Perhaps the Sun has the lead of the morning with its exclusive that

FILTHY Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross were branded “cruel sickos” last night by the granddaughter of Fawlty Towers legend Andrew Sachs.Furious Georgina Baillie, 23, said they had left the 78-year-old actor “distraught”. And she added: “I want them sacked.”

The Story dominates the papers this morning

Brown turns the heat up on Ross says the Mail

Gordon Brown led a top-level condemnation of the BBC, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand last night.
He described the behaviour of the two presenters as 'offensive and inappropriate'.
The Prime Minister's extraordinary intervention over the lewd calls came as fresh allegations were made about Ross and Brand's conduct towards Andrew Sachs, 78

As does the Telegraph

The intervention of the Prime Minister was viewed at Westminster as a direct challenge to the BBC to discipline or suspend the pair, after the number of complaints from the public about their conduct rose above 10,000.
Mr Brown also accused the BBC of "unacceptable behaviour" as the pressure intensified across the political spectrum for decisive action from the corporation.
His statement marked a significant escalation of the row, which was sparked after Ross and Brand left a series of obscene messages on the answering machine of Mr Sachs, 78, in which they alleged that Brand had slept with his 23-year-old granddaughter Georgina Baillie.

And the Times which headlines,Clamour grows for BBC to act over Russell Brand radio insults

Mark Thompson, the BBC Director-General, maintained his silence on the conduct of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for a third day despite a growing clamour for an explanation as to how pre-recorded taunts directed at Andrew Sachs, the 78-year-old Fawlty Towers actor, went on air.

The other story that takes centre stage is the news that

Man jailed for 30 years for killing British student

Rudy Guede was last night sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering the British student Meredith Kercher last November. Kercher's housemate Amanda Knox and Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were ordered to stand trial in December

reports the Guardian

The Mail adds that

Lawyers for Guede said they would appeal. Under Italian law sentence is not confirmed until a third appeal and meantime Guede can apply to be held under house arrest rather than go to prison.
Meredith's parents John and Arline were in court with her brothers Lyle and John and sister Stephanie as Judge Paolo Micheli returned his verdict.
The judge will make his reasons for sentencing public within the next 60 days and the trial of Knox - who styled herself Foxy Knoxy - and Sollecito will begin on December 4.

THE dad of murdered Meredith Kercher watched her killer caged for 30 years last night, then declared: “Justice has been done.”

reports the Sun

The Independent has a different lead

Porsche in $20bn 'sting'

The sports car giant Porsche has pulled off one of the greatest share killings of all time in a coup that has left some of the world's largest hedge funds nursing combined losses that could total $20bn (£12.6bn).
The vast sum was won and lost in bets on the share price of Volkswagen. While Porsche has been building a secret 74 per cent stake in its rival, the hedge funds have been betting that the shares will fall. The shares soared by 400 per cent in two days, leaving Porsche with a huge profit and the hedge funds – some of which are based in London – with losses that could drive them into bankruptcy

The Telegraph adds that

The €30bn hit is thought to be one of the heaviest losses on a single company's shares ever taken by hedge funds, which have already been hit hard by the turmoil in the markets.
"This is without question the biggest single loss on a single stock in the history of hedge funds. It's a bloodbath," said Laurie Pinto, a broker at North Square Capital, a division of Winterflood.

Brown looks to China to strengthen IMF's hand says the Guardian

Gordon Brown will this weekend call on China and oil-producing countries in the Gulf to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the International Monetary Fund to prevent the global financial "contagion" from destroying vulnerable economies.
As the IMF finalises plans to shore up the Hungarian and Ukrainian economies with combined loans of $29bn, the prime minister will make clear that more needs to be done to ensure the fund can step in to help struggling economies.

The Independent meanwhile reports that

The United States stock market surged more than 10 per cent last night, in a last-minute burst of enthusiasm before what is expected to be a deep cut in US interest rates today. The dramatic move, the second-largest in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, came despite a survey showing consumer confidence at its lowest ebb in decades.

According to the Times

Three murders have allegedly been committed by prisoners let out of jail early under emergency measures introduced by the Government to ease overcrowding.
The latest alleged murder took place earlier this month but was only disclosed to MPs on Monday night in a written parliamentary answer.
A 32-year-old man is in prison in the west Midlands after being charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in a flat earlier this month.

