Both the Sun and the Mirror take the same lead this morning with the comments made by the parents of murdered Rhys Jones.

We blame Killers parents says the Sun

THE devastated mother of murdered Rhys Jones told yesterday how she blamed his hoodie killer’s PARENTS.
Melanie, 41, — who cradled her 11-year-old son after he was shot by a teenage thug — said the family were responsible for leaving the gunman capable of murder.
Sobbing beside shattered husband Stephen in Liverpool, she said: “The parents don’t care. I blame the parents most of all. There are no boundaries any more. There’s no respect.”

Rhys' Mum-We blame the parents is the Mirror's headline.

Melanie said she and Stephen were shocked to learn the hooded bike-riding killer who shot dead Rhys in Croxteth Park, Liverpool last week may be as young as 13.
She said: "It's horrendous. What are their parents doing, is what I want to know.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that

More prisons are not the answer to punishing criminals, says poll
A Guardian/ICM poll published today overturns the assumption that the public think tough prison sentences are the best way to tackle crime. It shows that a majority of voters think the government should scrap its prison building programme and find other ways to punish criminals.
Politicians in all parties routinely assume that voters think prison works. But 51% of those questioned want the government to find other ways to punish criminals and deter crime.


The papers though have a variety of leads.The Telegraph claims that

120 Labour MPs demand EU referendum

The figure - more than a third of the Parliamentary Party - was disclosed by Ian Davidson, a Scottish Labour MP who, despite being close to Mr Brown, is co-ordinating the strong internal campaign for the British people to be given a say.
Mr Davidson, who has written to Mr Brown on behalf of the Labour rebels demanding major changes to the proposed EU Treaty - or alternatively a referendum - told The Daily Telegraph that support among his fellow MPs was running at levels similar to 2004 when Tony Blair had to give way and promise a plebiscite

Meanwhile according to the Independent

Brown accused of trying to stifle debate at Labour conference

Gordon Brown is facing his first serious clash with Labour's rank and file amid claims that he is attempting to quash debate in the party.
Union leaders and party left-wingers have warned that they will be stripped of the right to put forward emergency motions to the party conference.
A string of so-called "contemporary resolutions" has caused headaches for the Labour leadership in recent years, provoking embarrassing conference clashes over issues from Iraq to foundation hospitals. This year activists are working to secure debate on a potentially controversial motion on council housing.


The Times runs with the latest on the war on terror

Army chief predicts a 'generation of conflict'

The head of the Army has ordered his senior staff to make preparations for “a generation of conflict”, in a speech that the Ministry of Defence tried to keep secret.
General Sir Richard Dannatt gave warning of the dangers posed by a “strident Islamist shadow” and suggested that the British Army was “on the edge of a new and deadly Great Game in Afghanistan”.
He also told senior staff that the trust and respect of the public could be “increasingly difficult to gain” in the context of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The challenge of this generation is as great as any that have gone before us,” he added.

The Independent also has an Afghanistan theme

Record opium crop helps the Taliban fund its resistance

Britain faces a war on two fronts in Afghanistan, following the revelation that the province where British troops are deployed has become the biggest source of illicit drugs in the world.
In an annual survey of opium production released yesterday, the UN reported that Helmand province had produced 48 per cent more opium compared to its record-breaking crop last year. Opium production in Afghanistan as a whole will reach a "frighteningly new level" at 8,200 tons, 34 per cent higher than last year, the report said.

Insult to a hero: Horrifically-injured soldier gets a mere £150,000 in compensation
is the lead in the Mail

Ben Parkinson volunteered to serve his country on the Afghan front line - and paid a terrible price.

The young paratrooper suffered a total of 37 terrible injuries when he was blown up by a landmine.

