
Most of the papers lead with the McCann's this Sunday morning,the Mail on Sunday claims
McCanns to face the judge in days
reports that the couple could this week face a judge who has the power to charge them in connection with the death of their daughter.
Portuguese police were expecting to receive new forensic evidence, gathered from the McCanns' holiday apartment - either tomorrow or Tuesday which they believe will clinch their case against the couple.
Many of the papers question the forensic evidence,the Times claiming
Portuguese police tried to pressure Kate McCann into admitting killing Madeleine by repeatedly showing her video footage of sniffer dogs allegedly finding the scent of a body in the family’s hire car. During 16 hours of interrogation Kate was shown the footage of the dogs clambering over the Renault ScĂ©nic car in the hope that she would break down and confess. She was yesterday said to be distraught and exhausted by the ordeal.
The Express says
FORENSIC EVIDENCE A BLUFF
Forensic evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann is inconclusive and is being overplayed by Portuguese detectives.
Blood spots found in their rented car were microscopic and the quality so poor that experts could not even say whether they came from a boy or a girl.
The Telegraph reporting that they are to travel home this morning
The McCanns plan to approach David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, asking him to intervene in the case of their missing daughter Madeleine amid growing fears that they might become the victims of a "shocking injustice".
The couple are "angry and horrified" that the search for the missing four-year-old has been halted as, they believe, police seek to blame them for killing her and disposing of her body.
Some forensic scientists have begun to question some of the evidence against the couple - supposedly samples of Madeline's blood found in the boot of the car they hired 25 days after the disappearance, and the "death smell" allegedly found on Mrs McCann's belongings by a police sniffer dog.
SCAPEGOATS says the Independent
Portuguese judicial sources yesterday defied mounting criticism of their investigation to indicate that police were amassing "compelling" evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann. They rejected claims that the couple were being framed for the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine and denied the investigation had been badly compromised early on. adding that
Last night Gerry McCann maintained his and his wife's innocence, telling the News of the World newspaper that they did not kill their daughter. "We're entirely innocent," Mr. McCann said. "I don't need to tell you how things don't stack up. I know 100 per cent that Kate did not do anything. I know that's true from what I did that night. And in terms of what Kate knows about me, I was away from her for just 10 minutes."
The Mirror carries an interview with Kate McCann on its front page made before the questioning
KATE TELLS OF NIGHTMARE
Shell-shocked Kate McCann has given a dramatic, impassioned interview to the Sunday Mirror to denounce claims that she killed her own daughter.
Breaking down in tears, distraught Kate said of the Portuguese police: "They want me to lie - I'm being framed.
"Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us."
WE DID NOT KILL MADDIE says the News of the World which carries an interview with Gerry McCann
ANGUISHED dad Gerry McCann fought back last night after he and wife Kate were named official suspects over Maddie, and declared: "We're entirely innocent. But now we're fighting for our lives."
The 39-year-old heart surgeon vowed to take on the Portuguese legal system and insisted: "We did NOT kill our daughter! We WILL clear our name and we will NOT give up on Madeleine."
Only the Observer chooses not to lead with the story instead going with
Pregnant women to get cash for good diet
All expectant mothers are to be given a one-off payment of around £120 that they will be encouraged to spend on fresh fruit and vegetables as a way of protecting their children from diseases and incurable conditions later in life.
The plan for a 'health in pregnancy' grant will be outlined by Health Secretary Alan Johnson this week in his first major speech outlining how the government plans to tackle the yawning health divide between the richest and poorest in England and Wales.
The Telegraph reports on its front page that
Migrants will be forced to learn English
Tens of thousands more immigrant workers will be forced to learn English before they are allowed into the country, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.The controversial crackdown, which is expected to reduce the number of people entering Britain by at least 35,000-a-year, will be unveiled by Gordon Brown in a speech to the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.
The Indy returns to green issues
The appalling fate of the polar bear, symbol of the Arctic
Polar bears – the very symbol of the Arctic's looming environmental disaster – are crashing towards extinction as a result of global warming, the US government has found. The admission, the result of a massive investigation by the Bush administration, could force the President finally to take action against climate change.
The development comes at the end of the most momentous week in the human history of the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. Satellite observations have revealed that its ice has shrunk to much its lowest ever level, raising fears that it had reached a "tipping point" where it would melt irreversibly, disappearing altogether in summer in less than 25 years, with incalculable global consequences,
The Times reports that
Cameron to offer green tax cuts
A policy group set up by David Cameron is recommending rebates in stamp duty, reductions in council tax and cuts in the Vat levied on materials that save energy.
They would help buyers to recover much of the £9,800 stamp duty paid on the average detached house purchase, and let them make savings of hundreds of pounds a year in council tax. The measures will be set out in an 800-page report from the Quality of Life group led by Zac Goldsmith, the millionaire environmentalist, and John Gummer, the former environment secretary.
Ban the standby button, say Tories reports the Observer
Television sets and other domestic appliances will be fitted with special devices to switch off standby power as part of a radical plan to cut wasteful use of electricity, a special Conservative report will recommend this week.
In an attempt to burnish his green credentials - weeks after being accused of lurching to the right - David Cameron will offer strong support for the report that would herald a major redesign of many of today's electrical goods.
The same paper reporting that
Army inquest backlog grows
Money urgently needed to reduce the vast backlog of inquests into soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has not been provided by the government, raising fresh fears that existing delays will grow longer.
