It is unusual for the Mail and the Independent to share the same headline but this morning they do

BROWN BOTTLES IT they both say

David Cameron last night claimed he is on course for Downing Street after Gordon Brown was forced into a humiliating climbdown over his plan to call an Election on November 1.
The Conservative leader said: "The momentum is with us now. When I said in my conference speech that I wanted a General Election, I meant it."
He completed an astonishing reversal of fortunes yesterday by taking the lead in the opinion polls for the first time, leaving the Prime Minister to rue his decision not to call an Election before the Tory revival.
Jubilant Tories said Mr Brown was 'frit' -the famous jibe Margaret Thatcher levelled at Labour in 1983 when they refused to challenge her to call an Election.

says the Mail

The Independent reports that

Gordon Brown was last night engaged in a fight for his credibility after he dramatically ruled out an autumn general election, ending weeks of speculation that he would launch a three- week campaign on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister was embroiled in a political crisis of his own making after he was forced into what was widely seen as an astonishing own goal in allowing speculation of an early poll to build up near-unstoppable momentum.

The news of the World claims

News of the World poll kills election

GORDON Brown's plans for an early general election were thrown into chaos last night when he learned the devastating results of a News of the World poll.
It revealed a Tory lead of SIX PER CENT in 83 key marginal constituencies—meaning almost 50 Labour MPs would lose their seats.

Polls in the Sunday Times also confirm

After studying private Labour opinion polls and focus group research, the prime minister concluded it was too risky to go to the country this autumn – and indicated last night a general election might be delayed until 2009. The decision comes as a Sunday Times poll this weekend shows the Tories have swept into a three-point lead, having been more than 10 points behind only last weekend. It is the first time David Cameron’s party has been ahead since Brown took over as prime minister.

The Observer reports on the PM's interview

In an interview on The Andrew Marr Show today the Prime Minister will rule out an election before 2009.
'I'll not be calling an election and let me explain why. I have a vision for change in Britain and I want to show people how in government we are implementing it,' he will say.
'Over the summer months we have had to deal with crisis, we have had to deal with foot and mouth, we have had terrorism, we have had floods, we have had financial crisis. Yes, we could have had an election on competence and I hope people will have understood that we have acted confidently.
'I want the chance in the next phase of my premiership to develop and show people the policies that are going to make a huge difference and show the change in the country itself.'

The Telegraph reports the comments of David Cameron

Mr Cameron, who had called on Mr Brown to go to the country, claimed a major victory at the end of a week when his party regained credibility with a successful annual conference in Blackpool.
He said: "The Prime Minister has shown great weakness and indecision and it is quite clear he has not been focused on running the country these last few months. He has been trying to spin his way into a general election campaign and now has had to make this humiliating retreat.
"The big disappointment for me - and I think for millions of people in this country - is that we are now going to have to wait possibly two years before we can get the real change we need in our country."

Away from the non election which gets a lot of coverage today the papers have a mixed bag to report

Muslim medical students get picky reports the Times

Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity.
A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient.

Wave of rolling postal strikes plotted claims the Telegraph

Union chiefs are secretly plotting a wave of "rolling" strikes that threatens to blight postal services for months to come.More than 100,000 million letters and parcels have already been left undelivered by to the present walkout, but officials at the Communication Workers Union are planning a fresh wave of strikes that threaten to cause constant disruption beyond Christmas

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The Independent reports on its investigation that

Top policemen want cannabis made class B to end confusion among forces

The Government should reverse its decision to downgrade cannabis possession to end the widespread confusion over how to enforce the law, senior police officers said yesterday.
"We think it was a mistake to downgrade it to class C," said Chief Superintendent Ian Johnston, president of the Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales. "It was reclassified almost by stealth under [the then Home Secretary] David Blunkett. We recognise the dangers of the drug and think it's more appropriate to see it classified as class B. Quite frankly, cannabis has ruined people's lives and it needs to find its way up the priority list of policing. The previous softer messages were a mistake."

The papers give a lot of coverage to the Diana inquest

Fayed demands Diana phone tapes says the Observer

Lawyers for Harrods tycoon Mohamed al-Fayed are to make an unprecedented demand for top secret US intelligence files on Princess Diana to be made available to the coroner conducting the inquest into her death.
The Fayed camp has spent years establishing that the National Security Agency, the organisation that oversees the CIA, had amassed a wealth of intelligence on the late princess. The US authorities have confirmed that the files exist, but maintain they cannot be released on the grounds that this would jeopardise national security.

