Council tax,junior doctors,new visions,American primaries,Muslims and Britney on this Sunday morning.

The Observer leads with

Brown: my vision for 'dangerous' year ahead

Gordon Brown today issues a powerful declaration that 2008 will decide the fate of his premiership as he pledges to push through a series of controversial decisions that will shape Britain for decades to come.
In his first major interview of the year, the Prime Minister serves notice on his opponents that he is planning a fightback which will see him taking unpopular decisions on nuclear power, airport expansion and house building.

Both the Times and the Telegraph lead with a Muslim story

Muslim women to curb terror says the Times

MUSLIM women are to be sent on leadership and assertiveness courses to help to prevent Islamic extremism.
In an attempt to stop young Muslims being seduced by Al-Qaeda, women will be sent on training courses designed for FTSE 100 managers to give them the skills and confidence to confront fanatics.
Amid fears that extremists are becoming more sophisticated in their recruitment, Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, has concluded that a key way to stop extremist ideas further permeating Muslim communities is to give “the silent majority” a stronger voice.

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims is the lead in the Telegraph

The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester and the Church's only Asian bishop, says that people of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he compares the threat to the use of intimidation by the far-Right, and says that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christianity to be the nation's public religion in a multifaith, multicultural society.

The American primaries take centre stage in all the papers

Barack Obama races to 10-point lead as Hillary lashes out says the Times

The Rasmussen survey, which was carried out the day after Obama’s victory in last Thursday’s Iowa caucuses, put his support at 37% in New Hampshire, compared with 27% for Clinton.
The poll of 510 likely Democratic voters signalled a further swing away from the 60-year-old former first lady, whose campaign portrayed her as the “inevitable” victor until she was beaten into third place in Iowa.

Obama-mania in New Hampshire as new poll shocks Clinton camp says the Independent

A foretaste of the way the wind is blowing here for the Clinton camp came on Friday night. Just over 3,000 activists of the New Hampshire Democratic Party gathered in an indoor sports hall in the city of Milford to listen to their candidates for the presidential nomination. Not the sort of folk to rush the stage or indulge in boos.
For months, Mrs Clinton has led polls here and has seemed unassailable. Yet, anyone attending the party's "100 Club" dinner here will surely know she faces a possible mincing on Tuesday thanks to one man.

Wounded Clinton takes fight to New Hampshire reports the Observer commenting

For Clinton, who has long sought an aura of inevitable victory, it was a defining moment of how much the political landscape has now changed. She is facing the battle of her life in New Hampshire to rescue something from the wreckage of her life-long presidential ambitions.
It is not going to be pretty. Her only chance is to come out swinging in New Hampshire, wresting a comeback victory in the state where her husband first made his name. Campaign aides are already signalling that they are going to go negative on Obama. The only question is how negative.

The Independent reports that

Tribal strife leaves Kenya on the brink of humanitarian disaster

A humanitarian crisis is building in Kenya in the aftermath of the violence that followed the country's elections. Aid agencies said the humanitarian crisis was getting worse, with at least 250,000 people displaced and more than 500,000 in need of emergency assistance. Kenyans, used to taking in refugees from other regional conflicts, are on the move themselves, with thousands fleeing into neighbouring Uganda.

Kenyan families flee or stay and risk death reports the Telegraph

Following the hurried announcement of election results a week ago today, one of Africa's most stable, free and peaceful nations has tipped into a nightmare of tribal fighting that has killed 300 people, uprooted 250,000 and left many more without food

Old Etonian led Kenya's 'dirty' election reports the Times

THE controversial re-election campaign of Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan president, was masterminded by an Old Etonian public relations consultant who previously promoted Bob Geldof’s Live 8 campaign to tackle poverty in Africa.
Marcus Courage oversaw the communications team for Kibaki, whose government faces possible European Union sanctions for alleged vote-rigging

Stranded by Kenya riots ... so 'chilled' Chelsy Davy tops up her tan and enjoys the sunshine and vodka reports the Mail

Chelsy Davy has been stranded in Kenya after flights from the African nation were cancelled because of the riots that have claimed more than 350 lives.
Prince Harry's girlfriend is on holiday at a popular game reserve and resort near Mombasa – where she celebrated the New Year – and was due to fly home to South Africa early this week.

