The face of Camilla looks out from many of the front pages as the 10th anniversary of Diana's death approaches

Queen lets Camilla 'off the hook' says the Mirror

The Queen told Camilla she could pull out of Diana's 10th anniversary service to "get her off the hook", a royal expert claimed last night.
Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, said: "This could only have come from the Queen, it could only have come from the highest. She probably said 'You don't have to do this Camilla - you really don't have to do this'.
"Camilla probably thought it was her duty to go, but now she's been let off the hook."

Camilla pulls out of Diana memorial on Queen's advice is the headline in the Mail

A word from the Queen led to the Duchess of Cornwall's announcement that she would not be attending the Diana memorial service.
According to insiders, Camilla agonised to her mother-in-law about the dilemma she felt her presence would present.
Buckingham Palace had watched with growing unease the insistence of Clarence House courtiers that Camilla's presence at the event would be "appropriate".

HATE MAIL FURY FORCES CAMILLA OUT says the Sun

Quoting a seniot royal source the paper says

This is yet another PR disaster for Clarence House.
“Camilla was more than happy to stay away but decided to attend following advice from her top aides.“As soon as news leaked out, the scale of this miscalculation began to sink in. In the past four weeks alone she has been sent dozens of letters demanding she stay away.
“Camilla has worked tirelessly to improve her public image. But this shambles has set her back five years.”

The paper leads on the Liverpool shooting

COPS HAVE KEY WITNESS says the paper

A WOMAN who might have seen the killer of schoolboy Rhys Jones offered to speak to police yesterday.
Senior officers had issued an urgent appeal for her to contact them.
She was believed to have walked past the murderer as he made his way to the pub car park.
But detectives said it was crucial that more witnesses came forward.

Rhys 'was hit by schoolboy's stray bullet in gang dispute over girl'reports the Times

Detectives believe that Rhys, 11, was accidentally hit by a stray bullet as he walked through a pub car park on the private Croxteth Park housing estate in Liverpool last Wednesday.
The intended victim is believed to have been a senior member of The Strand gang — known as the Nogga Dogs — who had started a relationship with a girl from Croxteth Park. The gun boy was allegedly ordered to carry out the attack by an older member of the Croxteth Crew gang because the rival was with a former girlfriend of his. The Croxteth Crew are based on a nearby social-housing estate.

Rhys murder: police release all suspects says the Independent

Four people being questioned in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones have been released without charge, while two more have been released on police bail, police said today.
One boy aged 15 and a man aged 19, as well as a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman were released this morning without charge.
Merseyside Police said a 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man had been released on bail pending further inquiries.
This means no one remains in police custody in connection with the death of the 11-year-old in Croxteth Park, Liverpool, on Wednesday.

Elsewhere the Telegraph leads with

British Armed Forces staff shortage crisis

The Daily Telegraph has learned,The Armed Forces are missing thousands of specialised soldiers, sailors and airmen crucial to continuing the fight against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.New figures show an alarming shortage of vital staff, with more than a third of Army medical posts now vacant - leading to fears that lives are being put at risk.

The Times leads with

Safety fears over new register of all children

Senior social workers have given warning of the dangers posed by a new government register that will store the details of every child in England from next year.
They fear that the database, containing the address, medical and school details of all under-18s, could be used to harm the children whom it is intended to protect.

The Guardian leads with its latest opinion poll

Poll warning to Brown over October election gamble

Gordon Brown would risk the possible loss of his parliamentary majority if he gambled and held an early general election this autumn, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows Labour's lead narrowing slightly to five points amid signs of rising Conservative support.
The poll, carried out before the start of the bank holiday weekend, confirms that Labour is in a stronger position than it was before Mr Brown took over as leader. Support for the party stands at 39%, up one point on last month's Guardian/ICM survey. But Conservative support has increased by two points to 34%. Both major parties are squeezing the Liberal Democrats, down two points to 18%, a trend seen in other recent polls.

Most of the papers report on the fires ranging on the Greek mainland the Guardian reporting that

A Greek prosecutor today ordered an investigation into whether arson attacks, which have been blamed for the worst forest fires in decades, could be considered terrorist acts.
The public order ministry said Dimitris Papangelopoulos, who is responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organised crime, ordered the investigation to determine "whether the crimes of arsonists and of arson attacks on forests carried out in the country during the summer of 2007" could come under Greece's anti-terrorism law.
The investigation would also seek to identify those who were responsible, the statement said.
At least 63 people have died in the fires. A blaze broke out today on the fringes of Athens, burning down a slope of Mount Ymittos and threatening a suburb of the capital.

63 dead in Greek forest fires reports the Times

Over the weekend the Prime Minister placed Greece on an emergency footing and declared three days of mourning for the victims, who included two French tourists burnt to death while hiking on Mount Taygetos, above Sparta. Yesterday rescuers near Olympia found the remains of a mother and her four children, whom she was still clutching. The Olympic Star, a seaside hotel at Amarynthos, 70 miles north of Athens, was evacuated. No British tourists or residents have been reported hurt.

