An assortment of headlines in the Sunday's this morning.

The Times exposes

energy giant cheats its customers

SALESMEN for one of Britain’s biggest energy companies are routinely lying to householders to trick them into signing up as new customers.
An investigation by The Sunday Times can reveal the dirty tricks used by sales staff from Npower in the doorstep battle to persuade homeowners to ditch their existing suppliers

Exposes in the Mail too which reports that

Police probe 'new KGB poison attack' as defector Gordievsky is found unconscious in Surrey home

Special Branch is investigating an alleged attempt to murder Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB double-agent who spied on Russia for British intelligence at the height of the Cold War.
The former Soviet colonel, who escaped to Britain in 1985, says he was poisoned by a Russian assassin who visited him at his secret safe-house in Surrey.
He fears he is the latest victim of revenge attacks by Russian intelligence on high-profile defectors.

and the Telegraph which reports that

Boris Johnson: I'm the victim of dirty tricks

Mr Johnson, the Conservative candidate, has disclosed in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph today that his office was infiltrated by internet hackers who broke into his email and brought down his computer system for several hours last week.He also said that his opponents were "fighting dirty" and would use any tactic to smear him and ensure that Labour's Ken Livingstone won a third term as mayor.

The Independent reveals that

Army faces new torture claims over arrest of Shia leader

The British Army faces new allegations of torture and abuse over the arrest and detention of a Shia tribal leader and his family who claim they were hooded and beaten by soldiers based at Basra airport last year.
The allegations could prove highly damaging as they come just days after the Government said that abuses committed by British soldiers had been limited to 2003 and 2004 and involved only a "very small minority" of servicemen.

I WON'T GO HOME TO MY MUM, says Shannon Matthews reports the Sunday Mirror

The nine-year-old, who went missing for 24 days, said she would rather live with her foster parents and spend time with the cat that police have given her.
During a three-hour visit on Wednesday - only the second time she had seen her daughter since she was found on March 15 - mother-ofseven Karen, 32, begged her daughter to come home.

On the same topic the News of the World reveals

THE real father of kidnap victim Shannon Matthews has vowed to fight for her custody rather than see her taken into permanent care.
Leon Rose will offer the nine-year-old a loving home if she is not allowed to stay with her mum Karen.
Shannon's 10-year-old brother Ian is already living with him and partner Tracey, and Leon told friends: "She's got a good home ready and waiting here as well."

Another missing child story on the front of the Express which reports

TAPAS SEVEN FACE NEW MADELEINE QUIZ

Portuguese police are due to arrive in the UK to sit in when the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are interviewed.
The detectives, led by Paulo Rebelo, who is in charge of the Madeleine McCann case, will not actually question the friends of the couple but will be present at interviews carried out by officers from Leicestershire Constabulary.

Mugabe 'prepares for war' reports the Observer

Robert Mugabe was accused last night of preparing a war against Zimbabwe's people, in an attempt to overturn the opposition's presidential election victory.
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, who has already claimed outright victory in last Saturday's election, even though the official count has yet to be released, said the government was reviving the war veterans and party militias to bludgeon the opposition into submission and terrorise voters before a run-off ballot.

Zimbabwe on the brink: War or Peace? says the Independent

They've had an election; now the fight for Zimbabwe begins. Yesterday, the strange, shadowy week of meetings behind closed doors, whispers, rumours, and speculation seemed to be at a close as both President Robert Mugabe and his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai started to talk, and act, tough.

'Ministers put Olympics ahead of human rights' reports the Telegraph

Campaigners claim that Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, and Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister, appeared to be "pushing the message" that human rights issues should be kept out of the Olympics taking place this summer in China.

The Times meanwhile reports

China struggles to quell Tibet rebels

A PICTURE is emerging of desperate and prolonged Tibetan resistance despite the huge scale of China’s military operation across the mountainous region that one ancient poet called “a place where snow lions dance”.
The Chinese press focused yesterday on a campaign to whip up resentment against the foreign media as reports outside China spoke of at least eight unarmed Tibetans shot dead by paramilitary police

Food riots fear after rice price hits a high says the Observer

A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
With rice stocks at their lowest for 30 years, prices of the grain rose more than 10 per cent on Friday to record highs and are expected to soar further in the coming months. Already China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia have imposed tariffs or export bans, as it has become clear that world production of rice this year will decline in real terms by 3.5 per cent. The impact will be felt most keenly by the world's poorest populations, who have become increasingly dependent on the crop as the prices of other grains have become too costly.

