Warning of 15-year fight against terror
Admiral Sir Alan West, the former First Sea Lord, said the overall danger facing the country, from both home-grown and foreign terrorists, was at its greatest ever level and that a new approach was badly needed to tackle it.
In his first interview since his surprise appointment by Gordon Brown as security minister, Sir Alan called on people to be "a little bit un-British" and even inform on each other in an attempt to trap those plotting to take innocent lives.
"Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone," he said. "I'm afraid, in this situation, anyone who's got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life."
He said he was determined to build on the Government's core anti-terrorism strategy of the "four Ps" - prepare, protect, pursue, prevent - but that the "prevent" side, dealing with the radicalisation of young Muslims, was the most important.
The Mail on Sunday also focuses on a terrorism story
Tag fiasco: Failures in monitoring terror suspects
Alarming failures in the way that terror suspects are kept under surveillance by electronic tagging have been revealed.
Staff working for the company responsible for maintaining a round-the-clock watch on individuals linked to terrorism have no idea who they are monitoring.
And the system itself frequently crashes - sometimes, it is claimed for as long as eight hours at a time. claims the paper
The Observer claims
Terror suspect's jet bomb plot link
A terror suspect involved in bomb attacks on London and Glasgow was a known associate of a senior al-Qaeda figure caught plotting to blow up passenger jets four years ago.
Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian doctor, knew one of the terror group's most high-profile bomb makers in Europe, according to senior security sources.
Ahmed, 27, who remains critically ill in hospital after the failed car bomb attack last weekend on Glasgow Airport, was involved with convicted terrorist Abbas Boutrab when he was planning to target airliners.
But the papers have a number of stories floating around
The same paper leads with
New health fears over big surge in autism
The number of children in Britain with autism is far higher than previously thought, according to dramatic new evidence by the country's leading experts in the field.
A study, as yet unpublished, shows that as many as one in 58 children may have some form of the condition, a lifelong disability that leads to many sufferers becoming isolated because they have trouble making friends and often display obsessional behaviour.
Seven academics at Cambridge University, six of them from its renowned Autism Research Centre, undertook the research by studying children at local primary schools. Two of the academics, leaders in their field, privately believe that the surprisingly high figure may be linked to the use of the controversial MMR vaccine. That view is rejected by the rest of the team, including its leader, the renowned autism expert, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
The Times reports that
Mandelson to be made a lord
PETER Mandelson, the European Union commissioner and former cabinet minister, is to be recommended by Tony Blair for a peerage.
The former prime minister is expected to put forward Mandelson’s name to the Lords appointments commission shortly.
Although the appointment is likely to be controversial and has already irked some Labour colleagues, it is usual practice for Britain’s EU commissioners to be sent to the House of Lords.
Mandelson will not be able to take his seat in the upper house as there are still 16 months left of his term as trade commissioner in Brussels, where his duty is to represent all 27 EU member states.
Its front page also features some of the leaks from Alistair Campbell's book
Blair wanted to quit before Iraq war
TONY BLAIR wanted to quit as prime minister a year before the Iraq war, according to Alastair Campbell, his former communications director.
He told Campbell that he was not going to seek a third term of office and wanted to be free to act without worrying what the Labour party or public thought of him for the remainder of his second term.
Campbell reveals the former prime minister’s plans in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times today on the eve of publication of his long awaited diaries, The Blair Years.
His revelations, from the man who was at Blair’s side for a decade and dubbed the real deputy prime minister, are the first to come from a figure at the centre of power in Downing Street.
BLAIR GURU EXCLUSIVE reports the Mirror
TONY Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has revealed how his devotion to the former PM almost shattered his family life.
In his diaries, published tomorrow, Campbell reveals how he told the Prime Minister he was going to have to choose between his job and his long-term partner and mother of his three children, Fiona Millar.
She had repeatedly asked Campbell - often described as "the real Deputy Prime Minister" - to give up his role as Mr Blair's closest adviser as the pressure became intolerable on their family life.
All the papers report on the latest carnage in Iraq
Suicide truck bomb kills over 100 in Iraq says the Telegraph
A suicide bomber has detonated a truck full of explosives devastating a crowded market and killing at least 100 people in an Iraqi village north of Baghdad.
Dozens of homes and shops were demolished in the blast which came hours after a smaller suicide bombing in another village, both Shiite, killed 20 people.
Meanwhile the Independent reports that
Iraq: British soldier killed in militant round-up
A British soldier was killed and three others wounded in southern Iraq early yesterday as British forces carried out their biggest military operation so far this year to round up militants in Basra, the country's second-biggest city.
