Crime continues to dominate the front pages this Sunday.

Put curfews on the young say public is the front page of the Times

A nationwide youth curfew to help combat knife crime was backed by the public and senior politicians last night.
In the strongest sign yet of the growing fear of violence on Britain’s streets, a Sunday Times poll reveals today that nine out of 10 parents would back legal restrictions on their children going out after dark.
A report from a House of Commons committee will say this week that a national curfew on young teenagers could curb anti-social and violent behaviour. Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, said: “I have sympathy with the view that children should not be out after 9pm

The Telegraph tells us that,Knife crime claims 60 victims a day

More than 20,000 serious knife crimes were committed last year, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. They show that almost 60 people are stabbed or mugged at knife-point every day.
A quarter-by-quarter breakdown suggests that the offending has accelerated over the course of the year, fuelling fears that the problem is getting worse.

on the inside pages the Independent reports that Pubs to be forced to search customers for knives

The plan was finalised after the Prime Minister met the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, at Chequers yesterday to discuss the crisis. Ms Smith has written to police chief constables to highlight their powers under the Violent Crime Reduction Act to crack down on licensed premises that could be at the centre of unruly and criminal behaviour.

and the Mail reports

The real truth about knife crime

The full scale of Britain’s growing knife crime menace is today exposed by The Mail on Sunday.
Our new figures show that almost every major city is facing soaring levels of stabbings and knifepoint muggings – casting doubt on Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s reassurances about the safety of our streets.

Medical chief hails superbug vaccine is the lead in the Observer

New vaccines designed to destroy the hospital superbugs that kill thousands of Britons every year will be available within 10 years, according to the government's chief medical officer.
Professor Sir Liam Donaldson described the immunisation of patients against the twin menaces of MRSA and clostridium difficile as a 'big breakthough', predicting in his annual report, to be published tomorrow, that a vaccine against clostridium difficile will be ready within five years, and one against MRSA within five to 10 years

Meanwhile the Independent says that there have been,60,000 medication blunders in 18 months

The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has found that thousands of patients are being given the wrong drugs, too little or too much of their prescribed medication or miss doses altogether.
The study found 60,000 "medication incidents" were reported by hospitals, GPs, pharmacists and community health centres over 18 months up to June 2006. Thirty-eight patients died as a result of these mistakes and a further 54 were dangerously harmed. Experts believe that fewer than one in 10 cases are reported, suggesting that there may have been as many as 708 deaths out of one million incidents

It leads with the story that

British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq, according to shocking new allegations made about the behaviour of British troops.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday that the Royal Military Police (RMP) have launched an investigation. If the allegations are proved, it would mark a sordid low in the behaviour of British troops in Iraq, and damage further the reputation of Britain in the Middle East.

Church of England should appoint Britain's first gay bishop, says Archbishop of Wales reports the Telegraph

The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, told The Sunday Telegraph that practising homosexuals should not be barred from becoming bishops.
He accused conservative Anglicans of being “exclusive” and narrow-minded in their opposition to gay clerics

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His comments, which come on the eve of the Lambeth Conference - the Anglican communion’s ten-yearly gathering of bishops - are set to inflame the bitter controversy over homosexuality

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The Observer reports on

Emergency scheme to help cash-strapped homeowners

Emergency measures to allow families to keep a roof over their heads are being drawn up as the scale of repossessions proceedings becomes increasingly apparent. In Newcastle upon Tyne alone, the newly nationalised Northern Rock is monopolising at least one day a week in the county court to pursue defaulting borrowers.

Revenge on Estate agents says the Express

DISGRUNTLED house buyers are trying to put estate agents out of business with a series of smear campaigns.
Police believe the culprits are people who have been left with huge debts after buying a property just before the slump in prices.
Estate agent Sarah Mains is being targeted by hoaxers claiming her firm has gone under thanks to the credit crunch.

More bleak news on the way as the Independent reports that

America's regulators were last night shoring up the country's financial defences, after one of the biggest bank failures in US history sparked fears about the viability of the world's largest mortgage providers.
The Northern Rock-style collapse of California's Indymac Bank, which had assets of $32bn (£16bn), came amid speculation that regulators are also preparing to step in to save the two federally-backed finance houses known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together have commitments of $5 trillion, amounting to half of America's mortgage book.

Labour MPs told to invade Scotland says the Times

Every Labour MP will be ordered to campaign in Glasgow East amid mounting panic that the party could lose the by-election in the constituency this month.
Party whips are launching an extraordinary operation to ensure that every minister and backbencher hits the streets on the tough estates of Easterhouse to try to stave off the threat from the Scottish National party (SNP).

