The papers turn their attention to prices this morning.

The Telegraph leads with the news that

annual grocery bill rises by £800

The cost of a basket of 24 basic items such as tea bags, milk, cornflakes and pasta sauce at the three biggest stores has risen by 15 per cent over the past year.A kilo of Tesco garden peas has increased from £1.10 to £1.79; a dozen medium free-range eggs from Sainsbury's has climbed from £1.75 to £2.58; and a bag of fusilli pasta from Asda has almost doubled, from 37p to 67p.

The Express agrees,SHOPPING BILL UP £15 A WEEK

THE true extent of the latest hammer blow to hard-pressed family budgets was revealed last night.
Soaring food costs are adding £15 a week to supermarket shopping bills, according to worrying research.
A basket of 24 staple items of food is now around 15 per cent more expensive than a year ago

The Times says

Era of cheap food ends as prices

Experts told The Times yesterday that prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further. They also forecast that high prices and shortages — which have caused riots in developing countries such as Bangladesh and Haiti — were here to stay, and that the days of cheap produce would not return. Food-price inflation has already pushed up a typical family’s weekly shopping bill by 15 per cent in a year.

Fury at fuel poverty epidemic says the Mirror

The government has been condemned for "scandalous" failures that have left 4.5million households struggling to pay their fuel bills.
In a withering attack, campaigners accuse ministers of standing by as soaring energy bills consign pensioners and hard-up families to a life of cold misery

The Guardian reports that

WFP cuts school meals as food crisis grows

Josette Sheeran, the WFP's executive director, said that the price of basic foods was rising so rapidly that a shortfall in financing for its food relief programmes had grown from $500m (about £250m) to $755m in less than two months.
About $300m has been pledged so far by donor countries to fill the WFP's financing gap, including $60m offered by Britain yesterday, to coincide with an experts' conference on the crisis at Downing Street, and €60m (about £48m) from the European commission.

The Independent carries the same story reporting

Pressure for international action to combat the "silent tsunami" of the global food crisis intensified amid warnings that spiralling prices meant more than 100 million people could be plunged into hunger.
A Downing Street food summit called by Gordon Brown heard calls for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to bring forward aid payments to countries worst hit as the first step towards a co-ordinated action by the G8 industrialised nations to tackle the worst food crisis for a generation.

The Mail concentrates on another price for commodities,its front page headline is the

Petrol Profiteers as it attacks the oil giants as petrol prices rise 5p in 48 hours

The increases come ahead of a planned strike at a massive refinery which is expected to lead to fuel shortages.
The cost of filling up a typical family car is now £54.37 - £8 more than a year ago.

The Guardian leads with

£1bn package would end tax row, say rebels

The paper interviews Frank Field who says

yesterday that ministers must provide up to £1bn in compensation for those affected by the changes before the local elections next week, if they are to defuse the row.
Insisting he did not want to bring the government to its knees, the former minister for welfare reform Frank Field said the Treasury had £1.2bn in unclaimed working tax credits with which it could fund the package, a move that would take the sting out of the issue for voters.

Tax plans 'will push 300,000 into poverty' says the Independent

The Tories cited figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies showing that the people losing most from the abolition of the 10p rate earn £149 a week – just above the official poverty line of £145 a week.
Greg Clark, a Tory frontbencher, said: "About 1.5 million people live on up to £10 a week more than the poverty line. A tax policy that costs these individuals around £5 a week will push more than 300,000 people below the poverty line. It is as if the tax change had been finely tuned to cause the maximum possible damage to the Government's policy objectives."

Mortgage deals unlikely to improve for months reports the Telegraph

Struggling families will not see the cost of their home loans cut after Alistair Darling failed to press mortgage lenders to come to their aid.In a private Downing Street meeting, the Chancellor was warned by lenders that fixed-rate deals were "unlikely to improve for months".

