The Tabloids continue to focus on the convicted killer Levi Bellman this morning.

The Mirror asks

DID HE KILL AT 12?

Bus stop killer Levi Bellfield may have murdered his first victim when he was TWELVE, it was feared last night.
He is suspected of strangling childhood sweetheart Patsy Morris, 14, in 1980. Police are now set to question him.
The horrifying development emerged as the 20st predator was jailed yesterday for the rest of his life for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18.

On the Prowl says the Sun with a picture showing

GRINNING hammer killer Levi Bellfield zeroes in on a blonde clubber — his target unaware he is hunting for a victim.
The bus stop beast, 39, is suspected of a HUNDRED attacks. And the trial which convicted him of killing two students heard he hated blondes adding that

Yesterday the brute was ordered to die in jail by a judge — but Bellfield chickened out of appearing to be sentenced. Instead of allowing his victims’ relatives to see justice done at the Old Bailey, he remained in his cell on suicide watch in London’s top-security Belmarsh Prison.

Cowardly bus stop killer will die in Jail says the Express

The Independent continues another of yesterday's stories

Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines

The pharmaceutical industry came under assault from senior figures in medical research yesterday over its practice of withholding information to protect profits, exposing patients to drugs which could be useless or harmful.
Experts criticised the stranglehold exerted by multinational companies over clinical trials, which has led to biased results, under-reporting of negative findings and selective publication driven by the market, which was worth £10.1bn in the UK in 2006, amounting to 11 per cent of total NHS costs

Drugs also make the front page of the Guardian

Get treatment or lose benefit, drug users told

Thousands of problem drug users will face losing welfare benefit payments for up to six months if they repeatedly fail to participate in drug treatment programmes under "three strikes and you're out" proposals to be announced today.
The move to use the benefits system to encourage drug users to stay in treatment is likely to prove controversial, with some critics warning that cutting benefits could actually fuel crime as those affected steal more to fund their habit

And the Telegraph stays on the benefits theme

Millions forced to work in benefits shake-up

Large parts of the benefits system are to be privatised, with companies hired to find jobs for the unemployed, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.Private firms will be given incentives of up to £50,000 each to get people back to work and reduce the country's £12 billion annual incapacity benefit bill.

The Guardian reports

Five who trained at Osama bin London's terror camps jailed

Five London men were yesterday jailed under new anti-terrorist legislation for taking part in al-Qaida-style training camps in the New Forest and at paintballing sessions in the home counties. The sentences ranged between four years 11 months and three years five months. Their terrorist instructor, who dubbed himself "Osama bin London", and a preacher they recognised as their "amir", or leader, were convicted of soliciting to murder. Both will be sentenced next week

'Osama bin London'groomed 21/7 bombers says the Telegraph

The missed opportunities in relation to the July 21 bombers can be disclosed today following the conviction of one of the most senior terrorist recruiters in Britain - a man who called himself "Osama bin London.Street preacher Mohammed Hamid - who once told young Muslims the 52 deaths in the July 7 attacks on London were "not even breakfast to me" - groomed the would-be suicide bombers under the noses of watching police, security services and even the BBC

Meanwhile the Times leads with

Gordon Brown faces defeat on 42-day anti-terror law

Gordon Brown faces the first major defeat of his premiership as ministers and security chiefs admitted last night that they were losing the battle to detain terror suspects without charge for 42 days. The Government has failed so far to secure the necessary support for the measure, despite the Prime Minister throwing his personal authority behind it.
Ministers have been forced to draw up a list of major last-minute concessions, The Times has learnt, amid efforts to win more support for the measure.

The Independent reports that

Arab TV shows video of Briton kidnapped in Iraq

One of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq last May has been shown appealing for his release in a video broadcast by an Arab television station.
The al-Arabiya channel aired the footage last night, claiming it was from a group calling itself the Islamic Shia Resistance.
In it, a bearded white man with dark circles around his eyes is seen saying: "My name is Peter Moore. I have been held here for nearly eight months now.



