Many of the papers have a picture of the barrister Mark Saunders who was shot dead by police after firing shots from his Chelsea home

I love my wife dearly says the front of the Mail

Elizabeth Clarke, 40, sobs in the street while her husband exchanges fire with armed police
With a hand clamped in horror to her face, barrister Elizabeth Clarke watches her world fall apart.
Yards away, police marksmen are training their guns on her £2million Chelsea flat, where her husband of less than two years is firing a shotgun from the windows.
Two hours later, 32-year-old Mark Saunders will be dead, shot as officers burst in.
One of his last acts is to throw a white cardboard box into the garden. On it he has written: "I love my wife dearly xxx".

The Times says

Elizabeth Clarke had decided, because of her husband’s increasingly drunken and erratic behaviour, that she could no longer love him or live with him.
An argument that caused Miss Clarke to run from the house in tears about 4pm set off the extraordinary series of events that ended with police marksmen shooting Mr Saunders dead at 9.30pm.

The Guardian describes him as

rising star in his field of expertise; family law and the division of assets following divorces.
Saunders, 32, who rented a £2.2m flat in Markham Square, Chelsea, had graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a degree in law and became a pupil at QEB chambers in Temple, London, in 1998.
He was called to the bar in 1999 and joined QEB a few months later, working alongside QCs who have since become high court judges

The paper leads with

Police should harass young thugs - Smith

Police should be harassing badly behaved youths by openly filming them and hounding them at home to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible, the home secretary will say today.
The crime initiative is part of a government strategy to win back voters by proposing more radical approaches to tackling deep seated problems.
In a speech in London the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will acknowledge that the number of antisocial behaviour orders being issued is falling, but will argue that there has been a shift to the use of parental orders instead.

The Telegraph claims that

Foreign criminals work at airports unchecked

Despite warnings that terrorists would try to recruit people working "airside" in terminals – with direct access to aircraft and baggage – no attempt has been made to check whether foreign workers have committed any offences abroad.
The vetting process checks only for crimes committed in Britain. Foreign workers – arriving from inside or outside the European Union – are not checked in their country of origin.

The Independent reports from

Inside Burma's dead zone

By the time the last of the daylight was slipping from the sky, it seemed as though every other home we were passing had been flattened.
For mile after mile through the vast flat expanse of the Irrawaddy Delta, the evidence of the destructive power of Cyclone Nargis lay on either side of the rutted road; uprooted trees, downed pylons, entire villages of flimsy, feeble homes blown flat.

death toll could reach 100,000 says the Guardian

The top United States diplomat in Burma's largest city, Rangoon, confirmed the figure and said as many as 95% of all buildings in the affected area may have been demolished. Shari Villarosa, the charge d'affaires of the US embassy in Burma, said there was a very real risk of disease outbreaks as the crisis continues. "There may be over 100,000 deaths in the Irrawaddy delta area," she told reporters

The Sun tells us

BURMA’S tyrant leader is spending just £2.5million to help save his people from cyclone hell — after lavishing TEN times that on his daughter’s wedding.
General Than Shwe laid on a sickening spread for dumpy bride Thandar while his nation starved.

The Times leads with allegations of

Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy

An Iraqi cleaner and two cooks claim that a culture of sexual harrassment, abuse and bullying exists at the British Embassy in Baghdad.
The middle-aged cleaner told The Times that a British contractor with KBR, the company hired to maintain the embassy’s premises, offered to double her daily pay if she would stay the night with him. When she refused, she said, her pay was cut and she was later dismissed.

Obama's campaign takes on air of election reports the Telegraph

Barack Obama has congratulated his aides on a "good job" in Indiana and North Carolina, wearing a broad smile not seen since his last primary victory two months ago.
However, the real work is now just beginning.
Barring a suicidal gaffe, or a closeted skeleton of horrifying dimensions, the young Illinois senator can now look past his obdurate opponent for the Democratic Party's nomination as presidential candidate and towards John McCain, the Republican nominee.

Superdelegates desert her, but Clinton refuses to throw in towel says the Independent

Hillary Clinton gave no sign of abandoning her do-or-die campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination in the US presidential race yesterday. She made a pump-up-the-troops appearance in West Virginia, which holds its primary vote next week, even as aides admitted she had been forced to loan herself yet more campaign money in recent weeks.

Both the Sun and the Mirror lead with the latest from Austria

I'm not a monster says the Mirror reporting

Cellar dad Josef Fritzl broke his silence yesterday to declare: "I'm no monster."
In a ridiculous attempt to defend himself the brute who fathered seven children by a daughter he caged for 24 years declared he could have killed the children he kept captive and got away scot free.
Breaking his silence for the first time, the brute cobbled up an absurd defence of twisted logic that he hopes will cheat him of a life sentence.

