One story dominates the front pages,

A whispered thank-you and Barry George walks free says the Guardian

With a whispered "thank you, my lord," to the judge, the man who has spent the last seven years in prison for the murder in 1999 of BBC television presenter Jill Dando yesterday left the dock in court one of the Old Bailey, a free man.Barry George was found not guilty by a unanimous verdict announced by the jury foreman, following 13 hours of deliberation and an eight-week trial. His eyes filled with tears as he heard the verdict and there were cheers from his relatives in court. For Scotland Yard, the decision was a devastating blow in what had always been a perplexing case.

George not guilty: so who did kill Jill Dando?

The acquittal came shortly after 2pm, when the jury returned to the Old Bailey's Court No 1 after two days of deliberation. As the verdict was read out there were cries of relief from the public gallery. Mr George's eyes welled with tears. He turned first to Dr Susan Young, the psychiatrist who had sat in the dock with him throughout the trail, then waved at his sister, Michelle Diskin, who was sitting in the public gallery.

Innocent says the Mail

Miss Dando's family now have to face the grim probability that her murder will never be solved.

adding

The 37-year-old Crimewatch presenter was shot in the head on April 26, 1999 as she arrived at her home in Fulham, West London.
In the year before George was arrested many theories emerged.
Was the killing done by a vengeful underworld Mr Big, jailed after one of her Crimewatch programmes?

So who did kill Jill asks the Sun

BARRY George walked free over the murder of TV’s Jill Dando yesterday — despite being a rapist who stalked Princess Diana and was obsessed with blonde stars.
And the verdict at a retrial left the unanswered question: “If George did not kill the Crimewatch presenter, who did?”

and the Telegraph says

Jill Dando’s family face the agony of never knowing who killed her after Barry George was dramatically cleared of her murder

adding that

The Metropolitan Police, who described the verdict as “disappointing”, said they would carry out a review of the evidence but they have no other suspects and the case seems unlikely to be reopened

The Times says loner cleared of JIll Dando killing set for £1m award

Barry George is free to seek more than £1 million compensation as the victim of a miscarriage of justice after being cleared yesterday of the murder of the Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando.
The Times has learnt that the Government has not yet implemented laws passed four months ago that would have capped his claim for damages at £500,000.

The Express also leads with the same headline

The 48-year-old convicted sex offender spent eight years behind bars and is likely to receive at least £500,000 compensation, plus a similar amount from a media bidding war for his story.

Back to the other main news of the week and the Independent reports that

Brown plans cabinet reshuffle

All ministers are being told by Downing Street to return from holiday early next month. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has already cancelled a visit provisionally arranged for that time.
The Prime Minister's instruction to be in London signals that a wide-ranging ministerial reshuffle is likely as early as 1 or 2 September. It would be followed by a meeting of the Cabinet where the new ministers hammer out a series of policy initiatives designed to win back disillusioned voters.

The Telegraph adds

The Prime Minister had been wrestling with an early shake-up of his ministerial ranks even before the unsettling events of the past week which included the loss of a safe Labour seat in Scotland and the intervention of David Miliband which was seen as an early leadership bid.
But the turmoil created by those two events has stiffened his resolve to bring in new faces to his Cabinet.

Scramble to rescue £12bn deal for nuclear plants reports the Times

Ministers are fighting to salvage a £12 billion deal to secure Britain’s future as a nuclear power producer after rebel shareholders blocked the sale of British Energy to the French company EDF at the eleventh hour.
John Hutton, the Business Secretary, was furious that British Energy’s board refused to recommend a bid from EDF after two key shareholders rejected the deal, arguing that it undervalued their shares

7/7 bombing retrial likely after jury discharged reports the Guardian

Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32 - the first and only people to be tried in connection with the explosions on London's transport network that killed 52 people in 2005 - are likely to face a retrial over the allegation that they undertook a "hostile reconnaissance mission" in the capital to explore potential targets seven months earlier.

The Mail reports that 'Lost MI5 fax could have stopped 7/7'

A chance to stop the 7/7 bombers may have been missed when a secret services fax to police went missing.
A damning report is expected to reveal that the MI5 document, sent to West Yorkshire police, raised suspicions about ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and accomplice Shehzad Tanweer.

