Public enemy No 1 says the front page of the Sun as it describes

METAL plates covered doors and windows at the empty home of Shannon Matthews’s mother last night amid fears of attacks by vigilantes.
Police ordered the building to be sealed within hours of Karen Matthews, 32, appearing in court on charges relating to her daughter’s disappearance.
A source said: “There is a lot of anger from some local people against her.”

The Mirror reports on its front page

As the mum-of-seven was locked up for her own safety after being accused of child neglect and perverting justice, officers handed out warning leaflets.
They appealed: "Do not take the law into your own hands and leave police to do their job. It is important that the community does not jump to any conclusions about people who may be involved in this inquiry."

The Times reports that

Shannon Matthews’s mother appeared in court yesterday accused of concealing information that would have led to the rescue of her missing daughter.
Karen Matthews, 32, is said to have lied repeatedly when she was interviewed by police during the 24-day hunt for the nine-year-old, who disappeared in February as she was walking home from school

The Express describes

Locals, some of whom joined the massive 24-day search for nine-year-old Shannon, hurled abuse as Karen Matthews, 32, was driven away in a prison van after her first court appearance.
There were boos and yells of “bitch” as a 35-strong police team kept back the 60-strong crowd.

The paper leads with more bad news on the economy.

SHOCK £700 INCREASE ON FAMILY HOLIDAYS

Families last night faced the grim prospect of having to find an extra £700 to pay for their summer holidays.
The latest blow to budgets already being squeezed by spiralling bills came as the pound plunged to a record low against the euro.
Experts warned that the price of a two-week package holiday for an average family of four could rise by around £450. On top of that, spending on holiday essentials could shoot up by another £250.

The economy figures widely in the papers this morning

Britain could be hardest hit by the global credit crisis as banks in this country have racked up bigger losses than anywhere else in the world, a new International Monetary Fund analysis shows

.says the Telegraph adding

The IMF expects British banks to lose more than £20 billion - equivalent to three per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) - from the international meltdown in sub-prime mortgages.

The Independent leads with the currency crunch

Tens of millions of British people will experience their own credit crunch on holiday this year as the soaring value of the euro forces them to pay more for everything from the price of a coffee in a Parisian cafe to a hotel room in Barcelona. As currency traders pushed the European single currency to a record high against the pound yesterday, holidaymakers were coming to terms with the fact they now have almost a fifth less spending power on the Continent than a year ago.

worst financial crisis since Depression,says the Guardian

The US mortgage crisis has spiralled into "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression" and there is a one-in-four chance that it will cause a full-blown global recession, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday.
As finance ministers and central bankers arrived in Washington to discuss ways of tackling the crisis, the IMF warned, in its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, that governments might be forced to step in with more public bailouts of troubled banks and cash-strapped homeowners before the crisis was over.

The paper leads with the continuing problems in Zimbabwe

'Vote Mugabe or you die'. Inside Zimbabwe, the backlash begins is its headline describing how

The patients at Louisa Guidotti hospital said there were eight men, one carrying a shotgun, another with an AK-47, others with pistols, and they went from bed to bed forcing out anyone who could walk.
Nurses were dragged away from the sick. Motorists driving by the hospital, 87 miles north-east of Harare, were stopped and taken from their cars.
About 70 people were gathered in the grounds. Then the lecture began. "This is your last chance," said one of the armed men. "You messed up when you voted. Next time you vote you must get it right or you will die."

The Telegraph reports

militants seize farm of Commercial Farmers' Union president

Zanu PF militants have invaded the farm of Commercial Farmers' Union president Trevor Gifford, saying he is never to return home.
Mr Gifford, who has spent a frantic week in Harare trying to assist at least 60 fellow farmers cope with their own invasions around the country was not at home near Chipinge, about 220 miles south east of Harare, when the mob of about 30 wearing Zanu-PF T-shirts arrived at his security gate.

The Independent reports

Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar

Demonstrators have tried to storm the presidential palace in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as protests over hunger and rising food prices spread across the developing world.
Demanding the resignation of President René Préval, the protesters attempted to break through the palace gates before being driven back by a contingent of Brazilian United Nations peacekeepers who used tear gas and rubber bullets.

PM writes to G8 urging action on food scarcity reports the Guardian

Gordon Brown raised fresh concerns about the impact of biofuels yesterday, as he put rising food prices on the world agenda by writing to fellow G8 leaders to prepare an international package on food scarcity.
He wants the issue to be on the agenda of the G8 summit in Japan in July, and said he had concerns about the way in which the rush towards environmentally questionable biofuels might displace much-needed food production.

The Times reports that

US Olympic torch relay descends into farce

The Olympic flame’s procession through San Francisco drew world-wide ridicule when the torch-bearers ran only a few yards before disappearing into a warehouse, only to re-emerge on a bus half an hour later.
After furious clashes between Free Tibet protesters and pro-China demonstrators, the authorities seemed to panic and abruptly changed the route, cutting it by half and scrapping the closing ceremony.

Meanwhile most of the papers report that

Gordon Brown has said that he will not be attending the opening ceremony for the Olympics Games in Beijing in August.

the Telegraph adding

He is the first major world leader to say that he would definitely not attend the opening ceremony.

