The front page of the Mail asks

Can you believe a thing that you see on Itv

The extent of the television phone-in scandal was exposed yesterday by two devastating reports into rip-offs by ITV.
It emerged that the singer Robbie Williams was told Ant and Dec would win an award weeks before a "live" viewers' vote was carried out.
In fact, the public voted for the BBC's Catherine Tate Show as its favourite

And the winners aren't Ant and Dec says the Guardian

When Robbie Williams agreed to present a British Comedy Award live to Ant and Dec, it left the organisers with a stellar guest list for the ITV show, but a slight problem: The Geordie double act had not actually won a prize. So it was convenient that the People's Award, supposedly voted for by viewers on the night, should go to them

The Times has a picture of Catherine Tate on its front page with the caption "Am I bovveerd adding

The presenting duo were said to be “completely appalled” by the error and will return their award to ITV. A spokesman for Ms Tate said she was an “innocent bystander” of the affair and did not wish to comment.
An Ofcom investigation is now under way into the scam, published separately from the offences which led to a record £5.6 million fine slapped on ITV. But the broadcaster will not face further financial punishment for the Comedy Awards debacle. The awards were produced for ITV by independent company Michael Hurll Television.

The Independent carries the latest reports from Burma

While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets

People in the Burmese village of Nyung Wine, barely more than an hour outside Rangoon, are wondering why no one has visited them. Of the approximatly 200 houses close to a glittering gold pagoda next to the Kyauktan river, an estimated 185 were damaged by Cyclone Nargis. "Nobody has been to help," said a villager, U San They, as he led the way through the ruins of homes smashed by the storm that swept the Irrawaddy delta last Saturday, killing at least 23,000 people and leaving 1.5 million people at risk, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations..

The Telegraph meanwhile says

The United Nations humanitarian chief has accused Burma's ruling military junta of doing "nothing like as much as is needed" to bring aid to 1.5 million people left homeless by Cyclone Nargis, which devastated parts of the country.John Holmes said that the situation was "increasingly desperate" and that there was a "real danger that an even worse tragedy may unfold if we cannot get the aid that's desperately needed in quickly".

It leads though with the news that

Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS.Ministers are preparing for a summer of protest as residents campaign against proposals that could mean local hospitals losing specialist services to large regional centres.

New research on baby survival rates stokes abortion limit row is the lead in the Guardian

Survival rates for babies born before 24 weeks are extremely low and getting no better in spite of medical advances, according to an authoritative study which will be published today.
The report is likely to provide fresh argument in the bitter debate over whether the present abortion time limit should be lowered.

and in the Independent which says the Battle lines are drawn

As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill returns to the Commons on Monday, campaigners are preparing to use it as a battleground for reform of Britain's abortion laws, 40 years after the termination of pregnancy was made legal.

The shocking life of Josef Fritzl... in his own words is the lead in the Mirror

Depraved Josef Fritzl opened the doors yesterday to the dark cellar kingdom where he caged his daughter for 24 years, and admitted: "I know now I'm insane."
In an astonishingly detailed and compelling jail confession the 73-year-old brute told how he plotted to imprison daughter Elisabeth, now 42, in revenge for her youthful rebellion.

And in the Sun with the headline Hitler made me do it

Yesterday it was revealed incest monster Fritzl wanted to have sex with his own mother.
Fritzl, 73, made a sickening confession to his lawyer as he tried to explain away his appalling crimes against his children.
He admitted the “strong woman” was a key influence in shaping his twisted psyche – as was growing up in Nazi Austria during World War II.
Adolf Hitler had been given a rapturous welcome in Fritzl’s home town of Amstetten when he visited in 1938, around the time of the cellar fiend’s third birthday.

Our marriage was strong, says widow of barrister shot dead by police in Chelsea siege reports the Mail

The heartbroken wife of the Chelsea siege barrister last night spoke of her devastation - and insisted theirs had been a stable marriage.
Elizabeth Clarke, 40, said she and her husband Mark Saunders, 32, were "deeply committed to each other" and dismissed suggestions that their two-year marriage had been under strain.
Friends said she felt powerless after police refused to let her try to persuade her husband to surrender when she arrived home at the height of the siege.

The Times has an exclusive on its front page

Drivers in worse jam as traffic plan fails

Motorists are wasting more time sitting in queues on motorways and A-roads because the Government has failed to meet its key target for reducing congestion.
Delays have increased on the 100 key routes on which ministers promised three years ago to make journeys more reliable.
The Department for Transport attempted to bury its failure to meet the target by quietly releasing the figures yesterday in a large batch of reports on congestion

The Guardian reports that

New figures show Britons back recycling

The first signs of a green revolution are emerging around the country as Britons treble their recycling and increase their use of public transport. But this enthusiasm is not reflected in attitudes towards other environmental concerns, with car ownership and use on the rise and air travel increasing "substantially" over the last four years.
The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that research shows the public sending out mixed messages on its green credentials, although attitudes to the environment are changing.

