A mixed bag of stories this morning in the papers with none agreeing on what the main topic is.

The Guardian leads with yesterday's main story

Police warn of prison chaos

Senior police officers warned last night that the snap 12-hour strike by prison officers which led to chaotic scenes across the country yesterday could have serious implications for maintaining order both inside jails and on the streets. Leaders of other public sector unions claimed that the strike could be the start of a series of bruising clashes between the public sector and the government.
After tense discussions throughout the day the Prison Officers Association executive relented, telling its members to return to work immediately in an announcement just after 7pm yesterday.

Court forces prison officers to call off 24-hour national strike reports the Times

The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) instructed members to return to work six hours after the Ministry of Justice won a court injunction to end the strike. The union’s assets could have been seized and its leaders jailed for contempt of court if it had continued to ignore the ruling, which prevented the union “from inducing, authorising or supporting any form of industrial action which would disrupt the operation of the Prison Service in England and Wales”.

It leads with the story that

Airports under fire over 2,000 job cuts

BAA, the owner of Britain’s three biggest airports, is planning to cut up to 2,000 jobs, leading airlines to give warning that a lack of staff could result in even poorer service than passengers suffer already,The Times has learnt.
Ferrovial, the Spanish company that borrowed heavily to buy BAA last year, may be preparing to sell one or more of its airports. It has ordered each of its seven airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton – to conduct a rigorous review of costs and staffing levels.

The Telegraph picks up on David Cameron's comments on newsnight last night

David Cameron talks tough on immigration

David Cameron has set out a tough new stance on immigration, promising curbs to limit the number of people coming in as a way of easing pressure on schools, hospitals and housing.Swinging his party back on to more traditional Conservative territory, the Tory leader said the number of people arriving in Britain over a decade of Labour government had been "too high".
The "huge numbers" had placed "too great a burden" on public services, which were creaking under the pressure.
"There are benefits from immigration and I want Britain to capture the benefits from that immigration," he said on BBC2's Newsnight.

Cam's lurch to the right says the Mirror

Rattled David Cameron lurched to the right last night as he went soft on taxes for the rich and played the immigration card.
The retreat to an old Tory agenda was Mr Cameron's latest attempt to rescue his floundering leadership.
When asked about the super-rich he specifically ruled out forcing them to pay more for the nation.
On immigration he said numbers of people coming in were "very high".
AdvertisementMr Cameron also confirmed plans to tax flights in the UK and abroad.

CALL ME YOU NAIL KILLER RYAN is its front page lead

The teenage killer of Rhys Jones was captured on CCTV as he rode to and from the scene of the shooting, police revealed yesterday.
Officers said that the BMX gunman was picked up by the cameras on his way to the pub where he murdered Rhys, 11.
They believe the CCTV footage could provide them with vital information.
News of the film came as a boy of 15 was arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday.

The Sun leads with an horrific murder but a ray of hope

LITTLE MIRACLE

A LITTLE girl named Angel miraculously survived as ruthless hitmen executed three men and wounded two women around her.
The terror-stricken three-year-old was shielded by the women as the slaughter went on.
And she was seen crying as she was led away by police after the massacre in Bishop’s Stortford, Herts.
It began when a distraught caller screamed for help after dialling 999 from the £250,000 semi at Bishop’s Stortford, Herts.

The Times reporting that

A three-year-old girl escaped unhurt in an attack in which three men were shot dead in what appeared to be gang-land killings.
The girl’s mother and another woman suffered serious injuries when two gunmen burst into a house in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, and fired up to ten shots in a dispute thought to be linked to drug dealing.
Keith Cowell, 52, his son Matthew, 17, and a 33-year-old man died instantly when they were shot in the head. Mr Cowell’s sister and his son’s 23-year-old girlfriend, Clare, were seriously injured in the attack on Tuesday night.

Many of the papers carry front page pictures of Britain's Christine Ohuruogu winning the 400m but the story makes the lead in the Independent which asks

A TRIUMPH OR TRAVESTY

Christine Ohuruogu's ban for life from Olympic competition is likely to be lifted by the British Olympic Association when her appeal is heard later this year, clearing the way for her to receive UK Sport funding ahead of next summer's Beijing Games.
In the wake of her remarkable victory in the women's 400m at the world championships yesterday, Ohuruogu called on the BOA to rescind the penalty, which was automatically imposed after she received a one-year ban from UK Athletics for missing three out-of-competition tests.

Christine has a Beijing dream says the Sun

DEFIANT Christine Ohuruogu won a shock gold for Britain in the 400 metres at the World Championships in Japan yesterday.
Then the East Londoner, 23, called on the British Olympic Association to let her run in the Games again.
Ohuruogu only returned to the sport on August 6 after serving a 12-month suspension imposed on her by an independent disciplinary committee for missing three dope tests.

The Mail goes in for a spot of government baiting.It leads with

Green Belt must be sacrificed to hit Brown's house-building targets

Developers who have been kept at bay by strict laws must be allowed to build thousands of homes around towns and cities, it added.
An inquiry rejected the voices of "nimby" residents and voters who hope to keep the countryside unspoiled.
A panel of inspectors commissioned by ministers said the overcrowded South-East must build more homes for a soaring population. They said leaving the Green Belt untouched "cannot be consistent with Government policy". Gordon Brown wants to build three million more homes by 2020.

