Sunday's papers

More trouble for the government on a number of the front pages of the Sunday's

The Times reports that a Downing Street whistleblower has claimed that Ed Balls used Damian McBride to smear ministerial rivals and advance his own ambitions, a Downing Street whistleblower has claimed.

The News of the World claims a new email shows that Labour's General Secretary Ray Collins chaired a secret meeting to create the Red Rag website now ensnared in the Smeargate scandal.

Meanwhile the Telegraph's latest poll suggeest that Gordon Brown has paid a heavy price for the email saga that has engulfed his government, with support for Labour falling by five percentage points.

For the Express we are in Labour's death throes as it reports the same findings

The Observer returns to the G20 protests and reports that

Nick Hardwick, chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), called for a national debate over how police maintain public order and demanded much tougher political accountability, warning that police should remember they were "the servants not the masters" of the people.

The Mail also looks at the police as it reports that the Justice Secretary Jack Straw was last night facing urgent questions about how Britain’s most notorious police killer was able to terrorise a woman whose evidence blocked his release from jail.

The paper says that

From his cell, Harry Roberts orchestrated a horrifying five-year campaign of intimidation designed to silence 65-year-old Joan Cartwright and her son James.

Finally the Independent says that its investigation into the government's green strategy suggests the Government's low-carbon strategy could be making matters worse

The investigation also shows that most of the Prime Minister's vaunted green initiatives have not materialised and, in some cases, are likely to set back his professed strategy for "the creation of a low-carbon economy". It has found that, over the past four years, ministers have launched a staggering 91 consultations relating to the issue, while actually doing little.