
The problems for Gordon Brown continues on the front pages
Blairites plot to hasten Gordon Brown’s exit says the Times
Gordon Brown’s enemies are preparing to accelerate a campaign for his removal from No 10 after he was left weakened by David Miliband’s move to stake a claim as Labour’s next leader.
Blairite ex-ministers including Charles Clarke and Stephen Byers will hold talks this week to decide on the timing of a series of statements and policy initiatives that they have prepared. The group, working with Cabinet ministers and senior party figures, is preparing to keep up the pressure on the Prime Minister by challenging him on policy issues throughout this month. They hope that this will boost Mr Miliband, who called for a “radical new phase” of the Labour Party last week.
Brown has until end of month to save himself says the Independent
The "crunch" will come at the end of the month, when, dissenters warn, the embattled Prime Minister must return invigorated from his Southwold holiday and subsequent five-day visit to the Beijing Olympics with a clear strategy for turning around his Government's ebbing fortunes. Failure to offer arresting initiatives would see him pressured out of office in a cabinet revolt.
The Telegraph lead with Government's green car tax plans in disarray
The damning verdict of the Environmental Audit Committee, on the proposals to increase road taxes next year, will now lead to even greater pressure on the Prime Minister to abandon the controversial measure.
The rise in road tax offered "little benefit" to the environment and gave green taxes "a bad name", the MPs said.
The Guardian takes a different topic
Archbishop blames liberals for church rift
On the final day of the Lambeth conference, a 10-yearly gathering of the world's Anglican bishops, Rowan Williams said practices in certain US and Canadian dioceses were threatening the unity of the Anglican communion.
The same paper reports on its front page that 145 killed in India temple stampede
Officials said most of the people died of suffocation at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh. Tens of thousands of pilgrims had converged on the remote temple, about 90 miles from the state capital of Shimla, to celebrate Shravan Navratras, a nine-day festival that honours the Hindu goddess Shakti, or divine motheradding
the stampede yesterday that was apparently sparked by rumours of a landslide at a Himalayan hill shrine in northern India.
The Independent reports that Nine die in worst-ever K2 climbing disaster
At least nine climbers have died on the world's most dangerous mountain after a series of incidents led to chaos on the slopes of K2. Officials say a number of other climbers are missing and that the death toll could rise. In what was described as one of the blackest weekends in mountaineering, six of the climbers were struck by an avalanche while descending from the summit of the mountain, the second highest after Everest. Three more died in separate incidents.
Together again says the Sun
SHOT honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany are set to be reunited — in a tragic joint funeral.
Ben, 31, died yesterday, a week after bride Catherine was killed at their hotel in Antigua.
Their funeral is likely to be at the South Wales church where they wed three weeks ago. Ben’s life support machine was turned off after his devastated parents Marilyn and Kenneth were told there was no hope he could survive.
The Mirror asks Did he kill them
The Times meanwhile reports that
A British woman has described how she was raped at gunpoint after her husband was kicked senseless by an intruder at their villa in the Caribbean.
The young, masked attacker slipped into their privately rented holiday home on St Lucia looking for jewellery, cash and gifts. The retired professional couple, now safely home in Britain, say that they have wept in private every day since the ordeal.
They decided to speak out to warn other Britons planning holidays in the West Indies in the wake of the shooting of the honeymoon couple Catherine and Ben Mullany on Antigua. The British and US Governments have warned travellers to St Lucia to beware of violent crime after several rapes and robberies by gun-men preying on tourists.
Bins on the front of the Mail which reports Families who break the bin rules and overfill will get a £110 fine
Householders who put too much rubbish in their bins face tougher punishments than shoplifters and drunken louts.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has backed on-the-spot fines of up to £110 for those who overfill their bins, leave them out too early, or put out extra sacks of rubbish alongside them.
The price of defying rubbish regulations is £30 higher than the £80 fixed penalty fine given to shoplifters or those involved in drunken disorder in city centres.
Many of the papers have a tearful Michael Vaughan on their front pages
English cricket's national performance centre at Loughborough has never seen a performance like yesterday's. It was an emotional and deeply moving farewell from a palpably decent man. Sitting only 20 yards from a poster of himself kissing the Ashes urn he had so memorably won in 2005, he paused a few times in his resignation announcement to fight back the tears that welled within him.says the Guardian
The Telegraph reports
Choking back emotion not normally associated with this captain of cool, Vaughan twice broke down in tears when talking about his family. He will play on, in the ranks as he puts it, and try to win back his Test place through weight of runs. But with Paul Collingwood also resigning as England’s one-day captain, and with Marcus Trescothick having recently retired from international cricket for family reasons, is the game in danger of overburdening the best players?
The Express leads with Holidays for £2
HARD-PRESSED families got some holiday cheer last night as Britain’s biggest tour operator announced sunshine breaks for just £2 a night..
Thomson Holidays will charge £14 for seven days self-catering in Greece and Turkey.
Even the family-friendly Balearic island of Menorca is available for £4 a night or £28 for a week
The Telegraph warns of
terror attack warning for restaurants and cinemas the paper has learnt
that the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, a specialist police unit, is drawing up guidance for hospitality and entertainment sites as part of a drive to prepare for terrorist attacks on crowded public places.
Big hotels will also be covered by the new "protective security guidance" to prepare for attacks including car bombs and suicide bombs.
The end of playtime? asks the Independent
Play time is over for children, with up to half of youngsters banned from climbing trees, playing conkers or riding their bikes by over-protective parents who are terrified that they might get hurt.
ICM research for Play England shows that half of seven to 12-year-olds are banned from climbing trees. Four in 10 were banned from playing in their local park or recreational area without an adult present and one in three cannot ride a bike without parental supervision.
The Mail reports that Richard Dawkins blames Muslims for 'importing creationism' into classrooms
Professor Richard Dawkins argued that as a result teachers were promoting the 'mythology' of creationism over the science of evolution.
Professor Dawkins, a geneticist and author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, said: 'Islam is importing creationism into this country.
Taliban Terror tots reports the Sun
BOYS as young as five practise with AK-47 rifles to fight British troops in Afghanistan.
The shocking image of the kids training at an al-Qaeda terror camp in Pakistan shows them learning how to use the assault rifles.
Others show a boy nodding after he is asked if he is prepared to “die for Allah” — and boys in camouflage uniforms and headbands who say: “There is no God but Allah.”
Finally many of the papers report Cadbury brings back Wispa bar
Cadbury is bringing back the Wispa chocolate bar after a campaign on social networking websites demanded its return.The chocolate company said 20 million bars were sold in seven weeks during a trial limited run last year.
The project to bring back the aerated chocolate bar has seen thousands join groups on sites such as Facebook and MySpace dedicated to its return
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