The Sun carries Labour's worst ever poll

LABOUR has slumped to its lowest levels of support since records began in the 1930s, a devastating Sun poll reveals today. The Sun’s findings put the Tories on a massive 49 per cent with Labour trailing on 23 per cent — a gap of 26 points.

The Times meanwhile reports that

ASBOs quietly dropped as most young offenders ignore them

One of Labour’s main policies to tackle yobbish disorder is facing a slow death after figures published yesterday showed a sharp drop in antisocial behaviour orders.
As they declined, the number of people breaching the terms of their orders rose to almost a half. Among juveniles the rate is 61 per cent and among adults it is 43 per cent, according to the Home Office figures. The overall breach rate is now 49 per cent.

The Telegraph claims

Police can't break up 'too dark' raves

A police force has admitted it is powerless to break up illegal raves - because it is too dark when they are in full swing.
Chief Inspector Gill Ellis, of Kent Police, blamed the lack of action on 'health and safety' regulations when tackled by locals who are fed-up with all-night raves in a wooded area near Sevenoaks.

According to the Mail

Government steals Boris Johnson's plan to ban booze on all public transport

Travellers face a ban on drinking alcohol on trains, buses and trams across the country, it was revealed last night.
The drastic plan to cut loutish behaviour will be considered as part of a Government review aimed at making public transport safer.
It comes less than a week after Boris Johnson swept to victory in the London mayoral contest on the same policy - leading to claims that a desperate Labour Party is stealing Tory clothes

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Banks in current account rip off says the Express

BANKS were criticised last night for ramping up fees on current accounts as fears grow that the days of free banking are numbered.
Lloyds TSB, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland are this month pushing up charges on a range of paid-for accounts by as much as 20 per cent.
An estimated seven million customers have already been targeted in the rip-off. And there are fears that charges will eventually be imposed on standard current accounts, marking an end to the tradition of free banking.

The Independent reports as

Fireworks and flypast celebrate 60 years of Israel

Israel's military took the lead in official commemoration of the country's foundation 60 years ago as hundreds of thousands of private citizens took to the parks and streets for traditional Independence Day barbecues.
The Israeli Air Force staged flyovers and skydiving exhibitions, while the Israel Defence Forces orchestra took part in a parade in Haifa and navy vessels sailed along the Mediterranean coast from Haifa to Ashdod.

The Guardian meanwhile says

Lebanon on the brink as violence erupts

Fighting erupted across Beirut yesterday after Hizbullah accused the Lebanese government of issuing a "declaration of war" by demanding the Shia militia shut down its private communications network.
Beirut's streets echoed to the sound of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades as masked Hizbullah fighters clashed with supporters of the western-backed government, evoking bitter memories of the country's civil war and sharpening fears of a new one

The same paper reports that

Obama makes clearest hint that Clinton could be running mate

The possibility of her serving as vice-president seemed unlikely until yesterday, given the personal bitterness that has grown between the two camps in the course of the campaign. But Obama, in an interview with NBC News, refused to rule out the prospect. "There's no doubt that she's qualified to be vice-president; there's no doubt she's qualified to be president," he said.

Divisive Hillary Clinton 'damaging Democrats' says the Telegraph

Senator Hillary Clinton stated yesterday that Barack Obama’s support from “hard-working Americans, white Americans” was “weakening”, stoking fears that she is using race to damage her rival’s chances of a general election victory.The former First Lady’s controversial comments, which some construed as a suggestion that blacks are lazy, came as several allies counselled her to consider withdrawing from a Democratic nomination contest she cannot win.

400,000 skint families to join scramble for council homes reports the Mirror

The credit crunch is causing a surge in people going on to council house waiting lists.
There are already 1.6 million families waiting for council or housing association homes - 600,000 more than six years ago. And the number will grow to two million families, or around five million people, within 18 months, a report predicts

Many of the papers report

Radical Muslim cleric with links to Bin Laden is freed on bail

Abu Qatada, the Islamist preacher described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", could be freed on curfew within weeks after being granted bail by an immigration tribunal.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, led condemnation of the move, which delivers another embarrassing blow to the credibility of the Government's anti-terror legislation.

says the Independent

The Guardian reports on the comments of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

British public life cannot be a "God-free zone", the head of the Catholic church in England and Wales warned last night.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said he was unhappy about attempts to "eliminate the Christian voice" from the public forum. He urged Catholics to prevent the country from becoming a "world devoid of religious faith" through a deeper engagement with God by praying, studying and performing charitable acts.
Speaking in a lecture at Westminster Cathedral, he said there was "considerable spiritual homelessness", and even if people wanted to believe they felt faith was not an option.

Finally the papers are not happy as the latest Guide to England is published

England, once famed for its high culture and good manners, has been dismissed in a new travel guide as home to "overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts

says the Telegraph adding

The Rough Guide to England, which is published around the world, says that the English have become obsessed with "C-list celebrities and toffs".

The Independent adding

The review concludes with a backhanded compliment, before finishing with another barb. "Of the 200-plus destinations across the world that Rough Guides covers, there is none so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse, yet as insular, self-important and irritating, as England," it says. "The only certainty for visitors is that however long you spend in England and however much you see, it still won't be enough to understand the place."