Corfugate continues to dominate the front pages of the Sunday's

Lord Mandelson denies 'favours' for Russian oligarch reports the Telegraph

The new Business Secretary has come under growing pressure to come clean over his full links to the billionaire.
Lord Mandelson, who has twice been forced to resign from the Cabinet, was in the embarrassing position of having his integrity questioned again after he admitted yesterday that he had misled the public just days into his new role.

Mandelson oligarch Oleg Deripaska linked to mafia boss says the Times

The Russian oligarch who gave hospitality to Peter Mandelson is this weekend revealed to have been linked to the former boss of one of Russia’s most powerful criminal gangs.
A High Court judgment details the alleged social and business links between Oleg Deripaska and Anton Malevsky, a Russian mobster. Malevsky was then reputedly the head of an organised crime gang and his brother Andrei had a 10% stake in Deripaska’s company.

A final favour says the Independent complete with a sinister picture of Lord Mandleson's eyes

Peter Mandelson's last act as European Trade Commissioner was to advocate new trade rules that will directly benefit the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Less than a month ago, in one of his final speeches before being recalled to the Cabinet and after he accepted hospitality on the Russian's yacht, Lord Mandelson announced a new EU trade strategy giving multinational companies freer access to raw materials, including scrap aluminium and natural minerals used in the production of the metal.

Tories face call to repay Rothschild £1m loan reports the Observer

An Observer investigation has found that the party has benefited from a £1m loan from Lady Victoria de Rothschild, made via a 'non-trading' company that conducts no business and has had no other function in its four-year history than to lend the Tories money.
Documents filed with the Electoral Commission show the party received the loan for £1,014,000 from a company called Ironmade Ltd on 1 June 2005 and is not due to pay it off until 2010

On a slightly different note the News of the World claims that

THE hunger to hob-nob with the super-rich that landed George Osborne in such trouble this week came as no surprise to the vice queen who knew him well in his formative years.
For dominatrix Natalie Rowe saw at first hand the desperate longing of a gauche Oxford student struggling to fit in with the fabulously wealthy like university pal Nat Rothschild

Meanwhile the American elections are almost upon us and the Independent says

McCain can still win (And maybe pigs will fly)

The place alone said it all. Just 12 days before the US was to vote in an election that not long ago promised to be a squeaker, Barack Obama was addressing 35,000 people packed into a square in downtown Indianapolis, capital of a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1964.
Indiana was the last stop before he broke off campaigning to travel to Hawaii to say a final goodbye to his beloved grandmother, so ill she might not survive to witness the incredible moment when, if polls are correct, an African-American wins the presidency. Some inevitably saw the gesture as a political ploy, to underline the importance he attaches to family, and to remind wavering voters of the white side of his ancestry. One thing, however, is certain. Had this election had been on a knife edge, he would never have made the trip.

The Telegraph says that

John McCain has read the riot act to members of his own campaign staff for their defeatist attitude, making clear that they must join him in fighting all out to win the presidential election.

Republicans fear long exile in the wilderness says the Observer

In America's conservative heartland the talk now is not just of a win for Obama. With the Democrats poised for gains in the Senate and the House, moderate Republicans fear a wipeout that would leave their party in the grip of evangelicals increasingly out of touch with the public. Could the country be on the brink of change as deep as that ushered in by Reagan

To the impending recession and the Times reports that

Banks and credit card companies are exploiting obscure legal powers to seize the homes of thousands of people who cannot pay their credit card bills.
In some cases, people owing as little as £1,000 have been served with charging orders – the legal instrument enabling a creditor to order the sale of a property.
The practice has emerged days after Yvette Cooper, chief secretary to the Treasury, called on banks to do more to allow people to keep their homes.

The Telegraph says that

Plans by Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, to spend his way out of the recession facing Britain have been branded "misguided" by 16 leading economists.In a letter to today's Sunday Telegraph the group argues that Mr Darling's public works programme, based on the interventionist policies put forward by John Maynard Keynes in the last century, is too risky.

Almost four in five British businesses are cutting back on everything from hiring new staff to paying for the office Christmas party, as they batten down the hatches for a deep recession.
Even before Friday's official figures revealed that the economy had swung into reverse for the first time since 1992, bosses had begun a series of austerity measures, according to a survey of more than 1,000 firms by the Institute of Directors

says the Observer

The Mail meanwhile reports that

A supermarket price war has broken out over lobsters - with stores offering recession-hit families the chance to enjoy the luxury shellfish for just £4.99 each.
Cut-price chain Lidl last night said its bargain-priced 375g pre-cooked 'credit-crunch crustaceans' were 'flying off the shelves' and may soon run out.

The Express leads with Brown's £50m ghost workers

TAXPAYERS are bankrolling an invisible army of civil servants in Whitehall who have no jobs but still draw a salary.
Up to £1million a week is spent supporting the ghost jobs of more than 1,700 redundant workers who are placed in a Priority Talent Pool and keep getting paid until a plum new post comes up.
Despite Gordon Brown’s declaration of war on Whitehall waste the number of phantom employees has trebled in a year, pushing the total annual bill for taxpayers to £50million.

The Mirror carries the story of the

A QUEEN’S Guardsman dying of cancer was chased to the grave by a mortgage firm as he battled to save the family home from repossession.
Stuart Bingley, 44, who completed tours in Northern Ireland, Kenya and Cyprus and served the Queen at Buckingham Palace, was struck down with two inoperable cancers and given just months to live.

SNP victory fears force Brown to join by-election push says the Independent

Gordon Brown broke one of his self-imposed rules of political prudence yesterday when he joined a by-election campaign for the first time since becoming Prime Minister. He made a carefully controlled lunchtime appearance in Glenrothes, as his party claimed it was the underdog in what has traditionally been a safe Labour seat.

