Another of those days when the papers all choose different leads.

The Guardian chooses to report on

De Menezes shooting: UK's top anti-terror officer is singled out

The country's most senior anti-terrorist officer will be heavily criticised in an official report published tomorrow into the events surrounding the killing of an innocent Brazilian man in south London, the Guardian understands.
While Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police will escape serious censure from the Independent Police Complaints Commission over his role, Andy Hayman, the overall head of counter terrorism and intelligence, is understood to have been singled out for being deliberately misleading.

For the Times this morning's most important news is that

Police want ‘Tesco jails’

Police and retailers are backing proposals for short-term “Tesco jails” for shopping malls and major sporting venues as a way of speedily dealing with shoplifters, drunks and football hooligans.
Mobile units would also be used to deal with protesters at key defence installations and to tackle suspects detained during disorder at major railway stations or at entertainment centres. Retailers called for the short-term jails to be compulsory at all shopping centres to help to tackle shoplifting, which cost £767 million in England and Wales last year.
Suspects could be held for up to four hours in the units to allow police to establish their identity, take a DNA sample or handout a reprimand or caution.

'Use IVF to create more saviour siblings' headlines the Telegraph

Parents will be allowed to create children specifically to help cure older brothers and sisters of common conditions under proposals unveiled today by MPs and peers.For the first time, couples could use so-called "saviour siblings" to treat other family members suffering the kind of serious but non-fatal ailments that affect millions.
Presently the law allows parents to use IVF procedures to select embryos that will be a genetic match to older siblings with life-threatening diseases, such as a rare blood disorder.
But a joint House of Commons and Lords committee today calls for the law to be relaxed to include other illnesses.

The Mail leads with more Tv revelations

New TV 'fake' row: Alzheimer's victim did NOT die in ITV documentary

ITV has admitted images claiming to show an Alzheimer's patient at the moment of death were actually filmed three days before he passed away.
The broadcaster had previously defended the scene in a documentary, claiming it was an "integral part of the story".
It had generated huge publicity for ITV because it would have been only the second time a person was filmed for British television at the moment they died.
But programme chiefs have been forced to confirm that they had misled viewers.

The Telegraph says that

The disclosure was an embarrassment to Michael Grade, the ITV chairman, who only last week told a committee of MPs that he was operating a "zero tolerance" policy on film makers who set out to deceive viewers. The channel's main rival, the BBC, has already been at the centre of a series of revelations over misleading television programmes - which have included rigged phone-in competitions and the row over incorrectly edited footage of the Queen.

Gordon Brown's visit to the UN gains a lot of coverage

Brown: We are failing the world's poorest countries says the Indy

Gordon Brown declared a "global emergency" yesterday as he launched a major new campaign to tackle poverty, ill health and poor education in the developing world.
Launching his first major foreign policy initiative since becoming prime minister, he admitted that world leaders had failed to lived up to their promises to solve the crisis in the poorest nations.
His "wake-up call" won the backing of 12 other leaders, including President George Bush, and the bosses of 20 global companies, including Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates. The campaign, to be run through the UN, will be based on a new partnership between governments, the private sector and faith and pressure groups.

Brown blast over poverty failure says the Mirror

Gordon Brown borrowed the words of John F. Kennedy yesterday as he blasted other world leaders for failing to tackle global poverty.
He said now was the time for the world to come together in a new partnership to cut poverty, fight disease and improve education.
Mr Brown told the UN: "The questions that - to paraphrase the words of an American president - we must ask are: 'If not now, when? If not us, who? If not together, how?"

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that

UN vote backs Brown's call for action to end Darfur conflict

Gordon Brown scored a dramatic first foreign policy victory last night when the UN security council voted to deploy a 26,000-strong international force to Darfur, with a mandate to stop the massacres of civilians which have driven 2 million people from their homes.
Mr Brown has made Darfur a foreign policy priority, and the UN resolution was an initiative he promoted 10 days earlier with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, aiming to end a year of international drift on the issue. This week he secured George Bush's support for the draft.

According to the Times

Brown drums up funds for a snap autumn poll

Gordon Brown has secretly ordered a review of Labour’s organisation and instructed allies to begin raising funds as part of preparations for a general election this autumn.