The Mail's front page carries a picture of

Bin Laden's 'right-hand man' set for life on British benefits after judges rule deportation would breach his human rights

One of the world's most dangerous terror suspects was last night preparing for a life on benefits in Britain after judges ruled that his deportation would breach human rights law.
Abu Qatada, dubbed Osama Bin Laden's "truly dangerous" ambassador in Europe, could be released from jail within months following the Court of Appeal verdict.

The Independent adds

The Government's anti-terror strategy suffered a blow yesterday when Abu Qatada, a preacher described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", won a court battle to stay in Britain.
The Home Office was also forced to abandon plans to deport 12 Libyans suspected of terrorism after the Court of Appeal gave a damning verdict on promises they would not be tortured in their home country

The Sun reports that

Dami's mum dies of a broken heart

DAMILOLA Taylor died in a crime that shocked Britain. Eight agonising years later his inspiring mother Gloria is dead too – of a broken heart.
She had bravely endured three harrowing trials and police bungles to win justice for her son – AND campaigned to help other youngsters.
Her unflinching dignity and resolve throughout touched the hearts of millions worldwide.

Police seize 37,000 pints in crackdown on boozing kids says the Mirror

Police who launched a crackdown on under-aged boozing seized 37,000 pints of beer and cider from children in two weeks.
And they caught 5,143 youngsters under 18 drinking alcohol in parks, bus stops and other public places. A quarter said they were aged 15 or under.
Officers also confiscated 1,165 litres of wine, 1,027 litres of spirits and 1,255 of alcopops in the February half-term blitz

Many of the papers report

Birmingham City bosses Karren Brady and David Sullivan arrested in football probe

They were questioned by the City of London fraud squad on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting and were later released on bail.The arrests follow a raid on Birmingham City last month which centred on the £300,000 transfer of Aliou Cisse to Portsmouth in 2004.
Nine people have now been arrested since the beginning of the police investigation into football corruption

According to the front of the Times

Scientists win public support on embryo research

The battle for public support over the creation of human-animal embryos has been won by scientists who want to use the controversial experiments to tackle diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
A poll for The Times reveals today that the contentious medical research enjoys broad public approval, with 50 per cent backing new laws that would permit it and only 30 per cent opposed. The findings undermine claims by critics of the experiments that they enjoy little public support and they will bolster the Government’s attempts to pass the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which begins its passage in the House of Commons next month. MPs of all parties will have a free vote on its provisions for human-animal embryos.

The Mail reports that

Additives DO harm children it leads with the story that

The number of hyperactive children could be cut by a third by banning suspect food additives, it is claimed today.
The finding by British scientists will put pressure on the Food Standards Agency to force manufacturers to stop using the "E-number" chemicals.
The researchers believe that removing artificial colours from children's foods, including cakes, drinks and sweets, would bring significant health and social benefits.

Five years after fall of Baghdad, all-day curfew is imposed reports the Independent

The fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and the toppling of the statute of Saddam Hussein – a symbol of US victory and might – was marked yesterday by death and destruction across the country and an admission from the White House that projected troop withdrawals would have to be delayed.
The Iraqi capital remains under curfew after another round of bloodshed in which mortar rounds landed in Sadr City, killing seven people, including two children, and injuring 24 others. Further gunfights in the sprawling Shia slum led to six more dying and 15 others being wounded

Meanwhile the Times reports

Iraq snubbed Britain and calls US into Basra battle

Relations between Britain and Iraq suffered “catastrophic failure” after Baghdad bypassed the British military and called in the American “cavalry” to help the recent offensive against Shia militia in Basra, The Times has learnt.
About 550 US troops, including some from the 82nd Airborne Division, were sent from Baghdad to Basra to join up with 150 American soldiers already serving with Iraqi forces in the southern city.

Israel hits back after two die in crossing attack says the Guardian

Palestinian gunmen attacked a fuel depot on the Gaza border yesterday, killing two Israeli civilian workers and injuring two others as militants fired waves of mortars at the crossing post.
Israeli troops shot dead two of the attackers at the Nahal Oz fuel crossing, but two others fled back into Gaza. Israeli soldiers and tanks crossed into Gaza and at least six Palestinians were killed shortly afterwards in Israeli strikes. In another clash earlier in the day, an Israeli soldier and a Hamas militant were killed during an Israeli military raid into southern Gaza.

Many of the papers report on the

Last CCTV image of troubled TV star Mark Speight

Standing by the ticket barrier on the London Underground, this grainy image is the last known sighting of missing children's TV presenter Mark Speight.
He was caught on CCTV entering Queen's Park tube station in north London on Monday, still tormented by the drugs death of his fiancée Natasha Collins, 31, three months ago.
He had found her lying in a scalding bath after he woke from a drugs and booze binge the couple had indulged in.

Finally the Telegraph reports from the Italian elections where

Silvio Berlusconi: Left's women are uglier

Famously outspoken Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that right-wing politicians are more attractive than their left-wing rivals.The centre-right's candidate in this weekend's national elections said the Left had "no taste" in women.He said that when he looked around parliament, he found female politicians from the right were "more beautiful", the BBC reports.
"The left has no taste, even when it comes to women," he said.

Not surprisingly

His remarks sparked condemnation from the Left, who accused him of sexism.