The Times has a snow filled picture across its front page this morning

In the bleak mid Easter well it's only March says the paper

Britain is bracing itself for a blast of Easter snow that promises to dampen seasonal celebrations and prolong the motoring misery for millions.
Forecasters issued a warning that snow showers would affect large parts of the country. With up to 16 million vehicles expected on the roads during the weekend, the Highways Agency has urged drivers to take extra care.

Raging seas, gales, and snow ... it must be a bank holiday weekend says the Mail

Yesterday, high winds lashed many parts of the country while temperatures plummeted. It was a bitter prelude to what forecasters warn will be the worst Easter weather for a quarter of a century.

The Express's front page forecasts that

MILLIONS FACE ARCTIC EASTER

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning, with up to 5in of snow expected to carpet parts of the country – splitting east from west.

Both the Guardian and the Times have a French feel to their headlines

Britain and France to take nuclear power to the world says the Guardian

Britain and France are to sign a deal to construct a new generation of nuclear power stations and export the technology around the world in an effort to combat climate change.
The pact is to be announced at the "Arsenal summit" next week when prime ministers Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy will meet at the Emirates stadium in north London.
Britain hopes to take advantage of French expertise to build the power stations that do not rely on fossil fuels. Nearly 79% of France's electricity comes from its highly-developed nuclear power industry. The UK's ageing nuclear plants are ready for decommissioning and supply 20% of its energy needs.

The Times reports that

President Sarkozy of France will tell Gordon Brown next week that France plans to send an extra 1,000 soldiers to Afghanistan to bolster the battle against the Taleban. Senior ministers have told The Times that Mr Sarkozy wants to underline his commitment to the alliance during his state visit to Britain.
The Ministry of Defence has made a working assumption that President Sarkozy will announce a deployment of “slightly more than 1,000 troops to the eastern region”, one said.

Tibet is still near the top of the news agenda

The Independent reports that

Congressional leader calls for international condemnation of China

A leading US politician walked hand in hand with the Dalai Lama and called on the international community to condemn China for its crackdown in Tibet.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said she was not surprised by China's violent actions but warned that the "world is watching".

the jealousy, rage and bitterness of a new generation that fuelled deadly riots says the Times

Tibetans in communities across the Himalayan plateau and in surrounding provinces who have risen up this week against Chinese rule appear mainly to be young men and women in their teens or twenties. They are from a generation too young to remember either a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule in which tens of thousands were killed or the destruction wreaked by Red Guards - both Chinese and Tibetan - during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.

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Their anger has been directed as much against the traditional symbols of Chinese power as against ordinary Chinese, hinting at a deepening resentment, even a hatred, that follows ethnic lines

The Telegraph leads with

Women targeted in drink campaign

Middle-aged women will be targeted in a hard-hitting anti-alcohol campaign after research found that just one large glass of wine per night could increase the risk of breast cancer by 60 per cent.
Up to 2,000 women every year die from breast cancer linked to drinking, with a growing number also suffering other cancers, liver damage and fertility problems

Minister's threat as cardinal joins embryos row says the Guardian

The government is facing a resignation from the cabinet if Gordon Brown refuses to allow Labour ministers to vote against contentious proposals to allow medical research on human-animal embryos.
The Welsh secretary, Paul Murphy, is one of several Catholic senior government figures pressing the prime minister to allow all MPs a free vote on the human embryology and fertilisation bill later this spring. Des Browne, the defence secretary, and Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, have indicated privately that they want to vote against the proposals and will at the very least abstain.

The Times on the same subject reports

A senior Cardinal condemned the plans as “monstrous” and of “Frankenstein proportion”. Cardinal Keith O’Brien will use his Easter Sunday sermon to launch a scathing attack on the human fertilisation and embryology bill, describing the proposals as “grotesque” and “deathly

The Mirror follows up from yesterday

Bike menace David Cameron faces a humiliating lecture from police safety bosses over his hazardous cycling.
Met chiefs called him "very stupid" after the Mirror filmed him breaking four road laws - including going past a red light - in 22 minutes.
They will send a cycling expert to give clueless Cam safety tips. But Tory London mayor hopeful Boris Johnson had no sympathy for him and declared: "We should have zero tolerance of cyclists when they break the rules."

'Sorry' Cameron left on a one-way road to yet another cycling embarrassmentreports the Independent

For a young and thrusting party leader who wants to display his green credentials as well as keep fit, cycling to work is a pretty good bet. But on Wednesday, David Cameron appeared to forget that he is also leader of the party which regards respect for law and order as its trademark.
The Tory leader was late for a 9am meeting in his Commons office to prepare for Prime Minister's Questions. So he cut some corners – going through a couple of red lights and the wrong way down a one-way street. He didn't know that among the cyclists doing exactly the same thing was a bicycling hack from the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror, camera in hand.

