The row over the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments continues as the Telegraph reports that
Lord Carey and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor rebut the call of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for Islamic law to be recognised in Britain.
Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, said: "His acceptance of some Muslim laws within British law would be disastrous for the nation. He has overstated the case for accommodating Islamic legal codes

Now Archbishop is forced to explain himself to General Synod says the Mail

The Archbishop of Canterbury was battling to salvage his authority last night after the outcry over his remarks on Islamic law reached the highest levels of the Church of England.
As Dr Rowan Williams tried to claim his comments had been misrepresented, two bishops dealt a blow to the attempted fightback by adding their voices to the criticism.

The Observer meanwhile reports that

Top judges in key ruling on sharia marriage

Three senior judges are to rule on the legality of an arranged marriage conducted in the UK under sharia law, a judgment that could have profound consequences for British Muslims.Lord Justice Thorpe, Lord Justice Hall and Lady Justice Hallett were asked by the man's family to reject an earlier decision that, because the groom was unable to give his consent, the marriage was unlawful. Mr Justice Wood said that the true test into the validity of the marriage was 'whether the marriage is so offensive to the conscience of the English court that it should refuse to recognise and give effect to the proper foreign law'

The Times leads by pouring more fuel on the fires

Minister warns of ‘inbred’ Muslims

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.
Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

As does the Independent whose front page tells us

Police say 17,000 women are victims every year

Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to "honour" related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs.
And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).
It warns that the number of girls falling victim to forced marriages, kidnappings, sexual assaults, beatings and even murder by relatives intent on upholding the "honour" of their family is up to 35 times higher than official figures suggest

The Express joins in to with its front page revealing

SUICIDE BOMBER, 12, AT UK SCHOOL

FURY erupted last night after it emerged that a boy of 12 who trained to be a suicide bomber is being allowed to attend school in Britain.
Parents of his classmates are unaware of the Afghan child’s terrifying past. MP Philip Davies said the youngster should be removed from school immediately so a proper investigation can take place into any potential danger he poses.
The Tory MP for Shipley, West Yorks, said: “This boy has had a tragic upbringing through no fault of his own. But there should be a detailed and thorough look at his past and the threat he could pose in the future. I am sure that the parents in the school would be concerned if they were told about it.”





If the qualities are going for the Archbishop,the red tops are gunning for Heather Mills

Mucca cheated on Macca says the news of the World,its inside pages under the headline Rumpy Stumpy report

We can reveal that Mucca romped with handsome film editor Tim Steel THE NIGHT BEFORE joining Macca on a romantic Caribbean Valentine's holiday.
The one-legged ex-hooker even brazenly showed her lover Sir Paul's tender texts—before leaping into bed with Tim for marathon sex sessions.
"I didn't mind—I suppose I was flattered that Heather still wanted to have sex with me despite being pursued by this musical demi-god," says Tim, breaking his silence on an affair that will stun the nation.

Whilst the Sunday Mirror reports that

Sir Paul McCartney delivers first blow in divorce war with Heather Mills

Macca's normally money-spinning global empire actually made a LOSS while he was married to Heather, new figures revealed yesterday.
Heather, 40, claims she got 65-year-old Macca back on his feet and working again after the death of his first wife Linda and so deserves a share of his earnings.
But, on the eve of tomorrow's High Court divorce battle, Paul has showed his company MPL Communications made an overall loss of nearly £2million between 2002 and 2006 - when they were living together as man and wife.

The Mail is furious about our Olympic athletes

Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts

British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
The move – which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 – immediately provoked a storm of protest.
The controversial clause has been inserted into athletes' contracts for the first time and forbids them from making any political comment about countries staging the Olympic Games.

More political scandal in the Indy

Davis embroiled in row over £20,000 donation

A senior member of David Cameron's Shadow Cabinet has been dragged into a fresh row over political funding after a Labour MP asked the elections watchdog to investigate a £20,000 contribution to his campaign team.
David Davis faces the prospect of an Electoral Commission inquiry over a substantial donation that passed through several hands and was declared by four people, including Derek Conway.

