The confirmed outbreak of foot and mouth came a little too late for the first additions of the papers which have a varietyof headlines.

Both the Mirror and the Express follow up yesterday's story on the sighting of Madeleine McCann

DNA test on 'Maddy' milkshake reports the front page of the Mirror

Police are DNA-testing a bottle and straw to find out if the girl seen sipping a milkshake in a Belgian bar is Madeleine McCann.
Scientists are analysing both items - left behind when a couple who were with the child hurried her away - to see if there is sufficient DNA for an identification. But the complexity of the process means any results are unlikely to be ready until next week - creating an agonising wait for Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate.
The Mirror revealed yesterday that a woman had reported seeing a girl matching four-year-old Madeleine's description with the couple at the restaurant in Tongeren on the Dutch border.

WE DID SEE MADELEINE says the Express

The child therapist has given police the most positive lead yet in the three-month kidnap hunt.

She is adamant she saw the missing four-year-old accompanied by a swarthy Dutch-speaking man in his 40s and an English woman in her late 20s at a roadside restaurant on the Dutch border.



The Mail leads with Nightmare in the Chunnel describing how

Hundreds of families were trapped for hours by a power failure in the Channel Tunnel yesterday.
They suffered temperatures soaring to 100f (38c) in claustrophobic conditions on the car-carrying Le Shuttle train 350ft below the Channel.
There was no air-conditioning or water, lavatories were overflowing and children were crying with fear and heat.

The Independent is proclaiming the arrival of summer

AT LAST BRITISH SUMMERTIME headlines the paper

Stand by. Dig out the short-sleeved shirt. Here it comes; that yellow object in the sky we've nearly forgotten this summer - the sun. Britain is likely to see its hottest day of the year tomorrow as proper summer weather at last puts in an appearance.
Temperatures in London and the south-east are likely to hit 27C today, and climb up to a scarcely-believable-in-2007 peak of 29C during the course of Sunday.
Let's be grateful for it, even if it's hardly the best that summer can do. "It's a bit pathetic really, isn't it?" said a Met Office forecaster last night.
Contrast this weekend's peak with last year, when we had just experienced in July 2006 the hottest month ever recorded in Britain, and on 19 July, the hottest-ever July day - when the mercury at Wisley, Surrey, reached 36.5C, beating a record that had lasted since 1911.

On one August day Britain sees weather of all four seasons says the Mail

Queue, what a hot scorcher! says the Sun

WE’RE browned off with this traffic! These two lasses got ten out of TAN for their quick thinking when a five-mile queue stopped them getting to the beach.
They whipped out their towels and lay on the tarmac of the dual-carriageway to soak up what little summer sunshine there’s been.
A collision between a lorry and a tractor pulling a trailer full of beans closed the Medway Towns by-pass in Kent for most of the day.
Stranded drivers were left sweltering as temperatures in Britain soared to a scorching 29°C (84°F).

The Times and the Telegraph also herald the start of summer but in differing ways

Airport queues longer than flights says the Telegraph

With the holiday season entering its peak, hundreds of thousands of people have been engulfed in the chaos caused by the stringent security regime and the inability of many airports to cope.
British Airways and Ryanair confirmed that as a result of the queues at check-in and security, some passengers on short-haul flights to European destinations were spending more time in airport terminals than in the air.

Whilst the Times leads with the news that

Sunshine helps in the fight against breast cancer

Women who stay out of the sun are increasing their risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests.
The safe-tanning messages that are drummed into women each year may help to reduce their risk of skin cancer – but at the cost of increasing their risk of breast cancer.
The majority of vitamin D comes from exposure of the skin to sunlight but many women – exposed less in winter and reluctant to bare themselves in summer because of the dangers – are deficient.

Changing tack and the same paper reports that

Drugs pioneer of the law aims to be London Mayor

Brian Paddick, who as a police chief pioneered the light-touch approach to drugs in Brixton, has put himself forward to be the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate for London, the party confirmed yesterday.
A spokesman for the Liberal Democrats confirmed that the party had been in talks with Mr Paddick, who was Britain’s most senior openly gay policeman until his retirement as Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner this year.