And later tells us

Jobless Britain: One in five homes relies entirely on benefits

The number of households in which nobody works for a living rose to more than three million this summer, official figures revealed yesterday.
Among them were a growing number of lone parent families - the first increase in the figure for single parent homes entirely dependent on benefits in five years.
The statistics point towards a failure for Labour's policy of spending billions on benefits, childcare and incentive schemes intended to persuade those without jobs - and single mothers in particular - into employment.

Finally reporting that

Britain is 'worst in the world' for armed robbery says security boss

Nick Buckles, chief executive of Group 4 Securicor, attributed the rising level of attacks to the fact that his staff are not allowed to carry guns, leaving them vulnerable to armed raiders.
He said: "It's just part of our business. It is a rising trend, particularly in the UK, mainly because we are not armed. Britain is the worst country in the world for robbery."

The Telegraph reports that

Nelson Mandela stands tall in London

Nearly half a century ago in a very different world, Nelson Mandela walked through central London and dreamt of a statue commemorating a black man among the great and good in Parliament Square.Yesterday his wish came true. In front of thousands of fans, politicians and celebrities, a bronze sculpture of the world's most respected statesman was unveiled, taking its rightful place beside the likes Sir Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.

The papers report on the progess of talks on Pakistan,the Guardian saying

Bhutto close to deal with Musharraf

President Pervez Musharraf and his exiled rival Benazir Bhutto edged closer last night to a power-sharing deal that would see Gen Musharraf retire from the army.
An agreement was "80 to 90% complete" said Ms Bhutto from London, where she has been negotiating with a senior Musharraf adviser and the Pakistani military's spy chief.
Her key demand - that Gen Musharraf give up his uniform before impending elections - has been agreed, she told the Guardian. "A lot of progress has been made, particularly on the uniform. But it's for the president to make an announcement."
Gen Musharraf has also agreed to drop corruption charges against Ms Bhutto, her husband and dozens of other legislators, in the form of a general amnesty covering 1988 to 1999, she said.

The Independent reporting that

shedding his uniform could be Mr Musharraf's most momentous decision yet. Pakistan's military has wielded great influence, during both civilian and military rule and many have questioned whether senior generals would continue to support Mr Musharraf if he was no longer head of the armed forces.

The Times reports that

British withdrawal could lead to a bloodbath, Iraq minister warns

Britain is a great power that must not “run away” from its responsibilities in Iraq, the Iraqi Foreign Minister has told The Times.
Criticising Britain’s recent “lack of engagement” in the southern city of Basra, Hoshyar Zebari has forecast catastrophic consequences if London and Washington decide prematurely to withdraw their troops from Iraq: a bloodbath as the country breaks up, neighbours sucked into a regional conflict, an oil crisis and a new terrorist haven far deadlier than Afghanistan.

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports

Moqtada al-Sadr announces ceasefire in Iraq

Sadr announced yesterday that an order to stand down had been distributed to his loyalists following the deaths of more than 50 Shia Muslim pilgrims during sectarian fighting in the holy city of Karbala on Tuesday. adding that

British commanders in Basra reacted cautiously last night to a claim by the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that he has ordered his militia to suspend offensive operations for six months.

According to the Guardian

Climate warning raises long-term flood fears

Scientists have urged the government to consider the full impact of global warming when drawing up plans to protect Britain from flooding. A study from the Met Office's Hadley Centre predicts that river levels will rise higher than anticipated because existing computer models do not take into account the effects of climate change on plant life.
In a warmer world, say scientists, less water will be drawn up by plants, causing greater flows into rivers like the Thames and the Severn, which burst their banks last month bringing chaos to large parts of England.

Train delays hold up 400,000 a day says the Telegraph

The state of the country's railways was laid bare in the latest report by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
It disclosed that, despite a £6 billion investment in Network Rail over the past year, there are more than 1,000 track, points and signal breakdowns every week.
Overall track failures and broken rails rose by 15 per cent from April to June, compared to the previous three months.
This comes at a time when some passengers are facing fare increases of up to 45 per cent over the next eight years. Ticket prices have already increased by 27 per cent over the last five years.

Finally most of the papers report on

Queen of Mean leaves $12m to dog – and snubs grandchildren

The Times reporting thatNew York’s “Queen of Mean” has left her pet dog in the lap of luxury with a $12 million inheritance – more than she bequeathed her human descendants.

Leona Helmsley, the billionaire property tycoon who died last week at the age of 87, cut two of her four grandchildren out of her estate entirely but bestowed a fortune on her beloved fluffy white Maltese bitch, Trouble.
Trouble will get her paws on a $12 million (£6 million) trust – more than the $5 million in cash and $5 million in trusts that Mrs Helmsley willed to each of her other two grandchildren. Only her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who will look after Trouble, could potentially get more: $5 million in cash and a $10 million trust, of which he can take 5 per cent a year.