Major Matthew Bird, a military spokesman in Basra, said around 1,000 British troops, backed by helicopters and a warplane, were involved in the raids. A military statement said British forces were exposed to "a large number of attacks by IEDS [improvised explosive devices], RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] and small arms, which resulted in the death of one British soldier and the injury of three others". Aircraft were used to destroy roadside bombs and assist British forces who were ambushed.
It leads though with yesterday's live earth
POP GOES THE EARTH
The sun was shining; the bands were good - well, some of them - and the summer had arrived at last. Tennis players fought it out at Wimbledon and cyclists raced down the Mall in the Tour de France. But as the crowd inside Wembley Stadium for the London Live Earth concert was joined by two billion viewers around the world, other things were happening yesterday too.
Live Earth took place on seven continents, over 24 hours. During that time five million people travelled by plane - and nearly 5,000 people died as a result of air pollution. More than 83 million barrels of oil were consumed - and the Antarctic lost a kilometre from its melting ice shelf. The population of the world increased by 211,000 - and the forests of the world decreased by 20,000 hectares.
DID EARTH GROOVE FOR YOU says the Sunday Mirror
Rockin' all over the world (but just watch your carbon footprint) says the Observer
It was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Yes, another one. Its organisers said the biggest emergency in world history demanded the biggest event in world history. The sceptics said it would generate more heat than light.
Live Earth rocked around the globe yesterday, with 150 acts performing on all seven continents in a bid to create a 'tipping point' in public consciousness and action again climate change. Al Gore, the former US Vice-President turned crusader against global warming, hoped that one in every three people on the planet was watching - a record audience of 2 billion.
Madonna criticised over links to polluters says the Telegraph
She provided the finale to yesterday's Live Earth concerts, even writing a special song to mark the worldwide musical event.But instead of being lionised, Madonna found herself accused of hypocrisy last night after allegations that she has financial links to some of the world's biggest polluters.
The Ray of Light Foundation, a charitable fund established by the star to support her favourite causes and named after one of her biggest selling hits, has $4.2 million (£2.1 million) of shares in a string of companies including Alcoa, the American aluminium giant, the Ford Motor Company and Weyerhaeuser, an international forest products company. All have been criticised by environmentalists.
The News of the World spills the beans on two premiership footballers
ENGLAND soccer hero Frank Lampard enjoyed a late-night date with a sexy brunette — BEHIND locked hotel doors and BEHIND the back of his doting fiancée.
Less than 48 hours after arriving in America's sin city Las Vegas on a boys-only jaunt, the Chelsea star led the beauty off to his luxury hideaway, leaving trusting lover Elen Rives in the dark back in London with their two children.
And
MANCHESTER United goal ace Cristiano Ronaldo's glamour girl lover Gemma Atkinson has secretly bedded his team-mate Alan Smith.Former Hollyoaks star Gemma — mascot of the British Grand Prix — has been dating the Portuguese "winking winger" for seven months.
But the News of the World can reveal that, unknown to Ron, he was second in line for her charms.
For busty 22-year-old Gemma had already enjoyed a string of hush-hush sex sessions with England under-21 star Smith at his Cheshire flat.
For the Mirror the news that
I SPLIT KATE & PETEEXCLUSIVE: MODEL WHO SPLIT PETE & KATE It was wild night of passion I felt like I was cheating on Kate, but had to do it Pete is a very sexy guy ..he was a fantastic lover
THE model at the centre of Kate Moss and Pete Doherty's break-up has admitted that she DID share a wild night of passion with the rocker.
Now 29-year-old South African Lindi Hingston - who lists Hollywood actor Jared Leto and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose among her previous lovers - is consumed by guilt.
Lindi, from Cape Town, has always idolised supermodel Kate, who she met nine years ago. But now she is racked by guilt over the one-night stand with Pete.
'SOMETHING HAD TO GIVE..IT WAS THE £17-A-MONTH INSURANCE PAYMENTS' reports the same paper from the aftermath of the floods in Hull
THERE'S no help arriving for Jenna Meredith now the floods have ebbed away. She was one of the victims without insurance - so everything that she and her daughters have lost is gone for good.
Their living room floor is bare concrete, washing machine broken with cooker and fridge unusable. Their dining table and chairs are ruined. The only furniture left - a few pieces borrowed from relatives.
Jenna, 40, said: "All the things that we had, I had worked hard for. It might not amount to a great deal for some people, but to us it's a disaster. I can't see any hope of replacing our possessions and making our home again. We're living like the refugees you see in a Third World country."
