Wednesday's papers

Both the Mail and the Telegraph lead with the shortages of equipment in Afghanistan.

The latter reporting that Lord Malloch-Brown has become the first senior government minister to admit that British troops need more helicopters in Afghanistan.and also

calling into question Gordon Brown’s insistence that the war was being fought to stop Afghan terrorists carrying out attacks on Britain. He claimed that Pakistan and Somalia presented a greater threat.

Not fit to shine their boots is the Mail's headline as it reports that

A Labour peer caused outrage yesterday after he accused Britain's top soldier of disloyalty and helping the Taliban.
Lord Foulkes attacked General Sir Richard Dannatt for daring to speak out about the shortage of equipment for troops in Afghanistan.

The Times leads with the story of how an otherwise healthy child who died after contracting swine flu had a rare and deadly combination of infections,the paper adds that

Chloe Buckley’s death prompted widespread concerns about the risk posed to children by the virus. A post-mortem examination has shown that she also had a serious bacterial infection caused by streptococcus A, which led to tonsillitis and blood poisoning.

Meanwhile the Express reports that

IMMIGRANTS who can barely speak English will be used to man the phones at emergency swine flu call centres, it was revealed yesterday.

The Guardian leads with the news that according to Home Office figures published today,

The high-profile government campaign to tackle knife crime in big English cities has failed to cut the number of fatal stabbings

adding that

The number of teenage homicide victims of knife crime remained unchanged at 23, while the number of adults over the age of 20 killed actually went up during the campaign by seven to 103, results of the official monitoring programme show.

Finally the Independent reports that

Britain's largest low-cost airline Ryannair is to cut almost a third of its flights from Stansted this winter, blaming "unfair" passenger taxes for making the routes uneconomical.