Despite pledges to cut the time military families must wait for an inquest, the coroner with responsibility for the issue has still to receive extra cash months after ministers promised that it would be made available.
The Independent reports in an exclusive interview that
Jackson backs 'IoS' campaign and sets his sights on Brown
Gordon Brown is responsible for running down the British Army so that it is not ready for the new "generation of conflict" that soldiers now face, says the army's former boss General Sir Michael Jackson.
The man who retired as Chief of the General Staff just a year ago attacks Mr Brown in his new autobiography, Soldier, to be published tomorrow, saying the promises made by Tony Blair when in power were not kept because of the attitude of his Chancellor. "The Prime Minister was quoted as saying that the Army could have anything it needed – to which the cynical response was, 'Tell that to your next-door neighbour'."
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that
Extra 500 soldiers return from Basra
The departure of a battlegroup from the King's Royal Hussars was announced less than a week after 500 soldiers withdrew from the palace in Basra city centre. It will reduce the total British presence in Iraq to 5,000 troops, based solely at Basra airport outside the city.
The Mirror reports on the
IRAQI JACKAL
A day of the Jackal-style sniper is believed to have killed at least five British soldiers in Basra - using a NATO-issue rifle.
Ballistics experts say the bullets were all fired from the same gun - possibly an SA-80 - and were the same calibre used by British and US forces in Iraq.
Now SAS sharpshooters are trying to track down and take out the hitman in case British forces - now based outside the city - have to go back in.
I see a new future for Pakistan, says Bhutto reports the Observer
Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, vowed yesterday she would go 'back to basics' and invoke her late father's name to win her way back into power in her country.
Bhutto, who was exiled from Pakistan eight years ago after two stints in government that both ended amid accusations of incompetence and scandal, said her campaign would be inspired by the old slogan of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - 'food, clothing, shelter'.
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that
Nawaz Sharif warned cell awaits in Pakistan
The man hoping to topple General Pervez Musharraf will risk arrest by flying home today from London straight into a showdown with the Pakistani president.
Nawaz Sharif has been warned that there is a prison cell awaiting him when he lands in Islamabad tomorrow morning after prosecutors reopened corruption charges against him and his brother Shahbaz, who also faces murder allegations.
Back to Britain and many of the papers report that
Coe fights Olympic cash ‘smears’
LORD COE is at the centre of a row this weekend amid claims that his private businesses have benefited from his role as head of the London Olympics.
Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog), has threatened legal action against Channel 4 which tomorrow plans to broadcast a six-month investigation highlighting the “real winners and losers” of the 2012 Games.
Dispatches intends to show how Coe’s enhanced Olympic status may have boosted his personal earnings on top of his official annual salary of £285,000. reports the Times
The Mail reports another story
Olympics gravy train: Princess Anne paid £400 an HOUR to attend planning meetings
The payments - which come against the backdrop of a spiralling bill for the Games - were last night condemned by critics of the growing Olympics gravy train.
Documents filed by the Games' organising committee, chaired by Lord Coe, show that during the past year the Princess Royal was paid £4,000 to attend four board meetings lasting an average of just two-and-a-half hours each.
'We pray that God will allow him to use his voice in heaven' says the Observer as it reports on the funeral of Pavarotti
Shortly after 4pm, on a sun-filled autumn day, the voices of Luciano Pavarotti and his father, the baker Fernando, 'who had a voice perhaps more beautiful than mine' filled the 12th century cathedral of Modena as they sang together Cesar Franck's hymn, 'Panis Angelicus' ('Bread of Angels').
The rich but eerie sound of the voices of two dead men swelled out of the cathedral into the piazza beyond and down the streets of the city where, according to the council, some 50,000 people had gathered to follow the funeral.
A last farewell to the golden voice says the Times
THE two wives of Luciano Pavarotti may have been united in grief but they were separated by the length of a pew at his funeral yesterday.
The maestro's first wife Adua Veroni, dressed in a grey suit, sat closest to the coffin with their three daughters in the cathedral of Modena, where Pavarotti had sung as a young man with his father, a local baker.
Nicoletta Mantovani, the former secretary for whom the great tenor left Veroni after 35 years, sat at the far end of the pew in a bright green blouse.
Amongst the gossip in the Sundays the Mirror reports on
ANGELINA ON HER 'IDEAL MAN'
Angelina Jolie has hit out at rumours that she and Brad Pitt are a couple at war - describing him as her ideal man and perfect leader of their "tribe" of children.
And she believes he has saved her from life as a single mum.
Tomb Raider star Angelina, 32, says the love Brad has for adopted six-year-old son Maddox - often pictured sitting on his shoulders - leaves her with a lump in her throat.
The News of the World reports that
X FACTOR star Sharon Osbourne is today branded a two-faced LIAR whose spite and jealousy inflamed a 20-year feud with her family. Her furious brother David Arden exposes a shocking catalogue of TWO-FACED antics and reveals how she TWISTED the truth to blame her innocent parents for a dog attack that led to her miscarriage.
Finally the Independent reports
Madonna found one, now everyone's desperately seeking a male nanny
Shaun Hume has one of the most fashionable jobs around. He's not a record producer or a guitarist for an edgy rock band, nor is he a stylist to the stars. No, Hume's job is in childcare. "I think it's very fashionable at the moment for mothers to be able to say 'I've got a male child minder'," says 26-year-old Hume, a fully qualified Australian nanny who works for a family in Oxford. He's not wrong. Britney Spears had one, Madonna has just hired one, and there are now books devoted to the joys of employing a "manny".
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