Wednesday's papers

The papers are not very happy about the amount of schools staying shut yesterday after Monday's bad weather.

The Mail's headline says Frozen out by safety as it describes how

Town halls have been accused of a massive over-reaction after closing a third of the country's schools. At least 8,000 had their doors shut, many of them in areas where the wintry weather had dramatically improved

The Times says that

Commuters, parents and business leaders yesterday condemned the continuing disruption caused by the heaviest snow for at least 18 years.
Almost 6,000 schools remained closed, train services continued to be cancelled and millions of workers took a second “snow day” as forecasters predicted further downfalls

Now it's British jobs for British graduates says the Independent as the paper reports that the Government may restrict the number of highly skilled migrants allowed into Britain because ministers fear many of the record 400,000 graduates leaving university this summer will fail to find work in the recession.

The Guardian reports that Barack Obama suffered the biggest blow to date over his promise to clean up politics in Washington when a trusted mentor was forced to withdraw his nomination from a cabinet post because of unpaid taxes.

The Times has an exclusive on its front page reporting that

President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reduction talks with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash each country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent.

The Independent reports on the first meeting of Hillary Clinton and David Miliband as Iran launches its first space craft

using technology that the Pentagon indicated could one day be used to develop a nuclear, warhead-carrying, ballistic missile. Asked whether the launch of the satellite posed a threat, Mr Miliband declared that "anything which adds to international tension should be of concern."

Finally Carol Thatcher makes the news in several of the papers,the Guardian reporting that the BBC confirmed tonight it had dropped Carol Thatcher as a presenter on The One Show after she referred to a professional tennis player as a "golliwog" in a private conversation.