Thursday's papers

Another day and another minister goes.

This time it is newly appointed Treasury minister Kitty Uusher who the Telegraph says was forced to resign after avoiding paying up to £17,000 in tax on the sale of her constituency home.

Miss Ussher told the tax authorities that her Burnley home was her “principal residence” for a single month in 2007, enabling her to avoid capital gains tax.

The Independent leads with the news that Gordon Brown is considering a startling U-turn over the official inquiry into the Iraq war which could see witnesses give evidence in public rather than behind closed doors.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that former PM Tony Blair was aware of the ­existence of a secret interrogation policy which ­effectively led to British citizens, and others, being ­tortured during ­counter-terrorism investigations,and adds that

The policy, devised in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, offered ­guidance to MI5 and MI6 officers ­questioning detainees in Afghanistan whom they knew were being mistreated by the US military.

The Times leads with Iran as it says that the

opposition dashed the regime’s hopes that its protests would gradually fade away by staging another huge demonstration against electoral fraud yesterday and calling for an even bigger show of strength today as unrest spread across the country.

According to the Express

Middle income families were last night warned to brace themselves for a punishing double onslaught of tax hikes and interest rate rises.

Whilst for the second day running the Mail focuses on the dreaded wheelie bin urging its readers to join the Not In My Front Yard campaign, to spearhead the fightback against wheelie bins.

Finally the Sun under the headline Loo goes there reports how

AN Afghan illegal who got into Sandhurst could have been a Taliban suicide bomber bent on causing carnage, angry soldiers said last night.

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The 20-year-old man dodged security at the world-famous military academy yesterday by sneaking on to an Army coach and concealing himself in a stairwell by the toilet.