U turns dominate the Sunday's this morning.The U turn that has put the England rugby team in the World cup final and the U turn in fortune that has happened to the Brwon premiership.

Nearly all the papers have fornt page headlines covering last night's victory in Paris

English rugby fans celebrate victory in France says the Telegraph

Paris surrendered last night to a sea of white as joyous England fans celebrated a momentous victory over the French, in France, in the rugby world cup semi-final. Thousands of England fans poured out of the Stade de France to celebrate a 14-9 victory over “les Bleus” in their own backyard.

Congas on the Champs Elysees and joy in the Frog and Rosbif says the Mail

There was no trace of Les Bleus as fans of 'les rosbifs' lit red and white flares all over the French capital.
Celebrations were good natured – with congas down the Champs Elysees and in front of the Eiffel Tower, where large crowds had gathered to watch the match on big screens.
Much of the fun centred on The Frog and Rosbif pub in Chatelet, which had become the unofficial headquarters for England's hordes.

England storm to World Cup final headlines the Times

In the the stadium symbolising Gallic pride, England shattered their opponents with a victory many had thought impossible. Only a few weeks ago England had been written off after being thrashed by France before the tournament and thrashed again by South Africa.
Yet last night they emerged triumphant – and are now poised to become the first team ever to win the cup in successive tournaments.

What a day,what a game ,what a victory has the Indy.

The papers are bad reading for the Pm.

Gordon Brown hit by Tory poll surge says the Telegraph

The ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph puts the Conservatives on 43 per cent - seven points ahead of Labour on 36 - with the Liberal Democrats trailing badly on 14 per cent.
Labour is down two points on the last ICM poll, taken just over a week ago, which put the two main parties neck-and-neck on 38 per cent, while the Conservatives are up five points.
If the figures were repeated in a general election, David Cameron would be prime minister with a single-figure Commons majority, while Sir Menzies Campbell's party would be reduced to a tiny rump of MPs

Blairites plot as Brown falters reports the Observer

group of Tony Blair's closest supporters is laying plans to break ranks and warn Gordon Brown that he is in danger of abandoning Middle Britain after what is being described as the Prime Minister's 'pathetic' performance in the past week.
As David Cameron surges to a seven-point lead in a new opinion poll today - a 15-year high - three former members of Blair's cabinet are planning to embark on a blitz of policy speeches to ensure that Brown does not hand the initiative to David Cameron. Stephen Byers, the former Transport Secretary, Alan Milburn, the ex-Health Secretary, and Charles Clarke, the former Home Secretary, are all said to be 'itching' to speak out in the wake of what they regard as Brown's failure to set out a vision that will reinvigorate Middle Britain's support for New Labour.

Blair rounds on 'empty' Gordon Brown says the Times

Blair, who has been in the Middle East in his new role as a peace envoy, was said to feel Brown’s speech to the Labour conference was “empty” and to be “concerned about what new Labour stands for”.
“Tony feels Gordon should be defending new Labour,” said one confidante of the former prime minister. “But the trouble is that when he talks of change, it sounds like he means a break with the past and new Labour.

Blair: Gordon has lost it, just like Al Gore did says the Mail

Senior Labour sources say that Mr Blair believes his successor has made the same mistake as former US Vice-President Al Gore, who lost to George Bush in the 2000 Presidential election after disowning his old boss Bill Clinton.
A former Minister close to Mr Blair told The Mail on Sunday: 'When Gordon became PM, Tony put their differences to one side and was willing him to succeed.


Meanwhile the Independent reports

Senior Lib Dem MPs give Campbell six months to 'shape up or ship out'

Sir Menzies Campbell was yesterday battling to quash "idle chatter" undermining his leadership of the Liberal Democrats as senior figures in the party were suggesting he had been given six months to shape up or ship out.

Last night, Lib Dem sources indicated senior MPs were setting a deadline of March for him to improve his current low poll ratings or "make a dignified exit". Senior figures are keen to prevent "panic" among MPs in marginal seats who have been shaken by a string of opinion poll ratings showing the party trailing Labour and the Tories.
A poll yesterday found that 44 per cent of Lib Dem voters in crucial marginal seats believe Gordon Brown would make a better prime minister, and Simon Hughes, a defeated leadership candidate last year, will warn in an interview today that Sir Menzies has to raise his game.

