The Mail leads with a scope claiming this morning that

Al Qaeda fanatics working in police (but they don't dare sack them)

Up to eight police officers and civilian staff are suspected of links to extremist groups including Al Qaeda.
Some are even believed to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Their names feature on a secret list of alleged radicals said to be working in the Metropolitan and other forces.


On the day that



Police identify bomb-maker as Iraqi becomes first man to be charged over terror attacks reports the Independent



Bilal Abdulla, arrested at the scene of last week's attack on Glasgow airport, has been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.
Scotland Yard confirmed the charge had been brought last night after being advised to proceed by the Crown Prosecution Service. Mr Abdulla, 27, an Iraqi doctor, will appear at City of London magistrates' court this morning. Seven other suspects remain in custody pending decisions on charges.

The Mirror headlines with

PRAYER PLEA OF 'BOMBER'

TERROR suspect Kafeel Ahmed asked his family to pray for him hours before he crashed a burning Jeep into Glasgow Airport.
Police believe his phone calls to them in India were coded messages referring to the failed Central London car bombs and to the Scottish attack.
They suspect engineer Ahmed, 27, who suffered 90 per cent burns in the burning Jeep, of being a key figure in the plot to blow up two Mercedes packed with gas canisters, petrol and nails in the West End.



the papers otherwise concentrate on differing leads




The Telegraph stays with the terror theme



Summer of airport delays on way, says Brown



The Prime Minister said there would be months of disruption following last weekend's failed car bombings, but insisted the measures were necessary for public safety. Tens of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded after the attempted attack on Glasgow airport last Saturday.
Bomb scares swept the country, while one alert at Heathrow resulted in more than 150 cancelled flights.

20,000 BAGS HELD UP BY AIRPORT TERROR says the Express.

BRITAIN’S latest terror crisis has led to a massive backlog of 20,000 bags at the country’s busiest airport.
Heathrow’s Term­inal 4 was closed and thousands of people were evacuated this week after the discovery of a suspect package.Although the passengers were cleared through the airport by the following evening, thousands were forced to travel without their luggage as the backlog built up.

Secret list of universities facing collapse is the main story in the Guardian




A secret list of nearly 50 universities and colleges at risk of financial failure has been drawn up by government officials since tuition fees were introduced, the Guardian has learned.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act name for the first time 46 institutions which the government feared could collapse even after the introduction of tuition fees boosted university funding.
The institutions, largely ex-polytechnics, affect hundreds of thousands of students and include large universities such as London South Bank University, Greenwich University and Liverpool John Moores UnivA secret list of nearly 50 universities and colleges at risk of financial failure has been drawn up by government officials since tuition fees were introduced, the Guardian has learned.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act name for the first time 46 institutions which the government feared could collapse even after the introduction of tuition fees boosted university funding.
The institutions, largely ex-polytechnics, affect hundreds of thousands of students and include large universities such as London South Bank University, Greenwich University and Liverpool John Moores University. Queen Mary, University of London, is also listed.



Meanwhile the Mail reports that



Middle-class parents raising a generation of 'brats' who can't hold down a job



Middle-class parents are raising a generation of 'spoilt brats' who are so cosseted that they struggle to cope in the workplace, psychologists have warned.
A new breed of 'princesses' and 'little kings' cannot hold down jobs because they are so used to leaving household chores to their parents and throwing tantrums to get their own way.
Experts believe a rise in childcentred parenting is to blame. Mothers and fathers are said to be lavishing expensive clothes and gadgets on their children both to keep up with the Joneses and ease their guilt at working long hours.

The Mirror leads with

DI'S SECRET DINNERS WITH BLAIR

TONY Blair wanted to capitalise on Princess Diana's popularity at home and abroad by making her a key player in projecting the United Kingdom to the world.
But they kept their meetings about her "ambassador" role a closely guarded secret because both were afraid she might be accused of interfering in party politics.
The princess, who had campaigned against landmines and supported Aids victims, was continuing to discuss the new role when her life was tragically cut short 10 years ago next month in a Paris car crash.
She and Mr Blair are said to have enjoyed each other's company and laughed and joked together during the intimate get-togethers.

All the papers look forward to todays live earth concerts



So, Al Gore, what's the one thing we can all do to tackle climate change? is the lead in the Independent



Well, first of all, learn about it. Learn about the ways in which you can become part of the solution to the problem in the contexts of your own life. Learning about it is important in your role as a citizen, and in helping to achieve the policy changes that in the long term will be required to solve this crisis.
Where individual actions are concerned, cut down on energy use. Become conscious as a consumer of picking the most environmentally friendly alternatives - and they are always there. You can make symbolic actions like changing lightbulbs to bulbs that use a tiny fraction of the energy, but remember that less visible changes that can accomplish the same thing are available for every product.


