The papers continue to focus on the ramifications of the murder of Garry Newlove,the Telegraph leads with

Act now to beat young thugs, says police chief

Speaking after the death of a father allegedly at the hands of teenage yobs, Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Cheshire, blamed parents for abdicating responsibility for their children and shops that sold cheap alcohol.
A "hard core" of unemployed young men was at the centre of the problem, he said.
He called for more powers to ban street drinking, an increase in the price of alcohol and new powers for police to order youths home when they were causing a nuisance in public.

As does the Times

Police chief calls drinks industry to account for yob culture

Communities are under siege from a hardcore of antisocial, under-age drinkers while parents, drinks companies and the advertising industry ignore their duty to tackle the problem, a senior police chief said yesterday.
In an unprecedented statement released just hours after three teenagers appeared in court charged with the murder of the father of three Garry Newlove, the Chief Constable of Cheshire said that society was failing to address the scourge of alcohol-fuelled violence among the young.

The Mail also leads with the same story

Police chief demands rise in drinking age to 21

A catalogue of abuse: report demands law to protect elderly in hospitals and care homes reports the Guardian

Vulnerable elderly people are being subjected to neglect, abuse, discrimination and ill-treatment in the hospitals and care homes that should be looking after them, according to a report published today by a parliamentary committee.
The study by the joint committee on human rights warns that many older people are facing maltreatment ranging from physical neglect so severe they are left lying in their own faeces or urine to malnutrition and dehydration through lack of help with eating.

The Mail's leader asks
why has it taken the Committee so long to notice what everyone else knew? Why invoke human rights, when the issue is one of human decency?
MPs and Peers are absolutely right to demand a 'complete change of culture' in care services. But don't we also need fundamental changes among the Ministers and bureaucrats who turned a blind eye to this national disgrace?


The front page of the Independent features a picture of the Electric chair.Under the headline

Bush's lethal legacy: more executions ,the paper reports

The Bush administration is preparing to speed up the executions of criminals who are on death row across the United States, in effect, cutting out several layers of appeals in the federal courts so that prisoners can be "fast-tracked" to their deaths.
With less than 18 months to go to secure a presidential legacy, President Bush has turned to an issue he has specialised in since approving a record number of executions while Governor of Texas.
The US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales - Mr Bush's top legal adviser during the spree of executions in Texas in the 1990s - is putting finishing touches to regulations, inspired by recent anti-terrorism legislation, that would allow states to turn to the Justice Department, instead of the federal courts, as a key arbiter in deciding whether prisoners live or die.

It also reports on the latest atrocities in Iraq

Suicide bombers kill 175 in northern Iraq

In a savage onslaught on the pre-Islamic Yazidi sect, four suicide bombers driving fuel tankers blew themselves up in northern Iraq killing 175 people and wounding 200 others, according to local officials.
The attacks took place in the Sinjar district 70 miles west of Mosul and targeted houses of the Yazidi, a 350,000-strong secretive community whose beliefs are a mixture of Zotroastrian and Manichean beliefs predating Islam and Christianity.

The Guardian reports that

According to officials in the nearby town of Sinjar, the bombers drove explosives-laden petrol tankers into three busy commercial neighbourhoods, flattening residential blocks and causing fires which raged out of control. "This is an outrageous and cynical terrorist act against innocent people," said Jaasim Sinjari, a local offical. "The Sunni Arabs are trying to wipe us out."

It leads with

We've been neglected and let down say combat troops

The government is failing in its historic duty of care towards frontline troops who put their lives on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan, forces charities and campaigners claim.
There is growing anger in the service community that the Military Covenant, which says soldiers should always be able to expect fair treatment in return for the rights they forgo, is not being upheld.
The newly-founded British Armed Forces Federation, Baff, says that the covenant is "now a dead letter". And in an unprecedented move, the Royal British Legion - widely known for its poppy appeal and welfare work for old soldiers - is to launch a campaign demanding that the government upholds the covenant and provides its armed forces and their families with proper care in return for asking them to risk making "the ultimate sacrifice for their country".

