Many of the papers lead with the devestating cyclone that has hit Burma.

Up to 10,000 feared dead in Burma cyclone says the Times

Burma’s isolated and xenophobic generals appealed for international help yesterday after a catastrophic cyclone killed at least 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless in the country’s agricultural heartland.
United Nations agencies were preparing last night to fly in emergency food, shelter and medical supplies to prevent epidemics and starvation inflicting a second disaster on the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which ripped across Burma on Saturday at 120mph (193km/h), destroying buildings and fields, toppling trees and washing away roads in the city of Rangoon and the Irrawaddy delta.

A similar headline in the Guardian

Burma seeks emergency aid as cyclone kills at least 10,000

The foreign minister, Nyan Win, told diplomats the number of dead could reach 10,000, with at least 3,000 still missing, making it the worst natural disaster in east Asia since the 2004 tsunami.
Andrew Kirkwood, country director of Save the Children, whose teams began distributing aid, said: "Older people I've spoken to in Yangon [Rangoon] say this is the worst storm they've seen in the 60 years they've been alive. Everyone recognises this was unprecedented."

The Independent calls it Burma's wind of change

Aid agencies, struggling to assess the full extent of the damage caused by the category 3 storm that swept the country at the weekend, were preparing last night to send urgent supplies of food, water and medicine. "We have received a long list of things that are needed, including shelter material, food, water-purification stuff, tarpaulins and things like that," said Carsten Voelz, the operations manager for the charity Care. "Given the scale of what has happened, we would certainly

More revelations continue to emerge from Austria,the Sun claims that

Cellar dad raped his own grandchild

DEPRAVED Josef Fritzl may have had a SECOND sex slave in his cellar dungeon — granddaughter Kerstin.
Police fear the monster targeted his eldest child by caged daughter Elisabeth after losing interest in her grey-haired mother.
But they have been unable to quiz the 19-year-old because she is in a coma, fighting for her life in hospital with organ failure.

Boy from the cellar says the front page of the Mirror

Proudly grasping a candle at his first communion, Alexander Fritzl looks like any other happy youngster in exclusive footage seen by the Daily Mirror.
It's a snapshot of ordinary life in a Catholic family - but the priest and congregation have no idea that the angelic 10-year-old's dad is cellar brute Josef Fritzl

Many of the papers report on the parents arrested in Portugal for being drunk


Shamed: The middle class parents who got so drunk on holiday their children were taken into care says the Mail

The British couple who drank themselves into a stupor in front of their children on holiday may face a social services investigation.
Former bank manager Eamon McGuckin, 34, and his wife Antoinette had what friends described as "a moment of madness" in Portugal.
They are alleged to have guzzled lager at one euro (79p) a pint and then collapsed. Their children Aaron, six, Amy, two, and one-year-old Adam had to be taken to a refuge.

Portuguese judge to rule on British 'binge drink' parents

A British couple will tell a Portuguese judge today that they are not a risk to their three young children after allegedly falling unconscious following a holiday drinking session.
Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin have been ordered to attend a court in the Algarve this afternoon to answer questions about how they both collapsed after a family night out in the resort of Vilamoura.
Witnesses have told police that Mr McGuckin, a bank executive, and his wife were admitted to hospital for emergency treatment while their children, aged 1 to 6, were taken into protective care.

The Telegraph reports

Mother grieves for her two 'mummy's boys'

A grieving mother paid tribute to her "irreplaceable" sons yesterday after they were found stabbed to death at a beauty spot. Six-year-old Paul Ross and two-year-old Jay Ross were discovered in a parked car at a lay-by near Glasgow on Saturday. Police were treating the deaths as murder.
Their father, Ashok Kalyanjee, 40, who was also in the car, was in a critical condition at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. It is understood he had slit his own throat and set himself on fire. He was being treated for severe burns and was under police guard.

It leads with the news that

Estate agencies are closing branches at the rate of 150 a week, with 4,000 job losses since the start of the year. Removal firms have also laid off hundreds of staff after a 26 per cent fall in the number of properties changing hands over the past 12 months.
The job losses are the clearest sign yet of the impact the global credit crisis and housing market slowdown have had on the wider economy.

OIL PRICE HIKE 'COULD HIT RECOVERY' says the Express

High oil prices could "snuff out" any recovery in the UK economy during the coming two years, economists have warned.
The Ernst & Young Item Club said the modest upswing in economic growth it was predicting for 2009 and 2010 was predicated on the price of oil remaining below 100 US dollars (£51) per barrel.
But it warned that if the cost of oil increased to 120 US dollars (£61) per barrel or 150 US dollars (£76) per barrel in the long-term, it would have serious implications for the strength of the wider economy

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The Independent reports

Gordon Brown will increase the speed with which the Government compensates the 5.3 million "losers" from the abolition of the 10p tax band in the hope of heading off the threat of a new rebellion by Labour MPs.
Mr Brown will continue his fightback with tough new immigration rules today for non-EU migrants but senior ministers said the key to his survival is a package of compensation for the low paid who saw their tax double after the lowest tax band was scrapped last month.