He lost both his legs and sustained grievous damage to his spine, skull, pelvis, hands, spleen and ribcage, leaving him in a coma for months.
Incredibly, 23-year-old Ben is still alive almost a year later - according to his doctors the most badly-injured soldier ever to survive.
All his mother wants is to buy a bungalow so she can care for him there.
Yet as recompense for his ruined life, Ben has been offered only £152,150 - little more than half the maximum award for maimed military personnel and less than a third of the £484,000 doled out to an RAF typist who claimed she had suffered repetitive strain injury to her thumb.

Basra rifles stolen reports the Mirror

Thousands of British troops were placed on high alert at Basra Air Base yesterday over fears a terror gang broken into the camp.
All soldiers were on standby at midday after eight SA80 assault rifles were stolen and an "early warning' system" that protects troops against attack was spiked. The huge generator which powers the base's main alarm was also taken.




Brown dismisses pressure to quit Iraq says the Guardian

Gordon Brown last night dismissed pressure to set an early timetable for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq as an option that would betray international obligations and threaten the safety of the troops on the ground.
The prime minister used a letter to the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, to reassure Washington that he does not intend to cut and run from the US-led coalition despite growing American fears, spiced with criticism that British strategy faces defeat in the four southern provinces under London's control since the 2003 invasion.

It leads though with the story that

City bonuses hit record high with £14bn payout

City bonuses have increased by 30% to a record £14bn this year. The rise is twice as big as in 2006 and likely to exacerbate the widening gap between executive and shop-floor pay. The bonuses come against a background of record debt, rising bankruptcies and home repossessions.
Analysis by the Guardian of preliminary data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that bonuses across the economy rose 24% this spring to £26.4bn, comfortably exceeding the country's entire transport budget. More than half, £14.1bn, was earned by the 1 million people in the financial services sector. The figure for 2006 bonuses was £10.9bn.

Anna Politkovskaya arrests add to Russia row reports the Telegraph

Russian authorities have hinted that Boris Berezovsky, a leading critic of President Vladimir Putin who lives in London, was behind the murder of an investigative journalist in Moscow.Anna Politkovskaya, who was investigating human rights abuses by the Russians in Chechnya, was shot in the lift of her apartment block on Oct 7 last year. Her death - the 13th murder of a journalist in Russia under Mr Putin's rule - provoked outrage.
Russia's prosecutor-general announced that 10 serving and retired police and security service officers had been arrested in connection with the death but insisted that they were acting under someone else's orders.

The Independent reporting that

Figures within the Russian Interior Ministry and secret services have been arrested as accomplices to the crime, but it was hinted that the mastermind of the murder was the oligarch living outside Russia.
The person who ordered the crime, said Mr Chaika, was living outside Russia and wanted to "destabilise the situation in the country ... and return to the previous ruling system, when money and oligarchs decided everything."

It as many of the papers reports on

Attorney General becomes the latest Bush ally to quit

The US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a close friend of President George Bush and one of the most controversial members of the administration, resigned abruptly yesterday without explanation.
Mr Gonzales was the architect of the Bush administration's policy of placing detainees captured in the fight against terrorism beyond the protection of any law. His policies cleared the way for brutality against detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and other secret "black site" prisons.
But his downfall came when critics said he lied under oath to Congress over the firing of nine US attorneys and for ordering the FBI to spy on Americans without court warrants.

Another resignation in the Times

John Prescott will stand down as MP at the next general election

He issued a statement saying that he would remain an MP for the rest of this Parliament. Last week he had dismissed speculation of plans for such an announcement as “press prattle”.
Mr Prescott, 69, is expected eventually to take a seat in the Lords, but will spend the next few months working on his memoirs, for which he has secured an advance of £300,000.

The Mail reports how

Diana service led to Camilla and Charles' worst row

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall had "their worst row since they married" over her determination to pull out of attending the Diana memorial service.
Camilla felt she had been let down by her husband and his advisers, who repeatedly reassured her that it would be "appropriate" to attend.
She was particularly angry that courtiers allowed matters to drag along for so long, making her 11th-hour decision not to attend Friday's service seem the result of being boxed into a corner - when the truth was that all along she had grave misgivings about attending.

