Both the Telegraph and the Mail lead with the vote in the Commons

Scientists will be allowed to create hybrid human-animal embryos after MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of radical stem cell research

.says the Telegraph

During passionate exchanges in the House of Commons, critics of the controversial embryo research proposals warned that Britain was "crossing a Rubicon" and risked becoming a "rogue state".
But they were heavily outnumbered by those who argued forcefully in favour of the potential for stem cell research using hybrids which scientists believe may transform the lives of millions and eventually stamp out some diseases altogether.

A step into the unknown says the Mail

Millenia of moral, religious and scientific belief were defied last night by MPs who voted to allow the creation of human/animal embryos.
In a landmark move which isolates Britain in the western world, they backed Government proposals which herald the dawn of a new era of experimentation.

The Guardian says

A late plea by Gordon Brown - to allow "an inherently moral endeavour" by scientists seeking cures for diseases - paid off as MPs backed some of the most controversial parts of the government's human fertilisation and embryology bill.

It leads with the latest opinion poll which shows

Labour's poll rating worst since Thatcher

Labour support is in freefall, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that the party's position - 14 points behind the Conservatives - is worse than at any time since May 1987, just before Margaret Thatcher won her third election by a landslide.
Public confidence in Labour's ability to govern has dropped heavily on a series of key measures. Voters are also turning their back on Gordon Brown personally: 75% of people who voted Labour in 2005 now think that Tony Blair was a better prime minister. Overall, voters also place Brown as a leader behind Thatcher and even John Major.

Another in the Independent shows

Tories set to crush Labour as Crewe lead hits 13 points

The survey puts the Conservative Party on 48 per cent, Labour on 35 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 12 per cent and other parties on 5 per cent. The projected 14 per cent swing to the Tories would easily allow David Cameron's party to overturn the 7,780 majority Labour enjoyed at the last general election.

The Times leads with

Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails

A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.
The information would be held for at least 12 months and the police and security services would be able to access it if given permission from the courts.

According to the Telegraph

Two million Britons emigrate in 10 years

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will release figures showing that more than 200,000 Britons emigrated during 2006. That will take the total number who left the country between 1997 and 2006 to 1.97 million.
Another 1.58 million foreign nationals resident in Britain left during the same period.

More good economic news on the front of the Express

House Prices won't crash says the paper

HOME owners received a double dose of good news yesterday as experts dismissed predictions of a property crash – and Britain’s biggest mortgage lender cut its rates.
Despite doom-mongers’ gloomy forecasts, house prices remain up on last year with annual growth at 1.7 per cent last month.
The figure comes as Halifax announced it is to cut some mortgage rates by between 0.10 and 0.20 percentage points for existing customers, potentially saving them hundreds of pounds a year.

The Independent leads with another consequence of the economy

Abandoned! Are Britain's pets the latest victims of the credit crunch?

Britain's economic woes are forcing people to abandon animals in unprecedented numbers as desperate families struggle to cut costs by dumping their pets. Animal sanctuaries say they have been overwhelmed by the number of animals delivered to them in recent months as the credit crunch continues to bite and the cost of living rises sharply. They fear that the situation could become unmanageable if the downturn continues.

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that

Middle-class shoppers will be forced to abandon organic and fair trade food as inflation continues to climb, a new report warns.Shoppers who have previously been willing to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic meat, or fair trade coffee, could soon ignore ethical concerns in favour of keeping their shopping bills down

The Sun leads with

THE vicar’s daughter who plunged 30ft to her death from a window was trying to flee a “happy slap” girl gang, it emerged yesterday.
Rosimeiri Boxall, 19 - known as Rosi - had been held captive and tortured for hours before her doomed escape in Blackheath, South East London

Under the headline Happy slap torture of death leap girl,it continues

Forensic police recovered clothing torn on a gutter when Rosi leaped to her death from a window. Cops suspect one of her persecutors filmed her shocking ordeal on a mobile phone.
They believe Rosi — born in Brazil but adopted by a British vicar and his wife — "could take no more".

Seized on a bus: a baseball bat, six knives and two screwdrivers reports the Times

A double-decker bus was commandeered by police to prevent a planned gang fight that would almost certainly have resulted in death, Scotland Yard said yesterday.
Officers in Deptford, South London, arrested 24 teenagers aged between 14 and 18 and seized six knives, a claw hammer, a metal bar, a mallet, two wrench handles, a metal baseball bat, two screwdrivers, a corkscrew and a golf club.

adding

The incident took place on Saturday night, three miles from where Jimmy Mizen, 16, bled to death after being stabbed with broken glass a week before

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1 IN 5 PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVERS FAIL THE 3RS reports the Express

SCHOOL standards have fallen to a “totally unacceptable” level, experts warned yesterday.
The comment came after education watchdog Ofsted revealed that one in five children leave primary education unable to read, write or add up.
In a damning assessment, Ofsted dismissed claims by ministers that standards were rising and warned that England’s state schools would never rank among the world’s best without major improvements.

