Although the results of the mayoral election came too late for the early editions,most of the papers still have Boris on the front page in anticipation of the win alongside gloomy headlines for the government

The May Day Massacre says the Independent

A battered and bruised Mr Brown is struggling to restore his authority after suffering a humiliating setback in his first elections as Labour leader. In the party's worst council results for 40 years, Labour lost more than 330 seats in local elections on May Day, finishing third with a 24 per cent projected share of the vote behind the Liberal Democrats (25 per cent) and the Conservatives (44 per cent).
Less than a year after he succeeded Tony Blair with high hopes of enhancing Labour's electoral appeal, Mr Brown had to promise to listen to the unmistakable message from the voters who had rejected his party.

Brown's long bloody Friday says the Guardian

A despondent Brown responded to the bloodbath by promising to listen and lead, and blamed the economic downturn for the effective collapse of the New Labour coalition. The Conservatives were celebrating a prized platform from which to launch a general election campaign as Johnson beat Ken Livingstone by 1,168,738 votes (53%) to 1,028,966 (47%), after the distribution of second preference votes, drawing formidable support from the outer suburbs

And the headlines continue

Brown bloodied in May Day massacre says the Times

It was Labour’s worst election night for 40 years, leaving its local government and campaigning base severely weakened and ministers fearing for their survival at the next general election.
Mr Brown accepted that it had been a “bad night” and vowed to “listen and lead”. He will launch a fightback this weekend to show the country that he can take it through difficult times.

Meltdown for Brown says the Telegraph,Brown and Out says the Express which calls him

the biggest disaster ever and now even failed asylum seekers queue to leave Britain

The Telegraph adds

Just ten months ago, when he realised his life's ambition to become prime minister and leader of his party, there were few Labour MPs who dared utter a single word against Gordon Brown.
He was unassailable as he promised to "renew" the Labour movement, to listen more to people the length and breadth of Britain, and to make amends for the shortcomings of the man he pushed out of office – Tony Blair.
But next week, when they return to Westminster after the worst local election results in more than 40 years, many Labour MPs will have a very different attitude to Brown.

Britain's got Tories says the front of the Sun

BATTERED Gordon Brown was last night warned to “get a grip” by one of his Cabinet lieutenants after Labour’s May Day massacre.

The Mirror says

Gordon Brown fights to stop party falling apart

An embattled Prime Minister will also appear on TV on Sunday to tell them there is time to turn the polls around.

It is the only paper which doesnt feature the elections on its front page instead reporting

Doctors yesterday said the critically-ill daughter of Josef Fritzl is expected to die.
Kerstin, 19, who lived her entire life locked in Fritzl's underground bunker with her mother Elisabeth and two brothers, is suffering from multiple organ failure.
A hospital spokesman in Amstetten, Austria, said: "Her chances for survival are very low."

The story continues to feature,the Mail reports that

Cellar monster Josef Fritzl's children are afraid of the colour blue, rustling leaves and moving traffic after spending their entire lives underground, it was revealed today.
The imprisoned pair - Stefan, 18, and five-year-old Felix - face up to eight years of intensive therapy to recover from their sex dungeon ordeal and adapt to modern life.
Doctors have already built a windowless chamber for them to retreat to when coping with the outside world becomes too much, it was revealed today.

The Times meanwhile reports that

Josef Fritzl neighbour 'knew of daughter's abuse misery'

A lodger who once lived in Josef Fritzl’s House of Horrors claimed yesterday that he had known that the Austrian electrician was sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth.
Sepp Leitner, who lived in Mr Fritzl’s house for four years in the early 1980s, said in a television interview that a female neighbour had told him that her friend Elisabeth had been raped by her father.

Most of the papers report on

Fantasist and alcoholic jailed for plot to blackmail royal over 'gay sex tapes',the Independent says

A "Walter Mitty" fantasist and his alcoholic friend have been found guilty of a £50,000 gay sex blackmail plot against a mystery member of the Royal Family. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan each received five- year jail terms after an investigation and three-week trial costing more than £1m.
The pair had threatened to release sound recordings in which the royal's aide made "scandalous" remarks about his employer, including claims he had performed oral sex on him on the kitchen floor during a party

The Sun says

An ex-friend of smooth-talking Strachan told The Sun last night: “After he was arrested I was told he had planned, if successful, to target others – in particular a very high-profile businessman with a billion pound empire who appeared vulnerable.”

