The Guardian leads with the news that ahead of the local election results

Election fraud: Labour failed to act, say MPs

Ministers have failed to act decisively against postal ballot fraud because they fear stirring up controversy in ethnic minority communities where most cases of abuse have been uncovered, senior Labour MPs admit.
One conceded that the government had also been reluctant to tighten procedures in case it depressed the Labour vote.
The criticism, made on the eve of the local elections, comes from the Labour-controlled public administration select committee as part of its inquiry into the government's constitutional reforms.

The Times reveals

Row over GTCE plans to recycle 24,000 failing teachers

Up to 24,000 incompetent teachers should be removed from their classrooms and put to work in neighbouring schools, according to the body responsible for upholding teaching standards.
Keith Bartley, the chief executive of the General Teaching Council for England, said that urgent action was needed to retrain teachers who had “more bad days than good”. He said that it was unacceptable that only 46 teachers, from a workforce of half a million, had been judged incompetent since 2001

The Green revolt says the Independent

More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll released to coincide with the local elections.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe "green" taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.

Both the Mirror and the Sun continue to concentrate on the Fritzl family

How could the wife not know? asks the Sun

SEX beast Josef Fritzl’s wife was under suspicion last night over what she knew about their daughter Elisabeth’s 24-year dungeon hell.
As this first picture emerged of the couple together, it was claimed Rosemarie Fritzl, 67, took FOOD supplies to the cellar and may have received SHOPPING ordered in Elisabeth’s name

TRY TO ESCAPE AND I'LL GAS YOU says the Mirror

Josef Fritzl warned the family he kept locked in his cellar he would gas them if they tried to escape.
Fritzl, 73, told police of his threat shortly after the discovery of the underground bunker where he imprisoned daughter Elisabeth, 42, and three of the seven children she bore him during her 24 years in captivity.

The Times reports that

The full scope of what has to be recovered and repaired in the minds of the two imprisoned boys is only just becoming apparent to Austria's top psychiatrists. “It will take between four and eight years of intensive therapy,” said Professor Max Friedrich, who advised on the treatment of Natascha Kampusch, who was imprisoned by her abductor for eight years.

The Telegraph leads with the story that

Chinese build secret nuclear submarine base

Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, shows that a substantial harbour has been built which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers. In what will be a significant challenge to US Navy dominance and to countries ringing the South China Sea, one photograph shows China’s latest 094 nuclear submarine at the base just a few hundred miles from its neighbours

Blockade puts Gaza on brink of serious food crisis, says UN reports the Independent

Destitution and food insecurity among Gaza's 1.5 million residents has reached an unprecedentedly critical level, according to unpublished UN findings that they now need "urgent assistance" to avert a "serious food crisis" in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The report revealing that Gaza's population has already passed the internationally-agreed threshold at which it needs concerted measures to prevent a "deterioration in their nutrition" has been drafted on the eve of a donors' conference to discuss Palestinian political and economic prospects in London today.

The Guardian reports in America where

Fatigue and racism threaten to knock Obama bandwagon off the road

Tiredness is the least of Obama's problems. After a relatively smooth and well-planned march towards the Oval Office, his campaign is facing its greatest crisis. "He is in the middle of a shit storm," one of the journalists travelling with him said.
Race, as an issue, is now more potent and dangerous than at any other stage in the campaign. Public utterances since the weekend by his former Chicago pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright - including a claim that the US government developed the Aids virus to infect black people - have called into question Obama's judgment

Back to the Uk and the Mail's front page reports on

Rise of the girl drunks:

The number of women and girls arrested for being drunk and disorderly has leapt tenfold in parts of Britain over the past five years.
The shocking increase in drunken loutishness by "ladettes" - up more than 50 per cent across the country overall - is being blamed by police leaders on the Government's controversial 24-hour licensing reforms

The Telegraph adds

The increasing number of binge-drinking women prompted one chief constable to call for a ban on discounted drinks, "happy hours" and alcohol advertising.