The paper leads with the news that

SMOKING IS THE KEY CAUSE OF COT DEATH

Nine out of 10 mothers whose babies suffered cot death smoked during pregnancy, according to a scientific study to be published this week. The study, thought to be one of the most authoritative to date on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), says women who smoke during pregnancy are four times more likely than non-smokers to see their child fall victim to cot death.
The comprehensive report will make a strong case for the Government to increase the scope of anti-smoking legislation. It even suggests a possible move to try to ban pregnant women from getting tobacco altogether

Staying with health the Observer reports a

huge leap in alcohol casualties

The shocking extent of England's binge-drinking culture is laid bare today with new official figures showing an alarming increase in emergency hospital admissions owing to alcohol abuse.
Previously unpublished NHS data obtained by The Observer reveals that the number of people who had to be taken to hospital over the past five years has risen sharply in every region of the country.

Half of us will be overweight in a generation says the Telegraph

The obesity crisis is described as being as great a threat as that posed by climate change.
It is expected to cripple NHS resources, with spending linked to obesity predicted to triple in less than a decade, and rise seven-fold by 2050.
A draft analysis from the Foresight programme report, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that if current trends continue, at least half the population will be obese by 2032, while half of all primary school boys will reach that point by 2050.

The Express leads with

SUPERBUG HELL OF YOUNGEST IRAQ HERO

Anger mounted over the scandal of C.diff in our hospitals last night after it was revealed Britain’s youngest soldier injured in Iraq is being treated for the superbug.
Private Jamie Cooper, 18, nearly died after being hit by shrapnel. He then contracted MRSA twice and was left lying in his own waste while being treated.
His outraged father Phillip launched a campaign for better treatment for his son.

The Observer has a report on

The dirty truth on the wards

The debate over the poor treatment of elderly patients in Britain's hospitals will be reignited this weekend after an Observer investigation revealed that vulnerable people are being forced to use embarrassing portable toilets or wear incontinence pads rather than being taken to the bathroom.
The investigation found that nurses and healthcare assistants no longer routinely accompany elderly patients to the toilet, particularly when wards are busy. The revelation comes days after Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, where 90 people died of the C. difficile infection, was criticised for allowing patients to go to the toilet in their beds.

WATER METERS COMPULSORY reports the Mirror

Every home in Britain will have to have a water meter fitted in the next few years.

A typical family of four could be up to £200 worse off a year - but the average bill is likely to fall.
Ministers will unveil the proposals in January as part of their new Water Strategy, which aims to protect supplies and help combat global warming.
It will be compulsory for water companies to install meters from 2010. The work should be complete by 2015.

Meanwhile the Mail reports on

New tax on pub quizzes

Confidential orders to council tax snoopers, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, say 'friendly' pubs with quiz nights, football teams or dartboards will be forced to pay higher business rates, which will pay for Labour's public-spending programme.
The plan, which could lead to big tax rises for bars deemed 'popular', was last night condemned by the Tories, who claimed it could lead to landlords cancelling quizzes and other social events.

MADDY KIDNAP PROOF reports the News of the World


The News of the World reveals key new evidence that PROVES Maddie McCann was abducted ALIVE.
The latest piece of the jigsaw centres on the moment mum Kate returned to their Portuguese holiday apartment and discovered her daughter gone.
Police have been told Kate KNEW instantly little Madeleine had been snatched because there was still a clear imprint of the youngster left in the unruffled bed sheets.
Supporters of the McCanns are adamant this meant she must have been carefully removed from the bed while asleep and taken, rather than just getting up and wandering off which would have disturbed the bedclothes.

Meanwhile the Mail reveals

The nanny who could help clear the McCanns' name

For five months the identity of the Mark Warner employee who was looking after Madeleine in Praia da Luz's Kids Club in the hours before her disappearance has been a closely held secret.
She was witness to the McCanns' movements during the week they were on holiday in Portugal and fed Madeleine less than three hours before she disappeared.
On the morning after Madeleine's disappearance it is believed she even told Portuguese police of a man she had seen acting 'suspiciously' around the apartments.

