The Telegraph,Mail and Express all lead with the same story this morning

Inmates ignore escape chance in 'cushy' prison

Inmates enjoy such comfort in jail that they are ignoring chances to escape, a prison officers' leader has claimed

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in one example, a drug dealer regularly broke into a Yorkshire jail over a six-month period, using a ladder to climb the walls and supply inmates with drugs and mobile phones.

Breakfast in bed, satellite TV, cheap drugs and free phone calls:says the Mail

Savaging Labour's prisons policy, Glyn Travis told how inmates benefit from satellite television, free telephone calls, breakfast in bed and officers who treat them with kid gloves for fear of breaching their human rights.

The Express adds

Prostitutes are also being smuggled into some open prisons. The revelations last night refuelled the row over soft justice under Labour. One inmate told Justice Secretary Jack Straw last month that being in jail was like a “holiday camp”.

The Telegraph carries the latest opinion polls which shows that

The Conservatives have opened up their biggest opinion poll lead since Margaret Thatcher's heyday.David Cameron's Tories now have an 18 point lead according to a YouGov poll for the Telegraph, which discloses the extent to which Labour's electoral prospects have been damaged by the 10p tax revolt

Britain faces industrial unrest as unions threaten strikes reports the Times

Workers in local government, the health service, the Civil Service, the Royal Mail and even the Sellafield nuclear site could join teachers in an escalating confrontation with the Government over pay.

The Guardian says that

Schools could face more strikes on the scale of yesterday's teacher walk-out if the government does not improve its pay offer, the National Union of Teachers has warned.
The union's leadership will meet within weeks to discuss what steps to take next, with further national strikes an option.
There are warnings today that the strike has damaged teachers' reputations after a poll suggested that parents have little sympathy with their cause.

panic at the pumps as oil workers go on strike says the Times

Ministers appealed for calm yesterday as the prospect of a 48-hour strike at a massive oil refinery threatened to trigger panic-buying at petrol stations in Scotland and northern England.
Britain’s third-largest refinery, at Grangemouth, near Edinburgh, will shut down completely tomorrow and it is likely to be up to three weeks before it returns to full capacity, at a loss to production of millions of barrels of oil.

The Mirror reveals that

Tragic "lost boy" James Hughes was found in a suitcase in his family's garden shed, it was revealed last night.
Police discovered the decomposing body of the severely disabled 22-year-old as they searched his house in Redditch, Worcs. The remains may have been there for several weeks.

The Sun speculates on its front page that

TORMENTED Heather Wardle killed herself because she could no longer live with the knowledge that her son lay dead just outside her back door, cops believe.
Devoted Heather, 39, was found hanged on Monday — two days after she and disabled son James Hughes, 21, were reported missing

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The front page of the Independent goes with one of its long running themes

Pay up! Banks urged to concede defeat as judge rules against charges

Britain's biggest banks face payouts of more than £10bn after losing the right to charge current account holders as much as they like for unauthorised borrowing. Vindicating The Independent's year-long campaign against bank charges, the High Court ruled yesterday that fees for slipping into an overdraft or bouncing a cheque are subject to standard legal rules on fairness of contracts, raising the prospect of hundreds of thousands of successful compensation claims

The Mail calls it payback time but warns the banks

are expected to fight the ruling with appeals that could drag on for at least a year.
There are also fears that the banks will try to recoup their losses by killing off free banking and charging customers simply to have an account.

Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer is the lead story in the Guardian

Airline passengers are to be screened with facial recognition technology rather than checks by passport officers, in an attempt to improve security and ease congestion, the Guardian can reveal.
From summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers' faces and match the image to the record on the computer chip in their biometric passports.

The Times leads with foreign affairs

Syria's secret: did North Korea help to build a nuclear plant?