The Mayoral race makes the lead in the Guardian

Johnson 'would destroy London's unity' as mayor

Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, yesterday launched a fierce personal attack on Boris Johnson, saying he would destroy multicultural London if elected mayor, and that no informed black person would vote for him.
Ms Lawrence, who does not normally become involved in party politics, said she had been moved to make the criticisms by her anger at Mr Johnson's attitude to the Macpherson inquiry in 1999 into the Metropolitan police's failure to bring her son's killers to justice 14 years ago.

Fears of mortgage debt crisis as UK repossessions hit eight-year high reports the same paper

The prospect of a mortgage debt crisis loomed yesterday after the number of home repossessions in the UK soared by 30% to an eight-year high as households struggled to keep up with mortgage payments in the face of higher interest rates.
With the Bank of England expected to increase borrowing costs again before the end of the year, analysts warned that repossessions could surge even further.
The first half of this year saw 14,000 properties repossessed, a 30% rise on a year ago, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said. This is the highest level since 1999 and equivalent to about 77 homes a day.

Home repossessions rise by 30% says the Indy


Some 14,000 homeowners had their properties repossessed between January and the end of June, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, compared with 10,800 during the same period last year and 11,900 during the second half of 2006. Government figures also showed an increase in personal insolvencies during the second quarter of the year, compared with the same period in 2006. The number of people declaring themselves bankrupt was up 7.7 per cent to 16,258, compared with the second quarter of last year.

All the papers report on

Son of Idi Amin jailed for part in gang murder

Faisal Wangita, 25, was jailed for his part in the attack on Mahir Osman after a jury heard he had the victim's blood on his trousers.
Mr Osman, a Somalian, died within a minute as he was stabbed 20 times, beaten with baseball bats, bottles and hammers and punched and kicked.
Wangita was found guilty of conspiracy to wound, conspiracy to possess offensive weapons and violent disorder in connection with the attack in Camden, north London, by an Old Bailey jury in May. He was cleared of murder. says the Telegraph

The papers turn their attention to the floods in South East Asia

Millions forced to flee and 1,100 die after heavier than usual monsoon hits south Asia says the Guardian

Monsoon rains whipped the Indian subcontinent yesterday, flooding a wide swath south of the Himalayas and bringing the death toll in recent weeks to more than 1,100, with 19 million people displaced.
Hundreds of miles stretching from the Gangetic plains to the Bangladeshi delta are under water after rivers burst their banks. Most deaths were in central India.
Parts of the northern Indian states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have had almost three weeks of rain, swelling rivers, inundating fields and ruining crops. Across the country, 125 people have died in the last few days. In the financial capital, Mumbai, water rose to knee level in the streets. Train services and flights were cancelled.



The Mail reports

Why shunned Fergie turned down her invite to the Diana service

The Duchess of York has turned down an invitation to join the Royal Family at the memorial service for Princess Diana, the Daily Mail can reveal.
It is understood she feels attending "would not be right" as she has never felt welcome at royal events.
Although relations with the Royal Family have been strained publicly, Sarah, 47, continues to have a close relationship with the Queen.
Friends said that her decision was "very straightforward".

Staying with matters royal and the Telegraph reports that the

Ancient royal marriage law 'should be changed'

Gordon Brown was under mounting pressure yesterday to end the ban on Roman Catholics marrying into the Royal Family after one of his key constitutional advisers called for the law to be changed.Lord Lester, the Liberal Democrat peer drafted in by the Prime Minister to advise on constitutional issues, told The Daily Telegraph that the centuries-old ban was "an injustice" that should now go.
The outspoken comments from the respected peer came after it emerged that Peter Phillips, the Queen's eldest grandson and 10th in line to the throne, might have to surrender his place in the succession. Mr Phillips, 29, the son of the Princess Royal, is now engaged to Autumn Kelly, 31, a Canadian management consultant who was baptised a Catholic. The fact was not mentioned in the Buckingham Palace announcement of the engagement last week.

