So why did they take 24 days to find her asks the Mail

For days, hundreds of police had been searching for her around the clock.
Yesterday, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews was found alive in a dingy flat only a mile from home.
Police who broke down the door after a tip-off discovered the terrified child hidden in one of the two compartments of a drawer-divan.Paul Drake, the uncle of Shannon's stepfather Craig.
He was arrested on suspicion of abduction.
Last night, the question being asked was: Why did it all take so long? Drake is a member of Shannon's extended family, he lives near her home and his own children had been taken away from him.

Photographs of Shannon Matthews dominate the front pages of all the newspapers,

The Mirror has the man who took Shannon on its front pages

The man arrested over the kidnap of Shannon Matthews - Paul Drake, 39, her stepdad Craig Meehan's uncle - was dragged from a flat by police who found the nine-year-old in a dramatic rescue 24 days after she vanished. She was discovered lying next to her kidnapper in the base of a divan bed.

Warped Uncle took Shannon says the Sun

THE man who named Shannon Matthews’ kidnapper Mick Donovan to police told last night how the weirdo bounced her on his knee at a funeral

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The Telegraph reports

At around 1pm yesterday a police team broke into the flat where they found Shannon hidden in a drawer space under a divan bed. Her suspected abductor was allegedly in the other half of the bed's base and was led away in handcuffs.
Shannon was said to be in good health but she will remain in police protection while specialist officers interview her to find out exactly where she has been and what she has been through during the course of her alleged kidnapping.
The raid on the flat in Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, brought to an end one of the biggest missing persons inquiries in British history.

The qualities have a number of different leads this morning,the Telegraph warns that

Millions of British households face soaring mortgage rates and tumbling house prices after the global financial crisis triggered the near-collapse of one of the world's biggest banks.Experts warned that there is now an increased likelihood of a recession and a painful housing slump, after Bear Stearns - America's fifth biggest bank - was forced to turn for emergency cash to the US Federal Reserve.

Credit crunch woes claim America's fifth-biggest bank says the Guardian

In a move that eclipsed the enforced rescue of Northern Rock six months ago, the 85-year-old Wall Street institution admitted it was looking for a buyer after being thrown a temporary lifeline by rival bank JP Morgan Chase guaranteed by the US central bank.
George Bush sought to calm fears of a deep recession in the world's biggest economy when he said that despite the current "tough times", the US economy remained fundamentally sound.

It leads though with the story that

Top Blair aide: we must talk to al-Qaida

Western governments must talk to terror groups including al-Qaida and the Taliban if they hope to secure a long-term halt to their campaigns of violence, according to the man who for more than a decade was Tony Blair's most influential aide and adviser.
Jonathan Powell, who served as Blair's chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 and is widely regarded as having been instrumental in negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland, said his experience in the province convinced him that it was essential to keep a line of communication open even with one's most bitter enemies.

All the papers report from Tibet,

world leaders call for restraint says the Times

China faced one of its most serious political crises in two decades as Tibetans resentful of Beijing rule set fire to swaths of Lhasa. The army responded by sending armed personnel carriers onto the streets.
Angry Tibetans attacked ethnic Han Chinese and gunshots echoed in the streets as security forces tried to restore order. Bodies were seen lying in the streets.

The Independent reports that

The demonstrators set fire to shops and cars and police opened fire on the crowds prompting a warning by the Dalai Lama to the Beijing government to stop using "brute force". One witness in Lhasa said: "The situation is very tense. Everyone is very afraid." Major monasteries in the city were surrounded by soldiers and police last night.