£14m: Brown counts the cost of floods says the Independent
The financial and environmental cost of flooding in England began to emerge yesterday as Gordon Brown promised a £14m support package for devastated areas.
The insurance bill from families and businesses hit by the floods is expected to top £1.5bn - 50 per cent more than originally estimated. Around 27, 500 householders have submitted claims to insurers, but thousands more have no insurance.
The Prime Minister visited some of the worst-hit parts of the north of England. Touring Yorkshire yesterday, his first visit was to Toll Bar, a village just north of Doncaster, which was overwhelmed by torrential rain. Flooding destroyed many homes, the Prime Minister heard as he met fire crews and villagers in the community centre.
Mr Brown paid tribute to the "heroic efforts" of the emergency services and to members of the public. He said: "The emergency and rescue services, local authorities, Environment Agency, voluntary sector and individual members of the public have been brave and determined in what are very distressing circumstances."
VULTURES PRAY ON FLOOD VICTIMS is the headline in the Express
Zimbabwe’s silent genocide reports the Times
GRANDMOTHER Ndlolo Dube sits on the dusty ground outside her mud-and-pole hut and looks out on a land that has never seemed so dry and unforgiving. The field that was supposed to feed her and her four orphaned grandchildren is littered with dead broken maize stalks.
“No rain,” she says, as she shows the half-full 50kg bag of maize that is all the family has harvested this year. It is the third year running that the harvest has failed, but this time is by far the worst. “It’s just enough to last two or three weeks, then I don’t know what we’ll do.”
At every hut, every village, it is the same story. Plumtree and Figtree sound as if they should be verdant places but severe drought has left the area, like much of southern Zimbabwe, with 95% crop failure. People sit with dazed expressions, fuddled with hunger. The United Nations World Food Programme estimates that 4m people will need food aid.
The Independent reports
Musharraf warns Red Mosque militants: 'surrender or die'
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan yesterday told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque in Islamabad to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the compound.
"If they don't surrender, I'm saying it here, they will be killed," Mr Musharraf said, in his first public comments on the deadly stand-off in the capital. Hundreds of troops have surrounded the fortified compound housing Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and a girls' madrassa, or religious school, where clashes between armed students and security forces began on Tuesday following months of tension.
The death toll rose to 20 after a paramilitary soldier was shot dead yesterday, though the cleric leading Lal Masjid's Taliban-style movement said casualties were far higher, up to 80. There were unconfirmed accounts of the mosque's defenders burying more bodies yesterday.
Meanwhile the Observer reports
Niger Delta rebels condemn kidnapping of child
The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta yesterday condemned the abduction for ransom of a three-year-old British girl and said that it should not be confused with the political struggle in the region.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which is fighting for local control of oil revenues by blowing up oil installations and occasionally seizing adult hostages, said it was part of the search for the kidnapped toddler.
Millions take to the streets as the Tour de France comes to Britain says the Mail
The countdown to the world's greatest sporting event is over as crowds of up to one million people packed into central London to see Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara win the prologue to the Tour de France
Families took full advantage of the sunny weather and having picnics in London's Hyde Park as crowds both young and old, and many in colourful cycle jerseys, lined the route as the Tour de France set off in Britain for the first time in its 104-year history.
What a weekend: sport and sun says the Telegraph
The action-packed 48 hours encompass the world's most gruelling, and increasingly controversial, sports event in the Tour de France, and the final two days of competition at Wimbledon.
The roar of Formula 1 engines and the rising star of British motor racing, Lewis Hamilton, delighted fans at Silverstone, while Henley played host to the genteel annual rowing festival, as the arrival of sunshine finally spelled something like summer.
It is estimated that by the end of today three million spectators will have seen the weekend's four events live, while many millions more will have watched on television.
Finally the Independent reports on
100m vote for world's seven new wonders
The Great Wall of China, Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer and India's Taj Mahal were among those that were last night voted as the new Seven Wonders of the World.
More than 100 million people voted online or by text in a global poll to find the world's best architectural wonders, which were announced yesterday evening in a glitzy ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal.
Others that made it on to the list were Jordan's city of Petra, Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru's Machu Picchu. Among the sites which missed out were Stonehenge, the Acropolis, the Eiffel Tower, Easter Island, the Statue of Liberty and Sydney's Opera House.
The original seven wonders of the ancient world were concentrated in the Mediterranean and Middle East, but most have since ceased to exist. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos lighthouse off Alexandria have all vanished. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains and will retain its status as a world wonder.
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