The face of Madeleine McCann shares top billing with the economy this morning in many of the papers this morning.

Why did you leave us to cry Mummy says the Express

Madeleine McCann asked her mother just hours before her disappearance: "Why didn't you come when we were crying last night?", it has emerged.
The three-year-old's stark question was revealed amid leaked passages from police interviews given by Kate and Gerry McCann directly after their daughter's disappearance in Praia da Luz, Portugal last May

Why did'nt you come when we were crying last night says the Sun

KATE McCann told cops she and husband Gerry agreed to watch their kids more closely after daughter Madeleine said she’d been crying on her own, it was revealed yesterday.
But within hours of the conversation, the innocent youngster had vanished from their Portugal holiday apartment.

Kate speaks says the front of the Mirror

Kate McCann yesterday told of the agony she and Gerry have suffered in the 11 months since Madeleine vanished.
Kate, speaking on a trip to Brussels to urge politicians to back a Europe-wide missing child alert scheme, said: "It's been totally devastating. This time last year we were an incredibly happy family and felt very lucky. But we certainly have hope Madeleine's still alive."

The Telegraph reports

Friends said they now believe Madeleine’s comment could even be a clue that an intruder was in the flat on the night before her disappearance and that they briefly disturbed her before fleeing.
The detailed revelations about Kate and her husband Gerry McCann’s last day with Madeleine emerged during the couple’s trip to Brussels on Thursday where they called for the establishment of a missing child alert system.

It leads though with interest rates

Mortgage cost rise despite cut in Bank rate

The credit crisis squeezing household finances is likely to worsen with lenders expected to ignore the Bank's latest intervention, analysts said.
The Monetary Policy Committee cut its base rate from 5.25 per cent to 5 per cent amid growing concern about slowing growth in the economy.
But some lenders increased the rates on some of their loans hours before the announcement.

Consumer crunch says the Times

Millions of struggling families will be hit by higher mortgage payments after banks raised their charges last night – despite the Bank of England’s quarter-point cut in the base rate to 5 per cent.
The rate cut would normally bring the cost of mortgages down. Instead, four of the biggest banks ignored it and increased charges on a range of loans, adding about £150 a month to a typical mortgage.

The Guardian says that

Britain's largest mortgage lenders were last night accused of fattening their profits at the expense of increasingly stretched homeowners as two leading firms ignored the third interest rate cut from the Bank of England in five months and pushed through price increases on some of their most popular home loan offers.

Not suprisingly it leads with

Ministers under pressure to reopen BAE corruption probe

Pressure was mounting last night on the government to allow the reopening of the criminal investigation into secret payments by arms company BAE to Saudi Arabia following a high court judgment that made clear the inquiry should never have been dropped.
Ministers have to decide in the next two weeks over what to do about the ruling from Lord Justice Moses, who with Lord Justice Sullivan, delivered a damning verdict on the behaviour of the former prime minister, Tony Blair, and his government in forcing a halt to the long-running investigation.

Court condemns Blair for halting Saudi arms inquiry says the Independent

Tony Blair's government broke the law when it abandoned a fraud investigation into a multibillion-pound arms deal between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, the High Court ruled yesterday.
Two senior judges condemned the Government's "abject" surrender to a "blatant" threat when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) halted its inquiry into allegations that BAE had made secret payments to Saudi officials in order to secure a series of massive contracts. BAE has always denied any wrongdoing

The Mail leads with the story that

Council spies stalked family for three weeks to check they lived in school's catchment area

A family were spied on for three weeks by a council to check whether they lived in the catchment area of their child's school.
An undercover official made a detailed log of the family's daily activities without their knowledge, tailing the morning and afternoon school runs and returning in the evening to watch their £350,000 house

According to the Telegraph

A council has used powers intended for anti-terrorism surveillance to spy on a family who were wrongly accused of lying on a school application form.

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The "spies" made copious notes on the movements of the mother and her three children, who they referred to as "targets" as they were trailed on school runs. The snoopers even watched the family home at night to establish where they were sleeping.

Many of the papers report on the terror trial

Three British Muslims took part in a "hostile" reconnaissance mission of potential targets in London with two men who went on to bomb the city's transport system on July 7, a court was told yesterday. The trip, in December 2004, was "part of a sinister plot to cause explosions", according to the prosecution. It was an "essential preparatory step ... to bring death and destruction to the heart of the United Kingdom".

says the Guardian

The Sun reports

JET bottle-bomb suspect Umar Islam praises al-Qaeda warlord Osama bin Laden in an alleged suicide video, a court heard yesterday.
Islam, 29, formerly known as Brian Young, recorded the 18-minute rant because he intended to blow himself up on a transatlantic airliner, it is claimed.

According to the Times

Athletes who take Tibet stand 'face Olympic cut'

Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.
Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that competitors were free to express their political views but faced sanctions if they indulged in propaganda.

On the same subject the Independent asks

When is a boycott not a boycott?

