As the country waits for the Bank of England's decision on interest rates,the Express lead with the headline HELP

MILLIONS of families were praying for a cut in interest rates today amid growing concern about turmoil in the property market.
Money experts predict a 0.25 per cent reduction when the Bank of England announces its decision this afternoon but are calling for a larger cut – half a per cent – to help bring millions of home owners back from the brink of financial meltdown. Adding

In the past six months alone, 1.4million home owners have been forced to dump their mortgage lenders in a desperate bid to find a cheaper rate. Many faced acute hardship when they came off fixed-rate deals that were much lower than lenders’ standard rates which have risen in line with the Bank of England.

The Telegraph also leads with the interest rate story declaring

'Greedy' banks push up mortgage rates

Banks and building societies have been accused of profiteering after official figures showed that they had raised millions of their customers' mortgage bills before an expected cut in interest rates by the Bank of England.While a cut today should bring some respite for struggling home owners, analysis by The Daily Telegraph shows how banks have not only failed to pass on the previous cut, they have actually raised the average mortgage rate.

NHS closes its doors to foreign doctors says the Times

Doctors from India, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries are to be barred from the NHS in an attempt to preserve health service jobs for British graduates.
For generations the health service has been sustained by immigration but yesterday the Home Office moved to end a crisis that has prevented thousands of highly trained British doctors from advancing their careers. Last year the system for selecting doctors for higher training collapsed in what was described as the greatest disaster for medical training in a generation.

Non-EU doctors barred from specialist training in UK reports the Independent

New immigration rules coming into force next year are likely to lead to a drop of between 3,000 and 5,000 overseas applicants, but will not apply to foreign doctors already working or studying in the UK.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, said yesterday: "Doctors from overseas have played an invaluable role in the NHS for many years and will continue to do so. They have helped us fill key skill-shortage areas such as psychiatry, obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics. But as the number of UK medical school graduates expands, there should be less need to rely on overseas doctors for these specialties.

The paper leads though with the news that

The world's most powerful woman has added her voice to the campaign to save the life of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student journalist sentenced to death for downloading material on women's rights from the internet.
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, promised yesterday to raise his case personally with the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, which would significantly raise the international pressure for his release.

The Mail leads with benefit Britain

Six million Britons are living in homes where no one has a job and "benefits are a way of life", a report by MPs revealed yesterday.
And they cost the taxpayer nearly £13billion a year in state handouts.
This army of families on benefit - nearly one in six of all households in the country - has been untouched by a decade of Labour's attempts to get them into work, said the Public Accounts Committee.
Four out of five of these homes have no one who is even looking for a job.

Vending machines to give teenagers condoms reports the Telegraph

Free condoms and pregnancy testing kits are to be dispensed from interactive vending machines in chemists as part of a contraception drive.The machines are part of a £27 million effort to improve access to contraception for young people and cut the number of teenage pregnancies.

Meanwhile the Times reports

Genes not poor diet blamed for most cases of childhood obesity

Nature, and not nurture, is the chief reason why some children put on weight while others stay slim, according to research that suggests parents are not entirely to blame for the epidemic of childhood obesity.
British scientists have found that genes account for more than three quarters of the differences between children’s waistlines, with lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise playing a much smaller role.

Most youngsters drink alcohol by the age of 13 reports the Independent

Britain has arrived at a "worrying tipping-point" where a majority of the nation's 13-year-olds – equivalent to 350,000 youths – have already started drinking alcohol, Jacqui Smith has warned.
The Home Secretary signalled tougher action against parents who encourage home drinking as she disclosed that ever-growing numbers of children regularly sampled alcohol when they entered their teens.


There is much coverage of the results of Super Tuesday

Barack Obama 'ahead of Hillary Clinton'says the Telegraph

Barack Obama claimed a "big victory" on Super Tuesday after winning 13 states and establishing a slender lead over Hillary Clinton in the number of delegates who will pick the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.The Clinton campaign claimed it was in the driving seat by counting super-delegates - party bigwigs who can choose who they back - who had made an early commitment to the former First Lady.

