Wednesday's papers

According to the Sun this morning they have evidence that a British bomber is attacking our troops in Afghanistan

A BRITISH bombmaker fighting Our Boys in Afghanistan was condemned yesterday by the mother of a corporal killed by a Taliban blast.

The paper adds that

The bombmaker was fingered when his DNA was found on an unexploded roadside device defused by disposal experts in Afghanistan’s flashpoint Helmand province.

The Times meanwhile reports that thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite new laws aimed at tightening controls on immigration.The paper has found out that that hundreds of colleges recently approved by the Home Office to accept non-EU students have not been inspected by its officers.

Privacy in the dock is the headline in the Independent which reports that Britain's failure to protect its citizens from secret surveillance on the internet is to be investigated by the European Commission.

The paper says that

The legal action is being brought over the use of controversial behavioural advertising services which were tested on BT's internet customers without their consent.
Yesterday, the EU said it wanted "clear consent" from internet users that their private data was being used to gather commercial information about their web shopping habits.

On the same subject the Guardian reports that the inventor of genetic fingerprinting, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, today warns that the government is putting at risk public support for the DNA national database by holding the genetic details of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

According to the Telegraph parents will be hit by severe penalties if children misbehave under a back-to-basics crackdown on indiscipline in schools and adds that

A three-year Government study into classroom behaviour will call for greater use of parenting contracts for mothers and fathers failing to keep children in line and £50 penalties for those condoning truancy.

Finally the Mail turns its attention back to the bankers as it reports that Goldman Sachs yesterday promised thousands of staff a 33 per cent pay boost after it returned to profit.