Large amount of Madeleine's hair 'found in tyre well in boot of parents' hire car'

is the headline in the Mail this morning

Kate and Gerry McCann's hopes of lifting the cloud of suspicion over them has suffered a major setback.
It has been claimed that "substantial" quantities of their daughter Madeleine's hair were found in the boot of the car they hired 25 days after she disappeared.
Portuguese detectives told the public prosecutor that the only explanation was that the hair came either from her body or from something used to wrap it.

The Express leads with the same story

As does the Sun which says

HER HAIR HOLDS THE KEY

TEN BOXES of paperwork were handed over by Portugal’s District Attorney Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses just hours after he had received them from police.A crucial element of the case is hair believed to belong to Madeleine, allegedly found in a Renault Scenic rented 25 days AFTER she disappeared.
Police reckon it, along with other DNA evidence, shows the four-year-old’s body was hidden before being moved to its final resting place.
Bodily fluid with an 88 per cent match to Maddie was also in the car, cops told local newspapers.
The McCanns insist the hair in the car must have brushed off belongings. But a police source said it had to come directly from the body. The source said: “There was so much hair it could not be from DNA transference, but from the body being in the boot.”

The Mirror says however

MADELEINE POLICE: WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE

Police admit they may not have enough evidence to charge Kate and Gerry McCann with killing daughter Madeleine.
Detectives in Portugal who declared the couple suspects and grilled them for hours, last night admitted a lack of clues could scupper any prosecution
Police admit they may not have enough evidence to charge Kate and Gerry McCann with killing daughter Madeleine.

The Telegraph contradicts this saying

Madeleine McCann's parents 'charged soon'

Police in Portugal are said to be confident that charges would soon be brought against Kate and Gerry McCann after a 1,000-page dossier of evidence was handed to a judge.Detectives believe they have enough material to justify charging one or both parents with the "accidental" killing of their four-year-old daughter Madeleine and presented their findings to a public prosecutor in Portimao.

Elsewhere both the Times and the Guardian lead with the same story

Taking the Pill cuts the risk of cancer says the Times

The study found that overall cancer risk was up to 12 per cent lower for women who took the Pill for less than eight years. But, for the minority of women who took it for more than eight years, the news was less good: for them, the risk of cancer increased by 22 per cent.

The Guardian reporting

It is accepted that the pill raises the risk of breast cancer while a woman is taking it and for about five years afterwards. But the real benefits kick in 15 years or more after she has stopped. Most women go on the pill in their late teens or early twenties and have given up by their late twenties, before the age when cancer becomes most common.

The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border is the lead in the Independent

British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a "proxy war".
In signs of a fast-developing confrontation, the Iranians have threatened military action in response to attacks launched from Iraqi territory while the Pentagon has announced the building of a US base and fortified checkpoints at the frontier.
The UK operation, in which up to 350 troops are involved, has come at the request of the Americans, who say that elements close to the Iranian regime have stepped up supplies of weapons to Shia militias in recent weeks in preparation for attacks inside Iraq.

General Petraeus continues to attract headlines,the Guardian reporting that

Bush to announce limited troop pullout after Petraeus tells Congress the end is not in sight

George Bush will tell America tomorrow night that he plans a limited withdrawal of 30,000 troops from Iraq by August 2008, returning strength to the level early this year of 130,000 and endorsing the reduction proposed by General David Petraeus, according to White House officials.
The White House's two top advisers yesterday came under sustained fire from Democratic and Republican senators, as they conceded there was no end in sight to America's military commitment to Iraq and no sign of political reconciliation in Baghdad before President Bush is to leave office in 2009.

General gets rough ride says the Times

Barack Obama, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, suggested that they were asking the American people for limitless patience over a “disastrous foreign policy mistake”. He asked: “The question everyone is asking is, how long will this take and at what point do we say ‘enough’?”

According to the Telegraph

Russian army 'tests the father of all bombs'

Russia has delivered a belligerent message of defiance to the West after army generals claimed to have tested "the father of all bombs".
Developed in secret, the unchristened bomb, a vacuum device capable of emitting shockwaves as powerful as a nuclear weapon, was unveiled with great theatre on state television's main evening broadcast.Boasting that the weapon had "no match in the world," ORT First Channel television showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping its payload over a testing ground, followed by a massive explosion.

Not guilty ..but your sentence is a lifetime of regret reports the Mirror

The gran of Ellie Lawrenson - the five-year-old savaged to death by a pit bull terrier - was cleared yesterday of her manslaughter.
But a judge said Jacqueline Simpson would serve a "life sentence of regret that she has passed on herself".

