The face of Josef Fritzl stares out from the front of many of the papers this morning,

The World's most evil Dad says the Mirror,

A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children

whilst the Independent says If you look at him today you would not believe he could do these things

In its cramped cellar, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl held his own daughter prisoner, beat her and raped her, fathering seven children with her over a period that lasted nearly a quarter of a century.

Inside the devils lair says the front of the Sun describing how

DEPRAVED dad Josef Fritzl built a secret concrete and steel hatch — beyond which lay a world of unimaginable evil for his sex slave daughter and three of the seven kids he fathered by her.
The gateway to hell — operated by a coded electronic lock and a motor — was hidden behind shelving in a basement storage area.

The Times reveals that

The Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter and fathered a hidden incestuous family with her had previously been convicted of sexual assault, The Times has learnt.
Josef F has at least one other conviction, for arson, and he allegedly spent time in prison in the late 1960s. Austrian prosecutors said that they were aware of the allegations and trying to trace the records in court archives.

So how could her mother NOT have known? asks the Mail

Apart from 42-year-old Elisabeth, he and Rosemarie had another six children of their own, now all grown-up, making him a father of 14.
Incredibly, it was still being claimed yesterday that Rosemarie was unaware of what was going on in the cellar beneath her feet.

Away from that story and the Telegraph leads with

OFT investigates 100 household brands over price-fixing allegations

About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of an investigation into allegations of price-fixing, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.Several leading supermarkets - including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's - were raided last week by OFT investigators and lawyers amid suspicion that retailers had conspired to fix the price of household products.

The Mail is also interested in prices

Soaring petrol prices are set to hit £1.50 a litre by the autumn, analysts warned last night.
Although drivers will feel the pain for months to come, Shell and BP are preparing today to announce profits of up to £6billion for the first three months of this year.
The contrasting fortunes between motorists and oil firms coincides with the average price of unleaded breaking through the landmark £5-a-gallon barrier (£1.10 a litre) this morning. MPs accused oil companies of 'profiteering'.

The Express picks the same theme reporting that

BRITISH motorists are being ripped off by “profiteering” oil companies – and the Government.
Together they are making millions of pounds from the soaring price of petrol and diesel

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The Guardian claims that

MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects

Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects.
A number of British terrorism suspects who have been arrested in Pakistan at the request of UK authorities say their interrogation by Security Service officers, shortly after brutal torture at the hands of agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), has convinced them that MI5 colluded in the mistreatment

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The Mail claims

Gordon Brown ignores experts with plans to upgrade cannabis to a class B drug

The Prime Minister will over-rule the Government's panel of experts to announce next week that he wants it to return to Class B status.
The U-turn will involve a damning admission that Labour's soft policy of recent years was a mistake and will bring down the curtain on a disastrous experiment begun by Tony Blair in 2004.

The Guardian says

Gordon Brown's decision to overturn the advice of his own group of drug experts by pressing ahead with a tougher policy on cannabis could face a high court challenge from campaigners.
As the report from the 23-strong Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) recommending that cannabis should remain a class C drug was delivered yesterday to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, it was widely reported that Gordon Brown would ignore its findings.

An array of polls in the papers this morning

Cameron doubles poll lead as election looms says the Independent

The Conservatives have doubled their lead over Labour from seven to 14 points following the row over Gordon Brown's decision to abolish the 10p lower rate of income tax.
The latest ComRes survey for The Independent, taken between Friday and Sunday, puts the Tories on 40 per cent (up two points since last month), Labour on 26 per cent (down five points), the Liberal Democrats on 20 per cent (up three points) and other parties on 14 per cent (unchanged).

Johnson heading for narrow win says the Telegraph

In the first opinion poll to ask voters in the capital for their second-preference choice, which comes into play as the mayor is elected using the alternative vote system of proportional representation, the Conservative is ahead of his Labour rival Ken Livingstone by 51 to 49 per cent.

