Both the Telegraph and the Mail lead with David Cameron's message for crime,

Cameron goes on crime offensive says the former
The Tory leader unveiled plans for minimum jail sentences, an extension of stop and search powers for police, and proposals to give officers more time on the beat.
Answering calls from many in his party for more "hard-edged" Conservative policies, he disclosed a sweeping law and order offensive to address the problems of gun crime, alcohol abuse, lack of discipline in schools and family breakdown.
It was time to "draw a line in the sand" and "fight back against crime" rather than accept that it would increase inevitably, after a series of high profile murders - most recently the shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Merseyside.

Tories finally get tough: Cameron pledges zero tolerance on crime says the Mail

David Cameron today pledges a zero-tolerance approach to all crime along with a major prisonbuilding programme.
The Tory leader will "relentlessly focus" on graffiti, anti-social behaviour and the other minor crimes which can lead to more serious offending.
Making his most significant policy pledges yet, Mr Cameron promises that if put in power he would end the "mockery" of criminals being released early.


The Mirror though says

Cam's £6bn prison sham

Justice Secretary Jack Straw yesterday dismissed David Cameron's law and order plans as a sham.
The Tory leader promised more prison places so villains serve their full sentence - insisting that they would be "cost neutral".
But Mr Straw revealed that providing the 60,000 new places over the next 15 years would actually cost £6.6billion. He accused Mr Cameron of trying to hoodwink voters.

Kop's tribute to Rhys

He was a Blue through and through...
But last night the Kop paid its own moving tribute to Everton-mad Rhys Jones.
More than 40,000 Liverpool fans held their scarves aloft in an extraordinary show of support for Rhys's parents Melanie and Stephen and brother Owen.
Stephen, 44, and Owen, 17 - both in Everton shirts - gripped Melanie's hands tight while the supporters joined in a thunderous minute's applause for the murdered 11-year-old.

You'll never mourn alone says the Sun

APPLAUSE for Rhys Jones rang out around Anfield last night as 43,000 Liverpool fans paid a spine-tingling tribute to the lad who was crazy about Everton.
The Blues’ famous theme tune Z Cars was played as Rhys’s parents and brother stood at pitchside.
Tannoys blared out the Johnny Todd anthem moments before Liverpool strode out for their Champions League clash against Toulouse.


Police comb wood in Rhys Jones murder hunt reports the Guardian

Following a tip-off, officers were thought to be looking in the 10-acre wood for a gun that the attacker, described as a youth aged 13-15, might have thrown away as he fled on a BMX bike. "A drip of information has been coming in overnight," said a police spokeswoman.
Merseyside police set up a base at Croxteth primary school then went into Dam Wood, which flanks the west side of the Croxteth Park estate where Rhys lived with his parents, Melanie and Stephen, and 17-year-old brother, Owen.


Mandela's message to black Britain is the Independent's lead

Nelson Mandela, the hero of the global battle for racial equality, last night made an impassioned appeal for leading black Britons to take a lead in countering violence and low achievement in the inner cities.
At the start of a visit to Britain to celebrate his own life, the former South African president said it was vital that the achievements of the UK's successful black people were harnessed to inspire those "who scale the mountains with you".
The challenge from the 89-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who will today unveil a 9ft statue of himself in Parliament Square, comes at a time of intense debate about the need for a new generation of role models for black teenagers.

The Times leads with

Make science easier, examiners are told

Examiners will have to set easier questions in some GCSE science papers, under new rules seen by The Times. A document prepared by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), which represents awarding bodies across Britain, says that, from next year, exam papers should consist of 70 per cent “low-demand questions”, requiring simpler or multiple-choice answers. These currently make up just 55 per cent of the paper.
The move follows growing concern about the “dumbing down” of science teaching at GCSE and grade inflation of exam results, which critics claim is the result of a government drive to reverse the long-term decline in the number of pupils studying science.