The Times reports on the

Outline deal may end postal strike

THE threat of more disruption to postal services receded this weekend after the Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) agreed a tentative peace deal.
Talks between Adam Crozier, chief executive of the Royal Mail, and Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, ended with agreement on the three main areas of dispute: pay, pensions and working practices.
The deal will be discussed by the union’s executive tomorrow. If it accepts what is on offer, strikes planned for this week are expected to be called off.

Bluetongue spreads from cattle to sheep reports the Telegraph

The virus had previously only been circulating among cattle, but it has now been found in two flocks of sheep on farms in Suffolk.
Official figures handed to the World Animal Health Organisation reveal that about 60 infected animals have now been found.
Sheep are more susceptible to the virus and up to 70 per cent of flocks can be wiped out, although no sheep are believed to have died from the virus yet.
The news comes as the Government is preparing to ease the restrictions on moving livestock around the country.

The news of the World has exclusive pictures of William and Kate hunting deer

Kate Middleton trains to shoot deer.. the next step on road to wed Prince William

says the paper,adding

Last night a royal source said: "This is a hugely significant step for Wills and Kate's relationship. This visit indicates how Kate is fully integrated into the royal way of life. But more importantly it shows Prince Charles and Camilla fully accept her."

The Mirror takes a rather different view

KILLER KATE

Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton enraged animal rights campaigners yesterday by taking part in a stag hunt at Balmoral.
Wearing camouflage and clutching a rifle, Kate looked the part as she settled herself into the shooting position on the Queen's 50,000-acre Aberdeenshire estate.


Beaten up by a neighbour and police did ... nothing reports the Times

THE southwest London suburb where I have lived for 17 years is what estate agents like to call an “exclusive oasis”. Over the years it’s been relatively crime-free and neighbourly.
But lately “Barnes Village”, like so many other communities, has proved it is not immune from the violence that besets modern Britain. A little more than a week ago I discovered just how dangerous it can be - and just how little the police are willing to do about it.

News from abroad and the Observer reports

All change as Chinese face game of their life

It may not be a pretty sight, but the outside world needs to take a long, hard look at the Chinese Communist Party this week. The world's biggest political organisation, which boasts more members than the UK population, will hold a national congress from tomorrow and the outcome has probably never had more significance.
The Beijing Olympics next August and the 17th Communist Party Congress form bookends on a period of less than a year that will shape perceptions of China for decades. Compared to the sporting dramas expected at next summer's Games, the theatre at the Great Hall of the People this week will not make for exciting viewing, but it is the most important political gathering for five years.

Taliban use hostage cash to fund UK blitz says the Telegraph

Millions of dollars handed over to secure the release of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan have been used to buy weapons deployed against British and American forces in the country, the Taliban claims.

Twenty years on, myth of the Great Storm is laid to rest reports the Sindy

Twenty years ago tomorrow, the Great Storm blew into southern England. It cost 23 lives (39 more were lost in the gales of January 1990), but they hardly registered. The enduring memory of 15/16 October 1987 is of ecological disaster: it was the night we lost 15 million trees.
Today that can be exposed for the misleading legend that it is. Inquiries by The Independent on Sunday have established that, since 1987, perhaps as many as 585 million saplings have been planted in the UK, and tree cover is now more extensive than at any time in the last 150 years. It is, at 11.7 per cent, more than double what it was 100 years ago, and has risen from the 9.6 per cent it was in 1987. By 1999, this country had 3.8 billion trees, and today that figure is in excess of 4 billion.

Finally the Mail reports another effect of the Bluetongue crisis

Santa parades hit as reindeer are grounded in the wake of cattle disease crisis

Santa has a huge headache. With the countdown to Christmas well under way, and children the length of the country busily compiling their present lists, many of his reindeer have been banned from working.
The animals have fallen victim to rigorous movement restrictions imposed in the wake of the blue-tongue and foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks.
As a result, they will not now be able to make their traditional appearance at festive parades and in Santa's grottoes.