The Guardian reporting that

Ms Simpson had drunk two bottles of wine mixed with lemonade and smoked 10 joints on the day she let the dog into the house, where it attacked Ellie, grabbing her by the throat and shaking her.
After the verdict the jury heard Ms Simpson had been charged with possession of heroin found at her home. The prosecution is not pursuing this charge.

Lib Dems come top in 'green' audit - but all three parties told to do more says the Indy

The Liberal Democrats have been voted the greenest of the three main political parties in an audit by Britain's environmental groups published today.
But the nine groups have warned that Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all have work to do before they can claim to match their rhetoric on the environment with hard policies.
How Green Are Our Parties? The Green StandardReport concludes that none of the parties is yet committed to the policies and action on the scale required to meet the range and urgency of the environmental threats facing the world.

The Mail reports that

Cameron to lead the charge for a public vote on EU treaty

He announced he would table a motion for debate within weeks of Parliament resuming next month to put Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs on the spot.
His officials confirmed last night that he is likely to open the debate for the Tories, in an attempt to force the Prime Minister to defend himself at the dispatch box.
The Prime Minister has rejected calls for a poll on the EU treaty, despite a Labour manifesto pledge at the last election to put it to a vote.

Mortgage rates hit nine-year peak says the Telegraph

Even though the Bank of England has not raised its official interest rate, figures showed the borrowing costs faced by householders jumped dramatically last month.
In a major sign of how the so-called credit crunch is affecting consumers, Abbey will today become the first high street bank to raise the rates on a range of its standard tracker mortgages as a direct result of the market turmoil. And Standard Life was expected to do likewise tomorrow, with other major lenders poised to follow suit.

REPORT URGES POLICE CULTURE CHANGE says the Express

The police have become too cautious about taking risks and need to undergo a radical culture change, an official report says.
Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan set out a wide range of proposals to cut red tape and improve neighbourhood policing in England and Wales.

Did you love her? mother asks boyfriend of drug victim Rachel reports the Times

Pauline Holcroft confronted Luke Fitzgerald, a former drug addict, for the first time since her daughter’s death and asked him: “Did you love my daughter? And what is your last memory of her?”
Appearing at the inquest into the death of Miss Whitear yesterday, Mr Fitzgerald, the former boyfriend who had earlier been accused of administering the fatal heroin injection, was for a moment lost for words.
Miss Whitear walked out on Mr Fitzgerald the day before she died from a heroin overdose in a Devon bedsit.

The Guardian carries the story that

MI5 and MI6 to be sued for first time over torture

A British man who was held in Guantánamo Bay has begun a civil action against MI5 and MI6 over the tactics that they use to gather intelligence.
The suit has been brought by Tarek Dergoul, 29, who claims he was repeatedly tortured while he was held by the US, and that British agents who had also questioned him were aware of the mistreatment.
He wants a high court ruling that will ban the security services from "benefiting" from the abuse of prisoners being held in detention outside the UK.

The Sun finds the latest lottery winner

£8m win after dad loses job

HARD-UP Neil Chester has scooped £8.5million on the lottery — two weeks after being made redundant.
The struggling father of four collected the jackpot as he desperately looked for another job before his cash ran out.
Computer engineer Neil, 31, had risked £5 on five lines of lucky dip numbers.
He said yesterday: “I never usually do more than three lines but for some reason I did — and it was the fourth line that won.”

Finally Sybil the Downing Street cat makes headlines in most of the papers this morning

Ten years after the Humphrey hoo-ha, a cat returns to Downing Street

Says the Mail

Her predecessor was at the centre of dark suggestions of foul play involving Cherie Blair.
For Sybil the new Downing Street cat, however, it looks as though there should be no such problem.
The black and white mouser is owned by Chancellor Alistair Darling and his wife Margaret, who live in the flat above Number 10.

The Telegraph reporting

A spokesman for Mr Brown explained: "Mr and Mrs Darling are living in the flat above No 10. I understand they do have a cat and the cat has recently been brought to Downing Street."
Asked if it would be free to roam wherever it wanted, he added: "It's quite difficult to confine cats, so, yes. The Prime Minister doesn't have a problem with it. Sarah Brown doesn't have a problem with it."

The Sun saying

TEN Downing Street has got its first cat for ten years — but moggy lovers fear it may need all its nine lives.