Back on the stump: Hillary faces fight to stay in presidential race says the Guardian as its front page shows the senator standing on a soap box

Hillary Clinton defies the pundits by overcoming Barack Obama and then the Republicans to become the next president of the United States, historians will be able to specify the time and the place where she started to turn the tide. At 10.15am yesterday, in the car park of the Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire, in front of a couple of hundred unfashionably fervent Hillary supporters, Clinton chose to make what may turn out to be her last stand.She did it by taking a page out of the campaign playbook of one of the most improbable role-models for any American politician - our very own former Conservative prime minister John Major. It was in March 1992 that Major climbed on to a soapbox in Luton market, took a loudhailer in his hand, and began to regain control of the 1992 general election campaign from Labour's Neil Kinnock and go on to victory. Yesterday, in the Manchester car park, Hillary Clinton tried to do exactly the same thing. Millions of dollars have been spent by the Clinton campaign on the most high-faluting image consultants, ad strategists and pollsters that money can buy. Nothing that Clinton says or does is ever knowingly underprepared or untested on the market.

Rivals in rush to embrace the only message that’s counting says the Times

Two days before the New Hampshire primaries, the main candidates on both sides were adopting Mr Obama’s message, with the most heated exchanges in appearances across the Granite State focused on who was best able to propel the United States into a new political age.
In perhaps the most brazen attempt to claim the mantle of change, Mr Romney has reinvented his White House campaign after defeat in Iowa by telling New Hampshire voters that he is the Republican equivalent of Mr Obama, a message ridiculed by rivals.

Hillary Clinton bristles as Obama stays calm says the Telegraph

Hillary Clinton, battling for political survival, has slammed her rival Barack Obama for being all talk and no action hours after she had lost her cool in a television debate when told she represented "the status quo".

Meanwhile the front page of the Independent reminds us that we have another 12 months of George Bush

Remember him? Bush begins Middle East tour

Voters in the United States may have switched their attention to the contest to find his successor, but George Bush will embark on an ambitious nine-day tour of the Middle East tomorrow in a last desperate effort to salvage a legacy from two terms in office overshadowed by a catastrophic foreign policy that has earned him the distinction of being one of the worst presidents in the country's history. adding

The Bush legacy will not be peace in the Middle East nor an end to conflict in Iraq, but it could be a political earthquake among voters so dismayed by the mess he has made of America's foreign policy and fearful of economic recession that they are deserting his party in droves.

More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit says the Guardian

Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to deploy more than 10,000 police officers in a vast security operation ahead of the arrival this week of George Bush, the first US president to visit in a decade. Graffiti are being cleaned off walls, road markings are being repainted and hundreds of American flags are being put up across the city. The floodlights which illuminate the stone ramparts of the Old City will stay on for an extra two hours every night, until 2am, to give the president the chance to catch the view.


Aside from the elections the qualities go with differing headlines

Clergy told to counsel on ‘life and debt’ crisis reports the Times

The Church of England is launching an unprecedented campaign of practical and spiritual help today for anyone in the grip of post-Christmas financial difficulties.
The “matter of life and debt” campaign draws on Bible texts and specially written prayers in an effort to give hope to those at the mercy of loan sharks, high-interest credit card repayments and other financial burdens.
The Church has disclosed to The Times that it is to offer guidance to all its clergy on giving debt advice from the pulpit and within community groups. It is also providing a ten-point debt checklist to help people to work out if they need assistance before it is too late.

Staying with the clergy,the Telegraph reports

Muslims call for 'no-go' CoE bishop to resign

Religious groups have demanded the resignation of the Bishop of Rochester after he claimed that Islamic radicals had turned parts of Britain into "no-go" areas for non-Muslims.

Bishop under fire for attack on Muslim 'no-go areas' says the Guardian

The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, said the bishop had not produced any evidence of "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, a notion he described as "an extraordinarily inflammatory way of putting it".
"There is a legitimate debate to be had about the meaning of multiculturalism. But to suggest that non-Muslims are not able to enter into a particular area seems to me to be a gross caricature of reality."

The Telegraph leads with the economy

Cost of home loan highest in seven years

The cost of the typical home loan has soared to a seven-year high with families facing mortgage bills more than 20 per cent higher than two years ago as the effects of the credit crunch take their toll

Survey shows downbeat business bosses are in fear of recession says the Mail

Business confidence is plummeting amid warnings of a recession, according to a survey.
It is at its lowest level for five years with more than half of firms pessimistic about the future, the Lloyds TSB research found.
A second poll of 600 companies by accountants Grant Thornton found the balance of businesses feeling optimistic about the coming year against those feeling pessimistic is getting worse.

Chancellor steps in over dramatic increases in domestic energy bills reports the Times

The Chancellor has demanded a meeting with the energy regulator to explain why fuel prices have risen so dramatically, and giving warning that annual bills of more than £1,000 a year could damage economic stability.