The Guardian reports on the follow up to yesterday's Mail lead

Mother takes on the MoD over £152,000 'insult' to son maimed in Afghanistan

The mother of a paratrooper who lost both legs and suffered 37 injuries in Afghanistan when a landmine exploded last September is threatening to take the government to court over the amount of compensation awarded to her son.
Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, 23, who will need round-the-clock care for the rest of his life, is to be awarded £152,150 in compensation, a sum which his mother, Diane Dernie, has described as an "insult". The award is slightly more than half the maximum £285,000 that can be given to an injured soldier. A member of the 7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, Lance Bombardier Parkinson also suffered a brain injury, fractures to his skull, cheekbone, nose, jaw and pelvis, fractured vertebrae, and serious damage to his spleen and chest.

Chorus of outrage at insulting payout to paratrooper who lost both legs in Afghanistan reports the Mail

Soldiers, veterans and politicians yesterday described as an 'absolute disgrace' the compensation paid to a paratrooper who lost his legs while serving in Afghanistan.
Lord Guthrie, the former Chief of Defence Staff, said: "As a nation we really should be ashamed of the way we treat people like this."
He was among those reacting with incredulity to the case of Ben Parkinson, highlighted in yesterday's Daily Mail.

Iraq continues to dominate the news,the Independent reporting

Miliband: We will decide when UK troops leave Iraq

The Bush administration will not have a veto over the Government's plans to pull Britain's troops out of Iraq, ministers have made clear.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said decisions about troop withdrawals would be taken independently in the "British national interest" and stressed the situation facing British forces in Basra was "very different" to the one facing their American counterparts in Baghdad.
Downing Street backed his stance as Gordon Brown came under fire from critics of the war for refusing to set a timetable for Britain's exit from Iraq. The Prime Minister will make a detailed statement in October on the future of the 5,500 troops deployed in Iraq.

Continuing violence in the country is reported in the Telegraph

Hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims have been ordered out of the holy city of Karbala in Iraq after fighting killed 51 people and injured hundreds more.
Security officials said Mahdi Army gunmen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr fired on members of the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, in what appeared to be part of a power struggle between Shia groups in the south of Iraq.
Gunmen were also reported to have fired on security forces, while crowds fought with police at security checkpoints near the Imam al-Hussein mosque, the focal point of Shabaniyah, which marks the birth of the Shia imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi.


US will never let ‘friendly-fire’ witnesses go to a British court reports the Times

The families of soldiers killed by American “friendly fire” will never get to see those who may have been responsible for the deaths questioned at inquests, The Times has learnt.
In an official document seen by this newspaper, the Ministry of Defence makes clear that all requests for US service personnel to give evidence at British inquests will be turned down. The new rules will cover the deaths of the three soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan.

President Bush's comments about Iran are well covered

Bush warns of Iran 'nuclear holocaust'says the Telegraph

In a speech to US war veterans designed to shore up support for the unpopular war in Iraq and his policy in the Middle East, he said that Iran posed a danger to the whole world by pursuing nuclear weapons and supporting Islamic extremists in other countries.
"Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust," he said.

Keep out of Iraq, or face our wrath, Bush warns Iran says the Mail

Most of the papers report that

Gul sworn in as Turkey's president

Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, a practising Muslim and former Islamist, was yesterday sworn in as the 11th president of the staunchly secular republic in a move that will be seen as a defining moment for the country.
Mr Gul's ascent to the post came after 339 MPs - two short of the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development (AK) party's presence in the 550-seat parliament - voted for the British-educated economist, in the third round of a presidential election that required a simple majority to clinch the job. says the Guardian

The Indy reports that

Senior commanders of the army - whose chief of staff General Yasar Buyukanit issued an eve-of-vote warning that "centres of evil" were trying to undermine modern Turkey's founding principles - pointedly stayed away from Mr Gul's swearing in ceremony last night.
But AKP legislators broke out in applause after the results of the vote were announced and in the Cappadocian town of Kayseri, Mr Gul's socially conservative political base, thousands of cheering residents waved Turkish flags while a cannon fired 41 rounds in celebration.

