The News of the World runs an opinion poll of the marginals where
DAVID Cameron is storming towards a massive Tory win at the next general election, sweeping aside over 130 Labour MPs.
An exclusive News of the World ICM poll today reveals the Tory leader would get a NINE PER CENT swing—the same as Tony Blair won with in 1997.
The findings will put the Prime Minister under massive pressure—and mean that FOUR Cabinet ministers would lose their seats.
The paper reminds us that
The last time we ran our rule over the 145 marginal seats six months ago the results SCARED him so much he called off an early general election at the last minute.
An ICM poll in the Telegraph
released days before local elections in England and Wales - puts the Tories on 39 per cent, Labour on 29 per cent and the Lib Dems on 20 per cent.
The Independent writes of
Britain's new national sport: Taking pot shots at Brown
Senior Blairites believe that Gordon Brown is doomed to fail at the next election, and are urging David Miliband to start organising his leadership campaign now.
Supporters of Tony Blair are ready to rally round the Foreign Secretary to prepare to be Labour's first leader in opposition in 13 years. But they are against a challenge before polling day in two years because even if Mr Miliband wins a leadership battle, they calculate Labour is heading for defeat to David Cameron
Writing in the Sunday Mirror
Gordon Brown insists today he is "always ready to listen" as he moves to unite his troops ahead of crucial local elections.
the Prime Minister admits to "differences and debates" over his abolition of the 10p tax band.
The PM writes today: "Labour is always ready to listen to people's concerns, and take action on them."
The front page of the Mail reveals Tony Blair said
Brown can't beat Cameron
The devastating verdict is revealed by Blair's controversial chief fund-raiser, Lord Levy, whose sensational memoirs are serialised in today's Mail on Sunday.
Lord Levy – known as Lord Cashpoint – gives an unprecedentedly frank account of his 14 years as one of Blair's closest advisers, and tells for the first time the full story behind the cash-for-honours scandal that convulsed New Labour in the last years of Blair's premiership.
The paper also features other revelations though
Lord Levy's book reveals that he was asked by a senior figure within Downing Street to confront Tony Blair over "long massages" that the then Prime Minister was said to be receiving from Carole Caplin.
He says he was asked to intervene when rumours swept No10 about visits that the fitness guru was paying to the Prime Minister's country home, Chequers.
Gordon Brown set for U-turn on terror detention claims the Times
Gordon Brown is preparing for a climb-down on his plans to detain terror suspects for 42 days despite insisting that he would not compromise on national security, according to a leaked Whitehall document.
The document shows that Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has prepared concessions including giving judges powers to impose “alternatives to detention” on terror suspects after the existing 28-day limit
The Sunday Express meanwhile claims that
Labour plans to ration petrol
MOTORISTS will face petrol rationing within days if the oil refinery strike causes forecourt shortages, the Government warned last night.
Amid signs of growing ministerial alarm over the dispute at the Grangemouth refinery, Business Secretary John Hutton said ministers “will not hesitate” to bring in emergency rationing if needed.
Its the latest rich list in the Times which show
The richest 1,000 people in Britain have seen their wealth quadruple under Labour, according to The Sunday Times Rich List published today. Even under Gordon Brown’s brief premiership their fortunes have soared by 15%, just as the financial squeeze and faltering house prices have hit ordinary people.
The collective wealth of the 1,000 richest has jumped to £412 billion, up from £99 billion in 1997. Total net wealth during the same period has slightly more than doubled.
The Independent has an alternate list the Happy List
About time, then, we thought, that someone produced an antidote. So here it is: the Happy List, celebrating those Britons who have given back, enhanced the lives of others and realised that in an acquisitive society there's a crying need for values other than mere materialism.
It leads with a food expose How do you like your eggs?
Undercover investigators have filmed the ugly reality of egg production at a battery chicken farm supplying the biggest egg producer in the UK.
Viewed from the air, Holsworthy Beacon Farm takes its place in an idyllic rural scene. But in its sheds, chickens are crammed five to a cage, stacked in rows from floor to ceiling.
Food takes the lead in the Telegraph too which reports
The country's biggest supermarkets have been raided by consumer watchdogs over allegations of price fixing.
Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons were among the companies whose headquarters were targeted by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.The offices of their major suppliers have also been visited as part of an investigation into allegations that they colluded to fix the prices of groceries and health and beauty products
The Observer reports
Her crime was to fall in love. She paid with her life
Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, told her closest friend that she was in love from the moment she set eyes on the young British soldier working alongside her in Basra, and she dreamed of a future with him..
It was an innocent infatuation but five months after Rand, a student of English at Basra University, met Paul, a 22-year-old soldier posted to southern Iraq, she was dead. She was stamped on, suffocated and stabbed by her father. Several brutal knife wounds punctured her slender, bruised body - from her face to her feet. He had done it, he proclaimed to the neighbours who soon gathered round, to 'cleanse his honour'
The Sunday Mirror claims on its front page that
The hero pilot who saved 152 lives in the Heathrow crash landing is planning to quit British Airways in disgust at the way bosses have treated him.