The Times reports that

both claim a victory on points as they gear up for next round

The two candidates are so evenly matched in terms of their appeal, policies and historic potential that their campaigns are grinding out a stalemate that may not be resolved until the Democratic convention in August.
Both could claim a points victory after trading blows all through Tuesday night. Mrs Clinton won the biggest prizes in New York, New Jersey, and California while also going some way to answer claims about her electability by picking up the Republican-leaning “red states” of Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face 6-month duel says the Mirror

Its front page carries has an interview with

Kamil Kaplan: The man who threw the baby from blaze window

The man who threw his baby nephew from the fourth floor of a blazing apartment said yesterday: "I had no choice."
Kamil Kaplan, 28, added: "Before I let go I gave Onur a kiss. My sister went wild and yelled 'Don't drop him, don't drop him'."
He had only a split second to make the extraordinary decision that could save his baby nephew - or lead to the tot's certain death.



The Sun reports from the Sally Bowman murder trial

THE boyfriend of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman was forced to defend himself in court yesterday as he was asked if he killed her.
Plasterer Lewis Sproston, 22, was challenged by barrister Anthony Glass, QC for accused pub chef Mark Dixie.
Lewis admitted he had a row with Sally Anne, 18, just before she was savagely stabbed to death.
And Mr Glass asked him: “Had you left her dead or dying?”
Looking shocked, the boyfriend replied: “Are you being serious? No.”
Mr Glass persisted: “Did you lose your temper and kill her?” Lewis replied: “No.”


The Mirror reports on

Tears for the Busby Babes

A sky blue scarf captured a city united in remembrance yesterday.
Laid in a sea of red and white flowers, the rival City emblem told the world that all Manchester mourned the eight United Busby Babes and 15 others who died in the Munich air crash 50 years ago.
The disaster that robbed Man United of some of its brightest hopes was remembered by fans across the globe with a memorial service held at the site of the tragedy.

United defined by Munich tragedy says the Times,Simon Barnes reflecting

Sport is life. It is the most vivid form of being alive, at any rate in public. Sport's triumphs and disasters, joys and sorrows, shame and glory have an intensity impossible to find elsewhere on a regular basis and it acquires an added meaning and importance from sport's essential triviality. Sport may be said to be the precise opposite of death.


The papers reflect on England's new boss

Now you know how we feel says the front page of the Sun

SO we will give headmaster Fabio Capello’s team a B, with a gold star for Joe Cole, a silver one for David Bentley and a merit for Wayne Rooney.
Capello will expect more as the term progresses but he was entitled to a feeling of mild satisfaction as he retired to his study last night.
It took a while for England to get going but they had plenty of chances to have won by more before the bell went.

The Indpendent saying

Forgive us, Fabio, if the nation does not herald a brave new dawn in the blighted life of the England national team this morning: it is just that they have seen quite a few of them fade and fail before.

The latest revelations from the Diana inquest are reported

Dodi Fayed was ‘sleeping with a model by night and wooing Princess Diana by day’ reports the Times

Dodi Fayed indulged in all-night lovemaking with Kelly Fisher, his previous girlfriend, while wooing Diana, Princess of Wales, it was alleged at the couple’s inquests yesterday.
Miss Fisher, an underwear model, has already appeared as a witness at the hearings claiming that she and Mr Fayed were engaged when the son of the owner of Harrods began a relationship with the Princess in 1997 only weeks before they were killed in a car crash in Paris.

And the latest revelation from Britney on the front page of the Sun

Parents fear for Britney's life

CHAOTIC scenes surrounded BRITNEY SPEARS after she was freed from a mental ward last night.
Fans feared for the troubled pop star as she drove haphazardly round Los Angeles in her black Mercedes.
Her parents JAMIE and LYNNE are furious she has been released so early and have issued this statement:
"As parents of an adult child in the throws of a mental health crisis, we were extremely disappointed this morning to learn that over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist, our daughter Britney was released from the hospital that could best care for her and keep her safe.

Finally most of the papers report that

Grange Hill axed by BBC after 30 years,the Telegraph reporting

The show broke boundaries over the years by tackling controversial issues such as drugs, alcoholism and homosexuality.
But the BBC had decided to close the gates of the fictional comprehensive school at the end of the year because it feels the show no longer accurately reflects the lives of children today.
Anne Gilchrist, the CBBC controller, said: "Part of CBBC's reputation for reflecting contemporary Britain back to UK children has been built upon Phil Redmond's brilliantly realised idea and of course it's sad to say goodbye to such a much loved institution