All the papers report that

Mattel recalls millions of hazardous toys

In what is believed to be one of the biggest product recalls the UK has seen, the company recalled hundreds of thousands of Polly Pocket and Batman toys because of fears that magnets could come lose and be swallowed by young children. says the Telegraph adding

This is the latest in a long line of “Made in China” products that have been recalled around a world, from toothpaste to tyres – a phenomenon that is causing a growing consumer and political backlash in the United States.

The Mirror reports that

The move follows an alert less than two weeks ago when Mattel recalled 94,000 Chinese-made Fisher-Price toys after concerns about lead in the paint.
The new recall affects ranges of magnetic toys made in China due to fears the magnets may come loose, plus 49,000 Chinese-made die-cast toy cars which also might contain excessive levels of lead in the paint.
The die-cast toys feature the character Sarge from the hit kids’ movie Cars. Sarge toys made between May and July 2007 were found to have "impermissible levels of lead", Mattel said today.

The same paper also reports that

Nokia warning over 46m phone batteries

As many as 46 million mobile phone batteries could have to be replaced by Nokia amid fears they could overheat while charging.
The warning affects more than fifty different makes of mobile phone, and comes after around 100 complaints of overheating.
The phones giant said it was advising customers with BL-5C batteries, made by Matsushita between November 2005 and December 2006, of the problem and offering to replace any affected by the warning.


The Guardian meanwhile reports on

Misery at bottom of supermarket supply chain

British supermarkets were under renewed pressure to clean up abuses in their supply chains yesterday as a Guardian investigation revealed that 40 Bulgarians found by the authorities to be illegally employed and exploited by a gangmaster in Cornwall were picking and packing vegetables destined for Tesco and Morrisons.
The Bulgarians said they were forced to "live like pigs on scraps", scavenging vegetables from the fields when their Latvian gangmaster withheld their pay for 34 days.

More bad news for supermarkets in the Telegraph

Supermarket 'link' to fatal E.coli outbreak

The 66-year old disabled woman died yesterday morning in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley after contracting the E.coli O157 infection, which is believed to involve two Morrisons stores in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Her 72-year-old husband remains seriously ill in the Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary and a 71-year-old woman is also being treated at Royal Alexandra hospital.
Four other people - an 86-year-old woman and a family comprising a woman aged 45, a man aged 46, and their 23-year-old daughter - are all recovering at home.


The tabloids are all reporting on the identity of the £35m lottery winner

POSTIE ANGIE'S £35M headlines the Sun

GOBSMACKED Angela Cunningham screamed “Oh my God!” when she discovered she had become Britain’s biggest-ever lottery winner.
The 40-year-old mum, an admin worker at a Royal Mail sorting office, only checked her EuroMillions ticket at her desk on Monday morning — three days after Friday’s draw.


BUT NOW 40 YEAR OLD POSTAL WORKERS JACKPOT COULD LEAD TO DIVORCE BATTLE adds the Express on its front page

the massive EuroMillions windfall could also lead to heart­ache for Angela, who is separated. She may now face a
bitter divorce battle over the money.


The Mail reports on a

Surprise inflation fall eases pressure on interest rises

Inflation fell sharply last month to leave the Bank of England's economists with egg on their faces - but homebuyers breathing a sigh of relief.
The surprise drop in the Consumer Prices Index from 2.4 per cent in June to 1.9 per cent in July means further interest rate rises are likely to be put on hold.

The Indy reporting that

Most of the drop was down to depressed food prices, even after the effects of the floods earlier this year in Yorkshire and Humberside are taken into account (the statistics don't cover the more recent torrential rains in southern England).
The Office for National Statistics suggests that much of this may be a result of competition between the main supermarket chains, with bacon, lettuce and tomatoes being three of the produce items that find themselves in July's disinflationary sandwich. Bananas, chicken and onions are also apparently good buys, at least from a statistical point of view.

