A shaming day for Democracy says the front page of the Mail

The British people were finally denied a say on the EU constitution last night after a momentous day in the Commons. MPs voted against holding a referendum on the biggest shift of power to Brussels for at least a decade. 29 Labour MPs rebelled against the Prime Minister but it was not enough to force a referendum says the paper adding

The furious parliamentary debate on Europe plunged Nick Clegg's LibDem leadership into crisis as 13 rebels - a fifth of his entire tally of MPs - joined the Tories in calling for a national vote.
Mr Clegg, who had ordered his MPs to abstain from voting, helped rescue Gordon Brown from defeat in two crucial votes on the Lisbon Treaty.

Eu referendum is Brown bread says the Sun

The “listening PM” ignored the demands of nine out of ten British voters and denied them the say he promised.
Mr Brown broke Labour’s 2005 general election pledge as he ordered his foot soldiers to reject a referendum.
However, 29 of his MPs rebelled and voted for a national poll.
Mealy-mouthed Lib Dems also broke their pledge to give the nation a say on the Lisbon Treaty.

The Independent reports that

Clegg loses frontbenchers in protest at EU treaty stand

Nick Clegg was the surprise main casualty of a heated battle over Europe last night, as the House of Commons rejected calls for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Three senior Liberal Democrat frontbenchers resigned their posts after refusing to accept their leader's edict to abstain on a Tory proposal calling for a public vote on the treaty, which will streamline the EU's decision-making. Some 13 of the Liberal Democrats' 63 MPs defied Mr Clegg.

The qualities all have different leads

The Guardian report that

Drugs firms face new laws on test results

A major tightening of the law governing the oversight of drugs companies will be announced today when the government says GlaxoSmithKline delayed informing the authorities that a controversial drug increased the likelihood of suicide among teenagers.
The health minister Dawn Primarolo will tell MPs that new legislation will be introduced by the end of the year to ensure drugs companies pass on results of clinical trials as soon as the alarm is raised about one of their medicines.

According to the Telegraph,the government faces more problems

Catholic MPs to rebel over embryo bill

The Bill going through Parliament will reform the fertility laws and allow lesbian couples to be registered as legal parents - a move that has been attacked by the Roman Catholic Church.Labour MPs will be under a three-line whip to back the legislation. Cabinet ministers are normally bound by collective responsibility to vote for any Government Bill.
But three senior Cabinet ministers - Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, Ruth Kelly, the Transport Secretary, and Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary - threaten to resist the order because of their religious beliefs.

The Times leads with the story of an

Energy ‘tax’on the poor

The big six energy companies are charging the poorest customers up to £330 a year more for gas and electricity, it emerged last night.
Tariffs for prepayment meters, used typically by pensioners and the less well-off, are up to 45 per cent higher than for internet customers. The industry watchdog branded the practice a £400 million rip-off.
The details came as the Government plans a crackdown on energy companies that take advantage of their poorer customers. Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, is ready to deliver an ultimatum to E.ON, npower, British Gas and other companies in his Budget next week.

The Express meanwhile warns of a

Water Ration Threat

MILLIONS face water rationing and soaring bills as experts warned that Britain is heading for a drought crisis.
A growing population and increasing demand for water means that the country is as much at risk as the Sahara Desert.
Overcrowded South-east England is already suffering “severe water stress”, putting it in the same bracket as Saudi Arabia, North Africa, India and eastern Australia. But analysts fear that within 20 years a “parched zone” will spread across the country from the Bristol Channel to the Norfolk coast and north of the Midlands.

A life or death decision says the front of the Independent

A gay teenager who sought sanctuary in Britain when his boyfriend was executed by the Iranian authorities now faces the same fate after losing his legal battle for asylum.
Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2004 but later discovered that his boyfriend had been arrested by the Iranian police, charged with sodomy and hanged.

