The results of the Democratic primary have caught some of the papers cold

Barack Obama's incredible journey says the front of the Independent whilst the Guardian leads with Clinton moves to Plan B


The Telegraph did not gamble with the result prefering to run with the story that

Stop giving antibiotics for colds, doctors told

Doctors are to be told to stop prescribing antibiotics for coughs, colds and sore throats because over-use of the drugs is fuelling the spread of killer hospital superbugs.Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, says it is time to end the unnecessary use of penicillin and other commonly-prescribed pills, which cost the NHS £1.7 billion a year.

Pushy patients blamed for rise of superbugs says the Guardian

Excessive use of antibiotics caused bacteria to develop resistant strains. This was the biggest single cause of the spread of hospital-acquired infections, Johnson said. He said he was planning a public information campaign next month with posters and leaflets in GP surgeries. There would be no attempt to impose quotas on doctors' use of antibiotics, but GPs prescribing above average amounts could expect to be visited by antimicrobial pharmacists, who would give advice on prescription policy.

The Independent reports that

Brown offers 3-year pay deals to public sector

The Government will try to halt the annual battle over pay awards with almost six million public-sector workers by offering them settlements lasting three years.
Gordon Brown argued that the move would be good for economic stability, the fight against inflation and for the workers as they could plan ahead.
While some trade unions are prepared to enter talks with the Government, others demanded an "escape clause " if economic conditions changed and warned that the move should not be a vehicle to impose a straitjacket of 2 per cent rises.

Unions in a rage at PM's 3yr wage fix reports the Mirror

Union leaders reacted with fury yesterday to Gordon Brown's call for public sector workers to commit to a three-year pay deal.
The Prime Minister wants to scrap the annual round of wage bargaining.
He said the long-term arrangement would help families plan home budgets and keep down inflation.

Gordon Brown planning clampdown on cannabis over health concerns is the lead in the Times

Cannabis is to be reclassified as a Class B drug after an official review this spring, The Times has learnt.
Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith are determined to reverse the decision to downgrade the drug when the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs completes its report in the next few months.
While its recommendations are not yet known, ministers are already making plain that the Home Secretary is prepared to overrule the expert body if necessary.

Read for your future, Gordon Brown says reports the Telegraph

Leading figures from the literary establishment have thrown their weight behind a campaign by Gordon Brown to encourage families to read more books with their children to widen their horizons and to improve job prospects.
Best-selling authors, including Tony Parsons and Kate Mosse, and the television presenter Richard Madeley attended a seminar at Downing Street to help the Prime Minister launch 2008 as the National Year of Reading.

One in four adults admits: 'I haven't read a book for a year' says the Mail

BROWN: KID GANGS 'OUT OF CONTROL' says the Mirror

Britain has become plagued by "out of control" yobs rampaging through our streets, Gordon Brown admitted yesterday.
The Prime Minister conceded that spiralling gang-related gun and knife crime had left millions of law-abiding people living in fear.
He now plans to unveil a fresh crime blitz next month. Measures expected are stiffer sentences with thugs spending longer in jail for being in gangs.

The paper leads with

Girl victim of killer gas blast
If only 9-year-old Steph had been late for school..if only she had walked on the other side of the road.. if only the gas leak that killed her had been detected.. Mum and aunt dug Steph from the rubble

Stephanie, nine, was hit by flying rubble as an undetected gas leak blew a house apart at the moment she strolled past.
Her mum, who was at her side, was almost unscathed - as were two pensioners inside the devastated house in Plymouth

Mother and sisters see girl, 9, killed by freak house blast as she waits to get in car for school run says the Mail

Stephanie Hammacott's mother and sisters were already in the car when the elderly tenant of the house switched on his central heating and ignited a suspected gas leak.
The roof was blown off and an outer wall collapsed on top of Stephanie, who took the full force of the blast.

It's Maddy the Movie says the front page of the Sun

KATE and Gerry McCann are set to turn the story of missing daughter Madeleine into a FILM.
The couple believe the movie could raise money for the dwindling Find Madeleine fund, whose public donations have slowed to a trickle.
Their official spokesman has held talks with entertainment company IMG.