The Mail reports on a

Jersey care home abuse victim: I was locked up, drugged, beaten and sexually abused

Victims of the 'Colditz' care home where police believe up to six children may have died gave haunting accounts yesterday of sickening abuse by staff.
Former residents described systematic torture at the Haut de la Garenne home on Jersey, claiming children were repeatedly drugged, raped and beaten.
Others were subjected to sadistic games after staff stumbled drunkenly into dormitories to select victims.
One woman told how she was sedated with Valium before being subjected to "the most cruel, sadistic and evil acts you could think of" at the age of 13.

Jersey home victims break their silence says the Times

Residents of a former children’s home in Jersey where parts of a child’s skeleton were uncovered gave the first harrowing accounts yesterday of institutionalised brutality and sexual abuse.
A mother of two described how she was drugged so that she would remain docile while being raped and sexually assaulted by members of staff.
Another former resident, Peter Hannaford, now a trade union official on the island, said that his earliest memories were of sexual abuse by staff at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home. The pair are among more than 150 alleged victims who have told police of abuse at the home dating back more than 40 years

Most of the papers report that

Lib Dems walkout over Michael Martin's ruling,the Telegraph reporting that


The authority of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin has been further undermined when the Liberal Democrats staged an unruly walkout after he blocked calls for a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
Amid extraordinary scenes, Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, stormed out of the chamber with his colleagues, calling the Speaker's decision a constitutional "outrage".
The breakdown of parliamentary discipline occurred seconds after the party's foreign affairs spokesman, Ed Davey, had been unceremoniously expelled from the chamber by Mr Martin's deputy, Sir Michael Lord, for angrily criticising the Speaker's ruling.

Speaker speeds up MPs' expenses inquiry reports the Indy

Michael Martin, the embattled Commons Speaker, has speeded up a review of MPs' expenses – a move which could pave the way for him to announce he is to stand down.
There is growing speculation at Westminster that Mr Martin, 62, will tell the Commons in July that he will not seek another term as Speaker and will retire as MP for Glasgow Springburn at the next general election. Traditionally, a sitting Speaker is not opposed by the other parties

MPs ordered to reveal every detail about second home expenses says the Mail

A Commons campaign to police MPs' expenses behind closed doors was dealt a hammer blow last night after they were ordered to publish a detailed breakdown of their spending.
Campaigners won a four-year battle to shed light on how public money is spent by parliamentarians after officials admitted the system is wide open to abuse.
In what was hailed as a major victory for the taxpayer, the Information Tribunal rejected a plea for secrecy by the House of Commons

And the Times reports

Cabinet minutes in run-up to Iraq war ‘must be made public’

The intimate discussions about Iraq around the Cabinet table in the weeks leading up to the invasion in March 2003 must be made public, the Information Commissioner told the Government yesterday. It would be the first disclosure of Cabinet minutes recent enough for some members still to be serving in the Cabinet.
In a ruling that the Government is expected to fight to the High Court, the commissioner, Richard Thomas, decided that the Cabinet meetings should not be exempt under his interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act because of the “gravity and controversial nature” of the ministerial discussions



The Guardian reveals

Tesco's £1bn tax avoiding plan

Tesco has created an elaborate corporate structure involving offshore tax havens which enables it to avoid paying what could be up to £1bn of tax on profits from the sale of its UK properties.
The complex new structures uncovered by a six-month Guardian investigation include a string of Cayman Island companies, each named after a different colour, from aqua to violet. These are being used by the supermarket giant as it proceeds with its announced programme to sell and lease back £6bn worth of its UK stores

The Mail leads with Green issues and a new campaign

Banish The Bags: The Mail launches a campaign to clean up the country ... and the planet

A typical British family heads home laden with plastic bags packed full of the weekly supermarket shop...
Cut to the haunting image of a sea turtle, thousands of miles away, struggling through the deep ocean waters as discarded plastic bags wrap themselves around its flippers and body.
These majestic animals are dying in alarming numbers because they mistake the flimsy translucent bags - which could in theory come from British supermarkets - for jellyfish, a key element of their diet. and continues

An astonishing 13billion free single-use plastic bags are dished out by Britain's High Street stores every year. These flimsy bags - a byproduct of crude oil - are issued at the rate of more than 800 a year to every family in the land.
Typically they are used for only 20 minutes before being thrown out. But they will take up to 1,000 years to rot away. If the Normans had used plastic bags in the 1066 invasion, archaeologists would still be digging them up today

The Sun reports that

Viagra turned my sight blue

SEX-STARVED John Pettigrew took too many Viagras — and now lives his life in a constant "blue movie".
Plumber John, 58, sees everything in shades of blue after the sex pills damaged his vision.
The dad of two said: "I admit I ignored the advice on the packet — I was having too much fun — but I’d give up all the sex in the world to be able to see a red letterbox again."

