The Sun carries a front page interview with Gerry McCann

MADELEINE McCann’s father last night accused Portuguese police of subjecting him and his wife to “inhumane” treatment.
Gerry McCann hit out amid new claims that traces of Maddie’s body fluids tested positive for large quantities of adult sedatives.
He told a pal: “We’re frightened and have been backed into a corner. We know we are innocent. It’s intolerable.”
Gerry and wife Kate — whose daughter vanished in May — were hit by a new wave of allegations yesterday.

Those new allegation form the lead story in the other red tops this morning

MADELEINE WAS KILLED BY SLEEPING PILLS says the Express

BY AN OVERDOSE OF SLEPING TABLETS says the Mail

Madeleine 'pills overdose' sensational claim says the Mirror
Madeleine McCann died of a sleeping pill overdose, it was sensationally claimed last night.
Body fluids found in the boot of a Renault Scenic rented by parents Kate and Gerry allegedly prove the four-year-old had been heavily sedated.
The claim was made by French newspaper France Soir which said it had seen "hard evidence" to back it up.
Investigative journalist Guilhem Battut said analysis of the body fluids "prove that the little girl had ingested medicines, without doubt sleeping pills, in large quantities". The quantities were sufficient to cause an "overdose".

Social workers visit McCanns to see if their twins are at risk reports the Times

Both the Independent and the Guardian lead with another death in Iraq

An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq says the former

Ten days after President George Bush clasped his hand as a symbol of America's hopes in Iraq, the man who led the US-supported revolt of Sunni sheikhs against al-Qa'ida in Iraq was assassinated.
Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha and two of his bodyguards were killed either by a roadside bomb or by explosives placed in his car by a guard, near to his home in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, the Iraqi province held up by the American political and military leadership as a model for the rest of Iraq.

Bush appeal undercut by killing of Sunni ally headlines the Guardian

George Bush last night called on Americans to support an "enduring relationship" with Iraq, in a speech delivered hours after a key Sunni tribal ally, portrayed as symbolic of a potential turnaround for the US in the war, was killed by a roadside bomb.
The president's prime-time address from the Oval Office marked the clearest acknowledgement to date from the White House that it envisages a long-term strategic relationship with the government in Baghdad, requiring the presence of US forces for years to come.

David Cameron pledges radical green shake-up says the Telegraph

The Quality of Life Policy Group, set up by Mr Cameron to help the fight against climate change, also proposed a tax on workplace car parking spaces, a halt to airport growth, a tax on gas-guzzling 4x4s and restrictions on car advertising.
One of the most controversial ideas would require home-owners to pay to make their property greener if they increased their carbon footprint with a conservatory, extension or loft conversion.

Cameron 'drops controversial green pledges' says the Indy

he is likely to drop some of the more controversial elements – including plans to allow councils to force out-of-town stores to charge customers for parking and to tax free parking at places of work to deter people from driving. He is unsure about the group's call for a moratorium on airport expansion and a review of plans to expand Heathrow.

Many of the papers picture Gordon Brown on the steps of No 10 with Mrs Thatcher

Maggie at No10 ... just for visit says the Sun

HERE’S a sight you didn’t expect to see — Tory legend Maggie Thatcher back at No 10.
And while we knew Gordon Brown was keen to embrace talent from outside of the Labour Party, surely this is pushing things a little too far!
Lady T visited Downing Street yesterday at Mr Brown’s invitation. The ex-PM posed for a photo with Premier Brown and wife Sarah. The two-hour visit was a coup for Mr Brown and a slap in the face for Conservative boss David Cameron.

Oh Gord, not Thatcher! says the Mirror

Kevin McGuire writing that

The sight of her in Downing Street still turns my stomach after all these years.
Gordon Brown yesterday invited Lady Thatcher to tea - the woman who systematically destroyed much of Britain's industry and chucked millions of people on the dole before being kicked out in 1990.
Labour supporters and union chiefs were furious at the Prime Minister's cosy chat with the former Iron Lady.

Yesterdays Shootings are covered in all the papers,

Two shot dead as police foil bank raid says the Guardian

An armed police stake-out on a planned bank raid in Hampshire ended yesterday with one of the robbers shot dead at the scene and the other dying in hospital two hours later.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission immediately announced it was investigating the shooting outside the HSBC branch in Chandler's Ford, a mainly residential area outside Eastleigh.
The raiders' target was a routine security van delivery of cash at about 10am. Some witnesses said the shooting began after one of the robbers put a gun to a security guard's head and demanded money. Others reported seeing a third suspect running away, but police were unable to confirm this.

Bank raid ends in bloodbath reports the Sun

TWO robbers were shot dead by a crack police marksman yesterday as they tried to rob a bank in a picture postcard village.
The pair were among four blaggers who pounced as guards from a security van walked towards the branch carrying large cash boxes.

The Times reports on

The elegant businesswoman and her middle-class paedophile ring

Monica McCanch presented a well-dressed face of confident respectability to the world. She worked for Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, in Kent before taking redundancy last year for a new life in Jamaica, where she planned to invest in eco-tourism.
She told friends that she was making a fresh start after the break-up of her 29-year marriage to Norman McCanch, a well-regarded naturalist. But she was also trying to leave behind the disturbing secret of her involvement in a paedophile ring that subjected a number of children to repeated abuse and posted videos of their torment on the internet.
Yesterday the past caught up with McCanch, 55, when she pleaded guilty to four offences of sexual activity with a child and one of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child. She stood, head bowed, at Maidstone Crown Court, as Judge Jeremy Carey told her that her crimes were grave and jailed her for six years.


The scandal in Formula one is also widely reported

McLaren punished but Lewis Hamilton drives on reports the Telegraph

Lewis Hamilton escaped a points deduction yesterday which would have wrecked his dream of winning the Formula One world championship in his debut season But his McLaren team were hit with a record-breaking £50 million fine and stripped of all their points in the constructors' championship after they were found guilty of cheating.

BIG LEW-SER says the Mirror

Ron Dennis vowed to fight on as his Grand Prix career and the reputation of his mighty team was left in tatters by Ferrarigate yesterday.

LET OFF FOR LEW says the Sun

The Independent claims that

Foot-and-mouth outbreak may have been act of sabotage

Experts are investigating whether the latest outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey could have been spread deliberately as an act of sabotage.
"Deliberate human activity" is one of three possibilities being taken seriously by vets and officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The other leading options are accidental human activity and animal-to-animal transmission, possibly through sheep or deer. It emerged yesterday that the Egham Royal Show, a major agricultural event, took place two weeks earlier in the area where the new outbreak occurred.

The Telegraph reporting that

Foot and mouth 'may have spread further'

Farmers are facing the prospect that foot and mouth could already have spread across the south of England after it emerged that the latest outbreak started at the site of an agricultural show.


'Chessboard killer' goes on trial in Russia reports the Guardian

A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard has gone on trial.
Alexander Pichushkin, 33, claims to have killed 62 people, with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard. He has been charged with 49 murders, most of them committed over five years.
Pichushkin had requested a jury trial, which is rare in Russia, and 12 jurors and six alternates were chosen yesterday.


Finally the Mail reports on

Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English

When Matej Kus's teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious.
But they were also a little surprised.
For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.

However continues the article

Alas, Kus's new-found language skills didn't last.
The teenager, who injured a knee in Sunday's accident in Glasgow, is once more struggling to make himself understood in English.