The by election result was too late for the papers.Many instead turn to report on the growing economic crisis.

The Mail says Yes this is a real crisis reporting

Britain is in the grip of an economic crisis, a senior minister admitted last night as oil prices hit a record high.
In just 24 hours the cost of a barrel of crude rocketed by $5 to $135, raising the prospect of £700 a year being piled on to the average family's fuel bills.
Trade minister Baroness Vadera conceded that Britain was facing a 'very testing period' and said it was the 'first real economic crisis of globalisation'.

We face an economic crisis says Minister is the lead in the Telegraph

Baroness Vadera, a business minister and former adviser to Gordon Brown, made the comment as the price of oil experienced its biggest one-day increase in almost 20 years.
The minister said the economy was facing "testing times" but insisted that Britain was well-placed to withstand the global turbulence as fuel and food prices rose sharply

Cheap flights boom is over is the lead in the Guardian

Willie Walsh, the boss of British Airways, said the soaring cost of oil allied to global economic uncertainty would force airlines to raise fares in a scramble for survival that will see many of them go bust.

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The soaring cost of fuel is also having a painful impact on the wider economy and brought renewed calls yesterday for the government to scrap rises in duty planned for the autumn as motorists face increasingly steep increases in the cost of filling their tanks.

Running on empty says the front page of the Independent

In France, fishermen are blockading oil refineries. In Britain, lorry drivers are planning a day of action. In the US, the car maker Ford is to cut production of gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles and airlines are jacking up ticket prices. Global concerns about fuel prices are reaching fever pitch and the world's leading energy monitor has issued a disturbing downward revision of the oil industry's ability to keep pace with soaring demand.

Meanwhile the Express continues its campaign for cheaper fuel claiming

FUEL duty could be slashed by 12p a litre in the wake of the Government’s tax windfall from soaring oil prices, experts said last night.Accountancy firm Grant Thornton said the Treasury had enjoyed a £730million windfall from North Sea tax paid by oil companies since the Budget. That will hit £6billion in one year if the high prices continue as predicted.

The Mirror leads with the other main story from yesterday

Suicide bomb in kids cafe

The Times reports

A Muslim convert with a history of mental illness who was “preyed upon and radicalised” injured himself yesterday after a device he was carrying exploded in a busy shopping centre in Exeter.
Nicky Reilly, 22, received serious facial injuries after the device went off at lunchtime in a family restaurant at the new £230 million Princesshay shopping centre. Another device was defused by bomb disposal teams.
Tony Melville, Devon and Cornwall’s Deputy Chief Constable, said last night that Mr Reilly had been “preyed upon, radicalised and taken advantage of”. Mr Reilly’s neighbours said that he had been brainwashed.

Muslim bomber in Exeter is the lead in the Sun reporting that

SHOCKED witnesses told last night how a terror suspect emerged from a bomb blast in a cafe toilet covered in blood — moaning that Muslims had been unfairly treated.

The same paper updates on yesterday's story

THE mum accused of starving to death her seven-year-old daughter had intended her five other kids to suffer the same fate, it was claimed last night.
Cops and medics found that their mum Angela Gordon appeared to have cleared the house of food and dumped the fridge in the back garden.

The Times asks how this could happen

As Khyra Ishaq’s five siblings came to terms with their new lives in foster care last night, there was a clamour for answers as to how a seven-year-old girl was apparently allowed to starve to death in 21st-century Britain.
Charities and politicians called for a full inquiry into her death, soon after she was found critically ill at her home in Handsworth, Birmingham, on Saturday. Pressure grew on the city council’s social services amid claims of staff shortages and a reliance on agency employees. But nowhere was the desire for answers stronger than in the community where Khyra lived, with her mother, stepfather, two sisters and three brothers.

Compromise may help Brown avoid 42-day defeat reports the Independent

Ministers and Labour backbenchers are discussing new safeguards to restrict the use of a "reserve power" to extend the current 28-day limit in the Counter Terrorism Bill now before Parliament. The power would be implemented only after the Government asked Parliament to approve it and would require a "yes" vote in both the Commons and Lords

Superbugs killing record numbers of patients reports the Telegraph

MRSA and Clostridium difficile were linked to more than 8,000 deaths in England and Wales in 2006, up from 5,300 the previous year.
The first ever breakdown of deaths from both infections by location released by the Office for National Statistics shows that the vast majority of patients died from the bugs in hospital.