And in the Telegraph which reports that

Ancram £20,000 to paint house white

Michael Ancram, the multi-millionaire former party chairman and deputy leader, claimed £22,030 - only £80 less than the maximum available to him under the controversial "additional costs allowance" (ACA). The allowance helps MPs with constituencies outside London to support the cost of running a second home.

And the Times which reports on

James Purnell's £20,000 tax trick

JAMES PURNELL, a rising cabinet star, was plunged into a new row this weekend about MPs’ expenses over his ownership of two properties.
The controversy centres on a flat that he bought in London before becoming an MP and his Manchester constituency home, which he acquired several years later. He was able to claim thousands of pounds of MPs’ expenses on the London home and is accused of exploiting a tax loophole to avoid a huge bill on its sale

The Observer leads with the story that

GPs have got Britain 'hooked on painkillers'

Doctors are unwittingly fuelling the growing number of Britons hooked on prescription drugs by giving patients dangerously high doses of medicines that can prove highly addictive, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.
MPs say that 'mis-prescribing' of drugs such as painkillers, sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety pills by some doctors is 'leading to addiction and dependence'.
GPs ignore official advice that patients should take powerful benzodiazepine tranquillisers for no more than four weeks by handing out repeat prescriptions without even seeing them in their surgery, says an all-party parliamentary group on drug misuse. The Home Office blames the mis-use benzodiazepines for causing 17,000 deaths since their introduction in the Sixties.

Most of the papers report that

Camden market hit by blaze The Times tells us

A major fire which at times leapt 30m (100ft) into the air has destroyed part of the world-famous Camden Market in north London.

At its height, more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze as it consumed stalls, storage areas and a pub.

Witnesses reported hearing an explosion just after 7pm which blew out windows in buildings near the Camden Lock area. The fire took hold in a scaffolding-covered building in the Hawley Wharf part of the market on Chalk Farm Road.
Among the badly damaged buildings was the Hawley Arms pub, which has been a favourite with celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, the singer, and Sadie Frost, the fashion designer and actress.

According to the Telegraph

Countryside abandoned as schools close daily

Schools are being shut at the rate of almost one a day, with hundreds axed in rural areas in the past five years says the paper

The full extent of the closures is revealed for the first time in new government figures which show that a total of 1,704 schools have been shut in England since 2002 - an average of 6.6 a week.
Rural counties figure high on the list. Twenty-six schools have been axed in Durham, 58 in Kent, 34 in Lancashire, 33 in Norfolk and 38 in Northamptonshire. Worcestershire has seen the closure of 56 schools, while 33 have closed in Wiltshire.

'Secret' eco-town plans spark protest reports the Observer

Controversial plans for a string of eco-towns have sparked nationwide protests. Demonstrations against the developments have begun two weeks before Housing Minister Caroline Flint is due to announce the 10 locations she has chosen for the first green communities.
Local groups are complaining that they have been kept in the dark about proposals to create the towns, some of which involve building 20,000 homes as well as schools and roads, although developers have already submitted their plans to the government.

News from abroad and the Times reveals that

Sarkozy’s nuclear seduction secret is out as a author

quotes Bruni telling a friend that although she would not vote for him, she had “the hots” for Sarkozy during the election campaign last year. The former top model, whose conquests included Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, the rock stars, and Donald Trump, the American property billionaire, told another friend before meeting Sarkozy: “I want a man with nuclear power.” Sarkozy was miserable. He had dreamt of being president since childhood and at last had his finger on the nuclear force de frappebutton. Things had turned bitter, however: having settled him into office, Cécilia, his wife of the past 11 years, had divorced him, saying that she was in love with another man.

The Observer also has some French news

French flock to 'Costa del Couscous' quoting that

Although British, Italian and Spanish immigrants are among the wave of newcomers, the vast majority are French. Attracted by the sun, cheap property and tax breaks, their numbers have rocketed in the past three years. There are cheap flights, and French is widely spoken in the former colony that retains strong cultural links - couscous was recently voted the most popular single dish in France. Alain Felix, a former fighter pilot who recently arrived in the city of Fez, said that he was leaving behind a 'sad and expensive' France.




