Brown Wednesday says the Times on its front page

Labour rebels last night claimed they had the “bit between their teeth” after humbling Gordon Brown into the biggest policy U-turn of his premiership.
Ministers warned that their backbench MPs smelt blood after forcing the Prime Minister to rewrite a defining measure of his last Budget as Chancellor to buy off the 10p tax revolt.
Rebels - sensing that the climb-down had sapped Mr Brown’s authority - threatened to exploit his weakened position, saying that he faced defeat over his plans to detain terrorist suspects for 42 days unless he listened to their concerns.

the Prime Minister had claimed that there were no losers from the tax changes. His hand was ultimately forced by dozens of Labour MPs who threatened to vote out the Budget unless the plan to scrap the 10p rate was suspended.

reports the Telegraph

I won't back down on terror law', he warns rebels reports the Mail and the Sun reports

PM GORDON Brown last night warned his troops his 10p tax rate U-turn is NOT a green light for more revolts.
He defiantly fired a warning shot at Labour backbenchers, insisting he will not budge under pressure again.
It came as rebels plotted to kill off his bid to detain terrorist suspects for 42 days without charge.

The Guardian leads with

Teacher strike shuts out 1m children

At least a million children at 8,000 schools will be barred from lessons today as striking teachers trigger acute shortages across the country.
Headteachers and teaching assistants have been drafted in to take the place of striking colleagues after school authorities failed to avert widespread school closures. A third of schools will be turning some pupils away and one in six will close entirely

The Telegraph adds that

The National Union of Teachers refused to rule out a rolling programme of strikes later this year as the Government appeared unlikely to cave into their demands for improved pay.

Both the Mirror and the Sun lead with the news that

Two held for murder of missing disabled James Hughes after body is found

James, 22, who needs 24-hour care, has been missing since the weekend.
A body was discovered at a property in the Church Hill area of Redditch, Worcestershire, this afternoon.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder and are currently helping police with their inquiries at police stations in Kidderminster and Redditch.

The Sun adds

The grim discovery came as it was revealed that mum-of-three Heather, 39, had a ligature around her neck when she was found dead in woods on Monday evening. Mother and son had last been seen alive on Friday, and police are now trying to establish who died first.

The front page of the Independent asks

Is it time to give up the search for an Aids vaccine?

Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.
A mood of deep pessimism has spread among the international community of Aids scientists after the failure of a trial of a promising vaccine at the end of last year. It just was the latest in a series of setbacks in the 25-year struggle to develop an HIV vaccine.

The Mail leads with the story that

Cheap food is being dressed up as top-quality produce in a vast fraud costing shoppers £7billion a year, it is claimed today.
There is mounting evidence of battery farm eggs being sold as free range, farmed fish passed off as wild and inferior meat labelled as organic.
It is also feared that premium products are being adulterated to boost profits. For example, ordinary virgin oil is dyed dark green with chlorophyll to make it look like extra virgin.

Meanwhile according to the Telegraph

'Useless' green levy on drivers rakes in £4bn

The "green levy" on motorists announced in Alistair Darling's first Budget will double car tax revenue to £4 billion but reduce vehicle emissions by less than one per cent, Treasury figures have showed.This will result in the owners of family cars, estates and people carriers paying hundreds of pounds a year more to use the roads.

Drivers are warned of further petrol price rises in the pipeline reports the Times

Petrol prices are expected to reach more than £1.12 per litre next month as service stations feel the effects of the latest surge in global crude prices.
Amid fears of widespread fuel shortages before a planned strike at Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest oil refinery, the AA said that the cost of filling a 50-litre petrol tank stood yesterday at £54.44, up £7.82 on a year ago.

The Guardian reports that

Shops ration sales of rice as US buyers panic

The global food crisis reached the United States yesterday as big retailers began to ration sales of rice in response to bulk purchases by customers alarmed by rocketing prices of staples.
Wal-Mart's cash and carry division, Sam's Club, announced it would sell a maximum of four bags of rice per person to prevent supplies from running short. Its decision followed sporadic caps placed on purchases of rice and flour by some store managers at a rival bulk chain, Costco, in parts of California

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Staying in America and the Indpendent reports

Democrats' ugly civil war rumbles on

The ever-fiercer struggle for the Democratic nomination moved to battlefields new in North Carolina and Indiana yesterday – with a resurgent Hillary Clinton vowing she had a better chance of defeating the Republican John McCain, and Barack Obama insisting he was still on track for eventual victory.
Hours after what Mrs Clinton described as an "overwhelming" win in Pennsylvania, she served notice she was in the fight until the end of the primary season on 3 June, and if necessary beyond.

The Telegraph adding that

Speaking in Indianapolis, she said the margin of victory was a significant endorsement after an often bruising six-week campaign in the state in which she was outspent by three to one.
"It was a tremendous boost to my argument that I am the strongest candidate against John McCain in the fall," she said.