News from abroad and the Democratic contest continues to get the press' attention

Barack Obama impresses during key debate says the Telegraph

The two candidates, the only survivors of a gruelling primary season, sat about a foot apart at a table on stage at Cleveland State University, in the 20th debate of the campaign, 10 months to the day after the first in South Carolina.

Party shifts its weight behind Barack Obama says the Times

Barack Obama was backed by a former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday, as Hillary Clinton continued to flail around in search of a formula to revive her faltering campaign. The endorsement of Senator Chris Dodd, who dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses last month, is the latest sign that the party Establishment is beginning to coalesce around Mr Obama.

The Independent looks at another televised debate

Zapatero hangs on to narrow lead

Spain's leading contenders for prime minister in next month's elections clashed in a television debate that attracted a record audience but failed to affect the narrow lead held by the socialist incumbent Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero over his conservative rival Mariano Rajoy.
The corseted format, and huge stakes, meant that neither candidate diverged from his script to land a knockout blow. But neither made a fatal gaffe in covering the main issues of the flagging economy, immigration and Basque terrorism


As talks break down, army is Kenya's best hope reports the Guardian

Britain yesterday said that the Kenyan army is now "by far the best option" to stop a sectarian bloodbath as peace talks in Nairobi between the government and opposition were suspended.
The foreign office minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Mark Malloch-Brown, said that there was a serious risk of renewed bloodshed if talks broke down irrevocably. About a thousand Kenyans have been killed since disputed elections in December and 600,000 have fled their homes after rival gangs, organised largely on ethnic lines, went on the rampage.

Ireland is running out of priests says the Times

Ireland, a country that used to export its Catholic clergy around the world, is running out of priests at such a rate that their numbers will have dropped by two thirds in the next 20 years, leaving parishes up and down the land vacant.
The decline of Catholic Ireland, for decades the Pope’s favourite bastion of faith in Europe, has been regularly predicted, as the economic successes of the Celtic Tiger brought growing secularisation. But new figures have starkly set out the fate of the Irish priesthood if action is not taken by the Church to reverse the trend.

According to the Telegraph

Robot wars 'will be a reality within 10 years'

The world is sleepwalking into an international robot arms race, an expert will warn today.Prof Noel Sharkey fears increased research by countries including America, Russia, China and Israel will lead to the use of battlefield robots that can decide when to kill within 10 years.
He will also predict that it is only a matter of time before robots become a standard terrorist weapon, replacing suicide bombers

The Mirror reports that

High Street giant Marks and Spencer to sell curry to India

The store is in talks with one of the country's largest companies - and is confident it will soon be filling chiller cabinets with ready-made chicken tikka masala, kormas and paneers.
M&S chiefs aim to exploit the increasingly wealthy middle class in affluent areas of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore - and outlets will even include M&S coffee shops.

To food matters at home and the Express leads with

SHOPPING BILL UP £18 A WEEK

Millions of families are facing an increase of up to £18 in their weekly shop, experts warned last night.
Rocketing wheat prices threaten to add around 10 per cent to food costs in shops.
The anticipated hikes are on top of the record increases in food bills over the past year. And the bleak news comes as households are already feeling the strain with soaring living costs.

According to the Mail

Poles in Britain are bringing over their own private detectives - because police in UK are 'not up to the job'
Detective agencies in Poland have reported a big increase in requests for help from their countrymen in Britain who have complained of poor or apathetic responses from UK police.
They say they have been “left to their own devices” or received "zero support" when they become victims of burglars, muggers and other criminals - complaints which are regularly made by British crime victims too.

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Foie gras is banished from table of Prince

The Prince of Wales has risked angering the French by banning the delicacy foie gras from royal menus.
The Prince has instructed chefs at all of his royal residences to stop serving the dish.
He will also reconsidering the royal warrant at one of his favourite shops - the House of Cheese in Tetbury, Glos, - after he was told that it was selling the pâté