Whilst the Guardain reports that

Final polls forecast big losses for Brown

The projections would mean Labour would lose more than 200 council seats in England and Wales. The news came as the prime minister finally apologised for abolishing the 10p tax rate, as did the justice secretary, Jack Straw.
Campaigning in the north-west, Brown was asked if he was sorry that the changes had been botched. He replied: "It's unfortunate when things go wrong for people and we've tried to sort that out immediately over the last few days

Many of the papers report on the

Teenagers jailed for life for murdering girl because she was a Goth

Two teenagers have been jailed for life for brutally murdering a young woman in a Lancashire park because she was dressed as a Goth.
Sophie Lancaster, 20, was kicked and stamped to death as she begged the pair to stop beating her boyfriend in Bacup last August.
Ryan Herbert, 16, of Rossendale Crescent, Bacup, who admitted murder, received a 16-year minimum term.
His accomplice Brendan Harris, 15, of Spring Terrace, Bacup, Lancashire, who was convicted after a trial last month, was given a minimum of 18 years

The Telegraph reports on

The failures that let killers roam the streets

A paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed a man to death was wrongly released from custody because of a "lackadaisical" approach to the bail system, a report has claimed. It was commissioned after the death of Richard Whelan, 28, who was stabbed to death on a London bus after he asked Anthony Joseph, 23, who was freed by mistake, to stop throwing chips at other passengers.

Gender havens’ to avert split in Church is the lead in the Times

The Church of England is proposing to tear up hundreds of years of tradition by establishing spiritual havens for opponents of women priests and bishops.
In a desperate attempt to stave off a schism over female ordination, church leaders have suggested the creation of new dioceses based on gender rather than geography.

The Guardian reports from America where there is more controversy in the Democratic race

Wright says criticism of his views are attack on US black churches

Yesterday's appearance was Wright's third in four days as he tried to counter the media uproar over his sermons. But his combination of defiance and sarcastic one-liners looked more likely to inflame a controversy that has turned Wright into a hate figure of the rightwing cable networks, and allowed critics to paint Obama as unpatriotic and divisive.

UN 'covered up Congo peacekeeper corruption' reports the Telegraph

A BBC investigation claims to have obtained new witness accounts which contradict UN claims that no weapons transfers occurred.
The UN launched an investigation into the Pakistani and Indian peacekeepers after the allegations were first aired last year, and although there were indications that a Pakistani soldier had been involved in drug smuggling, no evidence of arms trading turned up.

Zimbabwe health minister accused as terror says the Times

As evidence of increasing government-sponsored violence against the Zimbabwean opposition mounts a pattern is emerging of deliberate attempts to obstruct medical treatment for its victims and to cover up the violence. The Zimbabwean Minister of Health and other doctors who are linked to the ruling party have been implicated in orchestrating the violence and using government medical facilities for their activities

Opposition factions unite to demand Mugabe's exit says the Guardian

Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leaders of rival factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) declared they had put aside their differences after election commission officials completed a partial recount of votes in the parliamentary election. Although five seats were still outstanding last night, the confirmed results gave the MDC a majority and broke the grip of the ruling Zanu-PF party for the first time in Zimbabwe's 28 years as an independent state.

The Independent reports on how

the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency

The heroin flooding Britain's streets is threatening the lives of UK troops in Afghanistan, an Independent investigation can reveal.
Russian gangsters who smuggle drugs into Britain are buying cheap heroin from Afghanistan and paying for it with guns. Smugglers told The Independent how Russian arms dealers meet Taliban drug lords at a bazaar near the old Afghan-Soviet border, deep in Tajikistan's desert. The bazaar exists solely to trade Afghan drugs for Russian guns – and sometimes a bit of sex on the side.

According to the Guardian

ITV faces record phone-in fine

ITV looks set to receive a record fine over viewer deception relating to a range of shows including Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Soapstar Superstar and The X Factor, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
Negotiations between media regulator Ofcom and ITV on the exact amount of the fine will go down to the wire, with an announcement possible this week. It is understood to be in the region of £4m.

The Mail reports on

The bogus nurse who duped hospital for years

A bogus nurse treated hundreds of patients in the NHS over five years before it was discovered she was not qualified.
The ease with which Christina Barrett, 53, duped a hospital into giving her work was revealed as she was given a suspended prison sentence after admitting deception.
The mother of two contacted the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2003 claiming to need her identification number to get back into the profession

The Express reports

The future of millions of old buildings, including Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, churches, barns and houses, could be at risk because of a serious shortage of specialist workers, a new report has warned.
More people with traditional building crafts such as stonemasons, thatchers, dry stone-wallers and slate roofers were needed to be trained, said the National Heritage Training Group.

Finally the Times reports on

Islanders’ West Country burr speaks volumes about Victorian adventurer

A historian is tracing the origins of the West Country burr spoken by the inhabitants of a tiny South Pacific island. John Roberts is engrossed by the legacy of William Masters, a Gloucestershire man who arrived on Palmerston Island, one of the Cook Islands, in 1863 with three of his four Polynesian wives. Marsters had 17 children whose descendants still inhabit the island. There is even some dispute about his name, with some believing that it is a corruption of “Masters” said with a thick Gloucestershire accent.