The same paper reports from Scotland where

Salmond's White Paper puts Brown on defensive

Scottish independence was put back on the agenda yesterday by Alex Salmond, the First Minister for Scotland, in a White Paper paving the way for a referendum on the break-up of the Union.
Opposition parties accused Mr Salmond of using the White Paper for " nationalist propaganda", while the SNP leader himself claimed the " tectonic plates" were moving in Scotland and said he wanted a referendum for voters by 2010 on the Union.
But Mr Salmond may already be close to achieving a compromise, which will see more power devolved from Westminster.

The Times meanwhile reports that

I’ll bankroll Brown if he goes for a snap election, donor promises

Lord Paul, a philanthropist who helped to save London Zoo, smoothed the way to an early poll by saying that he would boost election coffers by “as much as I can afford”.
The steel billionaire, who hosted a gathering attended by many senior Brownite supporters at the zoo shortly after Mr Brown’s succession, gave a welcome boost to Labour chiefs worried by the party’s £20 million debts. Other donors are believed to be waiting in the wings if Mr Brown goes against his earlier inclination and calls an election within weeks.

News from abroad and the Guardian reports that

US feels heat as Iranian leader visits Afghanistan

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signalled his determination to counter US global power yesterday by meeting his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, in a demonstration of growing Iranian influence in Afghanistan.
The visit - Mr Ahmadinejad's first to Afghanistan, where the US, Britain and other western powers are engaged in a bitter struggle with the Taliban - is certain to alarm the Bush administration, which accuses Tehran of destabilising its efforts and claims the Taliban is being armed with Iranian weapons. Iran, which is mainly, Shia, denies helping the Taliban, whose puritanical Sunni ideology it has condemned.

Crowds celebrate Independence Day at the place where it all began says the Times

As the dawn mist melted into thunder clouds the sound of motorbikes became a roaring crescendo and a crowd of several thousand surged towards Pakistan’s border with India. Mounted police lashed out with bamboo canes and women and children screamed as they were crushed against a gate barring the way to the Wagah frontier crossing, 50 metres away.
“Pakistan Zindabad!” (Long live Pakistan!) bellowed the crowd, in between cursing the police. One man fell to the ground, blood pouring from his head, scrabbling for his glasses amid a sea of lost shoes.
So began the Independence Day celebrations yesterday along the line where Britain hurriedly divided the “Jewel in the Crown” 60 years ago last night, triggering the biggest mass migration in history.


Israel rejects calls to end isolation of Hamas says the Indy

Israel attempted to damp down calls for moves to end the isolation of Hamas yesterday by warning that it would be a "huge mistake" to try to reconcile it with its rival Fatah.
Tzipi Livni, Israel's Foreign Minister, denounced calls for talks with Hamas by warning that "any compromise with terror, any compromise with these extremists" could undermine the new emergency government set up in the West Bank by the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.
Ms Livni's reaction was at the highest level yet to calls ­ mainly within Europe ­ for the international community, including the EU, to end the boycott imposed on Hamas since it took office 17 months ago.

The Times reports on a bad weather day

Depression over Britain signals end of summer

Gales and colossal seas have left only a third of the fleet still taking part in one of yachting’s toughest races as forecasters predict torrential rain for much of Britain.
While homeowners braced themselves for more severe weather, the field in the biennial Fastnet race was severely depleted after 44 mph winds and steep seas took their toll.
Just as it seemed as though summer had finally turned up, a wet and windy depression was sweeping Britain and threatening to trigger an early pattern of autumnal weather. Temperatures are forecast to drop below average for the rest of the month, and it seems unlikely that there will be anything for the rest of the summer to compare with the highest temperature of the year so far of 30C (86F), recorded on August 5.

WAVE GOODBYE TO SUMMER says the Express

Finally the Mirror reports

Keane: WAGS are wrecking football

Football tough guy Roy Keane has torn into the Wags for ruining the game by turning their men into "softies".
The ex-Manchester United skipper said wives and girlfriends are running the show and even influencing transfer decisions.
Stars who earn millions a year are being told which clubs to sign for "because of the shops," said Keane.
And today's highly-paid professionals need to ask themselves a stark question: "My wife and her shopping or my football