just half of the 10 million expected to have the disease in Africa by 2010.
But sources close to the negotiations insisted Britain would not backtrack on the promise made at the Gleneagles summit two years ago to offer universal access to Aids treatment by 2010.
Officials will press hard for G8 nations to sign up to specific policies to tackle Aids, and provide universal access to education.

The Telegraph reports that

Britain 'to drop EU veto over law and order'

Tony Blair may be preparing to abandon Britain's veto over law and order policy in Europe on the eve of his departure from Downing Street this month, MPs fear.
In one of his final acts as Prime Minister, he will attend a crucial summit to salvage parts of the EU constitution killed off by French and Dutch referendums two years ago.
One proposal expected to be revived is ending the requirement that all decisions on justice and home affairs should be unanimously agreed. Other EU countries believe this causes policy gridlock and want to move to qualified majority voting (QMV) as proposed in the original constitution.

Meanwhile the Guardian reveals that

Guantánamo trials in chaos after judge throws out two cases

The Bush administration's plans to bring detainees at Guantánamo Bay to trial were thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges threw out all charges against a detainee held there since he was 15 and dismissed charges against another detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden.
In back-to-back arraignments for the Canadian Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national, the US military's cases against the alleged al-Qaida figures were dismissed because, the judges said, the government had failed to establish jurisdiction.

CON AIR is the lead in the Sun as it reports one of the celeb events of the year

TEARFUL PARIS HILTON checked into jail yesterday — hours after walking the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards.
The 26-year-old hotel heiress mingled with stars at the glittering showbiz bash before going straight to her parents’ house.
She then travelled downtown with her sobbing mum Kathy and sister NICKY to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, where she officially surrendered herself to begin her 23-day sentence.
From there, she was transported to the Century Regional Detention Facility at Lynwood — whose 2,200 female inmates include drug addicts, hookers and hardened gang members.

Paris is taken from red carpet to prison says the Mail,whilst the Mirror says

Speaking at the MTV awards, Paris told reporters she was “scared” but ready to take the consequences of her actions and start a “new life” when released

Six days of war, 40 years of failure says the Guardian telling how

The world was gripped by Israel's swift triumph in 1967. But today the bitter conflict with the Palestinians seems more intractable than ever

It was Moshe Dayan, the hero of Israel's 1967 victory, who set the tone for what was to follow: "We are waiting for a telephone call," the one-eyed general said disdainfully as the frontline Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - reeled from their crushing defeat. Of the Palestinians - the newly conquered population of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip - little was said at the time. But the six-day war put them back at centre stage in their conflict with Israel. They have stayed there ever since.

Reunited with images which defined the Six-Day War says the Indy

Mohammed Kardash, 73, was speechless yesterday as he examined ­ for the first time in his life ­ the pictures of him packing up for the hurried flight from the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza all those long years ago.
After a very long pause, he said: "It brings back all the memories." And the images captured by a photographer from the UN's refugee agency UNRWA when Mohammed was too busy to notice certainly did that.
Mohammed and his son, Aref, who was six at the time, remembered in particular how events belied the relentless and empty propaganda of Ahmed Said, the Egyptians' propagandist in chief, declaring how Israeli warplanes were "falling like flies" when the reality was that it was Egypt's air force that was being destroyed on the first day of the June war 40 years ago today.
"We huddled round the radio all the time to listen to him [Said]," said the old man. "I believed what he was saying and so did everyone else. He said, 'I congratulate the fish of the Mediterranean because they will eat the flesh of Jews'.'' Still furious at the deception 40 years later, he added: "There is a stain of shame in the way he was talking."

As thousands protest, Games chiefs stand by their ‘bold and dynamic’ logo reports the Times

When Sebastian Coe unveiled the logo for the 2012 Olympics in London yesterday he described it as an invitation for people everywhere to participate. Rarely, even in his glittering athletics career, can Lord Coe’s ambitions have been realised so spectacularly.
Within moments the first howls of dissent had registered in cyberspace. By lunchtime a petition had been posted calling on the Games’ organising committee “to scrap and change the ridiculous logo unveiled for the London 2012 Olympics” and by 7pm it had more than 8,000 signatures.
On the BBC website thousands mocked the design, comparing it to a disfigured swastika and a window that had had a football kicked through it. Others poured scorn on the £400,000 paid to a brand consultancy to produce it.

The Mail says

The last time Britain hosted the Games, in 1948, the official poster featured a discus thrower in front of Big Ben. Critics of the new logo described it as a 'broken swastika', a 'scribbled joke', a 'toileting monkey' and even the logo for the Nazi SS.
Within hours of its announcement, an online petition had been set up condemning it as an 'embarrassment' which represents Britain in the 'worst possible way' and calling for it to be scrapped. It attracted 10,000 signatures.

The Guardian describes it as

Edgy symbol of digital age or artistic flop

Finally the Independent reports on

A throwback to feudalism: David Cameron and the father-in-law from hell

The symmetry is almost too good to be true. Just as Tony Blair's reign was dogged by the occasional indiscretions of his very Old Labour father-in-law, so the Tory reformer David Cameron turns out to have an eye-wateringly embarrassing "in-law" of his own.
Sir Reginald Sheffield, 61, is a bouncing baronet who owns more than 3,000 acres of Lincolnshire, including not one, but two of the region's finest stately homes. In his spare time, he drinks claret, wears bow ties and serves as an old-school chairman of the local Conservative Party.
Like many a top toff, Sheffield cuts an interesting figure. He can trace his family back to the 13th century, and has in the past been a stern Eurosceptic and supporter of hunting, shooting and fishing. He is, in short, the very antithesis of David Cameron's shiny new breed of pale-blue Tories.
How ironic, then, that Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, to use the eighth baronet's full name, should also happen to be the proud father of Samantha Cameron, the supposedly egalitarian Tory leader's well-bred wife.