The Guardian leads with the news that

Consumers may foot nuclear bill

Consumers may face higher electricity bills to cover the future decommissioning costs of a new generation of nuclear power stations to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers have met several electricity firms known to be interested in building up to 10 new stations and they are understood to have demanded long term commitments to guarantee their investments - expected to be about £10bn a station.

The Mail also has an exclusive on its front page

Secret Home Office memo orders officials to STOP deporting bogus students

Immigration officers have been ordered to stop deporting foreign students who overstay their visas.
A leaked memo obtained by the Daily Mail suggests they are not regarded as a high enough priority.
The secret edict makes a mockery of Government claims to be running a "robust" immigration system.

The Sun reports on the

DRIVER KILLED BY GANG WAR SNIPER

A DRIVER was shot dead by a sniper in a chilling gangland execution, it emerged yesterday.
The 35-year-old man was picked off with a single high-velocity bullet as he drove a gold Land Rover Discovery.The precision shot pierced the car’s windscreen and hit the motorist in the head.
His car veered across the street and smashed head-on into a Ford Focus.
Police called to reports of a car crash in Halewood, Liverpool, discovered the sinister truth after spotting the bullet hole in the windscreen.

The latest victim of north-west's violent weekend says the Guardian

The same paper reports that

NHS screening programme takes centre stage in Brown fightback

The NHS is to launch a national screening programme to tackle some of Britain's biggest killer diseases, including heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and kidney failure, Gordon Brown will announce today. The programme, the first of its kind in the world, is expected to help prevent 200,000 deaths a year among the 6 million or more people who suffer from the targeted diseases, and heralds a switch in health priorities from curing illness to preventing it.

Health Mot for all on Brown NHS says the Mirror


Army adverts come under attack reports the Times

The Army is enticing young people to enlist with the aid of advertisements and leaflets that glamorise warfare and underplay the risks involved in a military career, it is claimed today.
The language in the recruiting literature and promotional DVD is so sanitised, a report says, that one brochure, Infantry Soldier, does not even mention the words “kill” or “risk”.

The Mirror leads with

Jamie Oliver's chicken crusade

Angry Jamie Oliver last night blasted his Sainbury's paymasters for ducking out of his hard-hitting TV investigation into factory farming.
Telly chef Jamie, 32, who is paid £1.2million to front Sainsbury's advertising campaigns, is furious because the store chain's bosses snubbed an invitation to take part in a public debate about the gruesome way battery-farmed chickens are treated. He said: "I am really upset. The question is why didn't they come. What is there to hide?"

The Sun meanwhile continues to track Britney Spears

BRITNEY SPEARS was last night being comforted by the man she regards as her ONLY true friend — a paparazzi snapper from Birmingham.
The troubled superstar was in hiding with ADNAN GHALIB and THREE of his fellow photographers after fleeing the hospital she was taken to on Friday strapped to a stretcher.

Career of CBBC children's TV star in murder quiz 'is finished - even if he is cleared reports the Mail

The career of children's TV presenter Mark Speight is in tatters with little chance of him returning to the BBC, insiders said yesterday.
Even if the CBBC star is cleared of any wrongdoing over the death from an apparent cocaine overdose of his girlfriend Natasha Collins, he is unlikely to work as a presenter again.

The Guardian reports from Kenya

Rivals edge closer, aid arrives and violence wanes

Kenya's embattled government and opposition leaders edged closer together last night after the violence that has plunged the country into political and social turmoil since the disputed presidential election, with both sides appearing - publicly at least - to soften their stances.
President Mwai Kibaki, who controversially was declared the winner of the election on December 27, last week refused to consider international mediation proposed by Britain, among others. But on Saturday he sent the assistant foreign affairs minister, Moses Wetangula, to Accra to meet Ghana's leader, John Kufuor, the president of the African Union.



The Independent reports on the results of another election

Georgia President re-elected as monitors declare poll 'fair'

The Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has won a snap presidential election in the former Soviet republic, which international monitors said they judged to be fair. He gained 52.8 per cent of the vote, election officials said. Less than 50 per cent would have forced him into a second-round run-off vote.

Pope calls for continuous prayer to rid priesthood of paedophilia
says the Times

Pope Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. All dioceses, parishes, monasteries, convents and seminaries will be expected to organise continuous daily prayers to express penitence and to purify the clergy.
Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate a person or group each day to conduct continuous prayers for the Church to rid itself of the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy. Alternatively, churches in the same diocese could share the duty. Prayer would take place in one parish for 24 hours, then move to another.


Finally the Guradian reports

Forget the meteorites - it was insects that did for the dinosaurs

They were the most imposing and terrifying creatures that have ever walked on the surface of the Earth, but according to a new theory the dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction 65m years ago by humble insects.
During the later part of the dinosaurs' dominion over the land, insects underwent an explosion in diversity and in the process dealt a double whammy to the lumbering giants - they spread disease and contributed to a transformation of vegetation which the plant-eating reptiles failed to adapt to.