Monday, November 03, 2008


Pictures of Lewis Hamilton dominate the front pages this morning.

The Guardian reports that

In a setting where his idol Ayrton Senna was once worshipped, Lewis Hamilton yesterday achieved the ambition that has gripped him since he was a six-year-old boy playing with a radio-controlled car. At the end of two years in which he has inspired a rare combination of admiration and resentment, Hamilton brought his two-year grand prix career to the first of what may be many climaxes.

An electric storm did its best to dampen Lewis Hamilton's champagne moment in the gathering gloom of the Interlagos paddock on Sunday evening, but he didn't mind the rain
says the Telegraph

The Mail calls him the Highest paid sportsman

Lewis Hamilton will become the world's highest-paid sportsman after becoming the youngest driver to win the Formula One world championship last night.
The 23-year-old Briton can expect to earn a minimum £100million a year following one of the most exciting finales to a race the sport has ever witnessed.
This far eclipses the £31million that David Beckham earned last year and even surpasses the £72million earned this year by Tiger Woods


The Sun says Phew Lou

JUBILANT Lewis Hamilton celebrated his thrilling F1 World Championship victory last night — and admitted: “I need to rest, my heart is on the edge.”
The British race ace became the youngest champion in the sport’s history when he clinched the title aged 23 years and 301 days


The Presidential elections feature in many of the lead stories,the Times reports that

An election campaign that has crackled with historic potential for almost two years against a backdrop of war and economic crisis is reaching its climax. Yesterday Barack Obama forged deep into enemy terrority in a final attempt to sway voters before tomorrow’s election and secure the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House


Obama surges ahead as US prepares to vote says the Independent

Barack Obama is entering the home stretch of the race for the White House with an aggressive foray into traditionally Republican states, a sure indication that his campaign is in far better shape than the doomed efforts of his Democratic predecessors.
Senator Obama's final sprint took him from Colorado and Nevada on to the industrial battleground of Ohio, where the latest Mason Dixon poll shows him leading by47 per cent to 44. Accompanied by Bruce Springsteen, Mr Obama was making a final pitch to white blue-collar voters who make up 45 per cent of the electorate. Ohio is also a make-or-break state for John McCain, since no Republican has won the White House without capturing it.


The Telegraph reports that

A Mason-Dixon survey in Ohio, the state that gave George W. Bush victory in 2004, recorded a surprise two-point advantage for the Republican.
Mr McCain has just finished a two-day bus tour through the state, which the Republican has to win if he is to have a chance.
He is scheduled to visit a staggering seven states today, holding a series of rallies mostly in airport hangers in a bid to hit local television news bulletins


The other main story is the Congo where the Guardian reporfts that

The outline of a desperately needed peace process to end the latest flare-up in the Congo war was emerging last night after Britain and France warned the leaders of Congo and Rwanda that they could be held to account by the rest of the world if the violence continued.
As relief organisations scrambled to secure corridors for the delivery of aid to tens of thousands of people scattered throughout the bush by the rebel offensive in eastern Congo, the foreign secretary, David Miliband, and Bernard Kouchner, his French counterpart, held talks in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, with African Union officials, aimed at drawing up a blueprint for regional peace negotiations.


The Times reports that

United Nations peacekeepers made their first attempt to reach hundreds of thousands of refugees trapped behind rebel lines yesterday as Britain pressed on with its diplomatic efforts to bring peace to eastern Congo.
The head of the peacekeeping mission in the region gave a warning that his forces were dangerously overstretched on four fronts and begged for urgent reinforcements


The Telegraph reports that

The Bank of England faces a chorus of demands to take radical action on interest rates by making a 1 percentage point cut this week to avert the threat of a lengthy recession


Gordon Brown claimed success yesterday in his attempt to persuade Saudi Arabia to help stricken economies by pumping more money into the International Monetary Fund.
“The Saudis will, I think, contribute so we can have a bigger fund worldwide,” he said.
But he has also been warned not to treat Saudi Arabia as a “cash cow” because it already has its own plans to spend the billions generated by the oil price surge.
reports the Times