The Mail reports that

8,000 children a year now being treated for drink problems

The terrifying scale of binge drinking among teenagers was laid bare last night as official figures revealed more than 160 children a week end up in hospital for drink problems.
The number of under 18s being admitted to hospital through alcohol was 8,494 in 2007 - no fewer than 23 a day.
It is a rise of more than 50 per cent since the year before Labour took office a decade ago.

police spin-doctors costs almost £40m a year says the Times

Police forces are spending almost £40 million a year on what their critics describe as spin-doctors and news management, according to figures obtained by The Times.
PR expenditure has risen by 13 per cent over the past two years at a time when police budgets are under pressure and seven forces are facing the threat of capping. The money would be more than enough to fund the part of the annual police pay rise withheld by the Government, or to put an extra 1,400 officers on the streets

Pollution alert for swimmers on British beaches says the Telegraph

British beaches are getting dirtier, with three times as many failing to reach minimum water quality standards.
A total of 53 fell short of European legal standards, up from 17 the year before, while the number with the highest water quality fell from 495 to 443, the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide reported.It blamed last summer's bad weather for washing pollution into rivers.

UN chief views cyclone-hit areas of Burma reports the Guardian

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, praised "the will, resilience and the courage of the people of Myanmar" yesterday, before embarking on a carefully managed four-hour helicopter tour of the Irrawaddy delta, where most of the estimated 134,000 cyclone victims died.
Ban changed from a business suit into a beige casual jacket, baseball cap and trousers before boarding the military helicopter, and flew over flooded rice fields, to witness the extensive damage to trees, homes and other structures.

Meanwhile the Times reports that

Britain’s aid millions channelled through tycoon with ties to Burmese junta

A Burmese tycoon with links to the military regime is being used as a conduit to channel humanitarian aid — funded by British taxpayers and private donors — to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
In an effort to overcome the restrictions imposed on foreign aid workers by the junta, the British Department for International Development (DfID) and the charity Save the Children are working with Serge Pun, a millionaire banker, golf-course owner and construction boss, to run supplies down to the remotest and hardest-hit areas of the Irrawaddy delta.

The Independent reports

McCain and Obama size up potential running mates

The running-mate guessing game erupted in earnest yesterday as John McCain prepared to welcome a trio of potential Republican contenders to his Arizona ranch this weekend while Barack Obama was reported to be seeking help with his own search for a possible vice-presidential partner.

Petraeus says more US troop cuts likely in Iraq reports the Guardian

Congressional members welcomed the U-turn, disclosed at a hearing of the Senate armed services committee. The committee's chairman, the Democratic senator Carl Levin, called the general's announcement "good news to most of us". Petraeus told the committee: "My sense is I will be able to make a recommendation at that time for further reductions." He added he did not want to imply that that would mean pulling out a particular brigade or unit.

Many of the papers report on

How Israeli fighter pilots threatened to blast Tony Blair’s jet out of sky

Tony Blair came within moments of being killed when two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet taking him to a Middle East conference in the belief that it might have been staging a terrorist attack.
The warplanes were scrambled to intercept after the jet pilot failed to contact air traffic control. Mr Blair, the international community’s envoy to the Middle East, was flying from the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to attend a major conference on private investment in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.

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Monty Don has a stroke and stands down as BBC presenter reports the Telegraph

The 52-year-old has been absent from the show for the past six weeks but no explanation has been provided for viewers until now.
Although the stroke was not a serious one – Don was well enough to visit the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday – he has decided to leave the BBC2 programme permanently in order to concentrate on his recovery

Finally staying on the gardening theme and the Independent reports that

Kew Gardens has unveiled a multimillion pound walkway which allows visitors to stroll through the treetops of some of the garden's oldest and most spectacular trees at a vertigo-inducing height of nearly 60ft.
The Xstrata Treetop Walkway opens to the public tomorrow and will enable up to 3,000 visitors to experience panoramic views of west London as they pass through a circular 200m route which winds its way through a canopy of sweet chestnuts, limes and deciduous oaks