The front page of the Mail reports that

Junior doctors jobs go abroad (for second year running)

Record numbers of British junior doctors face unemployment this year after a court ruled that they will have to compete for jobs on equal terms with foreign medics.
The decision means that three junior doctors - who each cost the taxpayer £250,000 to put through medical school - will be chasing every training post.

Meanwhile the same paper uncovers another security breach

Stolen: Top secret entry codes to 73 police stations


INSTANT ACCESS: The stolen security codes were changed in hours
Top-secret entry codes to some of Britain's biggest police stations have been stolen in an astonishing Scotland Yard security blunder.
The details - which gave confidential keypad access numbers to 73 police stations across London - were stolen from a car owned by a worker for a vehicle-maintenance contractor

The Express leads with the story that

COUNCIL TAX UP... BUT YOU GET LESS

MILLIONS of families are facing a double whammy of soaring council tax bills and declining local services as Labour funding cuts begin to bite.
Taxpayers who are already facing a 100 per cent increase on annual bills since Labour took power were last night warned to expect cuts that strike at the very fabric of communities – with amenities such as leisure centres and libraries on the front line.

The Independent reveals

Cameron promises crackdown on incapacity benefit

Thousands of sick and disabled people would see their incapacity benefit payments cut by £20 a week under an American-style "tough love" welfare policy to be unveiled by David Cameron on Tuesday.
He will promise that a Tory government would force all 2.64 million people on the benefit to undergo a "fit for work" test. Those capable of work will be transferred immediately to the less generous jobseekers' allowance for the unemployed and will have to look for work to keep that.

Cameron's U-turn on jobless plan says the Observer

David Cameron has backtracked over plans to impose a time limit on how long the jobless can claim welfare benefits amid concern that it would be too punitive for single mothers and other vulnerable groups.
In proposals that are going to be launched on Tuesday, the Tory leader will outline new plans for reforming the benefits system and dealing with long-term unemployment

Government announces crackdown on crime reports the Telegraph

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will unveil plans for a new crime crackdown, only hours after the latest stabbing of a teenage boy.On Saturday, a teenager was stabbed to death, and two others injured, after an argument at a flat in Erith, south-east London.
The injured youths were taken to the Royal London Hospital where one remains in a serious condition.
The dead male, said to be black and in his late teens, has not yet been identified.

The same paper reporting that

Schools failing to nurture gifted children

Gifted pupils are routinely put in the wrong ability groups and are set targets that are too low, a study by the Department for Children, Schools and Families discovered. In many schools, young people who show early promise are left to fall behind.Almost a quarter of the 140,000 children who achieve an above-average level 3 in assessments at the age of seven do not go on to score high marks in tests at 11.

Universities bar entry to soft A-level subjects reports the Times

TOP universities are drawing up blacklists of “soft” A-level subjects that will bar applicants from winning places on their degree courses.
They are warning that candidates who take more than one of the subjects such as accountancy, leisure studies and dance are unlikely to gain admission. They say they lack the academic rigour to prepare students for courses and are alarmed at the way increasing numbers of state schools are using them to boost pupils’ top grades.

SCREEN CHILDREN FOR PHIL 'TIMEBOMB' reports the Express

HUNDREDS of children a year are becoming “walking timebombs” because schools are denied the chance to detect the heart condition that killed footballer Phil O’Donnell.
Medical experts are desperate to introduce classroom checks on youngsters, amid fears as many as four a week are already dying without any warning they were even at risk.

BRITNEY WILL KILL KIDS says the front of the News of the World

A panic call from Britney Spears' husband sparked her stand-off with cops - because he feared she would SHOOT DEAD their two sons.As Brit left hospital, a pal said: "K-Fed was terrified. He realised she had a gun where she was holding them."
We can reveal that Kevin Federline feared his ex would use the Beretta pistol he bought her as a birthday gift to MURDER their two young sons.
And it was his desperate call for help that started the dramatic three-hour siege at her Hollywood home as she held armed cops and a specialist SWAT team at bay and refused to hand over the boys.

