Rows over Military uniforms in public is the front page of the Times this morning

Plans to urge soldiers, sailors and airmen to wear their uniforms in public were in disarray last night after RAF personnel were ordered to dress in civilian clothes while off-duty because of persistent threats and abuse.
The uniform ban was imposed by the station commander at RAF Wittering, near Peterborough, after a number of servicemen and women walking in the city in their military clothes were targeted because of their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gordon Brown and Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, tried last night to overturn the ban. But the incidents in Peterborough threaten to undermine a new planned policy, favoured by the Prime Minister, that aims to draw the military and general public closer together.

The Mail calls it

Despicable

The insults have come from a "cross section" of the community and are believed to be linked to current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to air-base officials.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has held talks with Cambridgeshire police over the problem, described as "despicable" by the city's mayor Marion Todd.
RAF officers have been urged to identify the culprits and police have pledged to target problem pubs or streets where personnel have been harassed by yobs.

The later additions of the papers carry the shootings in Israel.

7 dead as gunmen hit Jeruselum religious school says the Guardian

The attacker is believed to have been a Palestinian from east Jerusalem who disguised himself as a Jewish religious student. Armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a pistol, he opened fire for several minutes at a crowd of 80 students gathered in a library for a special evening of prayer.
After prolonged gunfire the attacker was shot dead by an off-duty soldier and two undercover policemen. "The whole building looked like a slaughterhouse. The floor was covered in blood," said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, head of the Zaka rescue service. "The students were in class at the time of the attack. The floors are littered with holy books covered in blood."

Massacre in the heart of Jerusalem says the Independent

Eight Jewish students at a yeshiva seminary were shot dead last night by a Palestinian armed with a Kalashnikov AK47 rifle and a pistol in by far the worst attack on Israeli civilians in Jerusalem for more than four years. Six of the rabbinical students were studying in the crowded ground floor library of the MercazHarav yeshiva when the gunman burst in and fired what police said were "tens" of rounds from both weapons

According to the Telegraph

The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, is under mounting pressure to scrap next month's fuel duty rise as official figures showed pump prices are rising faster than ever

Its front page reporting that

Motorists could be paying £5 a gallon for petrol within weeks if the Chancellor implements the 2.35 pence a litre rise in the Budget. Diesel drivers have long since broken the £5 barrier, much to the fury of hauliers and farmers. With oil on the world market trading at $103 a barrel, there was little relief in sight for road users, especially with mounting speculation that other "green motoring taxes" could be included in the Budget

The Express mean predicts a

Huge rise in Council Tax

The Local Government Association, which represents all councils in England and Wales, admitted that bills will go up. And it said that was why politicians were scared to act.
Estimates suggest that rebanding would add at least £270 a year to bills in four-fifths of towns in some areas where house prices have rocketed.

Complex council tax rebate rules cost poor £1.8bn, Treasury told says the Guardian

Poor families are missing out on council tax rebates worth £1.8bn a year because the rules for claiming relief are complex and poorly advertised, local authority leaders will tell the Treasury today.
They have discovered that the problem is one of the main reasons why the government is on course to miss the target for halving child poverty by 2010.
The Local Government Association said 1.5 million children are living below the poverty line in households which pay full council tax. Their parents are missing out on benefits worth an average £700 a year.

According to the Mail

Mortgage bills rising at the 'fastest pace in living memory' despite Bank of England holding rates

Mortgage costs are rising at the fastest pace in living memory, a financial expert said yesterday.
Ray Boulger warned it was becoming much more expensive to take out a loan, on the day the Bank of England decided to hold interest rates at their current level

Reckitt Benckiser accused of ripping off NHS over Gaviscon reports the Times

A drug company is facing accusations of ripping off the NHS with a secret plan to maintain a monopoly in the supply of Gaviscon, the lucrative heartburn medicine.
Internal documents show Reckitt Benckiser executives plotted under the codename 'project Eric' to create obstacles to block rival manufacturers from selling cheap generic copies of the indigestion treatment.
In a statement this morning, Reckitt Benckiser said: "We are shocked by the allegations made in the press today, and by the inappropriate sentiment expressed in some of the internal correspondence of 2003.