A leading party official told The Times yesterday that Mr Brown had placed Labour on notice for a poll that could be held as soon as this October.
Martin Salter, a vice-chairman of the Labour Party, said: “I can confirm that the party has been put on alert for an early election that could take place as soon as this autumn.”
Private negotiations with Labour’s leading donors and its bankers have already started, in the clearest sign yet that Mr Brown is seriously considering taking advantage of a surge in the party’s opinion polls since he took office.

The oppositions problems are widely reported

Mystery of Cameron's chief fundraiser and his Commons pass says the Independent

David Cameron's "chief fundraiser" is gaining access to exclusive hospitality facilities inside the Palace of Westminster by using a researcher pass allotted to a Conservative peer who has no parliamentary office and asks for no research, The Independent has learnt.
Andrew Feldman, an old university friend and tennis partner of Mr Cameron, is listed by Parliament as a "temporary research assistant" to Lord Harris of Peckham, a multimillionaire Tory donor and businessman who is chairman of Carpet-right. Last night, Mr Feldman said that he had "not been asked to conduct any research and have not done so".
A senior member of the Lords Privileges Committee said the news that a party fundraiser was using a parliamentary security pass shows how fundraising, "pollutes our politics".

David Cameron suspends critic in public row reports the Telegraph

A summer of discontent in the Tory ranks spilled over into a bitter row between Mr Cameron and Ali Miraj, who spoke out after his request for a peerage was turned down.
After Mr Miraj claimed he was being "smeared" and questioned whether the Tory leader was "fit to be prime minister", he was summarily suspended from the party's A-list of priority candidates, wrecking his chances of becoming a Conservative MP.
Mr Cameron decided to get tough after being buffeted by the most serious outbreak of Tory infighting since he became leader. There is growing concern at the top of the party that he must reassert his grip if he is to mount a serious challenge to Gordon Brown.

The Guardian reports that

Inmates left in limbo by failures in new sentences - judges

High court judges yesterday dealt a fresh blow to the government's handling of the prison crisis when they ruled that inmates serving new "open-ended" sentences had unlawfully been left in overcrowded local prisons without access to the compulsory rehabilitation programmes they need to secure their release.
Two appeal court judges said there had been a "general and systemic legal failure" in the treatment of more than 3,000 prisoners serving one of the new indeterminate public protection (IPP) sentences, under which they are supposed to be held until they no longer pose a risk to the public.

The Express returns to a familiar theme on its front page

DIANA DEATH: NEW WITNESS

A WITNESS who holds vital clues suggesting Princess Diana’s death was not an accident is set to give evidence at her inquest.

Christophe Pelat could be one of the most important people to take the stand when the hearing begins in the autumn.

The French firefighter’s sensational claims concern the discovery of the “shot” body of paparazzi photographer James Andanson.

Andanson was an MI6 informer who followed Diana’s every move in the weeks before she died alongside Dodi Al Fayed and their chauffeur, Henri Paul.

He is also believed to be the driver of a mystery Fiat Uno that collided with Diana’s Mercedes moments before it crashed.


'I resented dad's accuser'says the Sun as the Chris Langham trial gets a lot of coverage

A SON of actor Chris Langham yesterday told a court he had “resented” the girl who claims she was abused by his father at 14.
Siencyn Langham, 30, said he had seen the girl once or twice with his dad.
But he admitted: “I think I blanked her out because I slightly resented other people being there when it was supposed to be me, my dad and my brothers.”
Thick Of It star Langham, 58, had arrived at court with Siencyn and his other sons Dafydd, 24, and Glyn, 21. They are from his first marriage to actress Sue Jones-Davies.

The Telegraph reporting that

Siencyn Langham, 30, the oldest of The Thick Of It star's five children, said he could not recall the alleged victim accompanying him and his father on trips to film sets.
"I think possibly I've blocked occasions when she was there because I resented other people being invited when it was meant to be me, my dad and my two brothers," said the television editor.
Recalling a trip to Nottingham, he said: "Until I saw the photos, I'd forgotten she had been there."