Human crisis in Gaza 'is worst for 40 years' says the Telegraph

Gaza's humanitarian crisis is more acute today than at any time since Israel took control of the territory in the 1967 war, aid agencies say.
More Gazans are dependent on food aid than ever before, hospitals suffer the longest power cuts yet experienced, record levels of raw sewage are being pumped daily into the sea and the economy has never been worse, says a report.
Prepared by aid groups including Oxfam, Amnesty International and Care International UK, The Gaza Strip: A humanitarian implosion is the most definitive assessment of conditions in the territory produced for years

The Guardian reports that

UK fears Iran still working on nuclear weapon

The British government said yesterday that Tehran could still be developing a nuclear weapon, and called into question a key American intelligence finding that work on building an Iranian bomb had stopped in 2003.
For the first time, a senior British diplomat cast doubt on the US National Intelligence Estimate published last November which reported "with high confidence" that Tehran's nuclear weapons programme had been halted in autumn 2003. The NIE also judged "with moderate confidence" that the programme had not been restarted

Much coverage of the latest US primary results,

The Times reports that

Hillary Clinton hints at a dream ticket with Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton celebrated her election victories yesterday with hints about forming a joint Democratic party ticket with Barack Obama.
The morning after her hat-trick of wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, she made a tour of morning TV shows and suggested that she could ask Mr Obama to be her running mate in November’s general election against the Republican nominee-elect John McCain. She acknowledged that many Democrats dreamed of them teaming up at the end of their titanic presidential struggle.

The Independent says

Republicans the real winners as Democrat battle goes to the wire

In matters presidential, Republicans tend to like things nice and tidy. Democrats, on the other hand, deep down, seem to prefer a mess. And that is just what they have got in this thrilling, deadlocked and utterly unpredictable race for the party's 2008 nomination.

The face of Patrick Swayze

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze given only weeks to live says the Mirror

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has been given just weeks to live after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, it was revealed last night.
His publicist Annett Wolf said: "Patrick has pancreatic cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. The outpouring of support and concern he has already received is deeply appreciated."

'I have pancreatic cancer - but don't write me off yet' says the Mail

claims that the 55-year-old actor had just five weeks left to live were denied by Dr George Fisher, who said Mr Swayze was responding well to treatment.

The Mirror leads with Shannon

I know whose got Shannon says its front page

Missing Shannon Matthews' mum Karen has dramatically been told by a psychic: "She was taken by someone you both know."
But the clairvoyant reassured her that her nine-year-old daughter was still alive.
A relative of distraught Karen, 32, revealed last night: "What he said really got to her as he knew a lot of personal information. She will try anything to get Shannon back."

Harry's back in Chelsea is the Sun's front page

RETURNING hero Prince Harry and girlfriend Chelsy Davy arrive at a party — and show any hostilities between them are over.
The couple had agreed to a “cooling off period” in their three-year relationship after a series of rows.But they have been inseparable since Harry, 23, returned from ten weeks fighting the Taliban.

The Telegraph reports on the news that

Coastguards go on strike over 'poverty pay'

It will affect emergency calls and operations at 19 UK search and rescue co-ordination centres but no employees sent out to emergencies will participate in the industrial action.
The Maritime and Coastal Agency have reassured the public that their safety will not be compromised and that contingency plans will be put in place.

UK children rescued from worldwide sex abuse ring reports the Guardian

Detectives in three continents believe they have broken one of the most sophisticated paedophile rings ever. Eight British children between six and 14 years old have been rescued and arrests made in the UK, Australia and the US.
The ring used advanced techniques to avoid detection and one member boasted of belonging to the "greatest group of paedos ever to gather in one place".

The Mail reports on

'Mini Krays' are banned from their own home town after three-year reign of terror

Twin teenage brothers who modelled themselves on the Kray Twins have been banned from their home town after a three-year reign of terror.
Michael and Ben Dungey, 14, abused neighbours, bullied children and attacked shops, believing the law could not touch them because of their age.
They also led a gang of children - some believed still to attend primary school - encouraging them to smash shop windows and cause chaos in the town

The Times reports that

Britain's window on the stars faces closure

The network of seven giant astronomy dishes that has made this country a leader in the study of stars and planets is to be axed under plans to save £2.5 million a year.
Scientists say that the funding proposals, drawn up by the Government’s Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), will destroy Britain’s leading role in radio astronomy.
Jodrell Bank is faced with closure as an observatory under the proposals to end public funding for e-Merlin, a project linking the seven radio telescopes.

Finally the Guardian reveals

A machine that can look into the mind

Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity.
The breakthrough by American scientists took MRI scanning equipment normally used in hospital diagnosis to observe patterns of brain activity when a subject examined a range of black and white photographs. Then a computer was able to correctly predict in nine out of 10 cases which image people were focused on. Guesswork would have been accurate only eight times in every 1,000 attempts.