Babysitter wins retrial over death of toddler says the Guardian

A woman jailed for murdering a toddler left prison last night after a court found fresh medical evidence rendered her conviction unsafe. Suzanne Holdsworth, 37, a mother of two, was jailed for life in March 2005 after being found guilty of murdering two-year-old Kyle Fisher. It was found she had repeatedly banged his head against a wooden banister.
Three judges at the court of appeal in London yesterday ordered a retrial in light of medical evidence that suggested that the child could have had an epileptic seizure. They also took the unusual step of releasing her on conditional bail pending a retrial.

The Times reports that

Security camera footage of three of the July 7 bombers visiting London on a reconnaissance trip nine days before they killed 52 people was shown in court yesterday. Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shezhad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay spent four hours visiting locations on the Underground network.
The moments that two of the bombers detonated their devices was also shown at Kingston Crown Court. A blinding flash and a cloud of dust mark the moment that Tanweer ripped apart a packed rush-hour Tube, killing seven passengers between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations. Moments earlier commuters were seen hurrying on to the eastbound Circle Line train before a flash of light is seen in the tunnel. This is followed by clouds of dust that obscure the view of the camera.

SMIRKING 7/7 bombers enter King’s Cross station as they scout for targets nine days before their suicide attacks — in a CCTV film shown to a jury yesterday.

says the Sun

Liverpool heads list of the most deprived areas of England reports the Independent

The report, compiled by the Department for Communities and Local Government, ranks all of England's 354 local authorities in terms of deprivation, a measure based on factors that include crime, the availability of education, standard of housing and quality of health, and the income of residents.

The Express continues to be concerned about prices reporting that

MILLIONS of families face a crippling surge in the cost of living following a record rise in manufacturing costs.
A poll of some 600 companies yesterday revealed the highest upturn in factory prices since records began nine years ago.
The huge increase will feed through to higher prices in the shops, experts warn.

PD James: Political correctness ruining society says the Telegraph

There was a growing risk that Britons would live in "ghettos" and experience little contact with other people, she said in a speech on policing in the 21st century.
Baroness James of Holland Park, who is best known for creating the detective Adam Dalgliesh, told an audience in the Palace of Westminster: "Our society is now more fractured than I, in my long life, have ever known it.

'Disgraceful': Judges condemn council that rushed through adoption of a baby girl reports the Mail

The conduct of social workers who rushed through the adoption of a baby girl before her natural father could prevent it was damned as "disgraceful" by three senior judges yesterday.
Lord Justice Thorpe said the decision to place the child with adoptive parents 24 hours before the father was due in court to fight for his daughter gave the "clearest inference" that the council was out to "gain its ends by means more foul than fair".

The Guardian reports that

Cardiff hosts Europe's first drive-through Starbucks

Bosses believe the UK and Europe may be ready for the concept. If the gleamingly new Cardiff Bay drive-through proves a winner, expect many more to open across Europe.
Eight staff - partners as Starbucks prefers to call them - from Cardiff have been over to Seattle to see how drive-throughs work there and, in return, expert baristas from Washington State are in the Welsh capital to help convince passing motorists that grabbing a grande latte without the bother of turning the engine off and actually walking into a cafe is a great idea.

"Beer O'clock" in Britain is 6.14pm, new research has revealed.
That is the time the average drinker makes it to the bar after work, according to a survey.
The research also found Britons spend longer in the pub than their continental neighbours.

says the Express

Finally it's Bank Holiday weekend and the Times forecasts

Good weather and lots of queues

Parts of Britain will be blessed by warm and clement weather over the Bank Holiday weekend, but seeking it out will be as stressful as ever. Engineering works are planned on vast stretches of railway and 18 million motorists are expected to clog up the the roads.
The Met Office has forecast that temperatures will rise in some parts to 22C (72F) as the sun manages to break through a band of cloud sweeping across the country.