Events in Iran dominate many of the papers this Sunday morning.
Iran faces political turmoil after hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed today as the winner of the presidential election and outraged supporters of his chief rival took to the streets to protest against a "dangerous charade" after a record 85% turnout. says the Observer
The Times reporting that
Iran's hardline leaders warned last night that they would crush dissent after opposition supporters protesting against their candidate’s defeat in disputed presidential elections clashed with riot police on the streets of Tehran.
Terror in Tehran says the Independent describing how
First the cop screamed abuse at Mir Hossein Mousavi's supporter, a white-shirted youth with a straggling beard and unkempt hair. Then he smashed his baton into the young man's face. Then he kicked him viciously in the testicles. It was the same all the way down to Vali Asr Square.
The Telegraph doesn't follow the other qualities reporting instead that the BBC is on a collision course with ministers over plans to be announced to force the corporation to give up some of its £3.6 billion public funding for the first time.
It adds that
the long-awaited white paper by Lord Carter, the technology minister, is understood to propose "top slicing" of the BBC's budget – using up to £100 million of BBC funding to pay independent companies to make regional news programmes for ITV.
The Express carries an interview with the mother of sextruplets who tells the paper that they refused to allow doctors to abort some of their babies at 14 weeks.
A similar theme in the Mail which reports how a couple's last hopes of having another child have been shattered after an appalling blunder at an NHS fertility clinic led to their final usable embryo being implanted into the wrong patient.
The Sunday Mirror has Maddie the Truth reporting how suspect Raymond Hewlett admits he doesn't have an alibi for night she disappeared
“It’s obvious why they’re interested in me,” croaks Hewlett, 64. “But they can all think what they like. I didn’t kill the McCann girl. It’s the truth and it’s never going to change.”
Finally the News of the World reports that Prince Harry's latest girlfriend Caroline Flack is
a wild-child party animal who once romped in a hot tub with Jack Osbourne and another girl.
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