As yesterday knife crime continues to dominate the front pages,

Families deride Brown's knife crime strategy says the Telegraph

Gordon Brown's promised "shock tactics" to combat knife crime have unravelled as the families of stab victims and politicians branded them "half-baked" and "not tough enough". The centrepiece announcement, which would see young criminals taken to hospital to visit the victims of their knife attacks in hospital, could actually make the problem even worse according to one study.

Softie,Softie says the Sun

THE Government’s latest bid to halt youth violence was dismissed as a gimmick last night – as a soft judge was slammed for freeing a knife thug just days after he was jailed.

The Times reports that

The problem of teenage gang violence could take a generation to solve, according to the policeman given the job of devising a national knife crime strategy.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alf Hitchcock told The Times yesterday that effective policing could reduce knife attacks in the short term but would not provide a long-term solution. Mr Hitchcock said that it was “hugely worrying” that the annual number of hospital admissions for knife injuries had risen in recent years from 3,000 to 5,000 while the age of those carrying and using knives had fallen steeply.

Send jobless youths on national service, says new knife crime tsar is the headline in the Mail

Jobless teenagers should be sent on 'national service', says Britain's new knife crime tsar.
The non- military programme could include helping vulnerable people and overseas aid work.

The Guardian meanwhile leads with

Youth violence: Tactics against gangs fatally flawed - report

The government's drive to curb street gangs and knife crime is challenged today by research suggesting official tactics are fundamentally misinformed, frequently failing, and sometimes actively strengthen the gangs they target.
Based on two years' close work with members of six gangs in an English city, the research finds that schools, health services and prisons are "grossly unprepared to collaborate or respond adequately to the problems brought about by gangs".

Litany of surgical blunders revealed says the Independent

The cases of 14 brain surgery patients who were the victims of catastrophic errors when neurosurgeons operated on the wrong side of the head are to spearhead a government drive to make operations safer.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the Government's chief medical officer, will highlight the cases at the launch of his annual report today when he will announce the establishment of a new clinical board for surgical safety to reduce errors and eliminate "wrong site" mistakes

The Times leads with the report that

Equality laws ‘are now holding women back’

The radical extension of maternity leave and parents’ rights is sabotaging women’s careers, according to the head of the new equalities watchdog.
Nicola Brewer,The chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission , said that it was an inconvenient truth that giving women a year off work after the birth of each child - soon to be paid throughout - was making employers think twice before offering a job or promotion.

The Telegraph reports that

Eight new nuclear power stations are planned for England

The new nuclear plants will mainly be based alongside existing facilities and are expected to be constructed over the next decade.
New planning laws will be used to fast-track approval for the nuclear plants which Gordon Brown believes are crucial in reducing Britain's dependency on fossil fuels

The Independent adds

The Prime Minister will set "no upper limit" on the number of nuclear plants that will be built by private companies. That would mean nuclear, which provides about 20 per cent of Britain's electricity, could meet a bigger share after the new generation of nuclear stations come on stream over the next 15 years.

The Express reports that,73% SAY SAVE OUR WEEKLY BIN RUN

ARROGANT ministers were last night accused of forcing the end of weekly rubbish bin collections in the face of public uproar.
A survey has revealed 73 per cent of residents with weekly collections oppose fortnightly rounds. But Labour is pushing for the shake-up and almost half of councils use the new system

High petrol prices are good for us, says cabinet minister reports the Mail

A cabinet minister welcomed spiralling petrol prices last night as an incentive for drivers to make fewer car journeys.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the high cost of oil helps force people off the road and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
He also launched a robust defence of road tax rises for more than nine million cars - insisting it was right that they should also apply to second-hand vehicles.

The Telegraph meanwhile reports that

Gordon Brown will come under further pressure to abandon the planned 2p hike in fuel duty after it emerged that the Treasury is in line for a £15 billion tax windfall from the soaring oil price.

,the paper adds that

In a new report the industry trade body, Oil & Gas UK, has forecast an extra £5.1 billion will flow into the Chancellor's coffers in addition to the £9.9 billion Alistair Darling predicted in the April budget.

