Nearly all the papers carry front page pictures of the country's lastest sporting hero,the front page of the Sun heralds
LEW DUNNIT
BRIT Formula 1 sensation Lewis Hamilton wept yesterday — as he dedicated his first Grand Prix victory to his dad.
The rookie McLaren driver, 22 — who has notched up an amazing six podium places in six F1 starts — whooped and punched the air as he took the chequered flag.
Later he broke down in tears at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and said: “I could see my father in the crowd. He had a tear in his eye so I know he is extremely proud.”
Hamilton — who has been dubbed “racing’s Tiger Woods” after becoming the first black F1 driver — leads the driver’s championship by EIGHT points
The Guardian reporting
Lewis Hamilton, in only his sixth formula one race, won the Canadian grand prix yesterday and sparked spontaneous pit-lane celebrations that went beyond his McLaren-Mercedes team.
The 22-year-old Stevenage-born driver, who had already set a rookie record by winning podium positions in his first five races, led from start to finish to open up an eight-point lead in the drivers' championship.
Hamilton savours glory after perfect drive claims first win says the Times
As crowds have become accustomed to seeing in these early races of Hamilton’s record-breaking career, the 22-year-old – who leads the drivers’ championship by eight points from Fernando Alonso, his teammate – drove with speed and precision, barely putting a wheel out of place in 70 wreckage-strewn laps.
All the papers have different leads this morning,the same paper reporting that
Unmarried couples get equal rights on ‘divorce’
Unmarried women and men will be able to make claims against their partners to demand lump-sum payments, a share of property, regular maintenance or a share of the partner’s pension when they separate. They will also be able to claim against their partners for loss of earnings if they gave up a career to look after children.
The reforms are to be published by the Law Commission, the Government’s law reform body.It is expected to drop any proposal for a time stipulation, so that only couples who had lived together for, say, two years, could bring a claim; or any bar on childless couples.
The Telegraph leads with yesterday's main news discussion
'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools
The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank.
It warns of the educational apartheid opening up between the experience of pupils in the state sector and those at independent schools, which have refused to reduce academic content to make way for fashionable causes.
The Guardian stays on the same theme
Class divide hits learning by age of three
By the age of three, children from disadvantaged families are already lagging a full year behind their middle-class contemporaries in social and educational development, pioneering research by a London university reveals today.
A "generation Blair" project, tracking the progress of 15,500 boys and girls born between 2000 and 2002, found a divided nation in which a child's start in life was still determined by the class, education, marital status and ethnic background of the parents.
The results are likely to disappoint ministers committed to improving the life chances of disadvantaged children, notably through the Sure Start programme to develop potential in pre-school years.
Meanwhile the Mail leads with
Scientists develop pill to delay the menopause
New drugs are being developed that could stave off the menopause, it has been revealed.
They could lead to a fertility revolution, allowing women to wait longer to have a child.
The dramatic news came from fertility expert Professor Robert Winston. He told a conference that researchers had found a protein which they believe could be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of women’s eggs.
This would give new hope for the thousands of women who find themselves left childless in later life.
Children exploited in Olympics goods factories, says TUC reports the Guardian
Olympics merchandise is being made in factories employing children to work for up to 15 hours a day on minimal wages, research for the TUC has revealed.
Brendan Barber, the general secretary, produced the evidence of exploitation as members of the International Olympics Committee assembled for a meeting in London today to discuss progress towards the 2012 games.
The Mirror refers to
OLYMPIC 'SLAVERY'
BRITAIN'S 2012 Olympics bosses are being urged to ensure official merchandise is sweat-shop free.
The call follows a report out today on the plight of child "slaves" used to make bags, caps and stationery for 2008's Beijing Games.
The Independent reports that
Ex-Navy chief 'took private legal advice on Iraq' .
The head of the Royal Navy at the time of the Iraq invasion was so worried about the legality of the conflict that he sought his own private legal advice on justification for the war.
Admiral Sir Alan West, the First Sea Lord, approached lawyers to ask whether Navy and Royal Marines personnel might end up facing war crimes charges in relation to their duties in Iraq. The extraordinary steps taken by Sir Alan - which The Independent can reveal today - shows the high level of concern felt by service chiefs in the approach to war - concern that was not eased by the Attorney General's provision of a legal licence for the attack on Iraq.
It leads though with
The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.
In the south-east, usually a lush, humid region, it is the driest few months since records began in 1895. California and Nevada, where burgeoning population centres co-exist with an often harsh, barren landscape, have seen less rain over the past year than at any time since 1924. The Sierra Nevada range, which straddles the two states, received only 27 per cent of its usual snowfall in winter, with immediate knock-on effects on water supplies for the populations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Body of tot, 2, found in Channel reports the Sun
A BABY boy died last night after he was found floating in the English Channel — and two adults were missing.
