Both the Mirror and the Sun continue to lead on Josef Fritzl

Beast beside the seaside says the later

DEPRAVED Josef Fritzl soaks up the sun on a holiday in Thailand — while his children cowered in the dark dungeon he dug at his home 5,000 miles away.
The fiend was on a "boys only" trip in 1998 — 14 YEARS after he imprisoned daughter Elisabeth in Austria.

The Mirror leads with Cellar mum I am sorry as it is revealed

DNA tests have shown that Austrian Josef Fritzl, who had kept his daughter prisoner for 24 years and abused her sexually, was the father of her six surviving children, police said today.

scale of the physical scars from Josef Fritzl emerges says the Times

While three of the six children to survive from Mr Fritzl's incestuous relationship with his daughter Elisabeth were brought up as part of normal Austrian society, the others lived their lives without daylight in rooms 1.7 metres (5ft 6in) high.
The Austrian authorities revealed that all the imprisoned children have emerged with defective immune systems and suffering from vitamin D deficiency.

Fuel costs return to the fore,the Independent leads with

The power struggle

The price of power and who foots the bill for Britain's rocketing energy costs took centre stage yesterday as the oil giants Shell and BP unveiled huge combined profits of £7.2bn, made in just three months, and consumers were hit with a new round of steep rises in prices from gas and electricity to air travel.

The Express says

ROCKETING fuel prices will bring an end to the era of cheap family holidays, experts warned yesterday.
Airlines offering long and short haul holidays are pushing up prices to pay the escalating cost of fuel.
British Airways yesterday announced new fuel surcharges and budget companies Ryanair and easyJet have both issued warnings of reduced profits with oil prices driven high around the world

The Times meanwhile reveals

Secret tax adds £200 to cost of running family cars

Tens of thousands of families will have to pay up to £245 extra a year under new road tax rules after a covert government decision to include cars up to seven years old.
The Treasury admitted to The Times last night that it was quietly abolishing the exemption for older cars from the highest rates of vehicle excise duty. This means that owners of larger cars bought since March 2001 will find that their road tax will rise steeply from next April.

The Telegraph's front page says thta

English not first language for 800,000 children

Almost 500,000 children in primary schools have English as a second language – an estimated one in seven – with a further 350,000 pupils in secondary schools.
It follows a significant rise in the number of school pupils from immigrant families. Their numbers have almost doubled in a decade to reach record levels in England's schools.
In some areas, children without English as their first language account for more than half of all pupils.

Meanwhile it reports that

Prince William flies Afghanistan mission

The Telegraph can disclose that the future King met service personnel at Kandahar airfield, which regularly comes under rocket attack. He was there for three hours on Monday.
The Queen and Prince of Wales gave their consent to the trip, which was so fraught with potential danger that a news blackout was imposed.

The story makes the front of the Mail as well.

The Guardian reports

US marines launch mini surge to weaken Taliban

A strike force of US marines punched through Taliban frontlines in southern Helmand yesterday as part of an Afghan "mini surge" intended to weaken the insurgents' grip on the war-ravaged south.
The marine force, numbered in the hundreds, exchanged fire with Taliban fighters as they pushed through Garmser, a town abandoned by its inhabitants in recent years and ringed by poppy fields

The paper leads with


Schools may be judged on teenage pregnancy rates and drug problems

The ideas, set out in a discussion document from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, suggest schools would become accountable for 18 new targets, from bullying and neglect, to what happens to pupils after they leave school. Sources said the 10-page document, entitled Indicators of schools' performance in contributing to pupil wellbeing, calls for Ofsted inspectors to judge schools on the wide range of measures in addition to existing criteria such as exam results and exclusion rates. The measures could be implemented by Ofsted from 2009, and suggest that schools would become broadly responsible for children's safety, enjoyment and happiness.

The Times reports the comments of Mervyn King

Banks paying price for their greed

The days of City “hubris” must come to an end, the Bank of England cautioned yesterday in an extraordinary attack by Mervyn King, the Governor, on excessive pay packages and heavy risk-taking.
Mr King said that the £50 billion bail-out extended to cash-strapped banks should not be seen as an opportunity to continue paying multimillion-pound bonuses to executives who gambled with other people’s money.

