With specualtion mounting about an election this autumn,the Sundays are reflecting on that speculation.

Miliband: we want ten more years in power is the headline in the Observer

An audacious plan to guarantee Labour at least another decade in power will be at the heart of Gordon Brown's first party conference as leader, which he will open today with a raft of new policies.
As Labour intensified the pressure on David Cameron, by letting it be known that Brown is prepared to wait until November to hold a snap election, the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, today rams home the party's confidence by declaring that it is embarking on the 'second decade of New Labour'.

The foriegn secretary goes onto say.

'We didn't solve all the problems of the world in 10 years in government'

The Sunday Times leads with

Gordon Brown: I’ll fight election on health

The prime minister’s comments, in an interview with The Sunday Times on the eve of his first party conference in Bournemouth as leader, come as aides are pressing him to call an election for as early as next month.
Although Brown would not be drawn on whether he would go to the polls in October, he made clear that whenever he decides to call an election he will take on David Cameron’s Conservatives on the issue of health.
Brown is to “intensify” reforms of the NHS, announcing a blitz on superbugs such as MRSA in hospitals and tougher targets for cancer treatment and screening.

Gordon Brown's war on teen binge drinking says the Telegraph

The campaign, clearly designed to appeal to Middle Britain's voters, attempts to tackle overconsumption by under-18s both on the streets and in the home.
Mr Brown has vowed action on teenage drinking as he puts Labour on alert for a snap general election, which may be held at the end of October.
He will use Labour's annual conference, which begins in Bournemouth today, to unveil policies he believes will capture support from Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters.

However the paper leads with another farming problem on the horizon

Bluetongue outbreak hits Suffolk farm

A deadly animal disease that has devastated farms in continental Europe, killing millions of livestock, has been found in Britain for the first time, it was disclosed last night.Bluetongue was discovered in a cow on a farm near Ipswich. The virus, which is spread by biting midges, has killed 1.8 million animals in less than a decade across the European Union.

Britain's maternity crisis: A crying shame is the lead in the Independent

Up to 1,000 babies that are born dead each year could be saved if doctors and midwives were better trained to spot vital warning signs, according to one of the UK's leading experts on stillbirths. Health experts say the numbers of stillbirths in the UK are alarmingly high – 10 times the level of cot deaths – and most are unexplained.
New research to be presented at an international conference in Birmingham next week will hear that "sub-optimal care" is a key factor in many of the deaths. In many cases, midwives are having to deal with too many births.

The Observer claims

NHS is facing £4.5bn compensation bill over babies damaged at birth by hospital 'blunders'

The huge sum is detailed in confidential data from the NHS Litigation Authority, which handles most of the legal claims for medical negligence against the health service in England.
It shows that the organisation has been fighting a barrage of legal cases in which the compensation being sought by families amounted to a total of £4.49bn. Three-quarters of that, £3.3bn, relates to incidents in which a child has developed cerebral palsy, brain damage which is often caused by being starved of oxygen during birth, and been left disabled. A further £739m involves claims over what the NHSLA calls 'other brain damage'.


Back to the Indie and it also has a political theme announcing that

Cash for honours is back to haunt Labour

The taxpayer has been forced to pay for the huge legal bill run up by Tony Blair's aides during the cash-for-honours police investigation. MPs expressed anger that a huge bill for private legal advice to Mr Blair's staff, believed to total around £100,000, has been quietly paid by the Government, and not by the Labour Party.
The revelation will raise fresh questions about the use of taxpayers' money as the Labour conference opens in Bournemouth today. Gordon Brown, in his first annual conference as Prime Minister, will try to heal bruises in the Labour Party created by the war in Iraq and by the cash-for-honours affair amid speculation that he is preparing to call an autumn election.

The Mail also leads with political scandal

Cabinet husband and wife cash in on two homes loophole

Cabinet husband-and-wife team Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper have been accused of exploiting Commons expenses rules to buy a £655,000 home and get their children into a top state school.
The pair, who were both promoted by Gordon Brown, have registered their four-bedroom North London house as a 'second home' under parliamentary rules, which entitles them to allowances of up to £44,000 a year to subsidise their £438,000 mortgage.
They also have a 'weekend' property in Yorkshire, which they used to call their second home. But by instead declaring their more expensive London house to be their secondary residence, they can claim more money from taxpayers.

Whilst reporting that

Senior Tories fear defeat as aides tell Brown now is the time for an election

A General Election could be held in four weeks after Gordon Brown was told by aides he will never have a better chance of winning – and senior Tories admitted they feared defeat.
The Prime Minister is under huge pressure from his closest allies to call an election on October 25 after new private polls by both parties show him with a clear lead over David Cameron in the all-important ratings for statesmanship.
One of Mr Brown's allies told The Mail on Sunday: "Gordon is about the only one who is not convinced that we have to do it now.