Once it was said that Gordon Brown was hooked on Prudence but, since he moved into 10 Downing Street, it seems that Dither is the love of his life. That was the impression left by the strange confusion over whether he had changed his mind about attending the opening of the Beijing Olympics

The Telegraph reports that

George Bush freezes Iraq troop withdrawals

George W Bush has ordered an indefinite freeze in US troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, prompting his critics to argue that he will hand his successor "a quagmire" with no promise of success.The US president said he agreed with recommendations by Gen David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, to halt further reductions in troop numbers for an indefinite evaluation period after extra brigades introduced 15 months ago have been brought home this summer

The Guardian reports

Opposition rejects run-off as Mugabe tightens grip

Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change says it will not take part in a run-off presidential election, in a move that may provide the pretext for Robert Mugabe to extend his 28-year rule.
The MDC urged regional leaders holding an emergency summit tomorrow to tell Mugabe to give up power immediately.
Tendai Biti, the MDC's secretary-general, said the failure to release the election results nearly a fortnight after the vote amounted to a "constitutional coup d'etat".

Spy photos reveal 'secret launch site' for Iran's long-range missiles says the Times

The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.

The Guardian tells us that

Briton faces war crime trial over Serb massacre of 200 Croats

Milorad Pejic, a Croatian Serb from the Croatian border town of Vukovar, lived in Corby in Northamptonshire for 10 years until last month and obtained a British passport. He is accused of involvement in one of the worst single atrocities of the Balkan wars - the killing of more than 200 people at a pig farm outside Vukovar after the Croatian town fell to besieging Serbian forces in November 1991.

The Telegraph meanwhile reports

Serb prisoners 'were stripped of their organs in Kosovo war'

Carla Del Ponte, who stepped down in January as chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal for crimes committed in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, said investigators found a house suspected of being a laboratory for the illegal trade.
A senior adviser to Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister and a leading member of the Kosovo Liberation Army which is accused of benefiting from the trade, yesterday denied the allegations

Many of the papers report that

Heir to Tetra Pak billions arrested for possession of heroin

Hans Kristian Rausing, the son of one of Britain's richest men, was detained at his Chelsea home after Eva, his American-born wife was arrested, allegedly trying to smuggle small "wraps" of the class-A drugs into a function at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.

says the Independent

SHANNON COPS QUIZ 3 FAMILY reports the Mirror

The gran and two aunts of abducted Shannon Matthews were quizzed by police for seven hours yesterday.
Alice Meehan, 49, the mother of Shannon's stepdad Craig Meehan, and his two sisters Caroline Meehan and Amanda Hyett had been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

The Mail reveals

The moment a chef broke his girlfriend's leg in £100,000 compensation scam (after giving her a bottle of Pernod and Valium to dull the pain)

A man who broke his girlfriend's leg in the hope of claiming £100,000 compensation has been jailed for three years.
Gordon Thomson planned to sue his local council, claiming Elizabeth Hingston had been injured by a falling wall.
But the plot came undone when police found sickening video footage of the incident on Thomson's mobile phone.

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In it, the 32-year-old unemployed chef was seen placing Miss Hingston's left leg between two bricks and jumping on it with both feet.
The sound of the sickening crack rang around Plymouth Crown Court yesterday as a judge watched the video

The Times reports the case of

A man who claimed more than £85,000 benefit for 16 nonexistent children was jailed for 20 months yesterday.
David Wilshaw, who spent most of the money on gambling, had originally tried to claim that he had done taxpayers a favour by exposing a loophole in the rules.
Wilshaw, 58, and his partner. Nancy Stevenson, 59, from Weston-super-Mare, decided on the fraud after they applied for tax credits for one of Stevenson’s two children and realised that they did not have to produce a birth certificate.

The new age of the train claims the Independent

Britain is witnessing the dawn of a new era of rail travel as an unprecedented demand for environmentally friendly transport encourages people to take more train journeys than at any time since the Second World War.
Figures released yesterday revealed that the number of miles travelled on the rail network reached a record-breaking peacetime high of 30.1 billion during 2007, capping a huge rise in popularity in which passenger numbers have increased every year for the past 13 years

TAXMAN MUST SWALLOW £3.5M TEACAKES BILL says the Mirror

When is a chocolate biscuit not a chocolate biscuit? When it's a Marks & Spencer teacake.
That costly mistake has landed the taxman with a £3.5million bill after a court ruling yesterday.
Officials had classed the teatime treat as confectionery and subject to VAT.
Now HM Customs has admitted they are cakes, which are VAT-free.

In sickness and health, the class of '48 reports the Guardian

Sixty years ago, they posed happily for the camera in front of the slate wall that separates their Cornish school from the sheep fields, looking hearty and full of life. Yesterday, an insight into how the class of 1948 got on after they left emerged when a study into their health and wellbeing was published.
The results are moving, sometimes heartwarming, often sad. Six of the 20 former pupils from Tintagel primary school who have been traced have died, some in tragic circumstances. Others have been in and out of hospital, while many are still fighting fit, though they are in their 70s.

Finally the Sun reports that

AN ENTREPRENEUR has outraged neighbours by launching a club for SWINGERS in their sleepy village.
Club Vanilla offers “play areas”, an exotic floor show, a Jacuzzi and free condoms.
Randy couples pay £45 for their night of debauchery – along with a disco and DJ – in a converted barn.
But residents in Horswell, North Devon, which has a population of just 1,000, want the club banned.