Friday's papers

The face of Bernard Madoff stares out from the front of many of the papers,the Independent says that

Eleven times he responded to the charges against him, in a packed Manhattan courtroom. Eleven times, "guilty".

adding that

with that, there was no more time for leniency, no extra time on bail awaiting his fate, no chance to say goodbye to the wife who had decided again not to accompany him to court.

The Guardian stays with the banking sector as it discloses that the Royal Bank of Scotland tied up at least £25bn in complex international tax-avoidance schemes during its boom years, costing the British and US treasuries more than £500m in lost revenue,

The Times' front page reveals that dozens of passenger jets using Heathrow have a potentially fatal engine flaw, creating a “high probability” of another failure like the one that caused last year’s British Airways crash, according to the American air safety watchdog.

The Telegraph chooses climate change for its lead as it reports that the world's leading scientists yesterday issued a desperate plea to politicians to act on climate change, amid warnings that without action the world faces decades of social unrest and war.

Our heroes says the Express as the paper reports on the backlash from the Luto demonstrations

In a moving demonstration of the bulldog spirit, the biggest crowd since VE Day poured into a city centre to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in support of the nation’s armed forces.

Finally the Mail has two stories of what it terms recession madness.Firstly that Women will be entitled to full pay for the first 18 weeks of maternity leave under radical EU plans.Secondly it visits Sangatte where it says charity workers think 1,500 migrants are massing in France's northern ports hoping for a new life in Britain.