150 acts, two billion viewers - and an awful lot of greenhouse gas says the Guardian



The climate scientists have spoken. Now it's James Blunt's turn. But if scepticism, even cynicism, is a natural response whenever pop stars promise to change the world, there's no denying the sheer scale and intensity of Live Earth, their latest attempt.
The 24-hour, seven-continent sequence of concerts, will already have begun in Sydney by the time you read this - and the organisers, spearheaded by Al Gore, hope it will reach 2 billion people via 120 television networks, internet and radio, making it the biggest media event in history. At Wembley later today, 80,000 people are expected to watch Madonna, Genesis, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, the Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, and Blunt, although last night rumours of an appearance by Paul McCartney remained just rumours.

LIVE EARTH HYPOCRITES says the Express

some environmental experts say the good intentions behind the concerts are likely to be eclipsed by the bad ecological examples set by the stars.Madonna headlines at today’s Live Earth gig in London. But the singer wasn’t so environmentally friendly when she used a gas-guzzling car to take her to the gym yesterday.She used the large, chauffeur-­driven vehicle to transport her for a work-out the short distance from her Knightsbridge home, despite signing a seven-point pledge to save the planet.


The Times leads with the news that


200,000 ‘friends’ inform on tax cheats


In just over a year, Revenue & Customs has received more than 155,000 telephone calls to its tax evasion hotline, 12,083 items of post (including faxes) and 17,952 e-mails. In addition, 3,819 referrals came from the Customs confidential hotline, set up in October 2005.
Last night the Revenue declined to reveal how many prosecutions had resulted from calls taken by the hotline or how much money had been recovered. The Treasury said that it would publish a costs and benefits report on the hotline in due course. No one calling the hotline receives a reward.
A Revenue spokesman said: “The details of the call are processed and if the risk and intelligence team decides that we should proceed with intervention they will gather information from various places, such as company accounts, employer records, self-assessment forms and tax credit information to support the allegation.


Back to the terrrorism theme and according to the Guardian



£3bn emergency service radios 'seriously flawed'


Equipment that allows the emergency services to cope in the event of a terrorist attack is seriously flawed, according to new research. A week after the terrorist bomb attempts on London and Glasgow airport and on the second anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, a study is expected to question the efficiency of the £3bn Airwave communication system commissioned by the Home Office, which should allow all the different emergency services to communicate with each other.
The system has been controversial because its implementation has been delayed. Communication was identified as a key failing during the reaction to the 7/7 attacks, when terrorists killed 52 people in London. The emergency services lost radio contact with each other underground and doctors were unsure which hospitals to send casualties to.


The Sun reports that



Altimimi jailed for nine years



OMAR ALTIMIMI, a failed asylum seeker who hoarded manuals on how to carry out car bombings, was jailed for nine years today.
Altimimi, 37, was convicted earlier this week of six counts of possessing material of use to terrorists and two counts of money laundering.
He came to England from The Netherlands in 2002 and applied for asylum, but police have been unable to establish his true identity or nationality, prosecutors said.
The manuals in his possession included instructions on using gas canisters to make car bombs.



The Times claims

Labour minister sought Tory backing to be mayor


Sir Digby Jones has confirmed that he held secret talks with David Cameron about running as a Tory-backed candidate for Mayor of London before being made a Labour minister by Gordon Brown.
The former CBI boss told The Times yesterday that he did not tell Mr Brown about his discussions with the Tory leader when he agreed to take a peerage and a job in the Government. r Brown spoke of “men and women of goodwill” helping to form a “government of all the talents” when he entered 10 Downing Street. The appointment of Sir Digby as Minister for Business and Industry last week had proved the most controversial of those recruited from outside the ranks of the Labour Party.


CPS 'actively' considering cash-for-honours charges says the Indy



Prosecutors are "very actively" considering whether to bring charges in the cash-for-honours affair after the police ended their 15-month investigation.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it now had "all the evidence we need" to reach a final decision over allegations that peerages were offered to Labour supporters in return for loans.


Meanwhile the first whiff of scandal for the new Pm


Brown flat deal could mean tax savings reports the Telegraph



Gordon Brown gave his £700,000 flat in central London to his wife Sarah weeks before he moved into 10 Downing Street, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The Prime Minister’s wife then cashed in on recent soaring property prices by taking out a special type of mortgage against the value of the flat with a private bank.
Downing Street sources said that there were no tax implications from the transaction and insisted that Mrs Brown had borrowed against the flat to give her more financial independence.


