Coward the Brave says the Mirror

A hero called Coward says the Mail as the papers continue to report on the crahlanding at Heathrow,the paper reporting that

The real hero of the Heathrow crash landing was revealed yesterday as a man named Coward.
Straight after the drama Captain Peter Burkill was praised for safely bringing down his stricken Boeing 777 with 136 passengers on board.
But Captain Burkill admitted yesterday that Senior First Officer John Coward was at the controls when the plane suffered a catastrophic power failure in both engines 40 seconds from landing. The initial investigation report confirmed both engines had failed two miles from the airport.

The Guardian leads with the same story

Safety fears over crash jet's alarm failure

The pilots of the British Airways plane that crashlanded at Heathrow on Thursday received no warning that the aircraft was losing power because of a problem with the aircraft's alarm systems, a source has told the Guardian.
Because there was no signal from the Boeing 777's automatic warning system, the pilots did not realise anything was wrong until they approached the runway and noticed the plane was losing speed more rapidly than normal. The plane "fell out of the sky" just 10ft from the ground after stalling as it came in to land.

The Sun reports that

BOEING 777 jets have been involved in at least 12 serious incidents when electrical systems have overheated, it was revealed yesterday.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which is probing Thursday’s crash-landing , issued a warning about the problem last April, when a pilot had to abandon take-off because of a loss of power.

Transport of a different kind is the lead in the Times

Railways will run every day of year

Trains will run 365 days of the year for the first time in half a century under new Network Rail plans, The Times has learnt.
Engineering works, the main cause of rail delays and shutdowns, will be completed at night in a fraction of the time it currently takes, according to Iain Coucher, Network Rail’s chief executive.
Passengers should no longer be forced to catch replacement buses at weekends and should have services over Christmas, when the network shuts normally for 60 hours.

The Telegraph reports on another data loss

MoD loses data of 600,000 would-be recruits

The personal details of 600,000 people interested in joining the Armed Forces have been lost after a laptop belonging to a Royal Navy officer was stolen, the Ministry of Defence said last night.The laptop was stolen from a vehicle parked overnight in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham a week ago but the theft was only made public late last night.
Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, is expected to appear before MPs next week to explain the theft. It follows the loss of 25 million child benefit records and the details of three million learner drivers in the past few months.

The papers are following Gordon Brown in China

Gordon Brown's historic trade deal with China says the same paper

Tens of thousands of jobs could be created in Britain by Chinese companies, Gordon Brown said, as he hailed an historic deal which he hopes will increase trade between the two countries by £10 billion over the next two years.

Brown invites China's 'big red chequebook' to Britain says the Independent

The Prime Minister believes the agreement, made yesterday, could create tens of thousands of jobs in Britain. Mr Brown wants the UK to be the "first location" considered by the China Investment Corporation – the £100bn sovereign wealth fund set up by the Chinese government to invest in or take over companies – and has invited it to open an office in London.
In return, British service industries, such as companies in the financial, insurance and legal sectors, will win easier access to Chinese markets and there will be a big push to sell household-name luxury goods to China's growing middle class. However, some countries, including the United States, have shunned the fund.

Climate blame for India as Brown praises Chinese role says the Guardian

Today Brown will endorse plans for an eco-city near Shanghai built by British firms and a low-carbon fossil fuel power station partly financed by the UK, as he makes the environment the theme of the day. Britain is undertaking international lobbying to secure a world wide agreement within two years on cutting carbon emissions for implementation in 2012.

The Indpendent leads with the economy

Everything points to a recession says its front page

Retail sales plummet; gas and electricity prices soar, further eating into already squeezed disposable incomes; Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, two of the great symbols of American capitalism, forced to hand round the begging bowl among Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds after massive write-downs on US sub-prime mortgage lending.
Northern Rock teeters on the brink of nationalisation; confidence in the UK housing market drops to its lowest level since the recession of the early 1990s; share prices bludgeoned; sterling in free-fall; corporate profit warnings at a six-year high; retail investors dash to withdraw their money from collapsing commercial property funds; credit insurers downgraded, threatening multiple defaults in debt markets.
Yes, indeed. This was the week when any lingering hope that the US and UK might somehow muddle through the crisis that has engulfed the international capital markets without undue damage to the underlying economy finally seemed to evaporate.