The Express claims on its front page that

DRIVER 'MET MI6 SPY' ON CRASH NIGHT

Renegade spy Richard Tomlinson will tell the Princess Diana inquest that he believes Ritz hotel security chief Henri Paul met an MI6 handler on the night she died.
Today we also reveal a French spy chief allegedly seen chatting to Paul on the night of the crash is refusing to give evidence at the inquest.
Mr Tomlinson, a former MI6 officer once jailed for leaking Government secrets, will make sensational claims via a videolink from his bolthole in France to the inquest in London.

The Mirror's front page claims

I KNOW WHERE MADDY BODY IS

Desperate Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a professional "bodyfinder" who says he has pin-pointed the exact spot where their daughter Madeleine is buried.
Scientist and former South African police colonel Danie Krugel secretly flew out to Portugal to meet the couple before spending a week tracking the four-year-old's DNA trail.
Using cutting-edge technology, Krugel led Portuguese police to an area of beach 500 yards from where she vanished.

Detective who suspected Kate and Gerry McCann may lead hunt says the Times

Luis Neves, 41, was seen by the McCanns as a “breath of fresh air” when he joined the inquiry team three weeks after Madeleine’s disappearance. But he later became convinced she had died in an accident in the McCanns’ apartment.
He is now a frontrunner to replace Goncalo Amaral, the former head of the investigation who was sacked last week after he accused British police of working only on leads given to them by the McCanns.

The News of the World claims an exclusive

I traced Maddie DNA to the sea

In a shock new twist, ex-cop Danie Krugel tracked a "forensic route" he believed her kidnapper took from her family's Portuguese holiday apartment through alleyways, roads and paths down to a nearby beach.
There the trail goes cold—crucially supporting the theory that Madeleine was then taken out to sea in a boat after being abducted on May 3.
And the McCanns are convinced Krugel's evidence means four-year-old Maddie was taken ALIVE and gives them hope she can still be found.

The Sunday people has the

WOMAN WHO COST MADDIE FUND £51K on its front page

Anguished Gerry McCann sensationally split from the expert masterminding the worldwide hunt for his missing daughter Madeleine after she put in a whopping £20,000 overtime and expenses bill.
Press and PR chief Justine McGuinness charged Gerry and wife Kate £51,000 for 89 days' work.
Her basic fee was £350 a day, making a total of £31,000.
And the rest was made up in overtime payments and expenses - including bar and restaurant bills.

The Telegraph reports that

Burma's monks plan next stage of protests

Moving daily between safe houses, the Burmese pro-democracy activists and monks who co-ordinated last month's protests are planning the next stage of their fight against the ruling generals while on the run from the ongoing crackdown.With thousands of soldiers deployed on the streets and many monasteries emptied, the underground opposition now intends to launch a campaign of civil disobedience to maintain the pressure for change on the military junta.

Merkel says Mugabe has right to attend summit reports the Observer

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is entitled to attend a Europe-Africa summit in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend. Her pronouncement puts her at odds with Gordon Brown, who has threatened to boycott the talks if Mugabe goes.
During talks in Pretoria with President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, who has been mediating between the Zimbabwean opposition and Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party, Merkel expressed disquiet about the worsening crisis in Zimbabwe

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According to the Times

Suicide bombers head to Iraq from Damascus

a four-week Sunday Times investigation into the world’s biggest suicide bombing campaign. More than 1,300 bombers are said to have struck on foot or in vehicles since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 – more than all the other suicide bombings of the past 20 years put together.

The number this year promises to be higher than ever. The bombers are estimated to have killed and injured more than 4,000 people in the first nine months. Their targets have ranged from lines of police recruits in and around Baghdad to an entire village near the Syrian border where up to 500 died.

The Telegraph reports that

Taliban 'to bomb Bhutto when she returns'

Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to launch suicide bombers against Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, when she returns home after eight years of self-imposed exile.
The path to her return was cleared when General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, last week signed into law an amnesty quashing corruption charges against her.
The general swept to apparent victory yesterday in a presidential vote by federal and provincial politicians. He is likely to form an alliance with Ms Bhutto as premier after parliamentary polls in January – though his election must first be pronounced valid by the supreme court.

Meanwhile the Independent says

Behind the scenes, Bin Laden raises the stakes

Amid all the drama on Pakistan's political stage, one figure lurks unseen – Osama bin Laden. Last month, however, he made himself heard.
The al-Qa'ida leader released a tape in which he declared war on President Pervez Musharraf and urged Pakistanis to rise up in "armed rebellion" against him in revenge for the assault on the Red Mosque in Islamabad. As polls show that Bin Laden is more popular in Pakistan than the President, it was an ominous message.