Two men in a yacht found the tot — aged about two and wearing a life jacket — off the coast of Littlehampton, West Sussex at 6.50pm.
Ten minutes earlier, Solent Coastguard received a call from people on another yacht reporting an empty dinghy with personal items floating a mile out to sea.
It was about 400 yards from where the baby was found — still alive. Lifeboats and coastguards were last night searching for anybody else who might have been on board the dinghy.
Madeleine officer charged over another missing girl reports the Times
The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was in chaos last night after the detective coordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another notorious missing child case.
Goncalo Amaral and four other Portuguese police officers were charged over the weekend with offences relating to the inquiry into the disappearance of Joana Cipriano from a village seven miles from where Madeleine was abducted.
MADDY HUNT LEADS TO MOROCCO
We follow 'kidnap trail' reports the Mirror
KIDNAPPERS could have smuggled Madeleine McCann into North Africa in just five hours.
As her parents, Kate and Gerry, travelled from Portugal to Morocco in their hunt for the missing four-year-old, the Mirror retraced the most likely route an abductor may have taken.
It leads with an
EXCLUSIVE: STREET FIGHTER
Drunk Corrie Ashley squares up to boxing legends Eubank and Benn at charity night
SOZZLED Corrie star Steven Arnold caused mayhem at a posh dinner - by challenging boxing legends Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn to a fight.
The squeaky-voiced actor, who plays gormless butcher Ashley Peacock, heckled Benn and Eubank as they made after-dinner speeches from inside a boxing ring.
Then he clambered through the ropes and stood unsteadily face-to-face with them.
Eubank and fellow boxing great Nigel Benn could only stare in shocked silence as Arnold, who plays gormless butcher Ashley Peacock, squared up to them both at a gala dinner.
Sarkozy's party heading for landslide victory reports the Telegraph
Exit polls suggested that the Union for a Popular Movement, which Mr Sarkozy led until being elected president last month, was set to unfurl a "blue wave" of around 385-420 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly - one of its biggest majorities in recent years. It currently has 359 seats.
This will be the first time since 1978 that an outgoing parliament has retained a majority in France.
Meanwhile the Indy reports on a warm welcome for President Bush
Bush feted as hero in Albania as he calls for independence for Kosovo
George Bush used the first visit by a serving American president to Albania yesterday to make the clearest call yet for independence for neighbouring Kosovo. In a move that will add to the tension between Washington and Moscow - which supports Serbia's claims to the troubled province - Mr Bush said the UN Security Council should quickly decide Kosovo's fate.
"At some point in time, sooner rather than later, you've got to say 'Enough is enough. Kosovo is independent', and that's the position we've taken," Mr Bush told a press conference in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
Bush insists Kosovo must be independent and receives hero's welcome in Albania says the Guardian
George Bush declared yesterday that he had made up his mind that Kosovo should be an independent country, throwing down the gauntlet to Russia and challenging President Vladimir Putin to abandon attempts to block the path to statehood at the UN security council.
On the first visit by a US president to Albania, Mr Bush focused on the fate of the majority ethnic Albanians across the border in Kosovo and voiced impatience at Russian and Serbian blocking tactics, which are holding up a vote on the issue at the security council.
According to the Times
Search is under way for the next man to lead England’s Catholics
The Pope has begun taking soundings in England and Wales for a successor to the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, who is expected to retire in 2009, The Times has learnt.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor will offer his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI in August when he turns 75, as he is required to do by Canon Law.
The Pope is expected to turn it down, as is the norm for an Archbishop in good health who is in good favour in Rome. But sources have told The Times that the Cardinal is then expected to offer it again a year later, upon which it is likely to be accepted, giving a retirement date of February 2009.
DIANA DEATH PHOTOS STOLEN is the lead in the Express
Whilst the paper also prominently reports that
IMMIGRANTS ARE TOLD: SPEAK ENGLISH
LEW DUNNIT
BRIT Formula 1 sensation Lewis Hamilton wept yesterday — as he dedicated his first Grand Prix victory to his dad.
The rookie McLaren driver, 22 — who has notched up an amazing six podium places in six F1 starts — whooped and punched the air as he took the chequered flag.
Later he broke down in tears at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and said: “I could see my father in the crowd. He had a tear in his eye so I know he is extremely proud.”
Hamilton — who has been dubbed “racing’s Tiger Woods” after becoming the first black F1 driver — leads the driver’s championship by EIGHT points
The Guardian reporting
Lewis Hamilton, in only his sixth formula one race, won the Canadian grand prix yesterday and sparked spontaneous pit-lane celebrations that went beyond his McLaren-Mercedes team.