Another politician in trouble makes the lead in the Sun



CIG DEM headlines the paper

FORMER Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has been spoken to by police after being spotted smoking out of a train window.British Transport Police were called after a complaint that a passenger on board the 11.05 London Paddington to Plymouth train was having a cigarette.The smoking ban came into force across England on Sunday making it illegal to light up in public places such as pubs, hotels and bars. A BTP spokesman said “a man” had been spoken to at the station.



the weather continues to feature


Brown pledges emergency aid to help flood victims reports the Independent



Gordon Brown has pledged emergency aid to help flood victims rebuild their neighbourhoods. Council leaders have warned that it could be more than a year before some people can return to their homes and the Prime Minister will visit the affected areas today to see the damage for himself.
In Sheffield, hundreds of mourners packed Gleadless Methodist Church yesterday for the funeral of Ryan Parry, 14, who was swept away by the swollen river Sheaf on 25 June.
The Mayor of Doncaster, Martin Winter, warned that some homes in the flood-hit town might have to be abandoned. He said: "It may be six to 18 months for some people before we can actually get them back in their homes, if at all. We need to look at whether or not, in terms of long-term risk assessment, in some of these areas we do rebuild them or whether we rebuild on higher ground."

The PM is: Flash flood Gordon says the Sun

GORDON Brown will today meet desperate flood victims and pledge all the help they need — TWO WEEKS after the disaster.
The PM acted following furious claims from homeless people in Hull that the Government has forgotten them — and would have acted quicker had the crisis hit London.

Reports of the death of summer are greatly exaggerated, say forecasters


The Guardian reporting that

The Met Office confirmed this week that it has been the wettest June since records began in 1914. But reports of the death of summer have been greatly exaggerated: despite inherent uncertainties in making long-term weather forecasts, the Met Office says that Britain will enjoy a relatively warm, dry summer in the coming months, although more unsettled weather lies ahead for the next few weeks.


The same paper reports that


Musharraf's plane targeted by gunman

The sense of crisis gripping Pakistan grew yesterday as a bloody siege of a mosque stretched into its fourth day, suspected militants targeted President Pervez Musharraf's plane, and a suicide bomber killed six soldiers near the Afghan border.
Gunfire was heard in a congested district of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, in the morning shortly after a plane carrying General Musharraf took off. The aircraft was not hit and police traced the shots to a nearby house where they found an assault rifle and an anti-aircraft gun on the roof.
Security officials described it as a failed assassination attempt, but Major General Waheed Arshad, the chief military spokesman, said that only an AK-47 had been discharged, suggesting the president was in limited danger.

Rebel groups step up kidnaps and attacks on aid workers in Darfur says the Independent

Aid workers in Sudan's Darfur region are coming under increasingly frequent and savage attack, with June among the worst months recorded, according to a confidential security report compiled by an international charity.
Thirty serious incidents took place in the last month alone - up from an average of 10 per month one year ago - as armed bandits and militia groups launched daily violent attacks.
The report, by a charity working in Darfur, which cannot be identified for safety reasons, reveals that 28 people working for international aid agencies were abducted, while more than 35 vehicles were either hijacked, shot at or stolen. Two people were shot dead and five were injured during attacks. In one of the most daring incidents, a convoy of 37 UN vehicles was ambushed near Kebkabiya in North Darfur. Two of the vehicles were hit by bullets and one of the drivers was injured . Three days later, 15 armed men forced their way into an aid agency compound, assaulting a guard and stealing a vehicle.

The Ratzinger Effect: more money, more pilgrims – and lots more Latin reports the Times
With donations to the Church from around the world almost doubling and pilgrims pouring into Rome in ever-greater numbers, Vatican watchers are beginning to reassess the two-year-old pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI and noting a positive “Ratzinger effect”.
Today the Vatican will publish the Pope’s “motu proprio” decree allowing broader use by Roman Catholics of the Latin Tridentine Mass — the pontiff’s last act before leaving for his traditional summer holiday.

You say, we pay massive fine reports the Sun

THE company behind the Richard and Judy premium rate telephone quiz scandal was hit with a record fine today.
Premium rate services regulator Icstis slapped a £150,000 penalty on Eckoh UK Ltd.
It also ordered a sanction to provide refunds to all those affected.
The company was punished after an inquiry into allegations that the You Say, We Pay telephone quiz on Channel 4's Richard and Judy show urged viewers to call in even though potential winners had already been chosen.

Finally staying with the same paper

TURBINATED
3 months on and still no sign of 'green' Cameron's windmill

HE cycles to work and is always banging on about his green credentials but windbag David Cameron still hasn't got the turbine on his roof sorted out.
The Tory leader put it up in March then was ordered to take it down because it was in the wrong place.
Now three months on, there's still no sign of its return.
And his local council says it has not had a new planning application to resite the windmill.
But, by amazing coincidence, when we asked Mr Cameron's office why, it claimed he was due to apply for planning permission next week.