The Mail reports on

Babies for sale: The scandal of China's brutal single child policy

Twelve years ago, Kate Blewitt and Brian Wood's award-winning documentary The Dying Rooms caused international outrage with its shocking footage of malnourished Chinese babies being left to die of starvation in state-run orphanages.
Now the film-makers have returned to China to find out what effect the country's capitalist explosion is having on Beijing's brutal and unbending Single Child Policy. Wai Ling's harrowing story is revealed in their special Dispatches programme, China's Stolen Babies, which reveals a huge and expanding black market for the sale of children and teenagers.

The Observer meanwhile reports

Inquiry raps doctor training reform

The fiasco over junior doctors' training - which left thousands of young medics in turmoil earlier this year - was the result of weak leadership by health officials and doctors' leaders who felt 'alienated and deprofessionalised' by government reforms, according to the authors of an independent inquiry.
A radical overhaul of the system for training doctors is recommended by the report, to be published tomorrow, which is highly critical of the current process. If adopted, it will give doctors much longer to decide which specialism they would like to follow, and will rely not just on a computer system but also on face-to-face interviews to pick the best candidates for specialist posts.

Amongst todays tabloid stories the Mirror reports

WALSH IS A Creep
EXCLUSIVE WALSH MADE FOOL OF ME ON TV BLASTS ICARO.. AS HE GOES BACK TO STACKING SHELVES AT TESCO

X Factor extrovert Icaro Taborda last night accused Louis Walsh of making him look a fool and deliberately getting him booted off the show.
Icaro, 44, said Walsh was a grumpy old man, who "acted like Uncle Fester from The Addams Family" - and told how he was devastated when Louis made him perform Radiohead's hit Creep.
He said: "The clue to how Louis regards me is the title and lyrics - 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here'.

And staying with that show the Express claims

JACKSON TO STAR IN X FACTOR

Jackson, 49, will appear on an X Factor show due to be broadcast before Christmas – his first public performance since he was cleared of child abuse.
The deal is a huge coup for ITV and the Sunday Express can reveal that it was partly brokered by Simon Cowell, one of the show’s judges.
Jackson will join Cowell and his fellow judges Sharon Osbourne, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh in the December show as a mentor.

Reality show 'I'm A Celebrity' in talks with disgraced Jeffrey Archer AND his former mistress claims the Mail

Disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer could be about to come face-to-face with the woman who almost cost him his marriage - in front of an audience of millions.
Lord Archer and his former mistress Sally Farmiloe are both in talks to appear in ITV's reality TV show I'm A Celebrity. . . Get Me Out of Here!
Miss Farmiloe, 58, has had several meetings with the show's producers in recent weeks but she has not been told that Lord Archer has also been invited to take part.

The News of the World has pictures

that show Prince Harry inhaling vodka through his nose in a drinking game medical experts warn could KILL.
Our exclusive shots—taken from a video of Harry's holiday in Namibia—will bring fresh shame on the boozed-up royal.
In the video, pals cheer loudly as Harry slugs a bottle cap of vodka, swills it around his mouth, spits it back into the cap and then snorts it up his nose.
Seconds later, Harry—a 2nd Lieutenant in the Blue and Royals —closes his eyes and shakes his head as the alcohol, shooting straight into his bloodstream, takes effect.
Experts on drink abuse have warned that the game is potentially deadly.

Pictures of England's successful rugby team dominate the front and the back pages

Jonny kicks Aussies where it really hurts says the Observer

The news of the World reporting

Barely able to haul his battered body into the bowels of the Stade Velodrome, Wilkinson (below) had emptied his vast tank of courage.
It was by no means his most accomplished game in the white of England, not even his finest hour.
But he was a limping, bruised yet towering symbol of one of the most epic team performances in English sporting history.
Every missed kick, every mistake, every monumental blow to his torso only served one purpose...to send him back into battle with effort multiplied, bravery redoubled.

Australia fans relive World Cup nightmare says the Telegraph

They seemed pretty confident before kick-off.
Amid a sea of 800 yellow jerseys in the Walkabout Bar on London's Embankment, Adam 'Kenno' Kennedy, 26, originally from Sawtell on Australia's East Coast, sighed the sigh of a happy man.

However,continues the report

As the game wore on, however, the mood seemed to change a little bit.
As England took the score to 12-10 Kenno, an occupational therapist now living in Brixton, complained: "Our forwards are all wearing skirts. Once they get rid of their skirts, you'll see some action.
"You guys - tough as nails," he added through gritted teeth. "But that's because you always step up your game when you play against us."