Sighting No2 but cops did nothing
EXCLUSIVE THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE DAY 143 They failed to act on second vital sighting at garage reports the Mirror

Portuguese police FAILED to follow up a key sighting of Madeleine McCann in Morocco which her parents believe is vital to solving the case.
It was revealed last night that a British tourist contacted police to say he saw a "lost-looking" youngster at a petrol station in Marrakech.
His testimony was identical to that of another tourist, Norwegian Marie Pollard, 45, who claimed she was "100 per cent convinced" she saw Madeleine at the same spot.

The Express also leads with the same theme

I SAW MADDY IN MOROCCO

A witness has told police he is 100 per cent certain that a little girl he saw in a Marrakesh hotel lobby was Madeleine McCann.
He saw her a few hundred yards from another “credible” sighting.
The man, from Yorkshire, was onholiday in Morocco days after Madeleine disappeared in Portugal.
When he flew home to Britain and saw news coverage of her abduction on May 3, he contacted police. His sighting at the Ibis hotel was taken seriously by the Moroccan secret police because it was followed by a similar sighting at the Afriquia petrol station a few hundred yards away on May 9.

The Express reveals that

DOCTORS WITH MAJOR CONVICTIONS STILL TREATING PATIENTS

THOUSANDS of patients are being treated by doctors convicted of serious crimes or punished for appallingly non-professional conduct.
The Sunday Express examined hundreds of files and uncovered scores of medics who are allowed to practise in spite of committing shocking offences

INCLUDING

Two doctors allowed to work after manslaughter convictions.
An anaesthetist who watched a movie, read a newspaper and fell asleep during surgery.
A medic responsible for a hit-and-run car crash who was suspended for just nine months.

The Times reports that

Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid

Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the well-placed sources say.
They confirmed that samples taken from Syria for testing had been identified as North Korean. This raised fears that Syria might have joined North Korea and Iran in seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iran promises missiles will fly if US attacks says the Telegraph

The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressed a military parade in Teheran and mocked threats from the United States, while the head of the Revolutionary Guards said Iran would "pull the trigger" if attacked.
Their bellicose intervention came as officials in Washington warned that time was running out for the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to "get a result" from diplomacy or hand the initiative to White House hawks who want military action.

Staying with the Telegraph it reports

Private schools will be for the super-rich

Private schools face becoming the preserve of "the sons of hedge-fund managers, sheikhs and Russian footballers", Tony Blair's favourite teacher and the chairman of governors at the most famous school in England has warned.Middle-class families are being priced out of the independent sector, which has seen fees soar by 31 per cent in five years, according to Sir Eric Anderson, the provost of Eton.

Adding

His comments come as The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that private schools are being forced to give bursaries to parents earning up to £80,000 a year.

Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories claims the Independent

Hundreds of young children illegally trafficked into the UK are the new victims of Britain's booming cannabis trade. Figures obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal that, as organised criminals push cannabis production to record levels, at least one child a week is being found by police raiding cannabis factories.
Experts warn that children as young as 13 are been smuggled from south-east Asia to work as "slaves" for gangs in dangerous conditions, being kept captive in towns and suburbs across the UK. They believe there has been a five-fold increase in the trade in the past 12 months.

BRITNEY LAID BARE says the News of the World this morning

THE bodyguard of tormented Britney Spears today reveals the damning drugs evidence that may cost her her children.
Tony Barretto filed shattering, secret testimony at the hearing over custody of her two boys on Monday.
Here for the FIRST TIME he details his evidence and lays bare the FULL terrifying depths of the star's addiction and its effects on her children.

A topic also taken up by the Mirror

Britney tears

Britney Spears fled in tears from a drug and drink test as the chaos and trauma of the last few weeks finally took their toll.
The singer broke down after her first court-ordered check - one of a set of new requirements laid down by a judge in the her bitter child-custody battle with ex-hubby Kevin Federline.
It was the last straw in a bad day that earlier saw Britney warned she could face A YEAR in jail over a hit-and-run incident.

The Mail reports that

Police quiz Curry Queen linked to Cherie Blair over people smuggling


A Government race adviser closely linked to Cherie Blair has been arrested over allegations that illegal immigrants were smuggled into Britain to work for her restaurant chain.
Nighat Awan, 52, was detained 'on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration'.
In February, her husband, Rafique Awan, was arrested in the same inquiry. He was questioned after police searched the couple's £4million 'White House-style' mansion in Hale Barns, Cheshire.

The same paper reveals that

Northern Rock managers partied in Spain as customers feared the worst

Senior managers at Northern Rock went on a luxury corporate junket to Spain on the day tens of thousands of their customers formed huge queues to withdraw their money.
As the bank hovered close to collapse, a dozen of its key employees were checking into the five-star Villa Padierna Ritz Carlton hotel in Marbella.
The four-day trip, paid for by the bank, started on Friday, September 14, and was a reward for managers who had hit their mortgage sales targets earlier in the year.