Captain Peter Burkill, 43, says he is a "broken man" and feels betrayed after being effectively grounded and having his pay docked. He says he has been refused the support he needs to start flying again.
The Telegraph reports that
Compensation boost for severely injured troops
The move follows mounting criticism over the decision to pay troops with life-changing injuries - such as brain damage or the loss of limbs - a fraction of the amounts awarded to civilians with similar injuries
Superbug fears hit playgrounds reports the Times
A Sunday Times investigation has found at least 10 youngsters aged between six and 13 have been left fighting for their lives after contracting the infection. Doctors are concerned because they appear to have caught the bug in playgrounds and parks.
The children were all hit by Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), a toxin that combines with MRSA, the bacteria that cause thousands of infections, sometimes lethal, in hospitals.
News from abroad and the Independent reports
Britain urges the UN to help bring down Mugabe
The UN Security Council, overcoming objections from South Africa, which currently holds the presidency, is due to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe for the first time on Tuesday. Yesterday Gordon Brown, who is seeking an arms embargo on President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party, said: "The whole international community must speak up against the climate of fear in Zimbabwe", and pledged British help to rebuild the country "once democracy returns
Mugabe fails in bid to switch poll result says the Observer
Robert Mugabe has been unable to win back control of Zimbabwe's parliament after a partial recount of the 29 March election results failed to overturn any of the original results that gave the opposition the majority of seats.
It means the first defeat in 28 years for Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party after Zimbabwe's electoral commission (ZEC) yesterday released seven more results from the recount, changing none. It brings to 13 the number of seats recounted, with 10 remaining to be declared - all in strong opposition-held areas. Zanu-PF would need to win nine to regain control.
There is a fair amount of coverage on the Obama,Clinton battle,the Telegraph says
Five days after losing to Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama has taken off the gloves in his battle to win the American presidency - and in so doing has left critics wondering whether he is not just another conventional politician grubbing for votes.
Hillary Clinton risks rift by ‘cheating’ black voters says the Times
The most senior black congressman in America had a tough warning for Hillary Clinton this weekend as she fought to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama.
“We’ll be playing with fire if we interfere with the voters’ choice,” James Clyburn, the party’s chief whip in the House of Representatives, told The Sunday Times. “African-Americans will feel cheated.”
The same paper reports from North Korea where
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.
The 6,000ft runway is a few minutes’ flying time from the tense front line where the Korean People’s Army faces soldiers from the United States and South Korea.
The project was identified by an air force defector from North Korea and captured on a satellite image by Google Earth, according to reports in the South Korean press last week.
Leave Taliban alone, Afghan president tells West reports the Observer
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has called on British and American troops to stop arresting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, saying that their operations undermined his government's authority and were counter-productive.
The stinging attack, made in an interview with the New York Times published yesterday, is the latest in a series of rows between Western governments with troops in Afghanistan and the elected leader of the country. Western diplomats expressed surprise at the Afghan leader's criticism and the Foreign Office played down the row yesterday.
Amongst the red tops the News of the World reveals
Top Tory Lord Laidlaw's sex games with 4 girls, one gigolo and a tri-lingual bisexual
A TOP Tory paymaster is today exposed as a sex addict hooked on orgies with £3,000-a-night vice girls.Lord Laidlaw, 64 regularly flies hookers out to Monte Carlo for cocaine-fuelled bondage romps behind his wife's back.
Last night, faced with our damning proof, the shamed peer confessed: "I should have been stronger resisting temptations.
A News of the World investigation has revealed the sex-mad baron hires up to FIVE vice girls at a time for all-night orgies of spanking, bondage and lesbian lust at his Monaco tax haven.
More political scandal in the Mail
After the Kimberly calamity, Blunkett finds love with GP
It was an affair he struggled to keep secret and one that ultimately cost him his job in Government.
But now the former Home Secretary is putting his turbulent relationship with Kimberly Quinn – the "love of his life" – behind him with the help of a new partner
The Mirror reports that
Amy Winehouse's mum last night gave her blessing to her daughter's new man and said she'd be delighted if the pop diva divorces "penniless loser" Blake Fielder-Civil.
Janis Winehouse spoke out after it emerged that her daughter has been having a secret affair with clean-cut Alex Haines, 22, behind her jailed husband's back.
The News of the World meanwhile reports that
THE distraught father of junkie singer Amy Winehouse has revealed he wants her forcibly locked up in a mental hospital for her own good.
Mitch Winehouse is convinced it is the only way to save his daughter from killing herself with drugs.
In an exclusive interview with the News of the World, he said: "I want her sectioned. The situation is getting out of control. I want her off the street."
Finally the Observer reports
Old Bailey opens its unseen files
The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow, the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of more than 210,000 criminal trials held from shortly after the Great Fire of London until just before the Great War, and the biographical details of around 3,000 men and women executed at Tyburn, are to be posted on the Old Bailey Proceedings website
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