She's smuggled out of mental ward ..then tries to go for a drive in her Merc She tells Kevin to stop pushing her or he'll have to tell the kids he's killed Mom says the Mirror

Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days says the Indy


Meanwhile the Mirror reports on another showbiz fall out

Heather fury as McCartney gets close to Kylie

Heather Mills was left angry and distraught after watching Sir Paul McCartney "flirting" with Kylie Minogue live on TV.
Macca whooped and cheered as Kylie writhed on top of Jools Holland's grand piano in a sexy New Year's Eve routine.
Heather watched in dismay as her estranged husband then joined the singer for a cosy duet - even hugging her at the end. Friends of Heather's say she convinced herself his show of affection was a cruel public pot-shot.

The Telegraph reports on

HMS Diana: the ship that went nuclear

In 1956, HMS Diana sailed into the aftermath of an atomic explosion, testing the impact a war with the Soviets might have on British servicemen. The consequences were horrific, and yet those on board continue to be denied compensation

PM's bribe boosts dumping of waste reports the Independent

Nuclear chiefs are to give Britons millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to accept the dumping of radioactive waste near their home.
The operators of the controversial Sellafield nuclear complex have agreed to pay local people in Cumbria some £75m for expanding the only national dump for low-level nuclear waste, in a move that has surprised leading experts.
The unprecedented deal – which is being called a "bribe" – is widely thought to be the precursor of a payment of at least £1bn to the community that agrees to take a much more controversial planned repository for infinitely more dangerous waste that will remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Bulldozers ready to destroy Deepcut Barracks reports the Telegraph

The training base, where four young recruits were found shot dead, is likely to make way for a housing estate of up to 5,000 homes.It has fallen victim to the MoD's Defence Training Review, which will see the closure of several bases in the south of England and their relocation to other parts of the country, saving an estimated £10 million.

Stores to ban ‘cruel’ eggs from battery hens reports the Times

BRITAIN’S supermarkets are to ban the sale of eggs from battery hens amid a growing consumer backlash over the impact of cheap food on animal welfare.
Sainsbury, Morrisons and the Co-op said this weekend that they would ban or phase out the sale of eggs from caged hens. Eggs from battery hens have already been removed from Marks & Spencer and Waitrose.

The Mail tells us

Diana author names Tom Cruise as 'World Number Two in Scientology'

Tom Cruise has become the de-facto second in command of the Church of Scientology, according to a new biography - which makes an extraordinary attack on the star by comparing his 20-month-old daughter Suri to the Devil's child in the film Rosemary's Baby.
Andrew Morton's unauthorised biography claims Scientology has taken over the 45-year-old actor's life, with its officials selecting many of the staff at his Hollywood mansion.

Other news from abroad and the Times reports

I begged my Bibi to avoid murder rally

THE night before Benazir Bhutto’s tragic assassination, her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, had begged her on the phone to stop holding election rallies and let him take her place.
“She had just addressed this public meeting in Peshawar where they’d caught this suicide bomber,” he said. “I told her, for God’s sake be careful, but she said, ‘What can I do? I have to go and meet my people.’ I pleaded with her: you stay home and I’ll go do the rallies. You’re the mother.


The smog Olympics reports the Indy

Beijing's Olympic organisers are launching last-ditch measures to clean up the city's air in time for the games in August, amid fears that some endurance events may be postponed if pollution continues to cast its yellow-tinged pall over the city.


Finally the Observer reports

The truth is out: X-Files go public

The public opening of the MoD archive will expose the once highly classified work of the intelligence branch DI55, whose mission was to investigate UFO reports and whose existence was denied by the government until recently. Reports into about 7,000 UFO sightings investigated by defence officials - every single claim lodged over the past 30 years - are included in the files, whose staged release will begin in spring.