Transport takes the headlines this Tuesday morning.

The Mail headlines the Road Tax rebellion

Extra taxes that will hit seven out of ten motorists must be scrapped, nervous Labour MPs demanded last night.
Under Budget proposals which will kick in next year, millions of drivers will pay hundreds of pounds more per year to use the roads depending on their car engine emissions.
Rebel MPs are particularly unhappy that the road tax increases will apply retrospectively.

Road Tax rage says the front page of the Mirror

From next April drivers of family cars such as the Ford Galaxy, Zafira and Renault Espace will see their road tax increase to £455 by 2010 - a rise of up to £245.
It applies to all cars bought between 2001 and 2006 classed as the most polluting.
Ministerial aide Rob Marris said: "Mondeo man may be hit. Millions might be hit."

The Telegraph also leads with the story

Nearly 18 million motorists will be hit with above-inflation increases in their annual road tax, in a move which could spark a fresh rebellion from Labour MPs. Figures released to The Daily Telegraph show that the changes to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) will affect nearly seven in 10 of the country's 26 million drivers

The Independent says

John Hutton, the Business Secretary, is calling for wide-ranging reform of the energy sector, arguing that Britain must become a world leader in green technology to protect itself from booming oil prices.
He will tell business leaders in Cambridge today that Britain must follow the example of California's response to the fuel crisis of the 1970s by investing in energy efficiency and renewable power to ease dependency on oil imports.

Meanwhile a weekend of violence is heavily reported.The Sun leads with the headline No More

ENOUGH is enough.
That was the heart-felt plea yesterday by murdered teenager Rob Knox’s tearful gran Margaret.
And she spoke for the whole of Britain, including The Sun, when she begged parents to teach their kids respect for life. Only then will the tide of teenage savagery, which has claimed the young victims on this page and crushed their families, be turned.

Amar Aslam, 17, beaten to death in weekend of violence says the Times

An Asian teenager was beaten to death in a park in West Yorkshire after pitched battles between rival gangs of youths.
The severely battered body of Amar Aslam, 17, was found in a walled wildlife garden in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury, at 7.30pm on Sunday. His death was feared to have been the culmination of a series of fights between youths in the park over the weekend.

'I've got kids who sleep with knives under their pillows' says the Independent

In Sidcup, Kent, 18-year-old Robert Knox is stabbed to death on a night out with his mates. He is the 28th teenager to die in violent circumstances this year. In south-east London, Jimmy Mizen, 16, is fatally wounded by a shard of glass during a scuffle in a baker's shop. The search for his killer continues. Garry Newlove, a father of three, is kicked and punched to death outside his home in Cheshire; three youths, aged 19, 17 and 16, are convicted of his murder. At times, it seems as if barely a day can pass without some new report of a stabbing, a savage beating, an unprovoked assault.

The Mirror reports

Thugs who who insist on carrying knives were yesterday warned they will either end up behind bars - or lying dead in the street.
Police Minister Tony McNulty made the grim prediction as he spelled out the government's determination to stamp out the knife violence epidemic that claimed 18-year-old Rob Knox as its latest tragic victim at the weekend.

Crisis talks on global food prices is the lead in the Guardian

World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world's poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices.
The summit in Rome is expected to pledge immediate aid to poor countries threatened by malnutrition as well as charting longer-term strategies for improving food production.
Hosted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, it will hear calls for the establishment of a global food fund, as well as for new international guidelines on the cultivation of biofuels, which some have blamed for diverting land, crops and other resources away from food production.

The Independent celebrates the landing on Mars

2008: a Martian odyssey

The terror lasted seven minutes. This was the time it took for Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft to slow down from a screeching 12,600mph to a sedate walking pace – its final speed when it landed safely early yesterday on the pebble-strewn surface of Mars.
During those seven minutes, the Phoenix had to endure temperatures of 1,500C as it slammed through the Martian atmosphere, before deploying its braking parachute, jettisoning a protective shell and firing the 12 small retrorockets that finally delivered the softest of landings. It was the first successful soft landing on the Red Planet for 32 years and made all the more momentous as it successfully used technology which might well, one day, allow humans to land on Mars.

The Times leads with MPs demand £23,000 tax-free grant to hide expenses

Days after the High Court ordered the publication of every receipt submitted by MPs, a committee reviewing parliamentary expenses is proposing that they should be able to claim the full £23,000 second-home allowance automatically as an annual “block grant”.
This would end the principle whereby MPs are compensated only for “costs incurred” and give nearly 250 MPs who claim less than £23,000 a substantial tax-free income boost.

News from abroad and the Guardian says

UK's special relationship with US needs to be recalibrated, Obama tells ex-pats in Britain

Senator Obama, who leads the race to be the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, made the remarks in a telephone address to a fundraising event attended by American expatriates in London.
He has long been seen by British officials as the most anglophile of the three remaining presidential candidates, but these latest comments are his first public suggestion that the relationship is unequal and ripe for change

The Telegraph reports that Six-year-olds sexually abused by UN peacekeepers

More than half of the children interviewed in three countries, Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Haiti, knew of cases of forced sex with aid staff or peacekeepers.
The assaults were often in return for the very food or protection supposed to be provided to the vulnerable in a crisis.

Disabled groups outraged by Beijing snub reports the Times

Disabled groups reacted with outrage yesterday to an official guide for assistants at the Beijing Olympic Games that describes them as unsocial, stubborn and defensive.
The guide for Chinese volunteers at the Games this summer explains that disabled people are a “special group” with “unique personalities and ways of thinking”.

The Independent reports from Sudan where there are Fears of new civil war

A peace deal signed in 2005 brought an end to Sudan's 20-year civil war – a conflict between the Khartoum government and rebels in the south, which claimed the lives of two million people. Regional analysts now fear that the razing of Abyei by – according to witnesses – forces allied to Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, will cause the peace agreement to unravel. Analysts warn of a new civil war across Sudan that would destroy chances of peace in Darfur and suck in many of Sudan's nine neighbours to the conflict.

Bank holiday frolicks in the Mirror where

19 injured in chase for ...a cheese

Dozens of madcap competitors braved torrential rain yesterday to take part in the bizarre race of chasing a giant cheese down a steep slope.
They tumbled 200 metres down the sheer face of Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Glos - with 19 getting injured

Finally the Mail returns to one of its main topics

Taxpayers pay £1,000 a week to store 15,000 wheelie bins in a field

It is one of the more unusual crops to be found in the countryside.
Rather than cultivate wheat or oilseed rape, the farmer who owns this land has grown a fine display of wheelie bins.
Fifteen thousand of the green plastic receptacles have been left in a field near Crook, County Durham, following a political dispute over waste collection and recycling.
Their serried ranks have stood there for almost a year.

and the reason?

The seeds of the problem were sown in 2005 when the then Labour majority on the council decided to bring in a scheme involving fortnightly rubbish collections and using twin wheelie bins, or tweelies, to collect landfill waste one week and recyclables the next.
It struck a deal to buy 30,000 tweelies from Otto Environmental Systems at a cost of £560,000.
But with the first half of the order delivered, Labour lost power in last May's elections, and with the Liberal Democrats now in charge, the problem remains unresolved