Whilst the Sun reveals

TRAGIC cellar girl Elisabeth Fritzl implored a friend to visit her – just before her father Josef plunged her into his devil’s dungeon.
In a touching letter to an old school friend, she said: “See you soon.”
But she never did – instead spending 24 years imprisoned in the vault at the mercy of rape monster Fritzl.

What a waste says the front of the Independent

A new study has exposed the staggering amount of food thrown away every day by the British public, calculating that the annual total of wasted products adds up to a record £10bn.
Each day, according to the government-backed report, Britons throw away 4.4 million apples, 1.6 million bananas, 1.3 million yoghurt pots, 660,000 eggs, 550,000 chickens, 300,000 packs of crisps and 440,000 ready meals. And for the first time government researchers have established that most of the food waste is made up of completely untouched food products – whole chickens and chocolate gateaux that lie uneaten in cupboards and fridges before being discarded

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The Express continues its campaign against rising prices,its front page telling

HOUSEHOLD energy bills will soar by up to 40 per cent this winter as oil prices continue to rise.
Families could be paying a quarter more for their gas as early as this summer, experts have warned.
Wholesale gas prices are already at a record high for this time of year. As investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts crude oil will rise to $200 a barrel from the current high of $123, household budgets look set to feel the strain

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The Mail says that

Food prices are rising at the fastest annual rate for at least 18 months, admit High Street stores.
Retail food price rises are running at 4.7per cent a year, according to the British Retail Consortium.(BRC)
The organisation claims the figures would be far worse if supermarkets were not protecting shoppers from sharp increases in the price of basic commodities

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Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour reports the Times

Church attendance in Britain is declining so fast that the number of regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation, research published today suggests.
The fall - from the four million people who attend church at least once a month today - means that the Church of England, Catholicism and other denominations will become financially unviable. A lack of funds from the collection plate to support the Christian infrastructure, including church upkeep and ministers’ pay and pensions, will force church closures as ageing congregations die.

The Prime Minister manages to make some of the front pages including the Telegraph which reports

Gordon Brown at war with Scottish Labour

Gordon Brown has faced fresh questions over his authority after he refused to back or sack Labour's Scottish leader over her plans to hold a referendum on independence for Scotland. Mr Brown was eventually forced to call Miss Alexander to try to convince her to change her "line" on the referendum and admit she had no powers to call a vote. The Prime Minister was unable to prevent a damaging rift between Labour north and south of the border, fuelling accusations that his authority was ebbing away.

The Guardian meanwhile reports

Labour has lost voters in the south by appearing not to understand the lives of many hard-working people and leaving too many confused about the government's values, John Denham, the universities secretary and only cabinet member with a seat in southern England, will warn today.

Cannabis goes back to Class B despite drug experts' verdict says the Times

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced the reversal yesterday of the Government’s earlier decision to downgrade the drug. But under18s caught with it will not be treated any more harshly, to avoid criminalising them.

I WAS ILL, SAYS MOTHER 'TOO DRUNK TO CARE FOR CHILDREN' reports the Express

A BRITISH couple whose children were taken into care in Portugal spoke out for the first time last night – and denied they were excessively drunk.
In a statement, Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin said she had been taken ill, and insisted her collapse had nothing to do with alcohol.

The Mirror reports TV reality show Wife Swap star commits suicide

A dad whose marriage collapsed after appearing on TV show Wife Swap was found dead after a suspected drug overdose.
Simon Foster, 40, and his bisexual wife Jane both openly had girlfriends.
After the Channel Four show was seen in October he moved out and they divorced

adding that

Simon Foster isn't the first person to have died after appearing on a reality TV show. There have been seven deaths in the past 13 years after people appeared on programmes including The Jerry Springer Show and Extreme Makeover

Colossal ideas... or the makings of a white elephant? asks the Independent

You know the Angel of the North. Now imagine the Colossus of the South. It will stand near Ebbsfleet International station, to amaze Eurostar passengers as they travel through Kent. It will cost £2m and stand 50 metres high.
The plans were unveiled yesterday at a nearby project centre

Hottest day of the year reports the Telegraph

London, south-east England, and the West Midlands saw the best of the weather, brought in by warm south easterly winds blowing in from the Continent.
Temperatures at Charlwood in Surrey peaked at 77.2F (25.1C), higher than Mediterranean cities including Athens (64F/18C) and Barcelona (68F/20C).

Finally the Sun reports

PRINCESS Beatrice started a new job yesterday – working in Selfridges as a SHOP ASSISTANT.
Bea, 19 – more used to being waited on HERSELF as fifth in line to the throne – has landed a post as a “personal shopper” for VIP costumers.
Her unpaid work experience job involves fetching and carrying for rich punters who book their visits to the famous department store in London’s Oxford Street in advance.