Saturday's papers

The Budget still dominates many of the headlines,three days after the statement by the Chancellor.

The Times reports that his claim that Britain would climb out of recession by the end of the year was in shreds yesterday after official figures showed that the recession was biting far deeper than he had predicted.

Two days after the Chancellor told MPs that he expected the economy would have contracted by 1.6 per cent in the first three months of the year, figures released by the Office for National Statistics revealed that it had shrunk by 1.9 per cent — a difference equivalent to almost £1 billion.

The Telegraph meanwhile says that it has learntTony Blair believes the new 50 per cent top rate of income tax introduced by Gordon Brown is a "terrible mistake",

Yesterday's decison over the rights of Gurkhas to saty in Britain is vilified by both the Mail and the Express

They were ready to lay down their lives for Britain - and have been rewarded with an act of treachery. says the Mail adding that

Thousands of Gurkhas were yesterday shut out of the UK in what was described as 'shameful betrayal' by the Government.

LABOUR ministers yesterday masterminded one of Britain’s most shameful days by telling thousands of hero Gurkhas they have no right to live here.

reports the Express

The Guardian reports that undercover police are running a network of hundreds of informants inside protest organisations who secretly feed them intelligence in return for cash,adding

They claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about leaders, tactics and plans of future demonstrations.

Finally the Independent heralds a new war on cancer reporting that

President Barack Obama has pledged to find a cure for the disease, funded with billions of dollars from the economic stimulus package, echoing the former president Richard Nixon's "war on cancer", announced in 1971 in the wake of the moon landings. At the same time, the British charity Cancer Research UK is rolling out 20 centres of excellence around the country in a £1.5bn, five-year programme aimed at tackling hard-to-treat cancers with the lowest survival rates.