Amid pictures of Easter snowmen,the papers have a variety of headlines this morning

Brown faces deepening revolt over embryo bill reports the Observer

Gordon Brown faces a growing revolt over embryo research as former cabinet minister Stephen Byers last night joined calls for a free vote.
The former Trade and Industry Secretary said the public would 'look on in disbelief' if politicians were whipped into supporting controversial issues such as the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos

'Iron fist' Gordon Brown faces revolt says the Times

For the first time usually loyal MPs are openly questioning the prime minister’s political judgment, amid growing concerns that Labour is heading for general election defeat.
Charles Clarke, another former cabinet minister, has been circulating a so-called “doomsday list” of Labour MPs at risk of losing their seats, which high-lights how vulnerable the party’s grip on power has become.

The Telegraph reporting that

The Government is braced for further criticism today when the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor signals that Catholic MPs should vote against the legislation.
In a pre-recorded interview with Sky News he will say: “There are some aspects, not all, of this Bill for which I believe there ought to be a free vote because Catholics and others will want to vote according to their conscience.”

The Independent leads with

The rise of British sea power

Britain is set this week to enter a new age, generating energy directly from the seas that surge around its shores. On Saturday a strange, 122ft- long contraption – looking like an upside-down windmill – will set off from the Belfast dock that built the Titanic to produce the first electricity ever brought ashore from British tides.
The device – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – is expected to start a revolution which could lead to our island nation getting a fifth of its power from its surrounding waters, and to the far north of Scotland becoming "the Saudi Arabia of marine energy".

At the end of a financial turbulent week,the Times reports

save your souls, you greedy bankers

Britain's richest men and women must curb their greed and begin sharing their wealth to save their souls, one of the Church of England’s senior bishops has warned.
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, singled out high-earning City traders such as hedge fund managers as the kind of people who must swap their desire to “make a quick buck” for a commitment to “share [their] wealth generously”.

Meanwhile the Guardian tells us

Soaring cost of euros hits holidays abroad

The cost of holidays in Europe is set to soar this year as the growing strength of the euro adds to tourists' shopping, bar and accommodation bills. Six months ago it would have cost £67 to buy €100; now it costs £78 after a 16 per cent fall in the value of the pound against the euro. Financial experts predict that the trend is likely to continue.

The Telegraph reports that

Millions of homes face higher council tax bills after being logged as having off-street parking or a pleasant view, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.Ministers have admitted that Government inspectors are building a secret database that will eventually cover all 23 million homes in England.
The revelations follow a week when council tax bills for 2008-09 have been landing on doormats all over the country. This week, the Government will confirm that some will have rises this year of up to 11 per cent, more than four times the rate of inflation.

The Mail leads with

KGB plot fears as London oligarch vanishes and traces of blood are found in his mansion

An international manhunt was launched last night for a Russian-born British media magnate whose mysterious disappearance has possible links to the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Jet-setting billionaire Leonid Rozhetskin, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, vanished from his £1 million home just outside the Latvian capital Riga a week ago.

Most of the papers report

Scarlett 'was killed by drowning',the Observer reporting that

A report into the death of teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa is expected to conclude she died after her head had been forcibly held under water, the family's lawyer said yesterday.
The dossier will say there were not enough drugs in the 15-year-old's body to have caused her death, and that she died from underwater asphyxiation. It reportedly claims that her killers had covered her nostrils and mouth and states: 'The findings in this case are consistent with homicidal drowning in shallow water.'

The Telegraph reports that

China defies international calls for Tibet talk

An editorial in People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party which is often used to announce state policy, promised to "resolutely crush the conspiracy of sabotage and smash Tibet independence forces."
"1.3 billion Chinese people would allow no person or force to undermine the stability of the region," it added.

The Independent says

Evidence shows that the violent incidents were created by the 'Tibet independence' forces and masterminded by the Dalai Lama clique with the vicious intention of undermining the upcoming Olympics and splitting Tibet from the motherland," thundered an editorial in the People's Daily yesterday.

Meanwhile the Observer reports

Taiwan ballot boosts links with mainland

More than a decade of tension between Taiwan and mainland China looked set to ease yesterday with the victory of Nationalist party candidate Ma Ying-jeou in the island's presidential election. Despite a last-minute attempt by Frank Hsieh of the Democratic People's Party, to exploit fears over China's crackdown on Tibetan unrest, voters put priority on improved business ties with the mainland, which they hope will galvanise an economy that has lagged behind many of its Asian neighbours.

The Times reports that

toxic mentors start to corrode pristine campaign

Democratic contender can ill afford another scandal related to his former Chicago allies. Despite his electrifying speech on race last week, the opinion polls make worrying reading for the senator and his aides. Hillary Clinton appears to be regaining lost ground and John McCain, the Arizona senator who has sewn up the Republican nomination, has edged ahead of his warring rivals.
When Obama stood before a row of American flags in Philadelphia on Tuesday, he faced the greatest challenge of his candidacy. His campaign was reeling from the potentially fatal fallout of Wright’s rabid videotaped sermons, in which the Chicago preacher exclaimed, “God damn America,” and said that the US government had invented Aids to infect black people.