The Mail also leads with the story but says

But Gerry McCann was quick to deny the story.
In his latest blog entry on the official Find Madeleine website, he wrote: "We can categorically deny that we are considering a movie about Madeleine's disappearance.
"This is simply untrue. We are approached by a huge number of media outlets regarding a myriad of projects, only a tiny proportion of which we agree to.
"Each proposal is considered on whether it is likely to have a positive effect, either directly or indirectly, on the search for Madeleine.


Screening halves breast cancer deaths says study reports the Guardian

Breast cancer screening has nearly halved the number of deaths from the disease, according to a study of women seen on the NHS published today.
The research found that women screened for breast cancer were 48% less likely to die of the disease than women who were not examined.
"This is the strongest evidence yet that screening programmes like this save lives," said Stephen Duffy, professor of cancer screening with Cancer Research UK, who led the study. "The results showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predicted."

The Times reports on

Dentist caught at airport with military equipment

A dentist who was stopped as he tried to board a flight to Pakistan with military equipment and £9,000 cash was jailed yesterday for 4½years for terror offences.
Sohail Qureshi, 30, is believed to have been travelling to Afghanistan to join Mujahidin forces linked to al-Qaeda to fight against British and American troops in the region.
Several pictures from computers and discs that were recovered by police showed Qureshi on previous trips to the region posing with assault rifles, including an American M16.

Johnson to use £1m war chest in battle for London reports the Independent

Boris Johnson is preparing to spend up to £1m on his battle to oust Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London.
The journalist and maverick MP is planning to pour more than £500,000 into his fight for the keys to the capital's City Hall even before the campaign opens in earnest on 18 March, with allies insisting that he has a real chance of pushing one of Labour's highest profile figures from office.
Mr Johnson has already pulled in more than £150,000 in donations since September, when his position as the Conservative candidate for the job was confirmed, and senior sources in his campaign say that more cash will roll in.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistan’s young pretender, tells press he is going back into hiding reports the Times

Yesterday, the day on which Benazir Bhutto expected to be elected back into power in Pakistan, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that he intended to follow her into politics, that he would lead her party into elections in five weeks’ time, but that he wanted privacy for three years while he studied at the University of Oxford.
Sitting in his mother’s favourite small London hotel, more like a nightclub than a political stage, just 12 days after her assassination, he was asked whether he feared for his life. He replied: “I fear for my privacy more.”

US releases footage of Iran boat incident reports the Indy

Washington stepped up its war of words against Iran last night as the US military released video and audio recordings of the confrontation between a three-ship Navy convoy and five small Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf.The jerky footage, shot from one of the US ships, shows several small Iranian boats approaching at high speed as a voice apparently threatens: " I am coming at you. You will explode." This is followed by an American voice saying: "Inbound small craft: You are approaching a coalition warship operating in international waters. Your identity is not known; your intentions are unclear. You are sailing into danger and may be subject to defensive measures."

Kenya's new cabinet stymies peace talks says the Guardian

Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki, appointed half his cabinet minutes before an African Union mediator landed in Nairobi yesterday, enraging the opposition and ending hopes of a swift end to the country's political and social crisis.
Protests broke out immediately in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu and in Nairobi's slums, where hundreds of people have already been killed over a perceived stolen election. Western diplomats, who on Monday had persuaded the opposition leader Raila Odinga to call off his campaign of mass action, were angered by Kibaki's decision to fill all the key ministries as peace talks were about to begin.

According to the Telegraph

China 'plans to send troops into North Korea'

China is planning to send troops into North Korea to restore order and secure its nuclear arsenal in the event of the regime’s collapse.According to a new report, Beijing would send in the People’s Liberation Army if it felt threatened by a rapid breakdown in Kim Jong-il’s rule over the country.
China would seek to win the backing of the United Nations first, but would be prepared to act unilaterally if necessary.

The Sun returns to a pre Xmas story

Darwins to face extra charges

BACK-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne have been charged with additional counts of deception.
Mr Darwin, 57, and his wife, 55, will appear before Hartlepool Magistrates’ Court tomorrow to face the new charges.

Finally most of the papers report

Nicolas Sarkozy signals Carla Bruni marriage says the Telegraph

President Nicolas Sarkozy has given the strongest sign yet that he intends to marry the former supermodel Carla Bruni.After weekend reports that a wedding is planned for early February, Mr Sarkozy joked that it was not up to Sunday papers to set the date. However, "there is a strong chance that you will learn about it after it's already done," he told a press conference at the Elysée palace.