The Guardian adds

As the prime minister arrived in Qatar on the second leg of his whistlestop Gulf tour last night, the Qataris hinted they would contribute money to an International Monetary Fund bail-out fund - being billed as a "new Bretton Woods" after the initiative of 1944 - the details of which will be thrashed out in Washington on November 15


Brown's £17,000 tax raid on EVERY private pension is the Mails lead

Gordon Brown's tax raid on pension funds has snatched £17,000 from every worker's retirement pot, research says today.
Yet the value of public sector schemes - funded by taxpayers - has soared to an astonishing £1trillion.
Opposition MPs, business chiefs and campaigners demanded an investigation into the growing 'pensions apartheid'.


The Times reports on the case of Double death crash driver is murdered on release from jail

A man stabbed to death yesterday after a gang broke into the house where he was staying had just completed a jail term for killing two friends in a car crash.
Dwayne Ayres, 20, was jailed last year for causing the death of two teenagers after crashing his car into a tree while under the influence of cocaine. Ayres, the father of a 16-month-old boy, was attacked at a house in a quiet residential area of Hook, Hampshire, in the early hours.


According to the Guardian

Senior politicians from all parties are urging the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, to halt the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon unless she receives a guarantee from the US that he will be allowed to serve any sentence imposed in Britain.
The former home secretary David Blunkett is among those who believe that, because McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, he should be immediately repatriated if convicted


The Express claims that Fruit and Veg prices are to triple,according to the paper

HARD-pressed families’ fruit and vegetable bills will triple under controversial EU plans being decided this week.
The number of crops grown in Britain is set to be slashed if bureaucrats give the go-ahead, experts warned last night.
That would inevitably mean rocketing prices for staple foods such as potatoes, peas, broccoli and cauliflowers.


The Independent reports on the case of the The gigolo, the German heiress, and a £6m revenge for her Nazi legacy

The English version of the Abruzzo country hotel's website promises, "Nurture, well-being and elegant relaxation await you at the Rifugio 'Valle Grande' Country House ... surrounded by a vast private forest at the foot of the beautiful historic Mount Queglia. According to tradition, this is the site where the Italic tribes swore their oath against Rome in 90 BC."
But Italian police say it is also the site where two of the most outrageous fraudsters in recent Italian history retired to count the millions in blackmail takings they had extorted from a lonely German billionairess, to bury at least €2m (£1.6m) in the hotel grounds, and to launder much of the rest into new luxury cars including a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Rolls-Royce.


Although the story has moved off the front pages it is still rumbling around and the Telegraph reports that

BBC 'overpaid and out of touch', says David Cameron

The Conservative leader warned that "the BBC has become oversized and over-reached itself" and that "it's time for a change", signalling that a future Tory government would act to reduce salaries and cut the licence fee.
In a newspaper article, Mr Cameron wrote that the "sick telephone calls" made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to Andrew Sachs affair had shown that "the BBC has lost touch with the values of the people who support it through the licence fee."


The Mail reports that

Unruly school pupils will be punished with... a foot massage

Pupils who create mayhem in the classroom are to face a punishment that will make them quake in their shoes.
They will be asked to slip off their socks before being given a foot massage designed to control their unruly behaviour.
Medical experts say there is little evidence that such treatment can improve the behaviour of young tearaways
.

The Express reports that

THE Queen has ordered steps to be taken to prevent Baroness Thatcher disrupting her schedule on Remembrance Sunday.
The order follows a row over protocol at last year’s Cenotaph commemorations.
Sources in Whitehall have revealed that the Queen was furious at being kept waiting by Lady Thatcher, when the former prime minister was centre of attention on the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict.



And finally the Sun reports that

THE girl at the centre of the BBC sick calls row went back on the road with her raunchy dance troupe — and flopped in front of just 30 people.
Georgina Baillie, the grand-daughter of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs, who Russell Brand boasted of bedding, took to the stage in a seedy club at 12.30am yesterday.
But the Satanic Sluts performed for just ten minutes and barely raised an eyebrow despite their revealing outfits.

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