The same paper reports that

Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.
The documents – minutes of a series of private meetings of representatives of 27 governments – disclose plans to "speed up" the introduction of the modified crops and foods and to "deal with" public resistance to them.

Meanwhile the Observer says that Flagship eco-town plan falters in tough climate

Gordon Brown's flagship plan to build a string of environmentally friendly 'eco-towns' across Britain has been dealt a critical blow, with only two of the 10 sites promised now expected to be built.The model green communities, where residents would be able to do without cars and grow their own food on allotments, were billed as the most imaginative answer to putting roofs over heads in half a century. But the plans are now in jeopardy thanks to a combination of the credit crunch, a collapsing construction industry and fierce local opposition

The Mail leads with news that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross could face prosecution after obscene on air phone calls to Fawlty Towers actor, 78

The controversial presenters left a series of lewd messages on Mr Sachs’s answerphone claiming, in shockingly explicit language, that Brand had had sex with his granddaughter, Georgina.
Mr Sachs, who played waiter Manuel in the classic sitcom, was left deeply upset by the crude calls – which were also broadcast to about two million listeners to Brand’s Radio 2 show. And Georgina’s distraught mother, Kate, said last night: ‘It’s awful.’

The News of the World also has a broad casting story,the paper says that

THE BBC is embroiled in a furious race row over talented BLACK celebs being booted off Strictly Come Dancing while WHITE stars with “two left feet” stay in.
Complaints have flooded into the BBC’s website in their hundreds since last weekend’s “unfair” dance-off between the 2008 show’s ONLY two black contestants.

The Telegraph reports that

Campaigners have claimed that swearing on television is "out of control" after a Sunday Telegraph investigation found widespread use of expletives in programmes broadcast just after the watershed.The findings brought calls to curb the use of bad language on air and allegations that broadcasters are ignoring public opinion.
In the investigation, 25 programmes shown on the five terrestrial television channels between October 17 and October 23 were monitored for their use of swear words. All started between 9pm, the official watershed, and 10.35pm

Survivors retirn form a month of hell reports the Observer

The Taliban called it the 'mouth of hell', the tiny British fort in southern Afghanistan they relentlessly attacked throughout the summer. Today, the last paratroopers who defended its remote ramparts return home but, as ever with war, the cost has been great. Of the 160 men who manned Forward Operating Base Gibraltar, almost one in three was killed or wounded, a higher casualty rate than that suffered by British soldiers during the Second World War.

The Times reports that

Two men, one of them British, were shot dead in the centre of Kabul yesterday amid rising tension caused by a series of attacks including the assassination of a British charity worker. David Giles, 42, from Hull, and Jason Bresler, a South African, worked for DHL, the international courier company and were arriving at the company’s offices in the morning when the shootings took place. An Afghan security guard was also killed.

The Telegraph meanwhile looks to another war

Next month marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, a conflict which consumed the lives of more than 20 million soldiers and civilians. Today just a handful of men who served and fought in the war survive. Sean Rayment profiles the last two British men who fought in the conflict.

Many of the papers report that

Chicago police were last night searching for the missing seven-year-old nephew of the Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson, and questioning the star's former brother-in-law on suspicion of the double murder of her mother and brother in the family home.
The star's publicist yesterday pleaded for her to be left alone to come to terms with the tragedy at the house on Chicago's South Side, the place that she always said kept her grounded while her career took off. Her mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, who was in the audience in Hollywood last year as Hudson collected the Oscar for best supporting actress in Dreamgirls, was found shot dead in the living room on Friday afternoon, and 29-year-old Jason Hudson was found shot in the bedroom. Julian King, the son of Hudson's sister Julia, has not been seen since, and police issued details of two cars in which he may have been abducted.

says the Independent

Super sat navs will tick drivers off for their errors reports the Times

A new generation of in-car navigation systems will take sat nav from being simply an electronic mapping device to being a driving instructor, telling motorists when to change gear, at what speed to take a corner and even how to drive more economically.
The systems, due to be installed in cars within three years, will present detailed three-dimensional images of the road ahead showing obstructions, gradients and narrow stretches – potentially saving country lanes from the curse of misdirected lorries

The Mail reports on the relationship counsellor who was

sacked from Relate ... just because I'm a Christian who refused to give sex advice to gay couples

Gary McFarlane, a father of two who has worked for the national counselling service Relate since 2003, says that it failed to accommodate his faith or allow him to try to overcome his reservations.
Now Mr McFarlane, 47, is taking his case to an employment tribunal, alleging unfair dismissal on the grounds of religious discrimination

Finally the Independent follws up a story from earlier in the week

On the trail of the mystery Meriden Avenue catnapper

Stourbridge in the West Midlands looks like a feline haven – so why are the local moggies vanishing?The truth is out there, somewhere. Cats have gone missing in a feline West Midlands version of The X Files. Following their trail yesterday led us to strong rumours that Lily, Gizmo, Norman and the rest have been victims not of a catnapper but of a killer.

the paper adds that

Screeches have been heard at night."
This sinister, ahem, tail was treated as a bit of a joke when it broke nationally last week. One tabloid newspaper sent a reporter dressed as Sylvester the cat; another had its man wearing a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker and carrying an oversized magnifying glass. The Independent on Sunday dangled a few sprats over the fences yesterday, but to no effect. It was eerie. Normally there would have been black and white cats, ginger toms and tabbies prowling among the large, semi-detached homes in Meriden Avenue or stalking birds in the gardens, but our extensive investigation discovered just one. Was it terrified? Not being a pet psychologist, it was hard to say. Cats are unfathomable at the best of times. But the distress of cat owners was more obvious.