The Mirror leads with more on Shannon

Boy witnesses tell of new last sighting of 'sobbing' Shannon Matthews

A last poignant sighting of vanished Shannon Matthews by two boys has pierced the heart of her stricken mum Karen.
The lads saw Shannon, nine, sitting on a wall weeping in despair after school on February 19, the day she disappeared.
One of them, a boy of 12, said: "It was at the top of School Lane and she was crying her eyes out. There were tears running down her face.

The Telegraph keeps up the pressure on the utilty companies

Consumer regulators face inquiry over profits

Ministers have hit out at Britain's consumer regulators as an official review is launched to investigate why people have not been protected from alleged profiteering by utility firms, banks and rail companies.
Concern is mounting at the highest levels in Government about the failure of Ofgem, Ofwat and other regulators over their perceived failure to step in and look into inflation-busting price rises which are hitting consumers across the country

The Sun turns on Paul Burrel

CREEP Paul Burrell yesterday cried off from making a second appearance at Princess Diana’s inquest to explain his boasts about lying to the jury.
The treacherous ex-butler — Diana’s so-called “rock” — DEFIED an order from the furious coroner to return from the US and explain himself

From abroad and the Guardian reports on

Cold shoulder for UN envoy over Burma's May referendum

The UN's special envoy to Burma began a new diplomatic effort yesterday to persuade the country's ruling generals to embrace reform, amid signs that they are tightening their grip on power in the aftermath of pro-democracy protests.
As Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Rangoon for his third trip to Burma since the regime's deadly crackdown on the pro-democracy movement last September, expectation grew among foreign diplomats that the generals would again sidestep the envoy's calls for urgent change

Rebel states may get second chance to vote reports the Times

Four years after the implosion of his own attempt at the Democratic presidential nomination, Howard Dean emerged yesterday as a pivotal figure in the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Mr Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, signalled that he was open to Florida and Michigan holding new elections that Mrs Clinton’s advisers predict would reduce Mr Obama’s lead, currently standing at more than 100 delegates.
The 366 delegates picked in these two states have been stripped of their voting rights at the nominating convention this summer. Mr Dean has refused to readmit them because they broke party rules by holding primaries in January.

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports

Barack Obama 'will repair image of US in UK'

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Samantha Power, who is a key member of the Presidential hopeful's foreign policy team, says anti-Americanism is now "vehement" in the United Kingdom.
"A restoration of trust will have to occur between the US Government and the British public," she says. "There is a sense of disappointment but people still want to believe in the USA."

The Mirror reports that

Pierre Williams jailed for 38 years:

The gran of two teenagers battered to death along with their mother told how she never stops crying.
Margaret Gaynord spoke before Pierre Williams was jailed for 38 years yesterday for murdering Kesha, 18, and Fred Wizzart, 13, and their mum Beverley Samuels, 36, with a hammer.
Mrs Gaynord said: "There is not a single day when I don't sit and cry. I am completely amazed that I have any tears left, I have cried so much."

Finally the Independent reports on

New Labour's latest target for modernisation: Britain's public lavatories

In Victorian times they were the pride of town planners: minor gems of architectural and plumbing excellence on every High Street providing a much-needed rest stop for passers-by.
But years of budget cuts, developers and vandals have taken their toll on thousands of municipal lavatories.
Yesterday ministers launched their first national strategy to reverse the trend and bring back to Britain the heyday of the public loo. In an appeal to pub and shop owners to open up their facilities to the public, a 56-page blueprint said a greater sense of community spirit was needed to restore the public conveniences to their former glory. Ideas put forward included a scheme – dubbed "satlav" – to give visitors unfortunate enough to be caught short directions to the nearest loo on their mobile telephone.