Election body confirms Mugabe lost the vote reports the Guardian

Zimbabwe's election commission yesterday confirmed that President Robert Mugabe lost the election held five weeks ago but that his opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, fell below the 50% of the vote required to avoid a run-off ballot between the two later this month.
The commission's figures, giving Tsvangirai 47.9% to 43.2% for Zimbabwe's leader since independence in 1980, are close to the numbers leaked by the ruling Zanu-PF earlier in the week

There is much coverage of the Middle East summit

Israel told to halt West Bank settlement says the Telegraph

After meeting in London, ministers from the "Quartet", which comprises America, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union, made a series of demands on Israel.
Their aim is to improve daily life in the West Bank, thereby strengthening Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president from the moderate Fatah faction, and undermining Hamas, the radical Islamist group that controls Gaza

The Independent adds

The big powers have formally acknowledged for the first time that the policy of isolating Hamas through an economic blockade of Gaza is not working.

The same paper meanwhile reports that

Pakistan's fledgling civilian government appeared last night to have found a way out of the crisis threatening to pull it apart when it announced that the nation's ousted judges would be restored this month.

The Telegraph reports on the

'Couple who stole IDs to fund globetrotting'

Edward Anderton, 25, and Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, were a golden couple on the Philadelphia social scene - going to the best parties, eating at the best restaurants and regularly holidaying in Europe, North Africa and the Caribbean.
But, as a court will hear later this month, none of the money was theirs. It was defrauded in a scheme that netted $100,000 (£50,000) after they broke into their neighbours' homes and copied their personal details.

Jailed for life: Man who stabbed and set his girlfriend on fire but was caught out by her dying accusation

A former soldier has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend whom he kidnapped, set on fire and stabbed.
Jealous Anthony Clarke forced Monika Szmecht, 21, into a cage in his van where she was held for four hours.
He then drove her to a country lane in Merseyside where she was stabbed six times and set alight.
When she remained alive, Clarke resumed the stabbing frenzy before she was left for dead.
But Ms Szmecht, a waitress originally from Kloda, near Leszno, Poland, managed to crawl to a house for help and named her killer to paramedics in the moments before she died.

Low carb diet curbs epileptic fits in children says the Guardian

Giving children with epilepsy a special low carb diet reduces the number of seizures they experience by 75% compared with children on a normal diet, according to a study carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Previous studies have suggested that the food regime, which is similar to the Atkins diet, is effective at curbing epilepsy but this is the first gold standard clinical trial to prove that it works

The Telegraph reports that Prince Charles 'eco-town' given green light

Sherford, on the south west coast, is billed as the greenest settlement in Britain and will be home to 12,000 people.
The Prince's advisers have suggested that cars should be banned from some areas and three quarters of buildings fitted with solar power panels.
The ambience of the town will be traditionally English. Its Georgian-style high street will be modelled on the Wiltshire market town of Marlborough and there are plans for a cricket pitch and bowling green. No buildings will be taller than five storeys.

and the paper reports on other green news

Pilots are easing off the throttle and coasting through the skies in order to cut their airlines' rising fuel bills. This is saving the aviation industry money and helping carriers fend off criticism from the environmental lobby by cutting carbon emissions

The Independent meanwhile reports that

High petrol prices see Americans ditch SUVs

America's love affair with sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and pick-up trucks is finally over.
The gas-guzzlers that ply the country's freeways and clog its city streets and parking lots are falling victim to ever-rising petrol prices, rather than concern about the country's oversized carbon footprint. The fall-off in sales is dramatic however.

Staying with transport and the Guardian reports

this week brought news of a novel way of using a satnav, which seems to encourage drivers to engage with their surroundings rather than simply tell them how to get from A to B and let them daydream (metaphorically, of course) through anything in between.
Called 230 Miles of Love, it is billed as the world's first "satcom" - a free series of comedy sketches you can download to your satnav or GPS mobile phone, which automatically play at relevant points along the M6. It was made using a programme called Geovative, which allows users to plot a GPS tour that can contain audio, images and text. Though it sounds complicated, it is just a step up from the programme many satnav owners use to alert them to the location of speed cameras.

More transport stories,this time the Express reports that

A WOMAN biker was left stranded for four hours because the AA was sent 250 miles off course – by a bungling call centre in France.
Instead of sending a recovery vehicle to Warlingham in Surrey, the operator sent it to Whalley – pronounced Warley – in Lancashire.
The AA – “the fourth emergency service” – took hours to discover the blunder and get a rescue truck out to save Jan Gaynor

Finally The Times reveals that

Pushy pony parents reined in after tantrum

The tantrums and hissy fits that erupted at the ringside of Britain's most prestigious equestrian event last year has forced organisers to cancel its junior classes until further notice.
However, it was not the little darlings in their showjackets and jodhpurs who were to blame for the bad behaviour - it was their parents.
The mothers and fathers, whose complaints cast a shadow over Hickstead, have now retired to consider their actions, having been told by officials this week that enough is enough. Their children will not be allowed to compete in the pony masters, which have been running for nearly 50 years, until parents have learnt to behave properly.