Tax and more problems for Gordon on the front pages this morning.The Times reveals that

55% of Labour voters want Gordon Brown to resign

Today’s Populus poll for The Times — the first survey since last Thursday’s local elections — shows a dramatic collapse of confidence in Mr Brown’s leadership.
The Prime Minister’s personal rating has dropped sharply, along with that for Labour. He now trails David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the leadership stakes.

The Guardian leads with

Brown faces new threats to authority

Gordon Brown was facing fresh battles on three fronts to retain his political authority yesterday as senior figures challenged him over Scottish independence, 42 days detention and the 10p tax climbdown.
Returning to Westminster still reeling from the disastrous local election results, he was first forced to distance himself from calls by the leader of the Scottish Labour party, Wendy Alexander, to back an early referendum on Scottish independence.

The Telegraph meanwhile announces that

Labour's tax on drivers up £600 a year

Gordon Brown is under pressure to reconsider a series of controversial tax rises amid growing evidence that drivers are being unfairly targeted by the Treasury.
The Daily Telegraph launches a campaign today called Fair Deal for Drivers. It is supported by MPs, charities and motoring groups and calls on the Prime Minister to offer motorists a better deal

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And the Express is not happy about taxes either,Taxed to the limit says its front page

GORDON Brown must stop his crippling tax rises or face an election hammering, Cabinet ministers have warned him.
They told the beleaguered Prime Minister that millions of decent, hard-working families have been stretched to breaking point by Labour’s punishing policies.

The Mail concentrates on prices,its front page telling us that

Devastating price rises mean families have less to spend on themselves than at any time for 17 years.
The share of household income eaten up by unavoidable outgoings such as housing, food, heat and council tax has soared over the past six years

There is wide coverage of the

Chelsea gunman shot dead after 5-hour siege ,the Telegraph reporting

a gunman was shot dead by police last night after trading fire with officers during an armed siege at a house on one of Britain's most affluent streets. Horrified residents said the man, thought to be a member of the armed forces, opened fire with a shotgun in the direction of neighbouring houses.

The Times adds

The siege, which started shortly before 5pm, ended at about 9.30pm when officers entered the flat where the gunman was holed up. There were reports that officers had used stun grenades.
Police would not confirm last night that its officers had shot dead the gunman, who was described as a white man in his twenties

The Independent leads with the situation in Burma,we need food and we need water is its front page

As the death toll from the Burmese cyclone rose yesterday, with up to 62,000 people now feared dead, witnesses spoke of the homelessness, hunger and disease now threatening the worst-affected areas.
The UN said more than one million people could be homeless and vast areas of the nation's rice-growing areas may have been destroyed. Unless emergency supplies can be delivered quickly, it is feared that more people will die.

the scramble for survival in Burma says the Guardian

First there is the scramble for fresh water, with long lines all over Rangoon to buy it by the bucketload at three times the price it was before the cyclone.
Then there is the hunt for shelter among the debris in a city where more homes are now without roofs than with them, and as desperation grows, there are reports of looting in some markets.
Huge queues snake from those petrol stations still functioning. Fuel has doubled in price.

The Sun headlines Tide of Death announcing

BRITAIN last night gave £5million to help victims of Burma’s 12ft tidal wave as aid workers scrambled to deliver supplies

The Times reports that

The people’s plight is not helped by the disposition of their Government. Running the country on a combination of internal repression and xenophobia, the junta seems not to have made up its mind that this is a tragedy that it cannot remedy on its own.It certainly was not too concerned when the cyclone approached the Burmase coast. A spokesman for the Indian Meteorological Department revealed yesterday that it had given Burma two days’ warning of Cyclone Nargis.

The Mail reports that

Hundreds of thousands of pounds flood in for sex dungeon family as it emerges victims will get £47,000 in back-dated child benefit

Peter Westenthaler, head of the political party BZOE, said: "I am donating so the children who had to live all those years in the dungeon now know they are not alone anymore."
Austrian celebrities and media launched the appeal for cash after it was revealed the medical costs of caring for the incest family will soon climb to over a million pounds.

The Sun has an exclusive saying that

CELLAR fiend Josef Fritzl paid hookers to have sex in a brothel’s DUNGEON, it was revealed last night.
A vice girl told how he tied her up on a makeshift cross in an underground room just like the lair where he imprisoned his secret family.

MAYOR BORIS TO UNVEIL BOOZE BAN says the Express

The prohibition of booze on the Tube, trains and buses was one of Mr Johnson's election pledges and is part of a wider strategy to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Mr Johnson will join London's transport commissioner Peter Hendy to set out a timeline for bringing in the ban.
They will also launch new posters advising passengers of the no-alcohol policy.

Meanwhile the Telegraph says

Troubled teenagers should be sent to weekend 'boot camps’ to stop them going off the rails, under plans unveiled by Boris Johnson.

According to the Telegraph

City-sized swathe of green belt 'concreted over'

The equivalent of a small city has been built on protected rural land since 1997, a report by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England claims.
Gordon Brown's plans for new "eco-towns" also pose a threat to rural areas and could lead to major building work on green belt land, it has emerged.
Research by the CPRE suggests ministers have no respect for the legal safeguards on green belt land.

Government set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis again reports the Guardian

The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will today stress the dangers of more potent strains of cannabis as she is expected to defy medical opinion by announcing that the drug will be upgraded from class C to class B.
Smith is expected to justify her decision by highlighting the strength of "skunk" strains of herbal cannabis now widely available. Gordon Brown last week warned of the "more lethal quality" of much of the cannabis now available, described it as a gateway drug, and said that reclassification was needed to "send a message to young people that it was unacceptable".

According to the Times

More than 40,000 pupils are playing truant on at least two days a week

The latest government data indicate a rising number of pupils playing truant and being allowed to skip school, with a persistent band of 44,000 truants attending school for fewer than three days a week.
The figures, for the autumn term last year, show another 300,000 missed more than 14 days – equal to one day a week. That was 16,000 more than the previous year.
Teachers’ leaders blamed the trend on “deep-rooted social problems” which schools could not tackle on their own

Many of the papers report

Non-EU football stars will have to take English test,the Independent saying

Football stars from outside the EU will be classed as skilled workers from this autumn when the system comes into force.
They will have to demonstrate they have a basic knowledge of English before they are granted work visas lasting up to three years. However, their wives and girlfriends will not have to pass a language test

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BBC and ITV launch belated digital satellite service reports the Guardian

Who says technology moves too quickly? More than two years later than billed, ITV yesterday teamed up with the BBC to launch a digital satellite television service to complement Freeview.
FreeSat will offer up to 200 channels before the year's end, including free high definition programmes from ITV and the BBC, for a one-off fee with no contract.
The plans immediately sparked a row with pay-TV operator BSkyB, after ITV said it would launch its new HD service exclusively on FreeSat and withhold it from Sky subscribers.

Finally many of the papers carry pictures of what the Sun describes as a lava light show

LIGHTNING spears a plume of ash above an erupting volcano — sparking a spectacular natural light show.Storm clouds gathered over Chile’s Chaiten peak as it spewed the towering cloud of hot debris 12 miles into the sky.A photographer captured the dramatic scene as the two merged.