The face of Garry Newlove stares out from the front pages of many of the newspapers

TRUE HERO says the Sun

A DEVOTED dad murdered by yobs was hailed a “true hero” yesterday.
Father-of-three Garry Newlove, 47, was mercilessly attacked on his own doorstep as he tried to defend his home from a teenage mob.
The senselessness of his death emerged on a crazy day in which it was revealed STAB-PROOF school uniforms are going on sale to protect kids from knife crime.
And a police force which has put community bobbies aged 16 on the beat was blasted by MPs and other cops. Salesman Garry paid the ultimate price for confronting up to 15 louts who have tormented his neighbourhood in Warrington, Cheshire.

The Mail headlines

Daughter's heartrending letter to 'best dad' kicked to death by vandals

Her beloved father was lying unconscious in intensive care, the victim of yobs who battered him and kicked him in the head.
Twelve-year-old Amy could not speak to him, so she put her feelings down in a letter.
Garry Newlove never got to read it. The 47-year-old father of three died of his injuries in hospital with his heartbroken family at his bedside.
Last night three teenagers were charged with the murder of Mr Newlove. Two 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old will appear at Runcorn Youth Court tomorrow.

Daughter's heartbreak letter to have-a-go-hero says the Mirror

Little Amy Newlove wrote a heart-rending letter to her hero dad as he lay dying in hospital.
The 12-year-old begged Garry Newlove to hang on to life after he was savagely attacked by yobs outside their home.
In her poignant message, she described fearless Garry, 47, of Warrington, as "the best dad anyone can ask for".
She wrote: "I love you so much. Be strong and don't give in... you mean the world to me."

The qualities cannot agree on the main news,the Times leads with

Gap-year students told to forget aid projects

One of Britain’s leading charities has warned students not to take part in gap-year aid projects overseas which cost thousands of pounds and do nothing to help developing countries.
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) said that gap-year volunteering, highlighted by Princes William and Harry, has spawned a new industry in which students pay thousands of pounds for prepackaged schemes to teach English or help to build wells in developing countries with little evidence that it benefits local communities.
It said that “voluntourism” was often badly planned and spurious projects were springing up across Africa, Asia and Latin America to satisfy the demands of the students rather than the needs of locals. Young people would be better off simply travelling the world and enjoying themselves, it added.

The Independent stays on the student theme leading with

Average student debt to hit £17,500 as top-up fees burden starts to bite

First-year students are totting up record debt levels of nearly £6,000 a year and face leaving university owing more than £17,500, according to a survey today.
The report paints an alarming picture of the financial prospects for young people who signed on for courses in the first year of the Government's new top-up fees regime, obliging them to pay up to £3,000 a year. They clocked up debts of £5,586 in their first year - a 25.5 percentage point increase on the debts incurred by first-year students the previous year.
The figures, published on Push.co.uk - the organisation that provides a comprehensive guide for new university students - were described as "extremely worrying" by students' leaders.



According to the Telegraph

Troops denied special Afghan medal

British troops serving in Helmand province are being denied a dedicated medal to recognise the intensity of the conflict, campaigners said.
War veterans, MPs and families of those who have lost loved ones in the fighting - the heaviest British forces have experienced since the Second World War - have urged the MoD to make a special award for the thousands of soldiers and marines who have put their lives at risk on a daily basis fighting insurgents.

Brown spends £39bn in first seven weeks in No 10 says the Guardian

Gordon Brown has announced more than £39bn in government spending since he became prime minister, revealing the extent to which a new era of cooperation between No 10 and the Treasury has allowed him to dominate the news agenda and reap political dividends.
Much of the money would normally have been revealed in the 2007 comprehensive spending review, due in October.
The huge sum suggests that, as chancellor, Mr Brown was able to hold back funds and policy initiatives until Mr Blair had stood aside. In effect, this helped fund the "Brown bounce" that has delivered a run of significant poll leads and added to the expectation of an early general election.

There is much coverage of the resignation of Karl Rove,the same paper reporting

Close to tears, Bush's right-hand man bids farewell

Karl Rove, President George Bush's closest political friend for the last 34 years and the man behind his two presidential election victories, announced his resignation from the White House yesterday.
Mr Rove, 56, is the latest and most important in a long line of confidants who formed the original Bush team to have left. Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, is about the only remaining member of a team that included Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Dan Bartlett and Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

End of ‘Bush’s brain’ will bring down the curtain on lame-duck President says the Times

Mr Rove, nicknamed by critics as “Bush’s brain”, and by Mr Bush himself as, variously, “Boy Genius” and “turd blossom” after a Texas flower, has known his boss since 1973. In many ways he created the President’s public persona, a mix of evangelism, conservatism and blunt talking that ushered in an era of Republican dominance now shattered by the Iraq war.

The Telegraph reports that

Heathrow protesters 'may stage bomb hoax'

The Daily Telegraph has learned that protesters are smuggling smart clothes into the "climate camp" in an attempt to sidestep police and security staff and get into the terminals and office buildings.There are also fears they could be planning bomb hoaxes and assaults on the airport's security fence - methods which could bring the airport to a grinding halt at the busiest time of year causing misery for passengers.