The Telegraph says that

The ICM survey for the Sunday Telegraph puts the party on 47 per cent of the vote with its nearest challenger, the Scottish National Party (SNP), on 33 per cent.
Liberal Democrats are on nine per cent and the Conservatives on seven per cent.
The poll, the first conducted within the rock-solid Labour seat, is a big boost for Gordon Brown

Staying with politics and the Mail reports on its front page that

Margaret Thatcher is to be given the ultimate accolade of a State funeral when she reaches the end of her days – the first British Prime Minister since Winston Churchill to be afforded such an honour.
But the possibility of a formal procession could be jeopardised by fears that there are insufficient troops available to line the route because the Armed Forces are so overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Times reports that

Brown plans new curbs on Robert Mugabe

Officials were last night drawing up a “plan B” after Russia and China ambushed Britain at the UN security council in New York. Number 10 hopes the European Union and the United States can draw up a joint agreement that would include a ban on trips abroad for any Zimbabwean linked to Robert Mugabe’s regime and new efforts to freeze the assets of the Zanu-PF leadership.

Gordon Brown will hold urgent talks with European leaders about Zimbabwe today after plans to impose UN sanctions on Robert Mugabe's brutal regime collapsed in disarray

adds the Observer

According to the Telegraph,

Barack Obama has been told that Gordon Brown and David Cameron are prepared to drop all other business to meet him when he travels to Britain later this month.

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The Democratic presidential candidate is due to visit London as part of a major foreign tour of Europe and the Middle East but he has been unable to finalise his itinerary, leaving the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition dangling.

The Independent reports that

West seizes £800m-worth of drugs from Iranian ports

Worsening tension between Iran and the West has been given a new twist by the revelation that the Royal Navy and allied forces have intercepted smuggled narcotics worth more than £800m coming out of Iranian ports. Much of the money, it is claimed, helps to fund the Taliban in Afghanistan.

To the tabloids and the News of the World leads with Hell Fire,

A SHOCK secret police report into the Jersey House of Hell children's home reveals youngsters there WERE murdered then BURNED in a furnace to COVER UP the atrocities.
It's feared island authorities may try to hush up the dossier on Haut de la Garenne orphanage but a source told us: "Officers on this case are in NO DOUBT what went on." Innocent children WERE raped, murdered and their bodies then BURNT in a FURNACE at the Jersey House of Horrors, says a top-secret police report into the scandal

The Mirror turns its attention to Ronnie Wood

VETERAN rocker Ronnie Wood seduced his teenage lover by serenading her with love songs on his guitar, her jilted boyfriend revealed last night.
It led to the 61-year-old Rolling Stone enjoying a series of marathon sex romps with 19-year-old waitress Ekaterina Ivanova – who later bragged that Ronnie was “amazing” in bed.

Banksy uncovered: The nice middle-class boy who 'became the graffiti guerrilla' says the Mail

He is one of the art world’s most famous names – whose graffiti works sell for hundreds of thousands to fans including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
But for years the true identity of the artist Banksy has been a closely guarded secret, known to just a handful of friends.
Now a Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the artist is former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham

The Observer reports that

Football corruption dossier handed over to prosecutors

Police delivered their dossier of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service last Thursday after a two-year investigation. Seven well-known figures are mentioned, including Portsmouth's FA Cup-winning manager Harry Redknapp and the most powerful woman in English football, Birmingham City director Karren Brady. The development threatens to further tarnish football's reputation amid criticism over player wages and agents' fees.

The Telegraph reports that

Primary schools must close or improve

Thousands of underperforming primary schools are to be threatened with closure as part of an unprecedented crackdown by ministers, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.Primaries where fewer than 65 per cent of children reach the expected level in English and maths will be told to improve or face being closed down, merged or in effect taken over by other schools.

The Sunday Mirror reports how,Drug dealers set up £1m skunk factory on posh street

DRUG dealers set up a £1million skunk factory on a posh street – after telling estate agents they were SUSHI CHEFS.
They set up home in a rented £500,000 house – and turned it into a sub-tropical jungle of skunk, an extra-strong version of cannabis.
Police believe the Vietnamese gang managed to shift at least £600,000 worth of skunk in the nine months they used the house and the total value could run into millions

The Sunday Times has an interview with Carla Bruni who amongst manty things tells us

British men have something special that sets them apart from their European counterparts, according to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady – their love of dressing up in women’s clothes.
She added that she liked British men because “they accept their femininity”. Rather than expressing a long-held continental view that many Britons were repressed homosexuals, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, pointed to our theatrical tradition

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Finally the Independent tell us

We've seen the future ... and we may not be doomed

Humanity stands on the threshold of a peaceful and prosperous future, with an unprecedented ability to extend lifespans and increase the power of ordinary people – but is likely to blow it through inequality, violence and environmental degradation. And governments are not equipped to ensure that the opportunities are seized and disasters averted.
So says a massive new international report, due to be published late this month, and obtained by The Independent on Sunday. Backed by organisations ranging from Unesco to the US army, the World Bank to the Rockefeller Foundation, the 2008 State of the Future report runs to 6,300 pages and draws on contributions from 2,500 experts around the globe