Two faces stare out from the front of many of the papers this morning,Levi Bellfield and Milly Dowler

He killed Milly too says the Sun

A MONSTER convicted yesterday of bludgeoning two girls to death at random also murdered Milly Dowler, cops feared last night.
Bus stop beast Levi Bellfield, 39 — who armed himself with a hammer to hunt for prey — slaughtered Marsha McDonnell, 19, and French student Amelie Delagrange, 22, simply because he hated slim, young blondes

Did you kill our Milly? asks the Mirror

Milly Dowler's parents last night begged bus stop killer Levi Bellfield to reveal if he murdered their girl.
Bob and Sally Dowler made the plea over their 13-year-old as Bellfield was convicted of two murders. He is feared to have struck before and will be quizzed over 20 other attacks. Bellfield, 37, is linked to Milly's kidnap and murder in 2002 by a series of clues.

The Mail asks Will he get away with Milly's murder?

A series of appalling police blunders could let bus-stop killer Levi Bellfield cheat justice for the murder of Milly Dowler.He lived only yards from where she was last seen in Surrey and might even have known her.
Incredibly, police knocked on his door ten times, failed to get a reply and gave up.
They ignored his attempts to target two other young girls in the weeks before Milly disappeared plus the failure to identify a red car he drove, captured on CCTV the day she vanished.

A theme also on the front of the Telegraph which reports that

after the conclusion of his trial on Monday, it emerged that Bellfield had stalked the streets of affluent suburbs for two decades targeting lone women and girls - and it is suspected he may be responsible for up to 20 other attacks.
It has led to questions of how police had taken so long to realise a serial attacker was on the loose.

Away from that story and the Times leads with

Depression drugs don’t work, finds data review

Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.
The new generation of antidepressant drugs work no better than a placebo for the majority of patients with mild or even severe depression, comprehensive research of clinical trials has found.
The researchers said that the drug was more effective than a placebo in severely depressed patients but that this was because of a decreased placebo effect.

As does the Guardian which reports

The only exception is in the most severely depressed patients, according to the authors - Prof Irving Kirsch from the department of psychology at Hull University and colleagues in the US and Canada. But that is probably because the placebo stopped working so well, they say, rather than the drugs having worked better.
"Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed," says Kirsch. "This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported."

And the Indpendent which says

The finding will send shock waves through the medical profession and patients and raises serious questions about the regulation of the multinational pharmaceutical industry, which was accused yesterday of withholding data on the drugs.
It also came as Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, announced that 3,600 therapists are to be trained during the next three years to provide nationwide access through the GP service to "talking treatments" for depression, instead of drugs, in a £170m scheme. The popularity of the new generation of antidepressants, which include the best known brands Prozac and Seroxat, soared after they were launched in the late 1980s, heavily promoted by drug companies as safer and leading to fewer side-effects than the older tricyclic antidepressants.

Medical matters on the front of the Express which reports that

11 MILLION CAN'T AFFORD DENTIST

And more than half the adult population now have teeth missing.
Almost eight million patients admit they have not had recommended dental work in the last five years because of the cost.
The shameful truth about the nation’s dental health follows years of broken promises and badly-managed reforms under Labour.

The Times reports that

Beast of Jersey paedophile Edward Paisnel was known to visit children’s home

Police are to review the case of a notorious paedophile known as the Beast of Jersey who regularly visited a care home on the island where the bones of a child were found at the weekend.
For 11 years Edward Paisnel, a building contractor, stalked the island wearing a rubber mask and nail-studded wristlets, attacking women and children with apparent impunity.

Police try to break into cellar at Jersey home says the Guardian

Jersey police were last night trying to smash their way into a bricked-up cellar in search of more remains at the former children's home where a skull was dug up on Saturday.
Lenny Harper, the police officer in charge, has said he fears that six or more bodies may be buried in and around the building. Yesterday he confirmed that police had a list of missing children who they think may be relevant.
"There are a number of names that we have got but ... we can't connect any of them [to the inquiry] at this moment in time," he said.

Our Island's dark secrets says the Sun

Social worker Simon Bellwood, 33 — axed as head of another home for complaining about mistreatment of youngsters — said: “The discovery of a body will unearth decades of abuse in Jersey.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg. There has been a long-running problem. The culture on the island has allowed it to become almost acceptable to ill-treat children in care.

The Mail reports a defiant Speaker Martin returns to Commons as ministers admit 'sleaze row is damaging Parliament'

Michael Martin faced an extraordinary attack inside the House of Commons yesterday when he was warned that he was damaging the reputation of Parliament.
Pressure on the Speaker escalated after a Labour MP challenged his authority over his handling of an inquiry into MPs' expenses.
In a further sign that support for Mr Martin was fading, a senior minister described him as "appalling" and "hopeless" and said many more colleagues felt the same way

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports

Brown defends 'good' Speaker Michael Martin

On a visit in south London, Mr Brown said: "This is a matter for the House of Commons. Michael Martin has been a very, very good Speaker."
Other Labour MPs claimed that there was a witch hunt and that Mr Martin was the victim of a media conspiracy.