Queen officially opens Heathrow's Terminal 5 reports the Telegraph

The official opening brought to an end the often bitter 15-year planning battle to build the terminal at the world's busiest airport which now handles 67.3 million passengers each year.The soaring glass and metal terminal, Britain's largest enclosed space, will be the new home of British Airways, channelling passengers past Gucci and Prada boutiques and a restaurant by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay

Meanwhile the Independent reports

MPs call for BAA's monopoly over British airports to be broken up

Executives at British Airports Authority (BAA) faced a damning report by a cross-party group of MPs yesterday that called for the Government to break up its monopoly on the UK's major airports.
The Spanish-owned BAA, whose airports include Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, had "mismanaged resources" and "failed to plan adequately for contingencies which were far from unexpected", said a report by the Commons Transport Select Committee

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The Times reports on

The race to the off-licence gets under way as drinkers run to beat the Budget

Sales of alcohol have shot up by 50 per cent since Wednesday’s Budget as thousands rush to stock up on wine, spirits and beer before duty increases tomorrow night.
Major retailers reported “huge” increases in alcohol sold through shops and on the internet. Online sites took orders from thousands of customers anxious to buy drink at pre-Budget prices and organise delivery later.

The Express reports on

BLACKMAILER JAILED AFTER UK PROBE

An investigation by UK police has led to the jailing of a man in Canada who persuaded girls to undress in front of their computers before blackmailing them.
Kent Police began an inquiry in April 2006 after officers discovered the computers of 26 girls in west Kent had been hacked into and the girls threatened.

The Mail reports that

Divers searching a reservoir for Madeleine McCann yesterday found a plastic bag containing small bones.
Police experts were last night examining the gruesome find at the lake only 20 minutes from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, where Madeleine - three at the time - disappeared last May

Troubled copper Michael Todd sent texts to former lovers hours before his death reports the Mirror

The messages to businesswoman Angie Robinson, 50, and police officer Julia Wortley, 43, were so upsetting both contacted police.
Officers sped to Angie's home where she confessed to a three-year affair with their boss.
They launched a search for the Greater Manchester chief on Monday. His body was found his body the next day near Mount Snowdon, North Wales

Most of the papers report on a settlement in the McCartney divorce case

HEATHER MILLS will get about £25million in her divorce from SIR PAUL McCARTNEY, it was revealed yesterday.
The High Court decision was described as a victory for Macca after lawyers had predicted payouts of up to £200million.
But it will still make one-legged Mucca one of Britain’s richest women – and gives her more than £6million for every year of their marriage.
The deal has been revealed to both sides’ legal teams but will not be made official until Monday

says the Sun

The Telegraph reports on the Iranian elections

Iran's call to vote ignored by millions

Polling stations across Tehran were quiet, orderly and only sparsely attended. One virtually empty polling station in a mosque on Dowlat Street pointedly declined to say how many people had voted by 3pm. "You are not allowed to know that," said the official in charge

The Times reports fom another election where

Winds of change gather pace as President Robert Mugabe's hungry masses dare to voice their anger

The women sat in the rural way; on the ground, with their legs stretched out straight in front of them, under an enormous old tree. The men sat in a group apart from them, all listening to Zimbabwe's newest opposition leader, Simba Makoni....Mr Makoni, President Mugabe's former Finance Minister, left the party a month ago to challenge him for the presidency in the March 29 elections. When he made a joke of Mr Mugabe's totem, he got loud, derisive laughs. They clapped and cheered when he scorned the situation where a box of matches now costs Z$2 million.

Disgraced Spitzer faces campaign cash inquiry says the Guardian

Prosecutors are homing in on the disgraced former New York state governor Eliot Spitzer, by investigating whether he used money raised for political campaigns to pay for travel and other expenses relating to his meetings with prostitutes.
The New York Times, which broke the story of his involvement with a prostitution ring that led to his resignation on Wednesday, said the inquiry into his actions was focusing on three trips in which he employed the services of women supplied by the Emperors Club VIP, a New Jersey-based operation. One of those meetings was the February 13 liaison at a Washington hotel that FBI agents wire-tapped.

Finally the Sun reports that the Harry Potter film is cursed

ACTORS working on the final Harry Potter film The Deathly Hallows believe it is CURSED after being plagued by a series of mishaps.
In the latest incident, on Wednesday, shooting was axed when the set was battered by storms.
Daniel Radcliffe, 18, who stars as the boy wizard, has received death threats from a stalker.
And filming at Farnham, Surrey, has been halted by streakers and mistakes involving special-effects fog