Many of the papers carry reports on BAA

Break-up of BAA revives plan for second runway at Gatwick says the Times

The Competition Commission is preparing to force BAA to sell three airports including Gatwick, where a new owner would be likely to revive plans for a second runway.
The commission indicated yesterday that the Spanish-owned company’s airport monopolies in London and Scotland would be broken up because they were failing to provide passengers with a good service. It will publish recommendations in August that are expected to include the requirement for BAA to sell either Gatwick or Stansted, or possibly both, and also to sell either Glasgow or Edinburgh. The commission also hinted that BAA would have to sell Southampton airport.

The Independent adds

The commission found that BAA's seven airports, which handle more than 60 per cent of all UK air passengers, showed "a lack of responsiveness to the differing needs of its airline customers, and hence passengers, and the consequences for the levels, quality, scope, location and timing of investment and levels and quality of service" .

extending detention period to 42 days is unnecessary reports the Guardian

Britain's most senior prosecutor last night questioned whether the government's controversial proposal to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge was even directed at "a real problem".
Sir Ken Macdonald, the director of public prosecutions, renewed his opposition to the proposal, telling MPs that he had "managed quite comfortably" within the current 28-day limit. He revealed that no suspect had actually been held longer than 14 days in the last nine months.

The Mail says

Police have foiled 15 terror plots in Britain since the 2000, Ian Blair reveals

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, told MPs the 28-day limit would be breached "sooner rather than later".
He said that suspects "suddenly emerge from left field" and have to be arrested at a very early stage, leaving officers with huge amounts of investigative work.

The Eu returns to the agenda today,The Telegraph reporting that

MEPs vote to cover up expenses inquiry

Members of the European Parliament voted yesterday to cover up a report showing widespread abuse of allowances worth £125 million every year.
They also threw out demands from a public information watchdog for scrutiny of generous pension perks.
In a series of votes, MEPs approved plans to eventually stop putting family members or suspect companies on their staff payroll.

The Sun reports

Up the Pole EU to carve up UK

GORDON Brown will today fly the flag of St George over Downing Street — as the EU plots to carve up Britain into a United States of Europe.
Secret plans reveal the South of England will be renamed TRANSMANCHE — and governed in part by bureaucrats based in France.
Two more “Transnational” zones are also being set up to “promote the territorial agenda” of the EU.

The Independent leads with the situation in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's church leaders warning to world: intervene to avert genocide

The clerics were speaking more than three weeks after a presidential election whose result President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party refuse to disclose, almost certainly because he was soundly defeated by Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). A recount of 23 parliamentary seats is under way in an apparent attempt to restore Zanu-PF's lost majority, and a wave of violence and intimidation has swept the country ahead of any possible presidential run-off.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that

China arms ship left with no port of call as Britain and US apply pressure

Britain and the US have put concerted pressure on southern African states and China to stop a Chinese ship carrying weapons for the Zimbabwean government docking in the region, British officials said yesterday.
The joint diplomatic offensive appeared to have succeeded last night as the An Yue Jiang was reported to be on the high seas off the south-western tip of Africa, having been unable to unload its cargo in South Africa and Mozambique

Israel to pay £1.75m to family of James Miller in deal over killers reports the Times

The Israeli Government has offered to pay nearly £2 million to the family of a British film-maker who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier five years ago.
The country’s Foreign Ministry said that it would pay $3.5 million (£1.75 million) to the family of James Miller, if in return the British Government, acting on behalf of his family, agreed to close the case and not request that the soldiers involved in the incident be extradited.

Climate change 'may put world at war' says the Telegraph

The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in energy research spending to around £10 billion a year would be needed if the world were to avoid the worst effects of changing temperatures.However the group said that the response to threats posed by climate change, such as rising sea levels and migration, had so far been "slow and inadequate," because nations had failed to prepare for the worst-case scenario

The Mail reports from

The market town where they speak 65 languages

The scale of the migrant boom was laid bare yesterday with the revelation that Eastern Europeans make up a quarter of one town's population.
So many settlers have arrived in Boston, Lincolnshire, that 65 languages are spoken in a market town of only 70,000 inhabitants.
Hazel Blears revealed the figure yesterday in giving evidence to the Commons communities select committee.