The 22-year-old Stevenage-born driver, who had already set a rookie record by winning podium positions in his first five races, led from start to finish to open up an eight-point lead in the drivers' championship.
Hamilton savours glory after perfect drive claims first win says the Times
As crowds have become accustomed to seeing in these early races of Hamilton’s record-breaking career, the 22-year-old – who leads the drivers’ championship by eight points from Fernando Alonso, his teammate – drove with speed and precision, barely putting a wheel out of place in 70 wreckage-strewn laps.
All the papers have different leads this morning,the same paper reporting that
Unmarried couples get equal rights on ‘divorce’
Unmarried women and men will be able to make claims against their partners to demand lump-sum payments, a share of property, regular maintenance or a share of the partner’s pension when they separate. They will also be able to claim against their partners for loss of earnings if they gave up a career to look after children.
The reforms are to be published by the Law Commission, the Government’s law reform body.It is expected to drop any proposal for a time stipulation, so that only couples who had lived together for, say, two years, could bring a claim; or any bar on childless couples.
The Telegraph leads with yesterday's main news discussion
'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools
The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank.
It warns of the educational apartheid opening up between the experience of pupils in the state sector and those at independent schools, which have refused to reduce academic content to make way for fashionable causes.
The Guardian stays on the same theme
Class divide hits learning by age of three
By the age of three, children from disadvantaged families are already lagging a full year behind their middle-class contemporaries in social and educational development, pioneering research by a London university reveals today.
A "generation Blair" project, tracking the progress of 15,500 boys and girls born between 2000 and 2002, found a divided nation in which a child's start in life was still determined by the class, education, marital status and ethnic background of the parents.
The results are likely to disappoint ministers committed to improving the life chances of disadvantaged children, notably through the Sure Start programme to develop potential in pre-school years.
Meanwhile the Mail leads with
Scientists develop pill to delay the menopause
New drugs are being developed that could stave off the menopause, it has been revealed.
They could lead to a fertility revolution, allowing women to wait longer to have a child.
The dramatic news came from fertility expert Professor Robert Winston. He told a conference that researchers had found a protein which they believe could be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of women’s eggs.
This would give new hope for the thousands of women who find themselves left childless in later life.
Children exploited in Olympics goods factories, says TUC reports the Guardian
Olympics merchandise is being made in factories employing children to work for up to 15 hours a day on minimal wages, research for the TUC has revealed.
Brendan Barber, the general secretary, produced the evidence of exploitation as members of the International Olympics Committee assembled for a meeting in London today to discuss progress towards the 2012 games.
The Mirror refers to
OLYMPIC 'SLAVERY'
BRITAIN'S 2012 Olympics bosses are being urged to ensure official merchandise is sweat-shop free.
The call follows a report out today on the plight of child "slaves" used to make bags, caps and stationery for 2008's Beijing Games.
The Independent reports that
Ex-Navy chief 'took private legal advice on Iraq' .
The head of the Royal Navy at the time of the Iraq invasion was so worried about the legality of the conflict that he sought his own private legal advice on justification for the war.
Admiral Sir Alan West, the First Sea Lord, approached lawyers to ask whether Navy and Royal Marines personnel might end up facing war crimes charges in relation to their duties in Iraq. The extraordinary steps taken by Sir Alan - which The Independent can reveal today - shows the high level of concern felt by service chiefs in the approach to war - concern that was not eased by the Attorney General's provision of a legal licence for the attack on Iraq.
It leads though with
The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.
In the south-east, usually a lush, humid region, it is the driest few months since records began in 1895. California and Nevada, where burgeoning population centres co-exist with an often harsh, barren landscape, have seen less rain over the past year than at any time since 1924. The Sierra Nevada range, which straddles the two states, received only 27 per cent of its usual snowfall in winter, with immediate knock-on effects on water supplies for the populations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Body of tot, 2, found in Channel reports the Sun
A BABY boy died last night after he was found floating in the English Channel — and two adults were missing.
Two men in a yacht found the tot — aged about two and wearing a life jacket — off the coast of Littlehampton, West Sussex at 6.50pm.
Ten minutes earlier, Solent Coastguard received a call from people on another yacht reporting an empty dinghy with personal items floating a mile out to sea.
It was about 400 yards from where the baby was found — still alive. Lifeboats and coastguards were last night searching for anybody else who might have been on board the dinghy.
Madeleine officer charged over another missing girl reports the Times
The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was in chaos last night after the detective coordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another notorious missing child case.
Goncalo Amaral and four other Portuguese police officers were charged over the weekend with offences relating to the inquiry into the disappearance of Joana Cipriano from a village seven miles from where Madeleine was abducted.
MADDY HUNT LEADS TO MOROCCO
We follow 'kidnap trail' reports the Mirror
KIDNAPPERS could have smuggled Madeleine McCann into North Africa in just five hours.