The Trials and tribulations of singer Amy Winehouse get a lot of attention,the Sun leads with

KISS OF DEATH

AMY Winehouse’s desperate dad told yesterday how he “wanted to die” when he saw pictures of his daughter drenched in blood.
The troubled Rehab singer and her junkie husband Blake Fielder-Civil were snapped covered in cuts and scratches after a furious fight at a London hotel last week.
And Amy’s dad Mitch, 57, said: “It was sickening seeing those pictures. No, it was worse than sickening — I wanted to die.

Winehouse in-laws: 'If you don't get help, you'll die' Says the Independent

On the rollercoaster ride that is Amy Winehouse's life, it is usually her own behaviour - or that of her bad boy husband - that gets her pride of place in the headlines.
Yesterday, however, it was the turn of her parents and in-laws to take the spotlight as the families of both Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil were drawn into a very public spat over the couple's controversial lifestyle.
The two sets of parents came to verbal blows over how to deal with their offspring's drug problems, with a row erupting after the singer's in-laws urged fans to stop buying her records as a message that the couple's behaviour was unacceptable. And they called on Ms Winehouse's record company to do more to stop the pair taking drugs.

And the Telegraph reports on another star with problems

Owen Wilson's plea after ‘suicide attempt’

The 38-year-old star of “Wedding Crashers” and “Zoolander” is said to be in good condition at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where he was transferred on Sunday after paramedics were called to his Santa Monica home.
A police log records a report of an attempted suicide, but does not indicate who made the call.
The actor's publicist, Ina Treciokas, declined to answer questions about whether Wilson had attempted to commit suicide.
"I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time," Wilson said in a statement released by his spokesman to celebrity gossip website TMZ.com.

Four hotels ban drunk Gazza reports the Sun

SOCCER legend Paul Gascoigne got a red card from FOUR hotels for being drunk.
Alcoholic Gazza has been guzzling pints of lager and VODKA in posh Puerto Banus in Spain — despite a near-death scare in June.
But there was no room at the inn when he tried to find a hotel after his latest 24-hour bender around Marbella.

The Times reports on the

return of tarring and feathering

The past is supposed to be just that, but in Northern Ireland it refuses to go away. In a chilling reminder of the darkest days of terrorist “justice” a man has been tarred and feathered by hooded attackers.
In a scene reminiscent of the 1970s, when the Provisional IRA regularly meted out this savage treatment in areas where it held sway, the loyalist Ulster Defence Association is suspected of leaving the victim tied to a lamppost in a street in South Belfast.
The attack took place on Sunday in the strongly loyalist Taughmonagh estate. Pictures of the attack appear to have been recorded on a mobile telephone camera. They show passersby looking on as the “punishment attack” was administered. After tar was poured over the man’s head, feathers were emptied over him and a placard hung around his neck claiming that the victim, said to be a local man in his thirties, was a drug dealer. It read: “I’m a drug dealing scumbag.” The victim has not been identified, nor has he come forward to the authorities.

The Guardian continues its theme of the week after city bonuses it tells of

The boardroom bonanza

Boardroom pay at the UK's top companies soared 37% last year as full-time directors were rewarded with inflation-busting increases in basic salaries, big cash bonuses and substantial payouts from share schemes.
The surge in pay, which takes the average total pay for a chief executive to £2,875,000, is more than 11 times the increase in average earnings and nearly 20 times the rate of inflation as measured by the consumer price index. The ratio between bosses' rewards and employees' pay has risen to 98:1, up from 93:1 a year ago - meaning that the work of a chief executive is valued almost 100 times more highly than that of their employees.

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Spiderman suit could see humans scale walls

A "Spiderman suit" that allows the wearer to scale vertical walls just like the fictional superhero could one day be a reality.Italian scientists have calculated how sufficient stickiness could be generated in the same way to support a human being's body weight.They believe microscopic hollow structures called carbon nanotubes could theoretically be used to make the idea work.
Prof Nicola Pugno, from the Polytechnic of Turin, said: "It may not be long before we are seeing people climbing up the Empire State Building with nothing but sticky shoes and gloves to support them."