Monday's papers

Jade Goody's death was too late for yesterday's papers but there is much coverage this morning.

The Sun says At peace on mother's day reporting that

BRAVE Jade Goody died peacefully in her sleep yesterday, as her mother held her hand and said: “Goodbye, my darling.”

The Express also leads with the story reporting that

Celebrities, politicians and royal dignitaries paid tribute to the life of an ordinary working- class girl who found fame as a contestant in the third series of Big Brother in 2002. Tearful mourners, including mothers with young children, gathered throughout the day at Jade’s home in Upshire, Essex, to lay flowers and leave tributes.

Whilst the Guardian under the headline finally out of the limelight says

No other reality show contestant has sustained a profile so long. It is tragic that her personal ­longevity could not keep pace

The Telegraph leads with Ken Clarke's comments yesterday that the Tories will postpone their inheritence tax plans if they come to power.The paper reports that

In a significant and shock move the policy, which the Tories said would help nine million families and which was credited for halting Gordon Brown's plan for a snap election, was shelved until later in a Tory first term.

The Mail calls it a climbdown adding that

the Tories are having to tear up their tax and spending plans in the expectation of taking charge of the worst fiscal mess left by any peacetime government.

The Times reports that

Hopes grew last night for Britain’s five “forgotten” hostages in Iraq after the emergence of a video of one of the men indicating that they are alive and well. The kidnappers claimed in a previous video that one of the men had committed suicide.

The Guardian meanwhile claims that the US and its European allies are ­preparing to plant a high-profile figure in the heart of the Kabul government in a direct challenge to the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai.

Finally the Independent reports that scientists in Britain plan to become the first in the world to produce unlimited amounts of synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells for emergency infection-free transfusions.