£7m bill to control militants plot to paralyse Heathrow with hoax bombs reports the Mail

Police make presence felt at Heathrow protest says the Indy

Alfredo Pereira, 54, was transporting his home-made placard in a wheelie bin. Wedged in between his sleeping bag, tent and blankets, it read: "Polite notice to police. Don't worry about climate-change camp - worry about terrorists at airports."

The Portuguese chef, who has lived in Sipson, Middlesex, for 30 years, was not happy after being stopped driving up to the gates of the makeshift eco-village that has sprung up overnight on a former gravel pit next to Heathrow airport. A vehement opponent of plans for a third runway at the airport, he is intending to spend the next eight days ensconced alongside campaigners from all over Europe seeking to highlight the impact of aviation on climate change.adding

"I am furious. For Britain this is a total disgrace - I am seeing this country in a new light," he said. The mood in the camp was no more benevolent towards the forces of law and order, 20 of whom had paid an early morning call on the 100 or so activists who began pitching tents in this patch of wasteland wedged between the Heathrow runways and the M4 on Saturday night.

Many of the papers report on

Trial of Russian who boasted of 63 murders


The Guardian says

Mr Pichushkin was in court accused of murdering 49 people and attempting to kill three more, a tally which would make him one of Russia's most deadly killers.
According to the prosecution, Mr Pichushkin lured his victims, who were mostly elderly men, to a quiet part of the park. He then attacked them from behind with a hammer. He invariably suggested a glass of vodka next to the grave of his beloved dog before killing them, the prosecution alleges.

House prices jump £3,400 in a month despite interest rises reports the Mail

The rise helped push the annual rate of growth to 12.1 per cent, the highest since March 2005 and equivalent to £23,122 in a year.
The official figures put the average price for a home at £214,222.
Meanwhile, a separate survey suggested the typical cost of a first home could hit £1million within 17 years if the price boom continued at the current rate.

The Express continues to lead with the Maddy story,this morning

NEW BRITISH SUSPECT INSISTS I'M INNOCENT says the paper


A BRITON told yesterday how he became caught up in the investigation into missing Madeleine McCann after suspicious staff at a hire car firm tipped off police.
Lawyer James Gorrod, 34, rented a blue Opel Corsa in Portugal five days before the four-year-old vanished.
Staff at rental firm Sixt, based at Faro airport, raised the alarm when he returned the vehicle on May 6 – because it was fitted with a child seat and they believed he was travelling alone.

The Sun meanwhile says

'Maddie dumped in sea' torment

ANGUISH deepened for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann yesterday — when it was reported police believed their daughter was dead and her body DUMPED at sea.
A Portuguese newspaper claimed cops now think the four-year-old’s body had been crammed into a rubbish sack weighed down with stones.
And it added that sooner or later Maddie’s remains would wash up on the coastline or be hauled from the sea by fishing nets.


SNP lays out independence plan says the Telegraph

The Scottish National Party will seek to launch a national debate on the country's future by publishing a far-reaching constitutional White Paper.
The proposals come in the wake of this May's victory by the SNP which seized power in the Edinburgh Parliament on a manifesto promise of holding a referendum on independence by 2010.
But in an unprecedented cross-party alliance, Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats combined yesterday to accuse the SNP of wasting taxpayers' money on a "narrow and failed agenda" which would damage the country.

The Independent reports that

Pakistan's birthday overshadowed by extremist violence

Pakistanis are set to celebrate 60 years of independence today against a backdrop of Islamist bombings that have shaken General Pervez Musharraf's government.
Four civilians were killed by a roadside bomb yesterday in the volatile North West Frontier province, while security forces clashed with Islamic militants close to the Afghan border after their checkpoints were attacked.
Since the government's assault on the Red Mosque during a seige in Islamabad last month, more extreme elements - those who reject democracy and preach violence - have begun to assert themselves.

The Telegraph looks at the other side of the border

Independence has failed to reduce poverty

Last week the Asian Development Bank released a report that confirmed that as Asian economies like India's have boomed in recent years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.Although inequalities are to be expected in developing economies, the bank said that the failure to invest adequately in health and education had left hundreds of millions of Asia's poor with dangerously little stake in their societies.


The Mirror reports that

Girl ODs on 14 coffees

Jasmine Willis, 17, downed seven double shots to keep her awake while working in her dad's cafe.
After four hours, she was laughing and weeping uncontrollably from the effects and went to a cousin's home to lie down.
But even that did not help. She woke with a raging temperature, palpitations and breathing difficulties.
Jasmine was taken to hospital which confirmed a caffeine overdose

Finally the Times reports that

'Worst’ rail firm goes from bad to verse

Britain’s worst-performing train company has hired a poet to soothe the tempers of its frustrated customers.
First Great Western, which operates services from Paddington to South Wales and the West Country, insisted yesterday that its decision to engage Sally Crabtree, a Cornish poet, to perform at selected stations over the next four days had nothing to do with its poor punctuality record, disclosed in The Times yesterday.
Crabtree, known in artistic circles as “the pink-wigged pocket Venus from Cornwall”, bravely caught a First Great Western train from Penzance yesterday in the hope that it would deliver her to Reading for her first platform performance this morning.