CAMILLA'S QUEEN DREAM IN SHATTERS says the Express

PRINCE CHARLES’S dream of making Camilla his Queen have suffered a dramatic setback amid the row over Princess Diana’s memorial service.
The heir to the throne’s failed attempt to have his second wife attend this week’s 10th anniversary service of thanksgiving for Diana has raised questions about his judgment, royal insiders said yesterday.

It leads again with Maddy

MADDY: NEW SETBACK OVER DNA EVIDENCE

THE search for Madeleine McCann was dealt a devastating blow last night after it was revealed that DNA tests needed to unlock the case will not be ready for weeks.
Officers have been on standby, ready to arrest a suspect as soon as the results are confirmed.
But the crucial evidence is still not ready. DNA samples were taken earlier this month from the bedroom where the four-year-old girl disappeared. The discovery of the samples led to what detectives described as a “decisive stage” in the investigation.


Statins 'may ease risk of dementia' reports the Telegraph

An American study found that patients on cholesterol-lowering drugs had fewer signs of Alzheimer's.
Doctors are excited that statins, which cost as little as 60p a day, could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's by as much as four-fifths.
A team at Washington University, in Seattle, found fewer "tangles" and "plaques", which are signs of Alzheimer's, in the brains of people who took statins than in those who did not.

Staying with health matters and the Times reports that

Patient care was damaged by the chaotic changeover of junior doctors at the beginning of the month, an opinion poll for The Times has shown.
A clear majority of hospital consultants who responded to the poll on doctors.net, the largest medical website, said that care had been somewhat worse or much worse as a result of the change.
Over Britain as a whole, 11 per cent said that patient care had been much worse, and 42 per cent somewhat worse, compared with previous years.

And the Guardian reports

NHS surgery success rates to be made public

A radical overhaul of NHS strategy which will give patients a right to know the success rates of every specialist unit in every hospital is being planned by leading surgeons and government officials. For the first time, patients will be allowed to compare the quality of the clinical care provided in each NHS department.
People with a particular medical condition will be able to assess the quality of the relevant specialist teams at rival NHS hospitals before choosing where to go for treatment. In some specialties, results for individual surgeons may be available.

The Sun reports from Greece where

Brit girls tell of Greece terror

TWO British girls told last night how they ran for their lives as Greece’s catastrophic fires raged around them — so close they felt their skin would melt.
Terrified campers Rebecca Batchelor and Florence Huntley, both 21, fled to the beach ready to jump into the sea as burning ash rained down.
It was their only hope of escape — all roads were blocked by the killer blaze.
Nursery nurse Rebecca said: “I feared we would be burned alive. It was so hot it felt like our skin was melting. It was hell.

The Express reports that

Meat prices are set to increase because of financial pressures on British farmers, an expert said.
Livestock producers are facing a hike of nearly 100% in their animal feed costs, according to business advisory firm Deloitte.
And the recent foot-and-mouth scare was another financial blow to the industry.
If foreign markets do not fully resume imports of British produce it will mean further revenue losses, Deloitte warned.
Richard Crane, food and agriculture partner at Deloitte, said meat price rises would be needed to support the British industry.
"Consumers hold the key to a more resilient future. UK shoppers will have to pay more for their meat.

Finally the Mirror reports on the

700-mile tractor trek

A tractor fan drove his 44-year-old machine on a 700-mile pilgrimage from Germany to the factory where it was made - only to find it is now a housing estate.
Wolfgang Mueller, 65, had dreamed for years of taking his red Massey Ferguson MF35 back to Coventry.
Two weeks after retiring, the farmer left Stuttgart, chugging at less than 30mph towing a caravan through Luxembourg and France and catching a ferry at Calais.
He took country lanes and B-roads to Basildon, Essex, to look at New Holland tractor-makers, then to get a photo of his vehicle at London Bridge.
But when he reached the spot where Massey Ferguson had been based, he saw rows of houses called Bannerbrook Park