Student sectioned for anti-Putin activities says the Telegraph

Mr Basirov, 20, a university student, was among a group of pro-democracy activists planning a protest against President Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule ahead of last December's elections.
But on the night before the planned demonstration, he was snatched by secret service officers, taken to a state psychiatric hospital and forced to undergo a month of "treatment", during which he was fed mind-numbing drugs.

Serbs warn of Kosovo clash says the Observer

Serbia's president Boris Tadic has made a last-ditch appeal to world leaders to retreat from a carefully orchestrated plan to recognise the independence of Kosovo from Serbia, now widely expected to take place at the end of this week.
Tadic, regarded as a moderate, warned that the expected recognition next Sunday by up to 100 countries, led by the United States, was 'cutting corners' in the middle of difficult negotiations and counselled that it threatened to reactivate old conflicts in the region and trigger new ones. He said that the only way to avoid this was to achieve a negotiated resolution supported by all parties and backed by the UN Security Council.

According to the Independent

World champion boxer warns that Barack will be assassinated within months if he wins presidency

World champion boxer Bernard Hopkins, who will fight the undefeated Briton Joe Calzaghe in April, believes black Democratic contender Barak Obama would be assassinated "within months" if he became US president in November.
Hopkins, the world light-heavyweight boxing champion, told The Independent on Sunday: "I don't think America is ready for an African-American in the White House. If he gets the nomination they won't let him become president, but if they do, it will be for a short time, maybe less than a month or two. His life would be in jeopardy.


The Mail reports that

45,000 back Mail on Sunday’s Save Britannia on our coins bid

Support was soaring last night for a Mail on Sunday campaign to stop Britannia's removal from British coins after 336 years.
More than 45,000 readers have signed a petition to save her.
In a revamp of coinage, approved by Gordon Brown and to be unveiled in April, Britannia will no longer be on the 50p piece

Bacck to the tabloids and the Mirror claims

Cheryl Cole smashes up mobile so cheating husband Ashley can't contact her

A tearful Cheryl Cole smashed up her mobile phone before flying to Thailand - so cheating husband Ashley couldn't get in touch.
Cheryl, 24, is refusing to have any contact with the disgraced Chelsea player while she makes a decision about their future

And the same paper claims

Prince William and Kate Middleton on the rocks - again

The couple have have met just once since Christmas and the passion on William's side of the relationship is "evaporating", they claim.

The News of the World claims

TV's millionaire Mr Nasty had two immigrant servants living on a pittance

TELLY hard man Jeremy Paxman has been exposed as a penny-pinching grump who keeps servants above the garage and pays them £5 an hour.
The millionaire Newsnight host — who recently complained about Marks & Spencer's boxer shorts — is so tight he wears raggedy old pants full of holes.
And last Christmas he treated his eastern European staff to a 50p pair of Primark slippers.
Ex-housekeeper Daniela Savin said: "He made us feel really, really small. My friends could not believe how stingy he was."

LAUGHTER AMID TEARS FOR HEATH reports the Express

IT’S not a sight you’d expect to see at every memorial service. As the sun set on a bright Australian day, Heath Ledger’s family and celebrity friends splashed about in the sea on the beach where the star loved to surf.
Even Michelle Williams, his former fiancee, looked momentarily happy as she waded into the waves, still wearing her designer dress, at the end of an emotional day.

Finally as Valentines approaches the Independent reports

Restaurant offers a £10,000 way to your Valentine's heart

The restaurant, in Park Lane central London, is offering one customer an astonishing £10,000 dinner bill – plus service – for the pleasure of popping the question over a meal for two.
For that sum, which would buy nearly 170,000 children a hot lunch according to Oxfam, two people will get an eight-course blow out featuring the restaurant world's full repertoire of culinary extravagances – and clichés. Foie gras? Check. Truffles? Check. Wagyu beef, bluefin tuna, Beluga caviar? Check, check, check. The lucky lady, who had better not be either vegetarian or ethically minded, will also get a diamond ring worth £5,000.