Staying with banks and the Telegraph reports

Barclays Bank accused of aiding Robert Mugabe regime

The Liberal Democrats said yesterday that the alleged support was against the spirit of European Union sanctions, which specifically target prominent members of the Zimbabwe government.
The controversy has echoes of the 1980s when Barclays was boycotted by anti-apartheid activists and students for its links with South Africa.

Brown to offer activists a say after poll results says the Guardian

Gordon Brown is to canvass grassroots Labour opinion on the future policy direction of the party in the immediate aftermath of what is expected to be dire local election results tomorrow.
The unprecedented step will give 600 constituency parties and unions an opportunity to amend the government's programme in the run-up to the next general election, as well as vent their frustration at the current direction of party policy

Brown plans barrage of policies to counter-attack after elections

The Prime Minister is expected to promise that Labour will "listen and learn" if the results are poor. He will seek to fight back by showing that Labour has not run out of steam. A draft Queen's Speech for the parliamentary session starting in November was discussed by the Cabinet yesterday and will be published next month. The measures include reforms to health and education and constitutional reforms designed to devolve more power to ordinary people. Longer term reforms could include a largely elected House of Lords and a new voting system for Westminster elections.

Sixth formers paid £5 to teach lessons because they do a 'better job' than supply staff reports the Mail

A school is paying sixth-formers as young as 16 to teach lessons instead of hiring qualified supply staff, it emerged yesterday.
It has put a team of 24 A-level students on standby to fill in when regular teachers are away, paying them £5 for each 50-minute lesson they take.
They are being used in a pilot scheme because the headmistress says they do a better job than qualified adult teachers hired from supply agencies.

There is quite a bit about Maddy in the papers,the Sun reports

TEARFUL Kate and Gerry McCann have spoken for the first time about the shocking hate mail sent to them since daughter Madeleine was abducted.
The couple have received so many sick letters in the past year that they now file them in a box labelled "Nasty".

Gerry McCann has revealed the couple and their friends, the so-called Tapas Nine, considered eating with their children on the night Madeleine disappeared.
A year after their daughter vanished in Portugal the McCanns have spoken about virtually every aspect of their daughter's disappearance, their emotional ordeal and their attempts to find her in a tearful TV documentary.

says the Mail

News from abroad and the Independent reports

Tariq Aziz, the public face of Saddam's tyranny, goes on trial

The former Iraqi deputy prime minister is charged with executing dozens of merchants who were accused of breaking state price controls in 1992.
Mr Aziz, looking frail and weak in a brown suit and using a walking stick, entered the courtroom with six other defendants when Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman opened the tribunal. He is reported to have been in poor health.

The Guardian reports that

Barack Obama today forcefully distanced himself from his former pastor Jeremiah Wright, publicly severing a relationship that has become a source of concern among some Democrats and may have helped drive away voters.
Speaking in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where a primary is scheduled for May 6, the Illinois senator sought quell attempts among his political rivals to link him to the pastor, describing Wright's recent public appearances as "outrageous," "appalling," a "distraction" and a "rant".

Chinese slave children 'sold like cabbages'

Young people – some aged under 10 – are said to have been discovered being bought and sold at a street market in Sichuan, one of rural China's most overpopulated provinces.
According to investigative reporters, the children stood in line as they were assessed like cattle, before being driven on trucks to factories in the Pearl River Delta, China's manufacturing heartland.

The Independent asks

Can you tell a real Hendrix sex tape from a fake?

There may or may not be people out there willing to put down cash for a DVD showing Jimi Hendrix getting it on with two naked ladies in a barely-lit bedroom that just may be real, but could equally be fake. One company with an eye for quick cash is betting that there are plenty.
Vivid Entertainment, a porn-flick producer in Los Angeles, has confirmed the imminent release of Jimi Hendrix the Sex Tape, available for $39.95 (£20). If celebrity – dead celebrity – voyeurism is your thing, it will be available for purchase this week or instant download over the internet.

Finally staying with the sixties,the Telegraph reports that

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who invented the LSD and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip, has died.