Mbeki urged to use troops to halt attacks on migrants reports the Independent

South Africa has been rocked by a wave of xenophobic violence that has sent thousands of immigrants in Johannesburg fleeing for shelter as mobs beat, stabbed, shot and burnt people alive.
The government was urged to deploy troops in and around the country's financial capital last night as the death toll climbed to 22, with more than 250 people arrested.

Back to school for orphans of Sichuan reports the Guardian

In the blistering sun they stood patiently, like a small battalion. Behind them China's flag flew at half-mast. One week after the tragedy, these children are becoming used to waiting: for help, for food, for parents who may not come.
Yesterday, at 2.28pm, Jiuzhou Camp school marked one week since Sichuan's devastating earthquake. As the country began three days of mourning with a three-minute observance, girls wiped their faces and stared at the ground; boys were swollen-eyed.

The Times reports from

Abkhazia: the frozen conflict that is thawing rapidly

The young soldier traced his finger across snow-capped mountains and dense forest to the point where he had shot down the Georgian spy plane.
“They are coming practically every day now, but this one was crossing our valley so we took it out,” said Alyas Tsardiya, nodding towards an artillery cannon. Then, to deafening effect, he fired a few rounds in the direction of Georgia.
This is the Kodori Gorge, the tense front line between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia, that is becoming a flashpoint in the relationship between Russia and the West. This little-known corner of the Caucasus is Dmitri Medvedev’s first big test as President of Russia.

Many of the papers carry the news that

Britain's first Muslim peer faces death by dangerous driving charge over 'text message crash'

Lord Ahmed was at the wheel of his gold-coloured X-Type Jaguar when it ploughed into a red Audi A4 on the M1 near Rotherham on Christmas Day.
The Crown Prosecution Service is now trying to decide whether he should face the charge after a traffic police investigation led to the suspicion that he texted a journalist friend at the time of the crash

Beatles, lilies and gardens fit for a Queen reports the Telegraph

The Queen visited a Chelsea Flower Show predicted to generate a record clutch of gold medals for its gardens last night, meeting George Harrison's widow, Olivia, at a garden designed in memory of the former Beatle.The garden - called From Life To Life, A Garden for George - is split into different levels depicting Harrison's childhood, the Sixties era and his later years, as well as the afterlife

Staying on the royal topic the Sun reports that

ONE of the Queen’s footmen has been sacked for leaving a pal free to wander the corridors of Buckingham Palace.
Flunky Stephen Robertson lost his £12,000-a-year job after admitting he left a male guest alone in his quarters at Her Majesty’s residence.
The footman, in his 20s, signed in his visitor but later left him alone while he went out.

The Mirror has a picture of the world's first pregnant man on its front page

a baby bump straining his T-shirt and sporting a straggly beard, this is the world's first pregnant man - just over six weeks from giving birth.
Thomas Beatie, 34, looked relaxed as he trimmed his lawn in Oregon, USA, wearing a top with the slogan Define Normal.

Finally as the biggest game of the season approaches the Independent reports from Moscow where

The first planeloads of Manchester United and Chelsea fans touched down in Moscow yesterday as Russian authorities made the final preparations for tomorrow night's Champions League final.
Up to 50,000 British fans are expected in the Russian capital for the match, which could stretch the city's infrastructure to breaking point. All hotel accommodation has been booked up for weeks. Roads to the city's airports are crippled by traffic jams at the best of times so the Russians have set aside special lanes for football traffic, which is likely to paralyse ordinary traffic even more than usual.

The Mirror chronicles

One man's four flights and 28 hour coach trip to Moscow final

Soccer fans have forked out around £2,000 each to get to Moscow for the Champions League final but one intrepid Man United supporter is doing it by bus for £85.
Martin Sheehan, 25, set out on Saturday and will take five days to make the 3,000 mile round trip.
Determined Martin said: "Anybody who says it's not do-able is not making a bit of an effort."
Firstly, he flew from Liverpool to Stockholm then headed to Riga, Latvia. He will board a bus at 5.30pm today, arriving in Moscow at 10am tomorrow - a 28 hour return coach trip. Martin said: "Some people can't do it because they haven't got the time or they have kids. But if you have got the time it's so easy."