The Sunday Mirror posts the latest political funding revelations this morning

Foreign student gave £3K to Alan Johnson's deputy leadership campaign but amazingly confesses to us: I DON'T KNOW HIM

A penniless foreigner was used as a front to donate £3,000 to Alan Johnson's campaign for Labour deputy leader.
But immigrant Waseem Siddiqui, 50, said he does not even know who Health Secretary Mr Johnson is.
And he claimed he had no idea who the cash was for - alleging his brother, a Labour official, asked him to write a blank cheque.
The extraordinary revelation takes Labour's donorgate scandal to a new low and will cause huge embarrassment to Mr Johnson.

The papers though have a variety on topics on their front pages

The Times reports that

MPs press for ban on SS camp ‘video nasty’

FILMS with graphic violence, including one simulating the rape, torture and incineration of concentration camp victims, are being freely sold on the high street, prompting demands by MPs for a reform of the censorship laws.
SS Experiment Camp is one of a clutch of violent films banned 20 years ago by the director of public prosecutions that have been approved for general release by Britain’s film censors and are on sale in shops.

The Express goes with the same story

Outrage at sick Nazi Dvd's for sale

Britannia banished from our coins says the Mail

Gordon Brown's campaign to promote British values was exposed as a sham last night after it was revealed he personally approved a decision to remove Britannia from the 50p coin.
The patriotic symbol - based on a Roman goddess - will no longer be on any British coin for the first time in more than 300 years, as part of a redesign by the Royal Mint.
An overhaul of all coinage in April, being billed as the most significant change to the currency since decimalisation, will see it replaced with a representation of modern Britain.

The Sunday's not suprisingly focus on the rogue trader

French rally behind rogue trader reports the Observer

France has been polarised by the unlikely figure of the taciturn, clean-cut man behind the biggest 'rogue trader' scandal of all time. Some 300 miles west of Paris, in his home village of Pont l'Abbé on the Brittany peninsula, Kerviel is a hero - particularly with the ladies in the hair salon his mother used to own.
'He was your ideal son-in-law,' said 62-year-old Martine Le Pohon, who remembers Jérôme helping his mother out on Saturdays at Un Monde Imagin' Hair. 'And if it turns out that he has stood up to the system to the tune of €5m, well, as far as I am concerned, that makes him even more ideal.'

The Times reports that

Jérôme Kerviel was taken into custody after police searched his home and his office at Société Générale. The bank claims that unauthorised trading by the 31-year-old cost it £3.7 billion. Daniel Bouton, the beleaguered chairman, insisted yesterday that the trader had acted alone, like an “arsonist” who “burnt down a big factory”.
However, scepticism was growing this weekend about how he could have sidestepped so many controls designed to keep tabs on traders. Family members and finance experts called Kerviel a “scapegoat”.

'Mummy I've done nothing wrong,' sobbed Rogue trader before being arrested over £3.6bn fraud reports the Mail

Kerviel spent the days leading up to his arrest being comforted by his mother, Marie-Jose, 71, and 37-year-old brother Olivier.
He is said to have been inconsolable, repeatedly crying to his mother: "Mummy, I've done nothing wrong."


Both the Independent and the Telegraph lead with opinion stories

Profits of doom says the former

Global warming ranks far down the concerns of the world's biggest companies, despite world leaders' hopes that they will pioneer solutions to the impending climate crisis, a startling survey will reveal this week.
Nearly nine in 10 of them do not rate it as a priority, says the study, which canvassed more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China. Nearly twice as many see climate change as imposing costs on their business as those who believe it presents an opportunity to make money. And the report's publishers believe that big business will concentrate even less on climate change as the world economy deteriorates.

The Telegraph reports on an undercover operation

Uk's new slave trade

Hundreds of young children are being sold and "trafficked" to Britain from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves, it can be revealed.The illicit trade in children - sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph investigation.An undercover reporter was offered several children for sale by their parents in Nigeria: two boys aged three and five for £5,000, or £2,500 for one, and a 10-month-old baby for £2,000. Teenage girls - including some still pregnant - were willing to sell their babies for less than £1,000.

The Observer leads with the news that

Hundreds of village schools face axe

Hundreds of village schools across Britain are being closed, despite a long-term pledge by the government to maintain education in the countryside. The policy U-turn will affect 30,000 children in up to 300 schools in its first stage, The Observer has learnt. Campaigners warned last night that the 'nightmare scenario' would see more than 1,000 small schools in England and Wales at risk. The closures are taking place despite a promise by education minister Stephen Byers in 1998 that village schools would be protected.

Mental Health Campaign: Families demand full inquests for deaths in secure hospitals reports the Independent

Hundreds of people with mental health problems are dying while detained in hospital but their deaths are not being fully investigated.
Legal experts and campaigners claim coroners are failing to investigate thoroughly many of these deaths because of a legal loophole, with the result that suspected failures in care and even abuse are going undetected.

Most of the papers report on the latest Primary news

Barack Obama's big win in South Carolina says the Telegraph

Barack Obama won a shock landslide victory in the South Carolina primary election last night – dramatically reviving his bid for the White House and serving warning to Hillary Clinton that she is in the fight of her life for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Times adds

Mrs Clinton was a long way back in second place, ahead of John Edwards, a "native son" of South Carolina who won the state's primary four years ago.
Around half the turnout in South Carolina on Saturday was black. According to exit polls, black women turned out in particularly large numbers and also gave overwhelming backing to Mr Obama - suggesting race had trumped gender in this state.

