Russia's threats towards Poland share the front pages with pictures of the Olympics.

Russia threatened Poland with a nuclear strike yesterday as the ripples of the Caucasus conflict spread through Europe and pitched West against East along new borders.
In a chilling echo of the Cold War, Russia gave warning that Poland was “exposing itself to a strike — 100 per cent” after signing a deal with the US to set up a missile shield on Polish soil.

reports the Times

The Guardian reporting that

As Washington accused Russia of "bullying and intimidation" in Georgia and demanded an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from the small Black Sea neighbour, Russia's deputy chief of staff turned on Warsaw and said it was vulnerable to a Russian rocket attack because of Thursday's pact with the US on the missile defence project

The Telegraph meanwhile says that

Russia has defied a ceasefire agreement concluded in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and moved more troops into advanced positions deep inside Georgia.

and adds

Despite a firm warning from the United States that Russian forces must withdraw and a Kremlin statement Moscow would "faithfully" abide by the terms of a ceasefire, military operations continued

We'll nuke Poland says the front of the Sun

Gen Anatoly Nogovitsy lashed out after Poland agreed to help the US create a “missile shield” over Europe. He said: “Poland is making itself a target. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority.”Gen Nogovitsy stressed Moscow was ready to use nuclear weapons “against allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them”. Russia is furious Poland has said the US can put an interceptor base and a battery of Patriot missiles on its territory.

The Independent looks forward to a golden day at the Olympics

Britain expects: The £265m gamble worth its weight in gold

From the early hours of this morning Britain has good reasons to expect its greatest weekend of sport; a surge of world-beating prowess on land and water that could net its athletes up to nine gold medals.
British sport has found a vein of Olympic gold here that is stretching all the way from old Beijing to the waters of Shanghai – where Ben Ainslie leads the chase for victory.

The Guardian says that

Britain's love affair with its Olympic cycling team reached a new level last night when Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy won the gold medal in the team sprint event at the Laoshan velodrome. Their success followed Nicole Cooke's victory in the women's road race and Emma Pooley's silver in the time trial, and is likely to be followed by several other medals on the track over the next four days.

The Express reports on a holiday air strike hell for millions

STRIKES by airport workers will condemn millions of holidaymakers to chaos this month.
Two 24-hour stoppages by baggage handlers and check-in staff are set to bring the airport system to a halt. Staff at Gatwick and Stansted have already agreed to the walkouts on August 25 – Bank Holiday Monday – and Friday, August 29.

And staying with air travel the Telegraph reports that

The chairman of Britain's largest airport owner has said he expects the Competition Commission to order the break-up of the company and the sale of at least two of its airports in London and Scotland.

The Mail leads with Middle-class homes crisis:

Middle Britain is suffering a repossessions crisis - with the number of homes at risk at its highest level since the 1990s slump.

The number of court cases launched to take back homes was 39,078 in the second three months of the year, the highest figure since 1992.
And the courts granted 28,568 repossession orders, an increase around 25 per cent up on the same period last year

According to the Times

Courts are having to delay adoption hearings and personal injury claims to deal with a surge in mortgage repossessions.
County courts in England and Wales issued 28,658 repossession orders between April and June as banks and building societies clamped down on borrowers who fell behind with mortgage payments. The volume of repossessions, up 24 per cent on the same period last year to the highest level since 1992, at the end of the last recession, has alarmed judges

Many of the papers report

Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain's worsening "obesity epidemic", council leaders have warned.
One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes.

The Guardian reports that

Sex assaults: Police accused of adopting 'Life on Mars' attitude

A senior adviser to the government has told the Guardian that in some parts of England and Wales cases which did not fall into the classic "stranger rape" category - such as those where the woman was drunk or was attacked by her partner - were being dismissed by officers with a "Life on Mars" attitude mirroring that of the 1970s TV detectives.

The Mirror reports that

Nearly 40,000 innocent children have been put on the DNA database for life, it was revealed last night.
It fuels fears the Government is building up its enormous store of genetic profiles "by stealth". The figure slipped out during a written Parliamentary answer by Home Office minister Meg Hillier.
She said 303,393 children had had their profiles put on the database following their arrest.

The Telegraph reveals that

David Cameron launches secret mission to win over trade unions

The Conservative leader has held privately talks with the head of the TUC while party officials have met with the unions more than sixty times since the spring.
The trade unions have also been asked to help draw up opposition policy, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The initiative mirrors Tony Blair's so-called "prawn cocktail" offensive to win more support among business leaders in the early 1990s.

The Mail is back onto its favourite subject

Binmen barricaded by angry neighbours after refusing to pick up backlog of rubbish

After industrial action left them without a rubbish collection for a month, the families of Birks Road were delighted to see the council lorry finally arrive.
But their relief turned to anger when the binmen announced that, while they would empty the households' wheelie bins, they would not take any loose bags which had piled up.
Two weeks later, they were still refusing to take away all the rubbish. And at this point, the quiet cul-de-sac in Huddersfield suddenly became a street under siege.

Capita moves to take over £156m Sats contract after US firm is fired reports the Guardian

ETS Europe has been ordered to pay back £24.1m of nearly £40m it received to run the testing process and stripped of the £156m five-year deal after its handling of the test results collapsed. Government agencies will now oversee the delivery of the last 30,000 results and the appeal process. ETS has been banned from contacting schools directly.

and adds

Teacher unions cast doubt on whether a new contract could be awarded in time to deliver next year's Sats to 1.2m pupils in England, and called on ministers to take the opportunity to overhaul the system.

The Sun reveals that

A VICE madam ran a ring of high-class hookers dubbed Gucci Girls for A-list clients including TV hosts, married judges and politicians.
Blonde Ramune Miniaskiene registered her business for TAX and earned £1.5million in just ten months before she was busted.
Yesterday, after she was handed a six-month suspended jail term, her clients were praying their names would not leak out.

The Premier League starts today and the Mirror reports that

Pubs ditch Sky Premier League football in credit crunch cuts

Thousands of struggling pub landlords are ditching Sky's Premiership football service, claiming the soaring costs is crippling them.
With the new season kicking off today, industry insiders say the number of bars now showing live matches has plummeted by 6,000 since 2003.
Pub bosses claim Sky's high prices, coupled with high rents and an increase in the cost of booze, is forcing them to get rid of the service.

Finally tonight is a full moon andThe Express reports that

THE full moon may cause people to suffer symptoms similar to those of a stroke, experts believe.
The number of people treated for mystery numbness and co-ordination loss rises significantly on full-moon nights – like tonight.
And although there is no permanent damage, the symptoms can at first seem like those of a stroke.