British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban says the Telegraph

according to the former commander of Britain's forces in Afghanistan. Brig. Ed Butler, who spent six months commanding British forces in Afghanistan, also revealed fears that militant Islamic groups in south-east Asia are supporting terrorist plots in the UK.

The Times reports that Chief suspect in US anthrax attacks, Bruce Ivins, found dead

A top government scientist who helped to investigate America's deadly 2001 anthrax attacks has killed himself just as he was about to be charged in the case, in an extraordinary and unexpected twist to the biggest criminal investigation in US history.
Bruce Ivins, 62, who had worked for 18 years at the US Government's biodefence research laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, died from an overdose of painkillers after being told that the Justice Department was about to charge him over the attacks, which brought fresh terror to the US days after the September 11 atrocity

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No chance of a fair trial, Karadzic says reports the Guardian

No one on earth believes in the possibility of an acquittal," Karadzic argued in a four-page statement which he was prevented from reading to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Thursday at a pre-trial hearing. "Others from President Clinton's team ... are in a hurry to see me dead."

The Times reports that

Hillary Clinton’s hopes of becoming America’s next vice-president were fading yesterday after it emerged that she will address Barack Obama’s nominating convention this month – but on the night before his running-mate is scheduled to speak.

and adds

Aides to Mrs Clinton, who has made it clear that she would take the job if asked, say that she will make a speech at the Democratic convention in Denver on August 26, and not on the Wednesday night when the vice-presidential nominee is due to appear. Although Mr Obama still insists that Mrs Clinton would be “on anybody’s shortlist”, the timing of her speech indicates that he is looking elsewhere.

The Telegraph stays on the subject of the election

McCain's 'bullet' leads the assault on Barack Obama

Senator John McCain's switch to an aggressive strategy towards his rival Senator Barack Obama has been orchestrated by a shaven-headed former operative in the Bush administration known as "The Bullet".

The Mail asks Were Antigua honeymoon couple victims of isle's executioner?

Police investigating the murder of newlywed Catherine Mullany are probing possible links between her killing and a recent execution-style shooting in Antigua.
Police commissioner Gary Nelson said there were similarities between Mrs Mullany's murder and the death of a Syrian man on the island in June.
Tony Louisa, 46, was found face down in a pool of blood in his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.

Brazil suitcase murder: 'Killer was high on cocaine' says the Telegraph

I don't remember much," Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos said in an interview through the bars of his jail cell. "I had used too much drugs."
Police say the 20-year-old had already confessed to killing the 17-year-old on July 25 before cutting up her body because she threatened to tell Santos' parents he was a drug dealer and addicted to cocaine.

The Sun reports from Rape alley

IT was once a peaceful fishing village, then an upmarket family resort – but today it is ruled by drunken young Brits.
Shameless pairs have sex in public, hooligans brawl over a wrong look, girls parade in underwear, youngsters down cheap booze until they vomit and drunken teens menace the narrow streets on quad bikes.
Welcome to Laganas on the Greek island of Zante, the latest holiday destination to fall foul of Brits abroad in the wake of now-notorious troublespots Ayia Napa and Faliraki.

WHY CHILDREN DON’T LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEA reports the Express

PARENTS planning day trips during the summer holidays have been sent a message from the kids. Don’t bother.
Almost 70 per cent of students say they hated family days out as youngsters and wished their parents had left them to amuse themselves.
Top of the hate list were visits to the Natural History Museum (or any museum) closely followed by days out in Blackpool or Bognor Regis and, almost as bad, trips to see distant relatives.

The Guardian reports on the world's first double arm transplant

A German farmer who lost both arms in an accident has been fitted with two new limbs in the first double arm transplant, his surgeons said yesterday.
Reiner Gradinger, medical director at the Munich University clinic, said doctors spent 15 hours on July 25 and 26 grafting the new limbs on to the 54-year-old man, whose arms were severed just below the shoulder in the accident in 2002.

Finally the Times reports how Solar eclipse awes spectators across the globe

From the wastes of Siberia to the deserts of western China, thousands of people turned out to watch the solar eclipse as it swept across the earth.
The eclipse began in arctic Canada, when the moon first came between the earth and the sun. The shadow then passed across northern Greenland to Russia, where soon after 1000 GMT yesterday darkness descended on the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Birds fell silent and the temperature dropped suddenly. An eerie wind blew through the assembled throng.