More from abroad and the Observer reports

Berlusconi models his comeback on Blair

Silvio Berlusconi has put a very British stamp on his comeback campaign, promising to govern for three years, if elected, with a pragmatic rather than ideological approach modelled on Tony Blair - before handing over to an 'Italian Gordon Brown'.
'Berlusconi will propose a very simple, very pragmatic and very British eight-to-ten-point plan, similar in style to Tony Blair, whose achievements Berlusconi really admires and with whom he always had an excellent relationship,' his spokesman, Paolo Bonaiuti, told The Observer yesterday.

The Indy tells us that

Van Hoogstraten arrested on cash and porn charges

The infamous property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been arrested by Zimbabwean police, who suspect him of violating the country's currency exchange rules and possessing pornography.
Police detained Van Hoogstraten, 63, last Thursday night and charged him with levying rents on properties he owns in foreign currency as well as illegally dealing in foreign currency. He is also expected to face charges in connection with home-made pornography featuring him and a young Zimbabwean woman.


There has been a lot about obesity in the papers this week and the Independent reports on

the latest answer to child obesity: the Wii

Computer games, the prime suspects when health experts try to explain why the UK's children are the most obese in the nation's history, have now emerged as a potential cure for overweight youngsters.
With the Government desperately trying ever more imaginative ways to improve rates of exercise and participation in sport, officials are considering encouraging schools across the country to put the new generation of "active computer games" on the curriculum, to help the most at-risk youngsters out of their sedentary lifestyles.

Pro-life MPs seek free embryo vote says the Observer

Gordon Brown is facing a revolt by cabinet ministers who are demanding a free vote over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, claiming that the ethical issues it raises are matters of conscience.
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly and Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy are leading the calls for MPs to be allowed a free vote on whether to permit the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos and to allow children to be born by IVF without a father's involvement. Both are fierce critics and want to avoid having to choose between deeply held personal beliefs and backing the government.

The trials and tribulations of Ashley cole feature heavily in the red tops

I'll stand by Ashley says the News of the World

DEVASTATED Cheryl Cole has pledged to stand by disgraced husband Ashley and honour every word of her solemn wedding vows — despite his drunken night of shame with a blonde.
In a searingly frank world-exclusive interview, the stunning Girls Aloud star spoke for the first time of her pain and anguish at the scandal surrrounding the England ace. adding

we can reveal Cheryl is CONVINCED her husband never had sex with 22-year-old Aimee Walton, BELIEVES his story and is still DETERMINED they can make their marriage work

The Mirror though can reveal

Ashley Cole faces more cheating claims

Glamour model Brooke Healy claims disgraced Cole had sex with her after a Christmas party just five months after his wedding.
And she was then paid £6,000 in cash to keep quiet about it to protect Cole's reputation.
Meanwhile, we can reveal that a second glamour girl was paid £10,000 not to speak about her relationship with the millionaire defender after signing a bizarre contract with his lawyers.


The Mail reports that

'Irresponsible' Sainsbury's under fire for selling cider at just 26p per pint

Sainsbury's has come under fire for slashing the price of cider to 26p a pint, fuelling concern over the role of supermarkets in the nation's binge-drinking culture.
The promotion comes just days after three teenagers were convicted of the murder of Garry Newlove, who they kicked to death after getting drunk on cheap cider and lager.

Britain urged to love a man in uniform again says the Times

THE government is to sweep away curbs on servicemen and women wearing uniforms off duty in public as part of a drive to boost popular support for the armed services.
A report commissioned by Gordon Brown to honour those serving in Afghanistan and Iraq will say all service personnel should be encouraged to wear their uniforms on leave.
The curbs were introduced almost 30 years ago during the IRA’s bombing campaign on mainland Britain when military personnel were warned not to wear uniforms off duty.

Back to politics and the Observer reports that

Brown is Blair's true heir

James Purnell, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, who will unveil the plan with the Prime Minister tomorrow, today hails the move and makes the extraordinary claim that Brown should now be seen as the true 'heir to Blair'.
'Gordon Brown is clearly the heir to Blair,' Purnell, a protege of the former Prime Minister, said. 'They created New Labour together and he is building on the reforms of the last 10 years but there is unfinished business' of reform.

Driver hits 125mph on busy motorway - and shows the film on YouTube
reports the Mail

Police are trying to identify a man who filmed himself driving at 125mph - and then posted the clip on the internet.
A three-minute video on the YouTube website shows him hurtling down the outside lane of the M23 in Sussex, forcing other motorists to swerve out of his way.
The driver then reveals his speedometer reading.

Amy Winehouse's mum says she'll be dead in a year reports the Mirror

Janis Winehouse has only watched it once: the grainy video of her daughter Amy doped up on Valium and smoking crack cocaine. But she knows its significance.

"I've known for a long time that my daughter has problems," she says, numbly. "But seeing it on screen rammed it home. I realise my daughter could be dead within the year. We're watching her kill herself, slowly.





The Telegraph has solved the mystery of Shergar its

chief reporter Andrew Alderson has solved the mystery of Shergar's final hours, why his remains have never been found and uncovered the truth about the bungled ransom attempt that led to his demise

Finally staying with the Telegraph the paper reports on the

Contact lenses with Terminator vision

An electronic contact lens has been developed that will enable maps and videos to be beamed before the wearer's eyes.
The bionic lens has microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic. The scientists who created the device say the lenses could eventually provide computer-aided vision similar to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger's robotic character in the Terminator films. adding

Drivers and pilots would have essential information - their speed and direction, for example - superimposed in front of their eyes, in a massive advance on the kind of "wearable displays" now available, which are spectacles that have images displayed on the lenses