The Guardian leads with Prison fear for relatives who assist suicide

Prosecutors fear a high court judgment today will lead to the first criminal cases against people who helped their terminally ill relatives to die.
They believe that efforts by Debbie Purdy, a terminally ill MS sufferer who has asked the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to clarify the law, could end the practice of turning a blind eye to the growing number of Britons travelling abroad to clinics where they help their relatives die.

Many of the papers report that

Tony Blair earns £12m since leaving Downing Street

The former Prime Minister, who tours the world speaking to audiences including investment banks, private equity firms and chambers of commerce, is now said to be the highest-paid speaker in the world. Since launching himself on the speaking circuit last October, Mr Blair is understood to have earned more from speeches than Bill Clinton, the former US President, did in his first year after leaving the White House.

reports the Times

The Express leads with

OIL giant BP last night faced angry calls to slash fuel prices by 10p a litre after revealing it made a staggering £6.4billion profit in just three months

Oil makes the front of the FT,World will struggle to meet oil demand

Output from the world’s oilfields is declining faster than previously thought, the first authoritative public study of the biggest fields shows.
Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent, the International Energy Agency says in its annual report, the World Energy Outlook, a draft of which has been obtained by the Financial Times.

The Guardian reports on the same theme

The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today.
The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species. As a result, we are running up an ecological debt of $4tr (£2.5tr) to $4.5tr every year - double the estimated losses made by the world's financial institutions as a result of the credit crisis - say the report's authors, led by the conservation group WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund. The figure is based on a UN report which calculated the economic value of services provided by ecosystems destroyed annually, such as diminished rainfall for crops or reduced flood protection.

To the Presidential elections and the Indy reports on McCain's last stand

Ignited by adversity, John McCain reached into his gut at a roof-raising rally in Pennsylvania yesterday to reveal a campaigner unwilling to be bowed by the headwinds of bad poll numbers and whispers of disunity in his camp, appealing to his supporters instead to "stand up, stand up, stand up and fight

civil war breaks out behind John McCain says the Times

A party that only four years ago appeared so disciplined and dominant as it delivered President Bush a second term is now divided in the face of an anticipated rout that may give Democrats unfettered power across Washington.
Mr Bush's legacy — unfinished wars, a tainted reputation for competence, record high spending, a global economic crisis and the effective nationalisation of the financial system — have shaken loose the ideological cement that once bound the Republican party together

Other foriegn news

Iran opens new naval base reports the Guardian

Iran yesterday signalled its intention to extend its military presence in the world's most important oil conduit, opening a new naval base at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and adding weight to its threats to choke off oil supplies, if the Islamic Republic came under attack.
The inauguration of the new base at Jask was announced by Iran's naval commander, Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, who said it represented a new line of defence, blocking the entry of the "enemy" into the Persian Gulf and the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, the gateway through which 40% of the world's traded oil passes each day

The Telegraph reports that

The seven-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson died of multiple gunshot wounds, a post mortem has found.

Witness 'too scared' to give Rhys Jones murder evidence reports the Times

The 16-year-old witness, who cannot be identified but is related to Sean Mercer, 18, of Croxteth, confirmed his name and address via videolink to Liverpool Crown Court but refused to give evidence, saying that he was too scared.

Millionaire property tycoon 'critically ill' after shooting himself in the head as police watched 'bungled suicide bid'reports the Mail

Alan Lintott, 61, put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger after being approached by officers outside his £3million home.
But the shotgun slipped and Mr Lintott suffered severe facial injuries instead

Finally the Express is crowing,its prediction came right

SNOWMEN, sledges and woolly gloves made their winter appearance yesterday as Britain felt the first wave of an Arctic chill.
Icy blasts brought a blanket of snow to huge swathes of the UK – and today the white stuff will fall in many more areas.
Experts said Britain is now colder than Siberia and some areas are likely to experience overnight temperatures as low as -8C (17F). Children in Scotland and Northern Ireland thought Christmas had come early yesterday when a thick covering of snow fell in most areas, including Huntly in Aberdeenshire, and Newtownabbey, County Antrim.