The Independent's front page is a message from Darfur by Mia Farrow who writes

I am a witness to Darfur's suffering

My first visit to Darfur was in 2004. It changed the way I needed to live my life. I have just returned from my seventh trip to the region. I don't think I have the words to adequately represent what I have seen and heard there.
Incomprehensibly, it has now been more than four years since the killing began. Some experts believe half a million human beings have died thus far. Others bicker about the exact death toll - as if it makes a shred of difference to how we must respond.
Only the perpetrators dispute that hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children have been killed, in ways that cannot be imagined or described. It is all the more appalling that we cannot know - that no one is yet able to count the dead. And the dying continues.


The Express continues to lead with Maddy

NEW SLURS OVER 'CORPSE' says the paper

THE campaign of slurs against Kate and Gerry McCann continued last night after it was claimed the scent of a corpse had been detected on their car keys.
The allegations, in a Portuguese newspaper, are the latest in a long line of lurid and hurtful stories hinting that the couple were somehow to blame for their daughter’s disappearance

Maddy: It's over says the Mirror

The father of Madeleine McCann has lost faith in the Portuguese police investigation to find his missing daughter and plans to wind down the media campaign.
Gerry McCann also hinted that he and his wife Kate, 39, were preparing to take the decision finally to return to Britain with their twins.
Gerry, who speaks regularly to detectives, said police seem to be no closer to solving the crime.

The Independent reports that

Iraq: British retreat descends into chaos as Shia militia occupy police centre

Shia militia loyal to the firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have scuppered an attempt by British forces to hand over the Basra joint police command centre to Iraqi police.
Iraqi police reportedly left when the Shia fighters arrived and began emptying the facility. According to witnesses, they made off with generators, computers, furniture and even cars, saying it was war booty - and were still in the centre yesterday evening.
The embarrassing episode, which comes as the British in Basra are preparing to move their remaining soldiers to the city airport as part of a planned withdrawal, once again highlights the strength of the militia in the city.

US pressure forces move to reconciliation says the Guardian

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, and fellow leaders in the country have reached consensus on key areas of national reconciliation, under mounting US pressure to demonstrate political progress on the eve of a key report to Congress on the Baghdad security "surge".
The Shia prime minister appeared on television flanked by Jalal Talabani, the country's Kurdish president, and the Sunni vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, to announce a deal on easing restrictions on former members of the Ba'ath party joining the civil service and military.

The Times meanwhile reports that

42 die in bomb attacks on 'lucky' weekend

India’s technology hub of Hyderabad was on high alert last night as security forces hunted the Islamic militants whom they blame for a double bombing that killed 42 people in the city.
Police also disclosed that they had defused 19 more bombs hidden in plastic bags at bus stops, cinemas, road junctions and pedestrian bridges across the city.
The blasts on Saturday - one in a restaurant and another during a laser show at an outdoor auditorium - were the latest in a series of attacks on Indian cities since 2001.
If all the bombs had detonated, police believe they would have dwarfed even the worst of the recent attacks – the multiple train bombings in Bombay that killed 186 last year.

The Guardian says that the

Cumbria rail crash report to question safety of 1960s track technology

The safety of up to 700 sets of points used across the rail network will be called into question next month as a key report outlines the causes of last February's fatal train crash in Cumbria.
A study of the Grayrigg derailment, due to be published over the next fortnight, will provoke concern about decades-old railway technology that is still in widespread use.
The rail industry report is expected to state that Network Rail will examine the design of groundframe points after a faulty set derailed a Virgin train travelling at 95mph on February 23 2007 killing one person and injuring 22. If the equipment needs to be replaced the rail infrastructure firm would have to change up to 700 sets of points at a cost of millions.

According to the Telegraph

Fishermen 'discard two-thirds of catch'

The study of the amount of the catch in British waters that is “discarded” because it is too small or the wrong species found that almost two thirds of the fish caught are thrown back over the side dead.
Scientists estimated that a total of 186 million fish weighing 72,000 tons was caught by English and Welsh commercial fishing vessels in the English Channel, Western Approaches, Celtic and Irish Seas between 2002 and 2005.

The sun comes out for Notting Hill's big day reports the Indy

Under clear blue skies, the Notting Hill Carnival's bright costumes and barrage of music formed a dazzling antidote to what is close to becoming Britain's wettest ever summer.

Thousands of revellers danced as the party kicked off in the streets of west London. More than one million are expected to attend the two-day carnival - Europe's biggest street festival - which began with the usual children's parade. Steel bands competed with Caribbean soca tunes and calypso music belting from sound systems mounted on trucks as the parade of floats and young dancers in elaborate feather headdresses and multicoloured sequinned costumes passed.

Summer shows up at last says the Telegraph

Much of the country was bathed in glorious sunshine with the thermometer reaching as high as 77F (25C).
The best of the sun was seen along the south coast where thousands of people took to the beaches to make the most of the three-day weekend.
In Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth, the temperatures peaked at 75F (23.8C) by the mid-afternoon yesterday.

Balmy Britain basks in Bank Holiday heaven - but traffic hell is on the way says the Mail


Finally the sharks have returned to the Sun

Scot shark: Sea you, Swimmy!

A STUNNED oil worker told yesterday how he videoed one of the world’s deadliest sharks off SCOTLAND.
Lance Baldwin, 40, and colleague Scott Munro, 26, filmed the killer Mako with a remote-control underwater camera.
The pair, who were doing safety checks on a rig off the Aberdeen coast, thought the shark — swimming 100ft down — was a Great White.
Experts revealed it was a deadly Mako — famed for leaping out of the water on to boats to attack humans.