No doubting the main topic in the papers this morning

The Day Diana's mother called her a whore says the Mail

Diana you are a whore says her mother is the front page of the Express

The former says

The mother of Princess Diana called her a 'whore' for dating Muslim men, her inquest has heard.
Frances Shand Kydd made the 'disgraceful' comment when she discovered her daughter was in a serious relationship with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
The pair did not speak again before Diana died two months later, according to her butler Paul Burrell.

The Express reporting

The Princess’s former butler, Paul Burrell, said that Diana stopped talking to her mother after she twice rang to protest at her choice of boyfriends just before she died.
Burrell said that Diana beckoned him to listen in on one call in which her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was berating her daughter.


The last secret says the Mirror

The Princess’s former butler, Paul Burrell, said that Diana stopped talking to her mother after she twice rang to protest at her choice of boyfriends just before she died.
Burrell said that Diana beckoned him to listen in on one call in which her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was berating her daughter.

The Telegraph menawhile says

Diana 'planned secret wedding to Hasnat Khan'

Aware of the constitutional and religious complications entailed in the Christian mother of a future king marrying a Muslim man, the Princess asked her butler, Paul Burrell, to find out "if it would be possible to arrange a private wedding".

Away from the Diana story and the qualties have a variety of headlines

Revealed: £1 billion Olympics black hole reports the Times

Britain faces a £1 billion black hole after the 2012 Olympics because of “ludicrous” property price projections backed by ministers, it emerged last night.
Today the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will, for the first time, vote against government plans to give the Olympics more money. Their move comes after a report for the London Development Agency (LDA) suggesting that the Government’s estimates for the amount it will recoup in land sales after the Games are unrealistic. The shortfall will hit heritage, sports and arts projects already suffering from tight squeezes on their budgets.

FBI wants instant access to British identity data reports the Guardian

Senior British police officials are talking to the FBI about an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists.
The US-initiated programme, "Server in the Sky", would take cooperation between the police forces way beyond the current faxing of fingerprints across the Atlantic. Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy.

The Telegraph runs with

Food cost increase adds £750 to annual bill

Official figures showed wholesale food prices rose by 7.4 per cent in the past 12 months - more than three times the headline rate of inflation.adding

Experts said the rate of food price inflation was making life increasingly difficult for the millions of families already struggling to make ends meet under the weight of rising council tax bills, mortgage repayments and energy costs.

'Enough of this educational apartheid' says the Independent

On the eve of a landmark ruling on the role of public schools in British life, the headmaster of Wellington College delivers a devastating attack on our two-tier education system.

The Guardian reports that

Hain's fate hinges on inquiries as pressure to quit continues to build

Peter Hain's hopes of political survival rested last night on whether two official inquiries will rebuke him for his failure to declare £103,000 of donations to his deputy leadership campaign or question the credibility of his explanations.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, John Lyon, formally told Hain yesterday that he will conduct an inquiry that is likely to take weeks rather than months. The Electoral Commission is due to publish an interim report - possibly within days - into the legality of the source of his donations. Hain insisted he was cooperating fully with both inquiries and had nothing to hide.

Watchdog may ask police to look into Peter Hain’s donations says the Times

The watchdog now faces a stark choice between letting him off without punishment or recommending a criminal prosecution if it finds that he broke rules on when donations should be reported

Cameron to cut MPs' pensions says the Independent

David Cameron pledged to end "gold-plated" pensions for new MPs as part of a package of proposals to restore trust in Parliament.
Yesterday, the Tory leader called for an end to the "pensions apartheid" between Westminster and private-sector employees who have to fund MPs' generous retirement terms through their taxes, while their own final salary schemes have been closed.

Most of the papers report on the start of the trial in Suffolk

Jury sworn in for Suffolk Strangler trial says the Mirror

The man accused of the Suffolk Strangler murders stares blankly from an official police mugshot - as jurors were sworn in for his trial yesterday.

Steve Wright, 49, who denies murdering five vice girls, sat expressionlessly in the dock as 10 men and two women were chosen.
The forklift truck driver spoke only to confirm his full name when asked - after initially complaining he could not hear the question.

Meanwhile the Mail follows up its top story yesterday

Wife-killer policeman who murdered mother-in-law feared his children would emigrate

The grandmother blasted to death by her police inspector son-in-law feared for her life after he was released on bail over the murder of her daughter, it emerged yesterday.
Traute Maxfield, 70, told friends of her terror when Garry Weddell was granted freedom as he awaited trial accused of killing his wife Sandra

Judge 'can't remember' why he released killer cop says the Mirror

As calls for an investigation mounted, Judge John Bevan, said: "I can't remember the precise details so it would be wholly inappropriate to comment."
Looking visibly shaken as he spoke at his £2million home in Hampstead, North London, he added: "I hope there will be transcripts of the two bail applications. These would explain things."

The Times reports

suicide squad storms Kabul hotel

A Taleban suicide squad broke into the only luxury hotel in Kabul last night, killing at least seven people, including an American and a Norwegian journalist, and forcing hundreds more to take shelter in a basement as a firefight raged in the lobby.
The attack, by a bomber and at least three men armed with AK47s, appeared to be the first big assault against a civilian target in the Afghan capital since a Taleban resurgence began in 2005. Witnesses described scenes of carnage inside the hotel, as American special forces entered the building in pursuit of the attackers.


