Tuesday's papers

The opening of the Joseph Frizl trial makes many of the front pages this morning.

The Sun says that

THE chilling depravity of Josef Fritzl’s monstrous use of his daughter as a sex slave was revealed to the world yesterday.

Under the headline Monster the Express reports how

The retired engineer used Elisabeth “like his own property”, raping her more than 3,000 times and fathering seven children with her in the dark cellar under his home.

Josef Fritzl may have been described as the "face of evil" but all that was visible yesterday was a single "evil" eye. It peered through a metal ring in the back of a bright blue folder that masked the face of the world's most infamous rapist as he stepped unsteadily across the floor of an Austrian courtroom flanked by burly police guards.

reports the Independent

Higher education is the main topic in the Mail which reveals that tuition fees could be more than doubled under a blueprint to be put forward by universities today.The paper says that

Some students would find themselves with debts of £50,000 they could be paying off into their 50s.

The Times leads with fears of a new educational elitism as it reports that the University of Cambridge announced that 3 As at A-level would no longer be enough for entry.

The Telegraph reports that Sir Paul Stephenson, Britain’s most senior policeman, has ordered his officers to walk the beat on their own, rather than in pairs, in a return to more traditional policing.

Finally the Guardian returns to the financial crisis with an interview with the Prime Minsiter in which he

attempts to launch a political fightback today by declaring that he takes "full responsibility" for his role in the banking failures that led to the global recession, and claims that the downturn marks the end of the era of laissez-faire government