Thursday's papers

Pictures of David Cameron and his son Ivan dominate the front pages this morning following yesterday's tragic news.

The boy who shaped a Tory leader says the Mail

Though the couple had lived every day with the knowledge that Ivan's life expectancy was low, the death of their 'beautiful boy' had been devastatingly quick. Mr Cameron told friends the only comfort he could draw was that he was with Ivan when he died.

The Guardian reports that politicians of all parties united yesterday in shock and sympathy after Conservative leader David Cameron's son died ­suddenly following an epileptic seizure.

Politics does go on though as the paper leads with the report that Labour's eight largest unions say that the proposals to part privaitise the post office are electorally unpopular, politically unwise and damaging to the postal service.

Ahead of RBS results the Times leads with the news that Alistair Darling is to offer guarantees worth £600 billion against toxic assets to give two of Britain’s biggest but ailing banks a final chance to survive the credit crunch.

According to the Independent,health officials have been forced to withdraw 21,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine from GP clinics around the UK after it emerged that some doses may have been contaminated with a blood-poisoning bacterium.