Give us a vote on Brown MP's tell cabinet
Dozens of senior Labour MPs including several former ministers are set to write to the Cabinet urging them to force a leadership contest that could topple Gordon Brown. The Daily Telegraph has learnt that a group of moderate MPs are planning a letter addressed to the entire Cabinet setting out the reasons why they are despairing about the problems facing the Labour Party - including Mr Brown's leadership.
The Times reports that a Weakened Gordon Brown gives in to union demands
Gordon Brown has caved in to unions, allowing a series of concessions - including an extension of the minimum wage - in a move that sent shudders through the business community.
Coming days after Labour’s humiliating defeat in the Glasgow East by-election, it also puts pressure on the Prime Minister’s weakened position.
Dave Prentis, the Unison general secretary, hailed the deal as a return to Labour’s “core values
The Independent reports that
The public believe David Cameron and the Conservative Party are ready to govern the country but are still not sure what they stand for, according to a poll carried out by ComRes for The Independent.
A majority of people (53 per cent) think the Tories are ready to govern after the next election, while 37 per cent disagree. Almost one in four Labour voters (23 per cent) agrees. The findings increase the pressure on Gordon Brown as he tries to head off moves by his own party to force him to stand down.
Of the broadshhets only the Guardian looks at a different story,it leads with
Police demand action after pubs ditch drinking code
The drinks industry has torn up a voluntary code banning aggressive happy-hour deals and other irresponsible drinks promotions in more than half of the UK's 57,000 pubs.
The move is expected to trigger an intensification of the alcohol price war in Britain's city centres this summer, despite deep concerns about alcohol abuse.
The police and Alcohol Concern reacted with dismay last night, saying the government needed to step in and abandon self-regulation in the drinks trade.
It as most of the papers reports on the explosions in Istanbul,the paper reports
Turkey's political landscape was plunged further into turmoil last night when two bomb blasts rocked a packed pedestrian square in Istanbul, killing at least 15 people and injuring about 150 in what officials called a "terrorist" attack.
In the deadliest bomb attacks in the country for almost five years, the two explosions detonated within minutes of each other and a few metres apart, set off by devices in rubbish bins in a busy shopping street in Gungoren, a working-class neighbourhood in the west of the city.
The Times adds
Muammer Guler, Istanbul’s Governor confirmed that there had been two explosive devices placed in rubbish bins – a small one, presumably to attract the crowds, and a second, bigger one to cause the maximum number of casualties.
The Independent reports Appeal for calm after 'tinderbox' state is hit by tiffin-box bombers
India leaders have appealed for calm after a series of co-ordinated bombings ripped through Ahmedabad, leaving at least 45 people dead and more than 100 wounded.
The 16 blasts on Saturday evening in the tense and troubled city in the state of Gujarat, which were preceded by emails from a group claiming responsibility, came the day after another series of bombs in India's IT hub, Bangalore.
Some good news on the economy,the Express leads with House Prices to rise by 25%
HOUSE prices will soar by nearly a quarter over the next five years, it was predicted yesterday.
The average value of a home is set to reach £275,000 by 2013, a study says.
The biggest rise is predicted in the South-east where it is estimated that an average property will be worth £365,000 – an increase of nearly 37 per cent compared with the end of last year. A home in London is expected to rise by 15 per cent to almost £410,000
The Mail says
The credit crunch could wipe a third off the value of the housing market and push the economy into recession, according to one of the City's most respected economists.While interest rates are likely to be cut next year, Mr Bootle says there is a 'strong chance' of at least a technical recession - two or more successive quarters of falling economic growth - but warns that 'things could easily be even worse'.
The Independent reports that
The Government is to consider implementing a windfall tax on energy companies after calls by MPs for "urgent" and "fundamental" reforms to cut fuel poverty.
The news comes as British Gas revealed that its 16 million customers could be hit with increases of 20 per cent or more this week when the company's parent, Centrica, announces its latest financial results. EDF Energy, the French group that supplies five million households in the UK, raised its prices by up to 22 per cent on Friday, the equivalent of a £204 increase in the average annual bill to £1,211 for someone buying both gas and electricity from it. Mr Brown said at the weekend that the latest rises were "unacceptable".
The Times reports
US warned of faulty 747 oxygen tanks months before Qantas blast
US aviation authorities warned of problems with oxygen tanks on board Boeing 747s months before the explosion that ripped a hole in a Qantas jumbo jet on Friday, it has emerged.
The US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered thorough checks of US-registered Boeing 747s after a report found many of the oxygen cylinders needed to be replaced
Knife a pal on Facebook says the front page of the Sun
THE uncle of murdered Harry Potter actor Rob Knox last night said Facebook bosses should be arrested for allowing a vile knifing game.
Members of the social networking site have been using a chilling blade icon to virtually “shank” – street slang for stab – other users.
The news comes amid an epidemic of knifings across the country, with tragic Rob, 18, among the victims
The Mail reports 'Mosley ruling a dangerous threat to our morals', says former Archbishop
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey said the motor racing chief's High Court triumph was bleak, deeply flawed and hazardous.
He called the thinking behind the judgment an 'anything goes' philosophy that has stripped any sense of morality from the law. Lord Carey said unspeakable and indecent behaviour was no longer counted as significant by the courts, so public figures could ' have their cake and eat it'.
The Guardian reports that
Channel 4 accused over documentary on Qur'an
It was described as an "exemplary piece of programme making" by an award winning film-maker which launched a week of television coverage of Islam.
But a Channel 4 documentary on the Qur'an has angered a group of leading Shia Muslim scholars, who have criticised it for making "seriously inaccurate statements" about their branch of the faith.
In a letter to Channel 4, they said that the depiction of Shia beliefs in The Qur'an, broadcast earlier this month, was "disappointing, misleading, even defamatory"
The saga of Carol Voorderman continues to dominate the Mirror,Countdown meltdown says the paper
The Telegraph reports that
The Dark Knight continued its record-breaking domination of the box office at the weekend, pulling in another $75 million to take its 10-day US takings to $314 million. This breaks the previous record of 16 days, the time it took Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to reach the $300 million mark in 2006. The Dark Knight now ranks as the second-biggest movie of the year but is only just behind Ironman, another comic book film, which took $315 million. Studio Warner Bros is confident the Dark Knight will hit the $400 million in another eight days.
Finally the Mail is one of many papers that reports on the hot weekend,
How we enjoyed the hottest day of the year... but the clouds are rolling in
Make the most of today's searing sunshine if you get the chance.
Because from tomorrow our pink, peeling noses will be pressed against the window, watching the rain fall down.
The end of the mini heat-wave that has seen thousands out basking and bathing will end tonight, forecasters say.
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