The Express leads with

15% GAS PRICE SHOCK

MILLIONS of families were hit by a financial bombshell yesterday when British Gas announced it was putting up prices by more than five times the rate of inflation.
Britain’s biggest energy supplier said gas prices would rise immediately by 15 per cent.
Prices for electricity would also go up by an average of 15 per cent but in some areas the rise would be as high as 19 per cent. The increases, coming on top of those already announced by npower and EDF Energy, will hit more than 20million customers and leave a typical family having to find another £143 a year to heat and light their home

Inquiry demand after third energy price rise reports the Guardian

The government was coming under renewed pressure last night to launch an investigation into the home energy market after Britain's biggest supplier became the third power firm to raise prices substantially. The move, which was blamed on higher wholesale costs, prompted consumer groups to demand a Competition Commission investigation into whether the big six power firms that dominate the market were acting in "tacit collusion".

And the Telegraph reports

Pint of beer 'may cost £4 within year'

Beer drinkers could pay £4 for a pint this year following an "unprecedented" rise in the cost of producing and distributing beer.The British Beer and Pub Association warned that the average price of a pint could go up by 20p this year.


All the papers report the death of Bobby Fischer,the Telegraph reporting that

A child prodigy once dubbed the Mozart of Chess, he was lauded as arguably the greatest player in the game's history. However, his irascibility and anti-Semitic outbursts in later years earned him equal amounts of derision.
Fisher, who was 64, suffered kidney failure on Thursday. He had been cared for at his home in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he had lived for the past 15 years.

the chess king who became a Cold War pawn says the Times

Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky were the kings of the chessboard in 1972, but they were also political pawns.
The world chess championship played at Reykjavik in that year, which pitted the young American genius against the Soviet champion, was the most bizarre and theatrical confrontation of the Cold War.
Few sporting events in history – and certainly no chess match – have been so heavily loaded with political and ideological symbolism: here was Capitalist America against Communist Russia, brash youth facing off against sophisticated experience, democracy versus totalitarianism, emotion against reason.

The Sun reports on the yob freed early to batter Susan

THIS is yob victim Susan Collins with her face “caved in” after a boozed-up hoodie killer savagely attacked her.
She was put on life support after being kicked to the ground and repeatedly stamped on by Nicholas Hague when she would not give him a cigarette.
The attack took place just three miles from the spot where dad Garry Newlove, 47, was kicked to death by boozy yobs last August.adding that

Hague, 22, who has been a yob since the age of six, attacked Susan, 60, after being freed early from jail for manslaughter. He had helped kick a man to death in the street.

The Express picks up on the comments of the Tory leader

MAKE 16-YEAR-OLDS DO NATIONAL SERVICE

THE violent murder of Garry Newlove by a teenage gang underlines the need for a new kind of National Service, David Cameron said yesterday.
The Tory leader said Mr Newlove’s widow Helen had “spoken for millions when she said that in many parts of our country the streets have been taken over by the thugs”.
Radical action was needed to reclaim the streets, added Mr Cameron, echoing a call from the Daily Express for a new form of national youth service that all young people would have to do. However, his scheme would be voluntary.


New pictures show final moments of British woman bludgeoned to death in New Zealand reports the Mail

Minutes before she comes face to face with her killer, Briton Karen Aim is captured on a CCTV camera as she walks home alone, never dreaming that her brutal death is so near.
She is filmed in a New Zealand filling station shop, where she has stopped to buy a soft drink.
It is 2.04am, exactly 30 minutes before police investigating a school break-in found her dying with massive head injuries on a nearby pavement – and just 50 yards from the safety of her rented flat in the lakeside resort of Taupo.