Labour still has the policies that will win general election says the Guardian

In a detailed assessment of the party's heavy losses in last Thursday's local government elections - Labour's worst performance since the era of Harold Wilson - James Purnell will say that supporters are down and the public "spooked" by the state of the economy but can be reinvigorated by firm ideological leadership.

The Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson's first full day at work

Mr Johnson, elected on Friday, announced the appointment of Ray Lewis, an inspirational black community leader, as a deputy mayor with a key role in tackling youth violence. Mr Lewis, a former prison governor, runs a successful school for troubled youths, which he predicts will educate Britain's first black prime minister.
It also emerged that Dave Wetzel, a senior transport official appointed by Ken Livingstone, had resigned. Mr Wetzel, a Labour activist, told colleagues he was quitting as vice-chairman of Transport for London, the public body that runs most public transport in the city.

The Express meanwhile reports that

MPs are secretly plotting to award themselves a pay rise of up to £15,000 a year, it was revealed last night.
It would give backbenchers a stunning 25 per cent increase, taking their salaries to more than £75,000.
The lavish rise would come on top of the already soaring figure for perks and expenses at Westminster.

Exclusive: Hard-up families to get 'free' loan says the Mirror

Hard-up families are to be offered interest-free loans in a Government scheme to be announced today.
Work Secretary James Purnell wants High Street banks to administer Treasury funds set aside to help low-paid workers struggling with bills and debts

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According to the Guardian

CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police

Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.

The Times reports that

Drugs offender keeps £4.5m after 30 barristers refuse to take case

In a dramatic illustration of the impact of new legal aid fees, the man had to act for himself and won an appeal for the confiscation order to be set aside because he was not represented by a lawyer.
Eighteen sets of chambers had been approached in London, Leeds and Sheffield – involving a total of 30 barristers – to see if they would defend the man identified only as P in the confiscation hearing.

The front page of the Mail reports that

MPs demand abortion limit is slashed back to 20 weeks in bid to save 2,500 babies every year

MPs will today begin a fight to cut the number of abortions by limiting a woman's right to have a termination for 'social reasons'.
They claim that up to 2,500 lives a year would be saved if the upper limit for social abortions was reduced from the current-24 weeks to 20

The latest primaries from America are well covered

Obama woos conservative Indiana in latest Democrat battleground reports the Independent

The warring candidates for the Democratic nomination ricocheted between Indiana and North Carolina yesterday in a breathless push to win over wavering voters before potentially game-changing primary elections in both states today.

The Telegraph reporting that

An increasingly confident Hillary Clinton has vowed to stay in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination until voting ended next month. She claimed that she had "closed the gap" with Barack Obama on the eve of today's two crucial primaries.

There is more on the latest Gazza revelations,the Sun claims in an exclusive that

BROKEN Paul Gascoigne was seen begging in the street hours before his desperate hotel suicide bid, The Sun can reveal.
The soccer legend, who was last night in a mental health unit after trying to drown himself in a bath, also tried to put down a £20,000 deposit on a Ferrari.
But the episode dissolved into farce after his trousers fell down in the showroom – revealing he was wearing no underwear.

Many of the papers carry the story that

Chelsy Davy watches as Prince Harry is rewarded

Prince Harry struggled to suppress a broad grin yesterday as he became one of 170 soldiers to be awarded campaign medals for their military service in Afghanistan.
The third in line to the throne blushed as his aunt, the Princess Royal, pinned the medal on his chest in recognition of his ten-week deployment to Helmand province this year.Lieutenant Wales, as he is known in the Army, then joined his colleagues in the Household Cavalry Regiment as they marched through the streets of Windsor in their desert fatigues and berets

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Finally accroding to the Guardian there was skullduggery forty years ago at the Eurovision songcontest

For years, Sir Cliff Richard has endured jibes about almost everything: his music; his faith, his relationships. Even his competitively-priced Portuguese wines. But while the singer has stoically turned the other cheek one wound has festered quietly for four decades - coming second in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest.
That stain on his career, however, may yet be removed. An investigation in Spain has uncovered skullduggery which, it says, shows the dictator Francisco Franco had the vote rigged, ensuring that the Briton, then a 27-year-old starlet, never had a chance of winning with his song, Congratulations.