Food additives and Maddy dominate the papers this morning

additives in food DO harm our children headlines the Mail

Official research has confirmed parents' fears that artificial colours in children's foods can make them behave badly.
Scientists working for the Government's Food Standards Agency tested a range of E-numbers on two groups of children.
The youngsters found it more difficult to sit still and concentrate, had problems reading and became loud and impulsive. The additives tested are commonly used in the sweets, biscuits, soft drinks and ice cream consumed by millions of British children.

Food additives make children behave badly says the Times

Scientists from the University of Southampton, who carried out research on three-year-old and eight-year-old children, believe that their findings could have a “substantial” impact on the regulation of food additives in Britain. But the FSA has been accused of missing an opportunity to protect children and all consumers by failing to impose a deadline on manufacturers to remove additives such as Sunshine Yellow and Tartrazine from their products.

As does the Guardian which says

Hyperactivity is a behaviour officially indicated by increased movement, impulsiveness and inattention, and can impair learning. It is unclear how many people in the UK are affected by hyperactivity conditions. In its more severe form ADHD is believed to affect between 2.4% and 5% of the population.
For their research, scientists from Southampton University recorded the responses of 153 three-year-olds and 144 eight to nine year-olds to mixes of additives placed in different drinks; they found that artificial food colour and additives were having "deleterious effects".

Both the Mirror and Express claim arrests are imminent in the Maddy enquiry

DNA is found says the Mirror

The dna of a potential suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has been found by British scientists.
It was discovered among fragments of forensic evidence taken from Kate and Gerry McCann's holiday flat and sent to the UK for analysis. Last night sources said Portuguese police were now expected to make new arrests within 48hours.

ARREST IS NOW CLOSE says the Express

The results of DNA tests, which have taken a month to complete, were given to detectives in Portugal yesterday. They are understood to confirm police suspicions that Madeleine died in her parents’ holiday apartment.

The Sun is the only paper which leads with yesterday's terrorism arrests in Germany

NEW 9/11 PLOT FOILED says the paper

ONE of three Islamic terrorists plotting a new 9/11 fired at a cop as he tried to flee a swoop by police and special agents.
The trio — said to be planning suicide bomb attacks on a busy airport and a US airbase — were cornered in their hideout in a sleepy German village.
But the raid by balaclava-clad police commandos and agents from the German equivalent of MI5 nearly ended in disaster when one of the fanatics bolted from a bathroom window.

Raids foil plot to bring 7/7 terror to Germany reports the Guardian

An alleged Islamist terrorist plan to blow up US targets in Germany, which bore similarities to recent British terror plots and could have proven deadlier than the London or Madrid attacks, was foiled as the suspects began assembling bombs, German officials said yesterday.
Three men were in custody last night, two of them German nationals who had converted to Islam, after security services swooped on a rented house in Sauerland, 60 miles east of Düsseldorf. The trio had amassed more than 700kg (1,500lbs) of hydrogen peroxide and had been scouting out US bases, discos, pubs and Frankfurt's international airport as potential targets, officials said.


The Telegraph leads with

EU referendum campaign by cross-party MPs

Demands for Gordon Brown to grant the British people a say on the EU reform treaty will reach new heights today when a powerful, cross-party group of MPs launches a nationwide campaign for a referendum.The move by senior MPs from the three main parties is evidence that pressure for a national vote comes from all sides of the political spectrum - and includes prominent pro-Europeans as well as Euro-sceptics.

The Sun features an interview with David Cameron in which he

dismisses “blasts from the past” within his own party for putting his Tory revolution in peril.
The Conservative leader slams veterans like Michael Ancram for handing vital ammo to PM Gordon Brown.
He told The Sun: “I want all Conservatives to think carefully before they open their mouths.”

and proposes

EVERY 16-year-old will be expected to devote their summer holiday to “patriotic” national service under radical Tory plans to be unveiled today.
They will give up six weeks to put something back into Britain.
David Cameron will launch his plan for a National Citizen Service with boxing champ Amir Khan.

Meanwhle the Indy's poll of polls finds

Cameron's shift to the right boosts Tory poll ratings

A marked difference emerged between the surveys conducted at the end of July and start of August, when Labour averaged 39 per cent and the Tories 33 per cent, and those taken at the end of last month after Mr Cameron raised issues such as immigration, tax, Europe and crime. By then, Labour was on 38 per cent, the Tories 36 per cent and the Liberal Democrats unchanged on 16 per cent.