As her parents, Kate and Gerry, travelled from Portugal to Morocco in their hunt for the missing four-year-old, the Mirror retraced the most likely route an abductor may have taken.
It leads with an
EXCLUSIVE: STREET FIGHTER
Drunk Corrie Ashley squares up to boxing legends Eubank and Benn at charity night
SOZZLED Corrie star Steven Arnold caused mayhem at a posh dinner - by challenging boxing legends Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn to a fight.
The squeaky-voiced actor, who plays gormless butcher Ashley Peacock, heckled Benn and Eubank as they made after-dinner speeches from inside a boxing ring.
Then he clambered through the ropes and stood unsteadily face-to-face with them.
Eubank and fellow boxing great Nigel Benn could only stare in shocked silence as Arnold, who plays gormless butcher Ashley Peacock, squared up to them both at a gala dinner.
Sarkozy's party heading for landslide victory reports the Telegraph
Exit polls suggested that the Union for a Popular Movement, which Mr Sarkozy led until being elected president last month, was set to unfurl a "blue wave" of around 385-420 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly - one of its biggest majorities in recent years. It currently has 359 seats.
This will be the first time since 1978 that an outgoing parliament has retained a majority in France.
Meanwhile the Indy reports on a warm welcome for President Bush
Bush feted as hero in Albania as he calls for independence for Kosovo
George Bush used the first visit by a serving American president to Albania yesterday to make the clearest call yet for independence for neighbouring Kosovo. In a move that will add to the tension between Washington and Moscow - which supports Serbia's claims to the troubled province - Mr Bush said the UN Security Council should quickly decide Kosovo's fate.
"At some point in time, sooner rather than later, you've got to say 'Enough is enough. Kosovo is independent', and that's the position we've taken," Mr Bush told a press conference in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
Bush insists Kosovo must be independent and receives hero's welcome in Albania says the Guardian
George Bush declared yesterday that he had made up his mind that Kosovo should be an independent country, throwing down the gauntlet to Russia and challenging President Vladimir Putin to abandon attempts to block the path to statehood at the UN security council.
On the first visit by a US president to Albania, Mr Bush focused on the fate of the majority ethnic Albanians across the border in Kosovo and voiced impatience at Russian and Serbian blocking tactics, which are holding up a vote on the issue at the security council.
According to the Times
Search is under way for the next man to lead England’s Catholics
The Pope has begun taking soundings in England and Wales for a successor to the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, who is expected to retire in 2009, The Times has learnt.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor will offer his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI in August when he turns 75, as he is required to do by Canon Law.
The Pope is expected to turn it down, as is the norm for an Archbishop in good health who is in good favour in Rome. But sources have told The Times that the Cardinal is then expected to offer it again a year later, upon which it is likely to be accepted, giving a retirement date of February 2009.
DIANA DEATH PHOTOS STOLEN is the lead in the Express
Whilst the paper also prominently reports that
IMMIGRANTS ARE TOLD: SPEAK ENGLISH
IMMIGRANTS should learn English instead of relying on taxpayers paying millions to have documents translated for them, the Government signalled yesterday.
Translation services had been used “too frequently” and could become a “crutch” which deterred new arrivals from learning English and integrating with society, said Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly.“It’s quite possible for someone to come here from Pakistan or elsewhere in the world and find that materials are routinely translated into their mother tongue, and therefore do not have the incentive to learn the language,’’ she said.
Asylum Afghans two bins laden reports the Sun staying on that topic
TWO Afghan asylum seekers were caught sneaking into Britain — hidden in wheelie bins.
The stowaways were discovered when they arrived at a council refuse depot.
One witness said: “We didn’t believe our eyes. We opened the lorry doors and spotted the pair among hundreds of bins.
“It was like that scene from Only Fools And Horses when Del Boy and Rodney find a bloke in the back of their van after a booze cruise to France.
The stowaways were discovered when they arrived at a council refuse depot.
One witness said: “We didn’t believe our eyes. We opened the lorry doors and spotted the pair among hundreds of bins.
“It was like that scene from Only Fools And Horses when Del Boy and Rodney find a bloke in the back of their van after a booze cruise to France.
Finally to the Telegraph which reports on the
Teasmade: the gadget that refused to die
The peculiarly British invention combined an alarm clock with a kettle, and promised owners they could wake up each morning to a fresh cup of tea without having to leave the comfort of their bed. At the height of their popularity, two million households had one.By the 1990s they had become a symbol of naffness, and the death knell sounded when Norma Major admitted she had one in the bedroom of 10 Downing Street.Fans of the gadget, however, have reason to celebrate. John Lewis, the department store chain, is planning to bring back the Teasmade after customers' complaints that they could no longer buy the machine.
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