Friday's papers

Are storing up more problems for Gordon Brown.javascript:void(0)

Brown has lost it says the Telegraph reporting that two senior Cabinet ministers have privately warned that Labour is heading for an election defeat as heavy as that suffered by John Major because Gordon Brown has lost control of the parliamentary party.

The Guardian reports that ormer home secretary David Blunkett in an interview with the paper that the Prime Minister needs to

fill the void in government policy, avoid self-inflicted wounds and recognise there had been a "catastrophic meltdown of trust" in politics.

The Times reports that black people are almost eight times as likely as whites to be stopped and searched

Use of ordinary stop and search tactics in England and Wales rose sharply to more than one million in 2007-08, the highest figure since 1998.

Both the Sun and the Mirror mark the end of Britain's operations in Iraq.Thank you says the former whilst the Sun says

BRITAIN’S military mission in southern Iraq ended yesterday — and Our Boys and Girls were told: “It’s time to go home.”

Five cheering spectators killed after speeding driver makes assassination attempt on the Dutch queen reports the Mail adding that

Police confirmed that the unnamed 38-year-old, who suffered head wounds, had been aiming at the bus carrying the royals.

The Express leads with news of a good summer reporting that the country

is set for a scorching summer with temperatures regularly topping 30C (86F), according to a long-range forecast released yesterday.
The Mediterranean-style conditions will lift flagging spirits as the UK heads for a summer to compete with hotspots like Spain’s Costa del Sol.

Finally the Independent reports that British consumers are fuelling the rising demand for palm oil, speeding up the destruction of rainforests and killing off orangutans