Nearer to home and the Telegraph reports

Financial crisis hits homeowner spending

More than half of all voters say they are having to rein in their personal spending as the credit crunch bites, according to a new opinion poll today.
The ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph shows that 22 per cent of respondents have had to cut back "a lot" over the past 12 months, while another 37 per cent have had to reduce their outgoings "a little".

Meet the real leader of the Liberal Democrats says the Independent

Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has hardly had the easiest of weeks.
It began with the toe-curling revelation in a magazine interview that he had slept with "up to 30 women".
And it ends with new claims that he may not, in fact, be the real leader of the Lib Dems after all.
According to one authoritative account of the leadership contest last December, Chris Huhne would be Lib Dem chief were it not for hundreds of ballot papers being held up by the Christmas post.

According to the Observer

Brown backs army cadet corps plan for schools

Controversial plans for pupils in comprehensive schools to sign up for military drills and weapons training are being backed by Gordon Brown in an attempt to improve the relationship between the public and the armed forces.
A major review of the military's role in British society says that encouraging more state secondary school pupils to join the cadet corps would improve discipline among teenagers while helping to improve the public perception of the army, navy and air force.

The Times reports that

Public sector pensions cost an extra £3 billion

TAXPAYERS have this year been forced to pay nearly £3 billion more to retired public sector workers than Gordon Brown had predicted, official figures reveal.
According to the latest estimates, the cost of public sector pensions this year has soared to £21.4 billion - £2.7 billion more than Brown calculated in 2005.
The increased cost is almost the equivalent of putting a penny on income tax and critics said it shows that the government has lost control

The Observer meanwhile reports

Gordon Brown's government came under attack from one of his closest allies last night for failing to help families threatened with losing their homes in the credit crisis.
George Mudie, a senior member of the Treasury select committee, called for ministers to strike an urgent deal with lenders to delay repossessions and help struggling householders through short-term difficulties.

The Mirror reports

Gordon BROWN: I'LL SACK MINISTERS WHO STEP OUT OF LINE

Gordon Brown will this week read the riot act to rebellious ministers and Labour MPs.
The PM - who met ex-US President Bill Clinton at a world prosperity conference in Watford yesterday - will also give a dressing-down to Chief Whip Geoff Hoon.
Mr Hoon, who is in charge of enforcing party discipline, is under fire for letting the troops run amok.

The Mail claims

Friends’ growing fears over Charles and Camilla’s three-year marriage as the rows escalate

The couple are said to argue in front of aides and Camilla sometimes prefers to spend time alone at her country hideaway.
Clarence House denies there is any rift, and the friends stress that the problems are far from insurmountable.
But it seems apparent that some of the freshness has left their long partnership since it was finally formalised.
"The rows have been escalating over the past three months," one well-placed source said.

The News of the World follows up its lead last week revealing

ONE of five hookers at Formula 1 boss Max Mosley's infamous Nazi-style orgy has revealed all about the scandal that this week rocked the world of motor racing. The vice girl told how Mosley, 67—son of Britain's notorious wartime fascist leader Sir Oswald—ordered her to dress up in German military uniform and bark orders at him as he was flogged till he bled. He also bellowed orders in German and spoke English in a bizarre German accent during the five-hour S & M orgy in a London dungeon.

Another expose in the Times

Georgian furniture 'made from barn planks'

A SHORT drive along a muddy track from the Tudor village of Chilham in Kent, a small farm lies hidden in a dip of the landscape. The imposing oast houses where hops were once stored now harbour the secrets of another lucrative industry — the manufacture and fabrication of mock antiques.

Acording to the Express

It sounds like the perfect role for a Southern belle who has seen better days and is desperate to restore her fortunes. So playing one of the theatre’s most celebrated and tragic heroines might just be the way for Britney Spears to repair her damaged career.
The troubled pop star has been lined up to play Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, in London’s West End – but the plan has already caused quite a stir.

Ibiza: Is the party over? asks the Independent

More than half a million Brits travel to the Balearic island each year in search of round-the-clock parties. But now the head of tourism is calling for a dramatic image change, with curbs on the superstar-DJ club nights and high-rise hotels in an attempt to attract more upmarket visitors.

Finally the Telegraph reports

After fighting off Daleks and Cybermen, it looks as if Doctor Who may finally have met his match in the unlikely form of his new assistant.Russell T. Davies, the mastermind behind the latest incarnation of the hit BBC television show, which returned for a fresh series last night, told The Sunday Telegraph that Donna Noble would become the first equal partner to the Doctor, played by David Tennant, and would never fall in love with him