Frosty welcome for Bush says the Telegraph

The US president arrived in Riyadh last night on the latest stage of his tour of the Middle East and was treated to the lavish personal hospitality of King Abdullah.
But talks today will be soured by the demand that the prison camp's remaining 13 Saudi detainees should be sent home at once - a plea by Prince Nayef, the interior minister, that was made public before Mr Bush arrived.

Clinton and Obama bury the hatchet in race row says the Guardian

The Democratic frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, last night called a truce to the bitter row over race and the legacy of Martin Luther King that has dominated the campaign and the US airwaves for the past few days.
Obama said all candidates for the presidential nomination "share the same goals". He told reporters: "We're all Democrats. We all believe in civil rights; we all believe in equal rights," adding that he did not want the campaign "to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat, back and forth, that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this."

McCain and Romney fight for recession-hit Michigan reports the Indy

The Republican presidential hopeful John McCain took his simmering rivalry with Mitt Romney to the appropriately named Kalamazoo yesterday, the Indian name meaning "boiling waters", with both men looking for a crucial win in the state's primary.
With starkly contrasting styles on the campaign trail – Mr McCain is conversational almost to the point of rambling and Mr Romney has the polish of a 1950s game-show host – both men are battling for victory in the first state to assert its presidential preferences after New Hampshire and Iowa.

The same paper carries John Simpson's report from Zimbabwe where

The abject poverty in a country where everyone is a millionaire

In Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, everyone is a millionaire. You have to be: a loaf of bread costs a million Zimbabwe dollars, a newspaper costs two million, and a decent joint of beef costs a hundred million. The only problem is that the average wage is 20 million dollars a month. They're called Mugabe dollars and it isn't a term of affection.

British Council defies Russia over closures says the Telegraph

Sir Anthony Brenton, the British ambassador, was summoned to explain why London had ignored the order for the British Council's premises in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg to be closed down from New Year's Day.

The Sun headlines

Oops I missed the kids again

TROUBLED Britney Spears missed a vital court hearing about her kids yesterday — despite warnings she may never get her two boys back.
As a result Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon left in place a ruling that barred Brit from visiting with her two young sons until at least another hearing on Feb. 19, lawyers said outside court.

The liar, the witch and the wardrobe - pensioner and mute cousin ran £2.4m benefit scam from 'secret bedroom closet HQ' reports the Mail

Living in a simple flat above the children's charity shop she ran, pensioner Jean Hutchinson seemed a kind-hearted, decent soul.
But it was a convincing disguise which allowed her to pull off a £2.4million benefits scam from a small cupboard hidden behind a wardrobe.
The 65-year-old amassed the money over 13 years by stealing more than 200 identities and claiming a vast array of state handouts.

The Mirror reports

'Hindley's 6th victim identified'

A lawyer yesterday said he has discovered the details of an undetected Moors Murder case.
Giovanni di Stefano's claim comes four years after the Mirror revealed Myra Hindley confessed to prisoner Linda Calvey about a sixth killing.
The lawyer, who acts for Calvey, said the victim was a 14-year-old girl who went missing from a children's home in Oldham in December 1964. He said he knew her name but would only give her initials: JT.

Banks hire top QCs for landmark charges case says the Telegraph

Britain's leading High Street banks have spent an estimated £10 million assembling a team of more than 100 lawyers - including a team of eminent QCs - to fight a landmark case on whether overdraft fees are illegal. Losing the case, which starts on Wednesday, could result in tens of thousands of compensation claims from customers and change the face of banking forever


Footballer is saved from threat of deportation reports the Guardian

A Watford FC player who faced deportation to his native Sierra Leone was yesterday granted permission to stay in the UK. Al-Hassan Bangura, 19, claimed he had been trafficked into the UK as a 15 year-old and faced being killed by members of a secret society if he was forced to return.
A Home Office panel yesterday granted a work permit to the midfielder which will allow him to remain at Championship team Watford and give him time to apply for leave to remain in the UK indefinitely and, possibly, citizenship.

Staying with football

Rafael Benitez sees red over Klinsmann offer says the Telegraph

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is understood to be considering whether to sue the club's co-owner Tom Hicks after he made the startling admission that he tried to line up Jurgen Klinsmann to replace him.Although Hicks claims the move for the former Germany manager was an "insurance policy" in case Benitez walked out on Anfield, the Spaniard is now weighing up whether he can take legal action against the Dallas billionaire for constructive dismissal.

Finally the Guardian reports that

Youth, 16, faces £10,000 bill - and livid parents - after 'best party ever'

It caused almost £10,000 of damage, involved mass underage drinking and required 30 police officers, a police helicopter and the police dog squad to break up. But it was still "the best party ever", according to the Australian teenager currently under investigation for throwing a raucous bash when his parents went away on holiday.
Corey Delaney, 16, of Melbourne, could face a bill to pay for the havoc caused by the 500 marauding teenagers who attended the party at his home on Saturday.