The Front page of the Independent marks the news of

Justice at last for 'Comrade Duch'

He was a maths teacher turned torturer, a one-time college principal who oversaw the Khmer Rouge regime's interrogation and abuse of many thousands of innocent people. When the regime was ousted from power, having perpetrated one of the most brutal genocides in history, he converted to Christianity and returned to teaching. For decades it seemed Kaing Guek Eav would escape justice.
But yesterday, in a historic move, the 64-year-old also known as "Comrade Duch" was charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia - the first of the "Killing Fields" regime's leaders to be brought before a court.

The Mail reports that a

Jeering mob of children 'stoned father to death as he played cricket'

A gang of children killed a father-of-two by stoning him as he played a makeshift game of cricket with his son, a court has heard.
They surrounded a tennis court where Ernest Norton and his teenage son had set up a wicket and hurled bricks and debris in a "completely unprovoked attack".
Mr Norton, 67, collapsed in a pool of blood after being hit by a piece of rock and died from heart failure, the Old Bailey was told.

The Mirror reporting that

Five boys, then aged between 10 and 13, were among the gang who heckled, taunted and spat at him before launching the "pointless and random" assault,


The Sun for the fourth day running reports on the antics of sharks

DER-DUM-DER-DUM headlines the paper
A HERO fled the sea in terror amid the Jaws panic engulfing Britain — after saving two girl cousins from a shark.
Frantic Joe Miller, 26, plunged into the waves to help the pair to safety after a dreaded fin passed within yards of them off a South Devon beach.
He then scrambled for his own life. Student Hannah Miller, 23, told yesterday how she and sister Freya, 20, thought Joe was JOKING as he screamed at them to get out of the water.

I'M DEVASTATED, SAYS LAST PERSON TO SEE MADELEINE reports the Express

THE only witness to Madeleine McCann’s abduction is “devastated” that she did not do anything to prevent it, friends claimed last night.

Jane Tanner, pictured here for the first time, saw a man carrying a child under a blanket on the night the four-year-old went missing.

Mother-of-two Miss Tanner was dining with Madeleine’s parents when the child was snatched from their holiday apartment 40 yards away.

She originally dismissed the man and the blanket as someone with his own child. But when Madeleine’s mother Kate discovered her daughter was missing half an hour later, Miss Tanner realised what she had witnessed.


The Mirror's front page features

Double lotto scoop for Derek

Delighted Derek Ladner is pocketing almost £1million after he absent-mindedly bought two lottery tickets - and scooped a double share of the jackpot.
Derek, 57, splashed out on a second ticket using his usual numbers, forgetting he had already bought one.
And when it was announced the £2.4million jackpot was split between five winning tickets, stunned Derek discovered he had two of them - worth £479,142 each. Camelot said yesterday: "This chap has doubled his money after winning two shares of the jackpot. He is the first person to win twice in the same draw."

The Telegragh reports that

Jesus to battle Barbie on Wal-Mart shelves

The nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has announced that it will start carrying a line of faith-based toys in 425 of its 3,376 stores later this month to see if characters such as Spirit Warrior Samson can rival the popularity of superhero figures like Spiderman.
The move is a first for the chain, which has carried religious-themed products including stationery and books before but never a line of toys.
A spokesman for Wal-Mart said that the "faith-enriching toys", made by One2believe, a Californian company, would go on sale mainly in stores in the Midwest and South, the country's religious heartlands.

Murdoch clinches $5bn Dow takeover reports the Guardian

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch this morning clinched ownership of the Wall Street Journal's publisher, Dow Jones, after key members of the controlling Bancroft family switched sides to back his $5bn takeover bid.
After frantic last-minute negotiations, it became clear that the Bancrofts, who control 64% of Dow Jones, were pledging at least 38% of the company's stock to Mr Murdoch's News Corporation.

Finally the Telegraph reports on the

Village street that is packed with 45 road signs

Drivers passing through a quiet village in North Yorks have been left baffled by a street that has 45 road signs in just half a mile.The RAC said it was "astonished" at the number of signs on Low Street, in South Milford, near Selby.
Villagers are calling for a clear-out of the signs, which include warnings about roundabouts, pedestrians and other hazards.
Edward French, a resident who is leading the campaign, said: "If you had to look at everything, you would not be concentrating on the road itself.
"It is ridiculous, unnecessary and an eyesore."