The Independent report the latest polls which show

Tories on course for overall majority in election

The survey by ComRes, taken after the Government announced the nationalisation of the ailing Northern Rock bank, will come as a relief to the Tories, whose lead over Labour was eroded in January.
According to the new poll, the Tories are on 41 per cent (up three points on last month), Labour is unchanged on 30 per cent, the Liberal Democrats remain on 17 per cent and other parties are on 12 per cent (down three). If repeated at the next election, David Cameron would win with an overall majority of 38.
ComRes, formerly CommunicateResearch, puts the Tories ahead among every social class, including the bottom DE group in which Labour has recently held the advantage. Among the top AB group, the Tories enjoy a commanding lead – they are on 43 per cent to Labour's 24 per cent.

Most of the papers report on the latest sleeze from American politics

Obama camp claims smear over turban photograph says the Guardian

Barack Obama's campaign team accused Hillary Clinton's beleaguered staff yesterday of mounting a dirty tricks operation by circulating a picture of him in African dress, feeding into false claims on US websites that he is a Muslim.
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, described it as "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election". Obama has spent much of the campaign emphasising he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrasa.

The Telegraph says

The photograph of the Illinois senator, which was taken in 2006 during an official trip to Wajir, a majority ethnic Somali area in Kenya, appeared on the front page of the Drudge Report, where rival campaigns typically try to place damaging material.Mrs Clinton's campaign team declined to deny that it had sent the photo to Drudge, whose report said the campaign was responsible for circulating the email.

According to the Times

100,000 children 'won’t get school of choice'

As more than 560,000 families in England await the results of admissions day on March 4, when parents find out if they have a place at their favoured state secondary school, the figures suggest that nearly one in five is likely to be disappointed. This could rise to about half of children in parts of London and to four in ten in large cities or areas with grammar schools.

The Telegraph reports that

Rowan Williams: Children are 'too materialistic'

Commenting on a report from the Good Childhood Inquiry, of which he is the patron, Dr Rowan Williams said: "Children should be encouraged to value themselves for who they are as people rather than what they own."The selling of lifestyles to children creates a culture of material competitiveness and promotes acquisitive individualism at the expense of the principles of community and co-operation."

The Guardian reports that

Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits

The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a "new face of hunger".
"We will have a problem in coming months," said Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). "We will have a significant gap if commodity prices remain this high, and we will need an extra half billion dollars just to meet existing assessed needs."
With voluntary contributions from the world's wealthy nations, the WFP feeds 73 million people in 78 countries, less than a 10th of the total number of the world's undernourished. Its agreed budget for 2008 was $2.9bn (£1.5bn). But with annual food price increases around the world of up to 40% and dramatic hikes in fuel costs, that budget is no longer enough even to maintain current food deliveries.

The Times reveals that

West accused of plot to save Pervez Musharraf

Britain and America are being accused of meddling in Pakistan's politics by pressing its election winners not to remove President Musharraf after his allies' crushing electoral defeat.

Senior figures in the two biggest parties in the new Parliament made the allegations to The Times after British and US envoys met several party leaders following parliamentary elections last Monday.

Robert Brinkley, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, held talks on Thursday with Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widower and successor as head of the Pakistan People's Party, which won the most seats.


Putin's legacy is a massacre, say the mothers of Beslan reports the Independent

As Mr Putin prepares to hand over power, Beslan is still suffocating in a pall of tears and anger. For Mr Nazarov, as for many in this town of 35,000 people, voting for Mr Medvedev on Sunday is unthinkable. "I would not vote for anyone who was recommended by Putin," he says. Hanging the picture of Mr Putin and his heir among the photographs of victims is his way of saying what he believes the political course of Mr Putin and his heir-apparent leads to.

According to the Telegraph

Hospitals earn £100m from car park fees

The figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, show hospitals across England and Wales earned £102.3 million last year, up from £97.2 million in 2006. Patients' groups said the parking charges, which can involve visitors paying more than £4 an hour, were a "scandal".

The Guardian reports

Heathrow protestors scaled plane after using 'broken door'

Greenpeace protestors who staged a demonstration on top of a British Airways jet at Heathrow yesterday have revealed they evaded security at Britain's largest airport by walking through a broken door.
In an interview with the Guardian, the campaigners said they walked on to the taxiway near the aircraft after finding a set of security doors ajar.
Sarah Shoraka, 30, said: "The door was broken so there was no security. It was ajar. Once we got to doors and saw that they were open, we walked through calmly and it felt quite normal."

The Mail claims

England on the verge of becoming 'the most crowded country in Europe'

Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal there will be 464 men, women and children packed into every square kilometre by 2031, compared with 395 today.
That will be the equivalent of around 1,200 per square mile.
By next year, England will overtake Holland as the most crowded country in Europe.
Around 70 per cent of population growth is from immigration, and much of the rest is accounted for by higher birth rates among recent immigrants. With "zero immigration" - the same number arriving as leaving - the population would rise to only 414 per sq km by 2031.

Finally the Mirror reports

Your first love was probably your first car, says survey

A kiss is just a kiss... but a set of wheels is a real passion. A recent survey shows that when it comes to romance, most of us remember our first car more fondly than our first romance.
Of the 2,000 people surveyed the majority said that getting that first car ranked more highly than their initial embrace, their first boyfriend or girlfriend and even their 18th birthday. Here our columnists remember their first car - and their first kiss.