The paper leads with

Italy's toxic waste crisis, the Mafia – and the scandal of Europe's mozzarella

It may be the moment when the throwaway society meets its retribution. A shadow this weekend hangs over one of the great staples of modern European life – Italy's mozzarella cheese.
The topping on a billion pizzas, the magic ingredient in a million salads, is at the centre of a major food scare involving pollution, corruption, the Mafia and southern Italy's remarkable crisis in waste management.

Mum to be aged 57 was told her bump was cancer is the lead in the Mail

A woman of 57 with suspected ovarian cancer was in fact expecting her first baby.
Susan Tollefsen feared the worst when she was sent to hospital for a scan on her growing bump.
But the sonographer told her: "Congratulations, you're almost 30 weeks pregnant."
She will become one of Britain's oldest mothers when she has a caesarean section next week.

The Sun continues to attack Heather Mills

Mucca's gagging for telly fortune says its front page

HEATHER Mills made a bizarre plea for privacy yesterday as it emerged she wants her marriage secrets exposed on a money-spinning tour of US chat shows.
Ex-porn model Mucca said the High Court judge who awarded her a £24million divorce payout this week had breached her human rights by making his ruling public.
Yet Heather – dubbed Pornocchio after the judge branded her a scheming liar – is haggling for a $1million US telly deal in which her sister Fiona would tell all about ex Sir Paul McCartney, 65.

The Mirror leads with the news that

A married couple who won £5.3million on the lotto are brother and sister.
George and Alice Wass share the same mother from different relationships.
The couple, who live in a caravan on an East London tip, met in 1983 when she traced her family roots. But the pair insist they had been told at the time they were not related.

Bad behaviour in classrooms is blamed on indulgent parents reports the Telegraph

Primary school pupils are increasingly difficult to teach as they throw tantrums during lessons if they fail to get their own way, the Cambridge University study says.Their problematic behaviour is being fuelled by growing exposure to television, computers and video games - as well as spending too long in baby bouncers and strapped into cots - which damages children's development, it is claimed

The Independent reports that

Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister

The world faces a future of "water wars", unless action is taken to prevent international water shortages and sanitation issues escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the International Development minister.
The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international charities marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown demanding action to give fresh water to 1.1 billion people with poor supplies. "If we do not act, the reality is that water supplies may become the subject of international conflict in the years ahead," said Mr Thomas. "We need to invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future."

More news from abroad and the Guardian reports

Cyprus takes step towards reunification

Cyprus came a step closer to healing the wounds of division yesterday after the leaders of its Greek and Turkish communities pledged to rid the island of one of its most enduring symbols of partition and relaunch long-stalled reunification talks.
Emerging from more than five hours of talks in the UN-patrolled buffer zone that has split Cyprus since 1974, President Demetris Christofias said negotiations between the two sides would be revived with "optimism and goodwill".
"I look forward to having in three months' time results which will help both of us have a dialogue under the auspices of the [UN] secretary general," he said. "We have to be optimistic - we agreed that we shall work together in goodwill

Special Forces have Afghan drug lords in sights says the Telegraph

The operations represent a shift from the British military's long-held opposition to direct involvement in Afghanistan's drugs war. British Special Forces in Helmand province had previously been limited to targeting members of the Taliban leadership.

The Mail tells us that

Two of Britain's most dangerous Islamic terrorists moved to new prison - because they complained fellow inmates were 'too white'

Dhiren Barot and Omar Khyam asked to be transferred from high-security Frankland prison near Durham.
Barot masterminded a radioactive bomb plot involving limousines packed with nails and explosives and Khyam plotted to blow up Bluewater shopping centre in Kent

Teens orgy at the local village school reports the Sun

A SCHOOLKIDS’ party turned into an ORGY with teenagers openly having sex in a village hall.
Scantily-clad girls — aged about 14 — romped with lads stripped to their boxer shorts.
Village hall chairman Alan Day said: “All hell was let loose. Children were drunk to the eyeballs.”
The teenagers’ school has since written to parents to warn about possible pregnancies, saying: “The risks are real. Assume the worst.”
About 200 pupils duped parents into thinking the party was being organised by adults.
The mayhem even spilled outside, in front of shocked locals. Mr Day added: “They were having sex in the village square standing up.”

The Telegraph lifts the lid on

the private life of Edward Heath

If, as his detractors maintained, Sir Edward Heath spent his decades after Downing Street in a perpetual sulk, there was one place where the former Prime Minister could be guaranteed to brighten up - in his beloved home in the Close of Salisbury Cathedral.From today, the public will be able to see why as the 18th century Arundells opens as the country's newest museum and in one of the most glorious settings imaginable.

Finally the Guardian reports

Situations vacant: applicants should be fit, fearless - and have a head for heights

Wanted for unique opportunity: brilliant, physically fit people. Must be cool under pressure, willing to work away from home and have a good head for heights. Free uniform included.
The wording might be a little different, but when the advert appears in newspapers in the next few weeks, it will mark the beginning of one of the most exciting recruitment drives in more than 40 years. The European Astronaut Centre (EAC) needs more astronauts, and from them it expects to choose the first European to walk on the moon

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