Wife stands by convicted Langham reports the Mirror

Chris Langham's wife Christine has pledged to stand by the pervert actor despite his conviction for downloading child porn.
The 54-year-old carried out her promise by visiting him in jail yesterday - the day after a jury ruled he was guilty of having sick images on his computer.
Musical director and choreographer Christine drove from their home in Golford, Kent, to Elmley prison on the Isle of Sheppey where he was taken after his Maidstone trial. She emerged from her 20-minute visit smiling and chatting to a man who joined her. Christine is dad-of-five Langham's second wife and mother of two of his children.

Meanwhile the Indy reports on

A death unmourned: the lonely end of the failed bomb-maker

Kafeel Ahmed's parents were praying yesterday that it was not him who died in a hospital bed, thousands of miles away. They were not disowning him, they said, but they just hoped the man who carried out the attack on Glasgow airport, and had been lying in a coma since, was not their son.
There was no expression of mourning over the death, no one has come forward to claim the remains. The end came 33 days after images of Kafeel, engulfed in flames as he tried desperately to ignite the explosives in the jeep that had been rammed into a terminal, were shown around the world.
The 27-year-old engineer, believed to be the bombmaker for the planned blasts at Glasgow and London, and the central figure in the terror plot, suffered 90-per-cent third-degree burns.

Thug who enforced empire of pure evil reports the Mirror

Apart from six murders and at least one unsolved "disappearance", police believe at least 54 non-fatal shootings up to 2005 can be linked to Gunn's gang.
But now the underworld boss's Kray-like reign of terror, which encompassed murder, shootings and punishment beatings, is over.
Currently in Belmarsh Prison for masterminding the murders of Joan Stirland and her husband John in 2004, yesterday Colin got nine years for corrupting two police officers. His 42-year-old brother David, with whom he ran his empire of evil, is in prison for running amphetamines. And up to a dozen gang members are also behind bars.

Gunmen jailed for killing man linked to Brinks Mat reports the Indy

Two gunmen have been jailed for life for the contract killing of a career criminal linked to the notorious Brinks Mat robbery.
George Francis, 63, was the ninth man to die in the aftermath of the 1983 gold bullion heist and the reason for his murder remains shrouded in mystery.
He was gunned down four years ago by John O'Flynn and Terence Conaghan, professional killers with more than 60 previous convictions each. They shot Francis as he arrived at his south London haulage firm one morning in May 2003.
Yesterday, the killers were both jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years each, despite concerns voiced by their lawyers that they could die in jail. Judge Martin Stephens told them: "I am quite sure that you are both ruthless, determined criminals, intent on the use of extreme violence as and when required."



As jail sentances are handed outThe Times reports on a

Legacy of long jail terms and early death

As the Brink’s-Mat raiders toasted their success, they dreamt of mansions in the Home Counties, luxury holidays and private education for their children.
But for many of those involved, the robbery has brought only long prison sentences or untimely deaths.
Retired detectives involved in the case refer to the “Brink’s-Mat Curse”.

The Guardian meanwhile asks

Who killed Jessie James? Police still wait for answers

The face looking out from the posters in Manchester is that of 15-year-old Jessie James, who was shot dead almost a year ago in Moss Side, and whose inquest opens on Monday. The police have still not arrested anyone for his murder, hence that £20,000 reward and the promise to those who come forward that "no one will ever know who you are".
The inquest will break new ground in that witnesses will be allowed to give anonymous evidence by video link to Manchester crown court with their faces and voices disguised. The extraordinary measure is a sign of the police's determination - or desperation - to nail the people who killed Jessie.

The Express jumps on the shark bandwagon

SHARK TERROR warning that

MILLIONS of Britons heading for the Mediterranean were warned to be on their guard last night after a Great White shark was spotted near the Spanish coast.

The 12ft monster shocked a fisherman off the Costa Blanca – sparking fears that others could be prowling around busy holiday beaches

Finally most of the papers report on

Queen star's 30 year PhD

QUEEN guitarist Brian May finally handed in his astronomy PhD thesis yesterday — more than 30 years after abandoning it to join the band.
The 60-year-old rocker quit studying for his doctorate in 1974 to help Queen score a string of hits including Bohemian Rhapsody.
But last year he fished out his unfinished work on interplanetary dust clouds from the attic at his Surrey home.
And after nine months’ more research he handed it in at Imperial College in London, where he first worked on the thesis and had returned to complete the lofty project reports the Sun