Prices are on the front of the Mirror whch says,True cost of living is 18% - five times the official rate

Food prices are up 14 per cent on last year, Mirror figures reveal.
Fuel rose 30 per cent and household bills 4.3 per cent. Added to higher transport costs it means inflation is now 18.5 per cent, six per cent up on June.
Government statistics unveiled tomorrow are expected to show an increase of 0.3 per cent, taking the Consumer Price Index (CPI) up to 3.6 per cent.

The Independent reports

The true annual rate of inflation is as much as 10 per cent, Sir John Major claimed as he warned that Britain was on the brink of recession.
The former Conservative prime minister forecast more job losses and bankruptcies and accused the Government of under-stating the real impact of price rises.
He said changes to the way inflation is calculated had been "extremely misleading", with increasing food prices and heating bills not reflected by the official statistics on the cost of living.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports on the gloomy economic news from America where

The US government moved last night to shore up the finances of the beleaguered lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a desperate bid to prevent them defaulting on billions of dollars of mortgage debts.
Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, called on Congress to support a plan that would allow the government to buy shares in the lenders during the next two years and underwrite their ballooning debts

The Times reports that

Nine US soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Nato said that the small American “combat outpost” in the Dara-I-Pech district of Kunar province came under heavy fire at about 4.30am. US forces called in mortars, artillery, Apache helicopters and fighter jets.
Nato confirmed the nine deaths in its ranks and said that 15 US soldiers and four Afghan soldiers had been injured. It also claimed that the Taleban had sustained “very heavy losses”.

There is much coverage of the Med summit,the Independent reports that

A gargantuan summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders in Paris has produced a series of breakthroughs and diplomatic coups for the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy

it adds that

Israel agreed to release prisoners to smooth the way for a new peace settlement with the Palestinian Authority. Syria promised to establish normal relations with Lebanon for the first time in 65 years. Perhaps most startling of all, a Syrian president and an Israeli prime minister sat in the same room, and at the same table, for the first time. However, the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, managed to vanish from the room before the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, gave his setpiece speech.

Love tops agenda as Sarkozy launches Mediterranean Union says the Guardian

The same paper reports that

Barack Obama is overwhelmingly Britain's choice to be the next US president, five times more popular than his Republican rival, John McCain, a Guardian/ICM poll shows today. Carried out ahead of the Democratic candidate's visit to Britain next week, the poll reveals that 53% feel certain he would make the best president, with only 11% favouring McCain; 36% declined to express an opinion.

The Telegraph says that

Bill Clinton 'problem' rules out Hillary as Barack Obama's running mate

Bill Clinton, once his wife's greatest political asset, is now viewed by Barack Obama as such a liability that he is likely to scupper Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.

Back to the Uk and the Express reports that

COMEDIAN Jim Davidson has issued a passionate defence of Dubai's legal system following the arrest of a British businesswoman for drunkenly romping on a public beach.

and the paper adds

Davidson, who was awarded an OBE in 2001 for his charity work, said he had become completely disillusioned with the UK's judicial system which he was weighted more in favour of the criminal than the victim.

On the same topic,of the countries values,the Sun reports that

GIRLS as young as ten are suffering stress and anxiety as they struggle to cope with growing up in today’s society, a poll shows.
Pressure to own the latest must-haves such as fashionable clothes, iPods and mobile phones left one in five of them feeling angry or sad, researchers found.

Finally the Mirror reports that, AA fixes giant 6ft blue pig

AA Man Steve Milner thought someone was telling porkies when was sent to help to a pig the size of car.
But he could not stop laughing when he found the casualty was a 6ft long, 90lb blue piggy bank being towed by two men on a tandem bike.
Steve Hunt, 46, and Gordon McKirdy, 33, were heading from Glasgow to London in a challenge to raise cash for Cancer Research when a trailer joint snapped.
Mr Milner said: "This was one piggy that needed urgent attention, so I took it to the local BT depot where it was repaired with table legs.