Israel jets target Hamas after rocket attacks reports the Times

An Israeli fighter-bomber blew up the Hamas interior ministry building yesterday as gunships pounded a naval base in Gaza City in retaliation for the Islamists’ constant barrage of rockets into southern Israel. A Palestinian woman was killed and ten more people were wounded when an Israeli F16 fired a missile at the government building, which had been damaged in last summer’s Palestinian infighting and which Hamas had since evacuated, fearing such strikes.

The Guardian reports

Israel orders closure of Gaza crossings as Palestinian anger and casualties increase

The UN refugee agency said the latest closure left it unable to deliver 15 truckloads of aid yesterday and warned of growing despair in Gaza, where 80% of the population already relies on UN food.

John McCain on warpath in South Carolina says the Telegraph

The Vietnam War veteran's resurgent campaign has been boosted by opinion polls that show him narrowly ahead of Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, a promising lead in Florida, which holds its primary in 10 days, and across the country.
For the first time he now beats both Democratic favourites Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in theoretical match-ups for November's presidential election

Flag flap dominates campaign in Deep South reports the Indy

Whichever Republican candidate emerges as the front-runner when tiny South Carolina votes today, the outcome could have more to do with a flap over the old Confederate flag than any weighty issue of policy.
The outcome may also be decided by character assassination on a truly grand scale, since for the past four days the state has been blanketed by a flood of deceptive phone calls attacking all the leading candidates’ records on issues from abortion to raising taxes.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports

Kenyan police kill eight as street protests end

At least eight people were gunned down by Kenyan police yesterday marking a bloody end to the opposition's street protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
In Nairobi's Kibera slum, the home constituency of opposition leader Raila Odinga, seven people were reported to have been shot dead by security officers instructed to prevent demonstrators from reaching a rally venue in the city centre.

Queen accused of snub over Sir Edmund Hillary funeral reports the Times

If any of the Queen’s far-flung subjects resonated with her long reign it was the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, whose conquest of Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was announced to the world by The Times on the morning of her Coronation in 1953. Yet no member of the Royal Family will be present at the self-effacing mountaineer’s state funeral in Auckland on Tuesday.
New Zealand’s head of state will be represented by Anand Satyanand, her Governor-General, who is her resident representative in the country.
Some New Zealanders have taken the Queen’s decision as a snub to their national hero, who died in Auckland last week aged 88. Lewis Holden, chairman of the New Zealand Republican Movement, which favours severing the country’s link with the monarchy, said that the decision not to attend Sir Edmund’s funeral in person showed that the Royal Family “was not able to do the job for New Zealand”.

Finally problems fro two resorts at either end of the country

The Independent reports that

Saint Bob's latest rant creates a storm in 'ugly' town of Margate

Bob Geldof has vented his anger at politicians and lamented the West's policies towards Africa. But the latest target for the outspoken anti-poverty campaigner is not a national leader or a failed state. It's much closer to home than that. He thinks Margate is ugly.
Councillors and residents in Kent, where Geldof made his home 23 years ago, have issued a sharp response to comments made by the Live Aid founder in a newsletter sent to every resident in the county.

Meanwhile from a resort at the other end of the country,the Times reports

Last resort makes desperate cry for help

Its centrepiece Victorian hotel is an empty ruin surrounded by piles of rubbish. An abandoned building site sits next to a “craft village” where “for sale” and “to let” signs hang in the windows.
Just about the only thing going for John o’ Groats – apart from the £1.50 sheepskin belly-button warmers (don’t ask) and toffee cowpats at the First and Last souvenir hut – is the free car park, though even that is offset by the 20p charge for the lavatories.but says the paper

help is at hand, thanks to a £10 million development package proposed by tourist chiefs, including a four-star hotel, a number of “eco-lodges”, a new visitor centre and an upmarket retail complex.