The Observer reports that

Echoes of 1968 return to haunt the divided Democrats

the 40th anniversary of the Chicago convention, the riots that surrounded it and the resulting trial are being examined as never before. Not only were the events of 1968 pivotal, but they have never seemed more relevant to the shape of American politics. If you substitute Vietnam for Iraq and Chicago 1968 for Denver 2008, the parallels can become eerie.

Amongst the red tops,the Sunday Mirror reveals that

Heather Mills tried to pull Johnny Depp lookalike

The flirtatious blonde in the low-cut top smiled as she looked the young barman up and down.
As she sipped her drink, she coyly played with her hair and fluttered her eyelids.
"You look just like Johnny Depp - I bet you get that a lot," she told him in a strong Geordie accent.
Then she tried to persuade him to become a vegan. By now most people would have guessed who she was. But not Colin White. "I just thought I was being chatted up by a fit blonde nutritionist," the barman said.
The "fit blonde" was actually Heather Mills, and she had called into the pub where Colin works for a drink with some girlfriends.

The News of the World exposes a premiership manager

A MARRIED Premier League manager has filmed himself bedding a blonde lover in a shocking hour-long video.Soccer boss Paul Jewell is today filmed scoring a shameful OWN GOAL—as he romps with a married blonde lover behind his devoted wife's back.
The Derby County manager hits the net more times than his relegation-haunted team have managed all season in a sleazy HOUR-LONG home-made BONDAGE PORN VIDEO

The Sunday Express leads with

STEVENS CALLS FOR BORDER TROOPS

TROOPS should be drafted in to beef up security along our “porous” borders, says security mastermind Lord Stevens.
Existing staff do not have “the right tools and resources” to protect the UK from terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration, he warns.
The eastward expansion of the EU has made life easier for international criminals, and 75 per cent of illegal entry to the UK is now carried out by organised crime gangs.

Terminal Five chaos threat over fingerprint plan reports the Mail

The opening of Heathrow's new Terminal 5 was under threat last night after its management was warned that a plan to fingerprint passengers may be illegal.
The £4.3billion terminal is due to open on Thursday.
But the Information Commissioner has told Spanish-owned airport operator BAA that its plan to fingerprint all passengers may breach the Data Protection Act.

Dementia timebomb 'will hit 1.2m' says the Telegraph

The number of patients diagnosed with diseases such as Alzheimer's will rise by 70 per cent to more than 1.2 million by 2028.
Experts warn that there will be almost twice as many sufferers living in nursing homes. However, psychiatrists and charities say that not enough is being spent on research, treatment and care. One professor said he was "ashamed" by the state of the services on offer

According to the Observer

Shops defy attempt to curb binge drinking

Rather than putting their prices up, however, stores are attempting to force suppliers to absorb the cost of the rise so that they can carry on aggressively price-cutting. Brewers which refuse to co-operate have been warned their contracts may not be renewed. Brewers pay the duty at source but would normally recoup the extra cost through the price they charge retailers.

The Times reports that

Shannon Matthews close to being taken into care before kidnap

Child protection officers in West Yorkshire were “actively considering” taking Shannon Matthews into care days before the nine-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped, sources close to the police investigation have said.
The insiders said that social services in Leeds had been closely monitoring the family right up to the day Shannon was abducted on her way home from a school swimming lesson in Dewsbury on February 19.
They were considering issuing a care order to take her away from her mother on the grounds that her personal welfare might be at risk.

The Independent reports that

Cameron sets out to woo the unions away from Labour

The Tory leader has appointed a personal trade union envoy to extend his appeal beyond core voters. It paves the way for him to take to the TUC platform as early as next year – breaking the exclusive link Labour has enjoyed with the union movement for decades.
Richard Balfe, a former Labour MEP, will have a wide-ranging remit to talk to general secretaries and sell the Tory message to the more than eight million union members in the UK. He will also develop relations with co-operatives

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The Mirror says that

ARGENTINA BID TO SNATCH FALKLANDS

The country's new president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will assert her country's claim on the islands at a conference of world leaders, including Gordon Brown, in the UK. The visit will come just days after the anniversary of Argentina's Falklands invasion on April 2, 1982. Mrs de Kirchner will hammer home her nation's claim on the "Malvinas", as the islands are known in Argentina

I’m half bulimic ... I eat a lot but don’t throw up, Minister tells his baffled guests reports the Mail

Outspoken Trade Minister Lord Jones was at the centre of a fresh controversy last night after he was accused of making “insensitive and embarrassing” remarks to Arab businessmen and diplomats.
The ex-CBI chief, formerly Sir Digby Jones, told Middle Eastern entrepreneurs in an after-lunch speech: “I'm half a bulimic – I eat a lot but I don't throw up.”
He continued: “We don't care what colour you are, we don't care if we can't pronounce your names and we don't care where your money comes from. We just want you to invest in our country.

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Finally the Times reports that

Britain falls to Polish flower power

First Poland sent us its plumbers and painters; now its garden plants are ousting our native species.
Britain’s traditional clematis varieties have been supplanted by Polish strains such as the General Sikorski, the Lech Walesa and the Jan Pawel II.
It has emerged that most of the trees sold in many British nurseries as native species also originated in eastern Europe. Most so-called English oaks, for example, are grown from acorns taken from Polish or other east European forests.