Sunday's papers

Banks and Jade Goody are the themes of the Sunday papers.

The Telegraph leads with the story that Lloyds banking group has drawn up plans to pay about £120 million in bonuses to staff even as it teeters on the brink of majority state ownership,

The Times reveals that Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) hired top sports stars on “reckless” contracts to entertain clients as part of a £200m sponsorship binge.The paper adds that

Sir Fred Goodwin, the bank’s former chief executive, agreed contracts of up to five years just weeks before he was ousted last October.

The Express also leads with the story reporting that

The shamed bank admitted last night it was continuing to pour cash into the world’s richest sport through sponsorship of the Williams Formula One team, despite needing billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to stave off collapse.

The lead in the Independent cliaims that The HBOS whistleblower is about to release a tranche of documents which he says point a direct and accusatory finger at Gordon Brown's responsibility for the banking crisis, and has called on the Prime Minister to resign.

The Observer is the only one of the qualities not ot go with the banks instead it reveals that heavy drinkers are receiving nearly one in four of the UK's liver transplants, which it says is igniting a furious row about the ethics of allocating organs to people with alcohol problems.

Two opinion polls in the papers spell out more problems for Labour.A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times revealed growing public unease over the influx of foreign workers, with more than half saying that any new jobs should go to British workers. Four out of five expressed concern that the issue could cause “tension”.

The Independent's Com Res reveals that the Lib Dems are within 3 points of Labour which the Tory lead at 16 points.The Observer meanwhile reports that the architect of the government's controversial welfare reforms, David Freud, has defected to the Tories in an embarrassing blow for Gordon Brown.

The lead in the Mail is that Britain's most powerful police body is being run as a private business with an annual income of around £18million.The paper reports that

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), which oversees everything from anti-terrorism policy to speed cameras, was last night facing demands that it be disbanded, following a Mail on Sunday investigation into its activities which include:Selling information from the Police National Computer for up to £70 – even though it pays just 60 pence to access those details.

Both the Mirror and the News of the World have the tragic news of Jade Goody,the latter has an exclusive interview in which she reveals that on Friday afternoon the doctors gathered around her bed and told her there was nothing more they could do. The battle was over and they were sending her home to die.