The White House yesterday broke seven months of silence over why Israel bombed a building in the Syrian desert last year, saying that it was convinced North Korea was helping to build a nuclear plant at the site.
In a statement issued last night, President Bush’s press secretary declared the collaboration between Syria and North Korea represented “a dangerous and potentially destabilising development for the world” because the facility was unlikely to have been for “peaceful purposes”. Syria described the accusation as “absurd”.

Staying in the Middle East the Independent reports

Gaza fuel crisis forces UN to stop food aid deliveries

The United Nations has suspended food aid to 650,000 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip after it ran out of fuel for its delivery vehicles. At the request of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), distributors sent an emergency tanker to the Nahal Oz terminal through which Israel transfers petrol and diesel, but it was turned back by 1,500 farmers protesting that they needed fuel just as urgently. The driver was held for three hours, and then forced to return empty.

The Telegraph reports a

Big advance in war on Afghanistan poppy

Afghan officials said they expected that an increased number of the country's 34 provinces would be declared "opium poppy free".
More than 90 per cent of the heroin consumed in Britain originates in Afghanistan. Production in Helmand - its biggest heroin province and the front-line for British soldiers - is also expected to fall alongside successes against a major drug lord and smugglers.

Back to the Uk and the Guardian tells us

Johnson's campaign piles cash into suburbs

Boris Johnson has raised £1m in his campaign to unseat Ken Livingstone as mayor of London, allowing the Tories to run a highly effective "outer boroughs" campaign that is unsettling Labour ministers.
Johnson's fundraiser, Lord Marland, told the Guardian £1m had been received by the campaign, much of it in small donations that do not have to be declared on the website of the Electoral Commission. He is still bound by electoral law, which puts a £400,000 cap on campaign spending between March 18 and May 1.

Maddy news comes back on the agenda,the Mirror reports

Rachael Oldfield of the Tapas Seven breaks her silence over McCann's torment

One of the Tapas Seven has broken her silence to tell of Kate and Gerry McCann's torment when their daughter Madeleine vanished.
Rachael Oldfield, a 36-year-old recruitment consultant, said: "I was there on the night. I spent time with Gerry and Kate during the week before May 3 and after.
"Their emotions and their reactions were just agonising. There's just no way they were involved in anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance

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The Mail reports

Gerry McCann told yesterday of his terrible regret at leaving his children alone on the night Madeleine disappeared.
He admitted: "We made a mistake, but we are paying more for it than anyone could ever possibly imagine."
The father of three said he and his wife Kate had thought at the time it was "perfectly reasonable" to leave Madeleine, then three, and their two-year-old twins alone in an unlocked holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

Many of the papers tell of

THE suicide bomber who led the 7/7 bloodbath cradles his baby daughter in a farewell video for her — and urged the tot: “Learn to fight . . . fighting is good.”
Monster Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, is seen kissing newborn daughter Maryam’s head as he tenderly whispers: “Sweetheart, not long to go now. reports the Sun

Wesley Snipes jailed for three years is also featured in many of the papers

the Hollywood action star, has been sentenced to the maximum three-year sentence for not filing tax returns.
Prosecutors had requested the sentence, one year for each of Snipes's convictions, saying the star of Blade 3 and Demolition Man had "engaged a campaign of criminal tax conduct, combining brazen defiance with insidious concealment", telling the US District Court in Florida he failed to pay at least $2.7 million in taxes

reports the Telegraph

Stand by your beds reports the Guardian

Around the world, a shadowy army of plant lovers is on a mission: to make their dull, grey neighbourhoods more beautiful places to live. Armed with seedbombs and spades, these green-fingered outlaws are stealthily filling neglected public land with flowers and shrubs

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Finally the Independent reports on

The English village that would rather be Welsh

The residents of Audlem don't appear to have much cause for complaint. Their leafy, canalside village in Cheshire is a picture postcard countryside idyll that regularly wins various "Village of the Year" titles.
But villagers are upset about one thing: the fact their village is in England, not in Wales.
Their English location means the residents have to pay higher prescription prices and hospital parking charges than their Welsh neighbours, some of whom live just 10 miles away.