The Times adds

Hazel Blears, admitted that the population changes since eight Eastern European countries joined the European Union in 2004 had been very fast and that people were right to be concerned. She added that the Government was considering forcing employers to pay for English lessons for migrants as a way of promoting integration

The Mirror leads with the story of the lost boy,

Fears were mounting last night for a vanished disabled boy whose devoted mother was found dead in woods near her home.
Epileptic James Hughes, 22, has the mental age of an 18-month-old. Mum Heather Wardle, 39, of Redditch, Worcs, was said to be under strain.
The dad of missing James Hughes said yesterday devoted mum Heather Wardle must have been going through hell when she died.

The Mail also carries it on its front page adding

He suffers from a number of health problems including epilepsy, uses a wheelchair, needs round-the-clock attention and cannot fend for himself.
Last night 50 officers and a police helicopter were continuing to search for him.
He disappeared the same day as his mother, but police have yet to establish for certain that they left together.

The Guardian reports that

More than 400 foreign children, many suspected of being trafficked into the sex or drug trade in Britain, have gone missing from local authority care.
Children from Africa, Asia and eastern Europe have disappeared from safe houses and foster homes around the country's biggest ports and airports, figures released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed.

The Telegraph as does many of the papers reports

Garry Newlove's widow attacks 'disgraceful' courts system

Mrs Newlove said she was appalled by how the relatives of victims were forgotten as cases went to court. "As victims in court we want more help and respect," she said.
"You go in the court with all the emotions and then you are fighting for a seat, the press have a box, the legal people have a box but there is no respect for the families. You do not know who you are sitting next to.

Garry Newlove widow in brave plea to tackle boozy teen gangs says the Mirror

The widow of tragic dad Garry Newlove yesterday called for random breath tests to stamp out underage drinking.
Helen Newlove said the police need more powers to tackle boozed-up youngsters terrorising communities.
She also warned yob behaviour was getting worse since Garry, 47, was kicked to death by a gang of drunken teenagers a year ago.

More on the royal helicopter scandal on the front of the Sun which reveals that Wills gets his chopper out

THE RAF and Prince William held their hands up last night after it was revealed the royal took five free helicopter “joyrides” as he was learning to fly.
In his final two weeks with the air force Wills, 25, took advantage of offers from show-off Special Forces pilots to visit pals THREE times and fly over family homes TWICE

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Many of the papers carry the stry of the most dangerous pool in the world,the Telegraph carries a picture of a father and son whom it says are

Inches from a 360ft drop, these tourists appear to be living on the edge in what could be the world's most dangerous swimming pool. But despite the current thundering past them over Victoria Falls, it is not as perilous as it seems.
The basin, known as Devil's Swimming Pool, has a natural rock wall to stop tourists being swept to their deaths.

The Independent is out on the campaign trail

The latest bizarre episode in the life of George Galloway happened in public yesterday, when a rubber "stress ball" flung from an office window scored a direct hit on the MP as he campaigned in central London.
Mr Galloway, who is standing for a seat in the London Assembly, was on the upper deck of his open-topped battle bus when the missile caught him on the temple, leaving him dazed and bruised.

Spring finally arrives and the Express reports

THE glorious sunshine is just a taste of the week to come, say forecasters – with temperatures on Saturday set to hit 25C (77F).
Thousands rushed to the South Coast yesterday as spring’s first blast of sunshine gave us better weather than Southern Spain.

Finally we started with food so two stories to end with it

What are little boys made of? Scientists pinpoint bananas says the Guardian

Women are more likely to give birth to boys if they have a high-calorie diet in the run-up to becoming pregnant, according to a team of scientists. The finding is the first clear evidence that a mother's eating habits around the time of conception can influence the sex of her baby

And the Sun reports that

FAST food chain Burger King are to serve up the world’s most expensive takeaway – costing a whopping £85.
There’s no common old meat in this burger. It will contain top-quality Kobe beef from Japan. And instead of ketchup and cheddar, it will be garnished with foie gras – a goose delicacy – and rare blue cheese.