The Guardian reports that

Press floats Mugabe unity government

Zimbabwe's state-run press is floating the possibility that Robert Mugabe will annul last month's presidential election and call for a national unity government with himself as president while a new constitution is negotiated and a fresh ballot held.
The proposal, in an opinion piece in the Herald, is not a formal Zanu-PF plan. But the newspaper is often used by the ruling party to lay the ground for policy changes. The proposal is viewed by the opposition as another attempt by Mugabe to overturn the election results

The Times reports that

UN troops overworked and outgunned in Darfur

The peacekeepers could do nothing to stop the huge Antonov aircraft flying over the tiny town of Sileia, close to Sudan’s border with Chad.
They were too late to stop the Janjawid – the feared Arab militia, some on horseback and some in Toyota pickup trucks – sent in to do the Government’s dirty work, looting or destroying anything they couldn’t carry away

Saddam's ally Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri 'captured' in Iraq reports the Telegraph

A man resembling Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the vice-chairman of Saddam's Ba'ath party and the King of Clubs on America's "deck of cards" most-wanted list, was said to have been taken into custody by Iraqi forces.Al-Arabiya television said that the man was caught in Hamrin between the provinces of Salaheddin and Kirkuk and was moved to Baghdad where he was said to have been handed over to US forces. DNA tests are being conducted to confirm his identity, the report added.

Bailed to murder reports the Mail

a former soldier was beaten to death in a drink and drug-fuelled attack by a gang of teenagers who were on bail or serving community punishments for violent robberies.
Stephen Green was cycling home from work late at night when he was ambushed in an underpass.
The 55-year-old was kicked, stamped on and battered with a large stick by the yobs, who needed cash to buy more alcohol and cannabis.

Three cleared of killing boy hit by speedboat while asleep on beach says the Guardian

Two-year-old Paul Gallagher died after sustaining horrific head injuries in the accident in August 2002. His distraught parents reacted angrily as Judge Elliot Lockhart dismissed the case in Nassau against the driver of the boat, James Bain, and its owners, Clifford Nottage and Evangeless Williamson. The boy's mother, Andrea Gallagher, 41, broke down in tears at the back of the court.
Paul was sleeping on a sun lounger when the six metre-long boat smashed on to the sand. He died five days later in a local hospital.

With a week to go before the mayoral elections,the Independent reports that

Boris Johnson faces the possibility of an inquiry by anti-sleaze watchdogs after failing to declare his shareholding in a television company.
The Labour MP Karen Buck, called on the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to investigate after it emerged that Mr Johnson did not register shares in Finland Station, for more than 18 months. Aides to the Tory candidate for London mayor said he had not declared his 33 per cent shareholding because of an "oversight" and they had now ensured the shareholding was registered.

The Guardian meanwhile reveals

Livingstone's unlikely secret weapons

Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell have both been giving advice to the campaign working for London mayor Ken Livingstone's re-election, the Guardian can reveal.
The former prime minister and his media strategist had been among Livingstone's most trenchant critics in the past, and he had derided them for being the architects of the New Labour project. However, with the race against the Tory candidate Boris Johnson on a knife-edge, Livingstone's team has sought their expertise, and also the advice of Philip Gould, New Labour's pollster and focus group adviser.

Rail fares shake-up will ditch refunds and double some fees reports the Times

Passengers will lose out from a decision by train companies to stop giving refunds for tickets bought in advance and to double the fee for changes to journey times.
The move is part of what the companies are calling a simplification of rail fares into three main types, which they claim will be easier to understand. More than a million leaflets will be distributed at stations from today explaining the changes but they fail to mention that many passengers will be worse off under the new national refunds policy.

The Express reports that

UNMARRIED COUPLES MUST SHARE ASSETS, COURT RULES

Couples who live together and buy a home must now split the proceeds equally if they break up.
A landmark legal ruling yesterday laid down clear new rules for the four million unmarried couples who plough their life savings into property.
In a judgment paving the way for thousands of similar claims, a man was ordered to sell his home and divide the proceeds with the partner who dumped him after a 23-year relationship

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Brit boys rescued by mobile reports the Mirror

Two British teenagers caught in a blizzard in the Pyrenees were saved after they phoned home for help on a mobile.
The pair, believed to be students, were cycling along a notoriously dangerous trail called Pilgrims Way - a 500-mile route between France and Spain.
They were close to succumbing to hypothermia when one of them rang his family in South West London and they called the police.

The Sun reports that

KIDS as young as eight risk deadly skin cancer by using sunbeds, two surveys have claimed.
And last night the Government revealed it plans to ban under-18s from ALL tanning salons.
The Department of Health’s cancer reform strategy will replace rules set out in 1995
The move comes after polls by consumer group Which? revealed more than 170,000 kids between eight and 15 have used tanning machines — as well as one in eight 16-year-olds.

The Times tells the story of

A charity worker was taken from his bed and detained for ten hours on his birthday after Tesco gave detectives his car registration in connection with a stolen television.Simon Brasch, who works for a hospice charity, was woken in the middle of the night by police after being wrongly accused of stealing a plasma television from the store. As his two young sons and wife looked on, he was marched to a police car at 3am after a bizarre mix-up following his visit to the supermarket eight hours earlier

Finally The Independent tells us

Why Britain's butterflies are desperate for a dry summer

They were dealt a massive blow by the record wet summer of last year, new figures reveal. Many species were already declining and the heavy rainfall may have caused them to disappear in many parts of Britain.
Plenty of sunshine is now essential for populations of many species to recover. Survey figures for 2007, released yesterday, reveal that as a consequence of the wet weather, British butterflies collectively suffered their worst year for more than a quarter of a century. Butterflies do not fly in the rain, making it impossible for them to reach the plants whose nectar they feed on, and heavy rain also means they are unable to breed.