It leads with yesterdays decison by the BBC

Global warming: Too hot to handle

The transformation of climate change from a scientific to a political issue became clear last night when the BBC dropped plans for a day-long TV special on global warming.
The scrapping of Planet Relief, an awareness-raising broadcast similar in concept to programmes such as the poverty-focused Comic Relief and Live8, and planned for early next year, marked a watershed moment: it showed that opining about climate change is now as significant in Britain as scientific fact.

The paper also has concerns over

A 'chilling' proposal for a universal DNA database

A civil liberties storm erupted yesterday after a senior judge called for the genetic details of every person in Britain, and all visitors to the country, to be added to the national DNA database. Critics warned that the "chilling" move would infringe privacy, be hugely impractical and have only a marginal impact on crime.
Downing Street and the Home Office, which have been accused of moving Britain towards a surveillance society, distanced themselves from Lord Justice Sedley's controversial suggestion without entirely ruling it out.

The Mirror meanwhile reports that

Embryos research go-ahead

Scientists yesterday got the go-ahead to create controversial hybrid human-animal embryos to help find cures for diseases.
The watchdog Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority agreed in principle to the research, saying studies showed the public was mostly "at ease" with creating embryos to help fight conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Delighted Lib Dem science spokesman Dr Evan Harris, who has co-ordinated the campaign to allow research, said: "This is good news for patients, the public and UK science.

Britain's most prolific surrogate mother is expecting again - and this time it's triplets says the Mail

After eight surrogate pregnancies in little more than a decade, you might think that Carole Horlock would have tired of giving birth.
But Britain's most prolific surrogate mother is expecting again - and this time it's triplets.
Miss Horlock, who will be 41 next month, is eight weeks into the pregnancy for a married woman left infertile after cancer.

THE 200-MILLION-TO-ONE TRIPLETS reports the Express

Amy, Kim and Zoe beat odds of 200million-to-one as naturally conceived identical triplets
The tiny sisters, born prematurely last month and kept on life-support machines for two weeks, are now thriving at home with their parents Mae Christina Astley and Thomas Graziadei.
The major headache now for proud mum and dad is how to tell their daughters apart.

'One cannabis joint led to our girl's suicide' says the Telegraph

Laura Bower-McKnight suffered a psychotic episode after smoking a joint of skunk - the strongest form of cannabis - which led to a damaging course of drugs, depression, bullying and finally suicide.
The 22-year-old was found dead at her family's home in North Hykeham, Lincs, last Friday. She had hanged herself from the end of her bed.
Carol McKnight said yesterday that she had no doubt that cannabis had led to her daughter's death.

The Guardian reports on the

Shakeup after nuclear missiles flown across US by mistake

As many as six nuclear warheads, each with a destructive potential almost 10 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, were mistakenly flown across the US, Pentagon officials conceded yesterday.
The incident last week saw nuclear-armed cruise missiles last week mounted on the wings of a B-52 bomber and flown from an airbase 40 miles below the Canadian border to the southern state of Louisiana. The 1,500 mile journey from the Minot airbase in North Dakota to Barksdale in Louisiana lasted three and a half hours, during which time the crew were unaware of their nuclear load.

Killer mosquito virus arrives in Europe reports the Indy

A tropical virus that has caused severe illness and widespread panic on the islands of the Indian Ocean has become established in Europe for the first time.
The Ministry of Health in Italy has confirmed a* outbreak of Chikungunya virus near Ravenna in the region of Emilia Romagna, 200 miles north of Rome. A total of 151 cases were reported in two villages near the town of Cervia between 4 July and 3 September. Eleven patients were taken to hospital; one died.


Finally the Telegraph has the answer to longetivity

110-year-old attributes health to plenty of salt

Mary Brown, who lives at Eastlake Residential Home, Godalming, Surrey, was surrounded by four generations of her family, including five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, at yesterday's celebration.
Her 78-year-old son, George, was among the party-goers but Mrs Brown outlived her eldest son, Hugh, who died in 2002. Her husband, John, died in 1950.
She was born to a farming family in Kilmalcom, Scotland, but moved with John to Artington Manor Farm in Guildford in 1923.

Adding

She said that her impressive age is down to having an inquiring mind, not driving and enjoying all food with plenty of salt. But, she said, everything else should be taken in moderation - except family and friends.