Monday's papers

Thousands of children are at risk from E. coli because the farm pinpointed as the source of an outbreak was allowed to remain open for two weeks after it first fell under suspicion reports the Times this morning.

The Mail also leads with the story asking Why was E.coli farm left open?

Twelve youngsters, all under the age of ten, were in hospital last night - including three who are seriously ill - after visits to a farm where they were allowed to touch and feed animals.

says the paper

Full and part-time directors of FTSE 100 shared between them more than £1bn reports the Guardian

Its annual survey of executive pay finds that

Executives at Britain's top companies saw their basic salaries leap 10% last year, despite the onset of the worst global recession in decades, in which their companies lost almost a third of their value amid a record decline in the FTSE.

The Independent reports on a growing clamour for heroin

A group of government-appointed drug experts will call for a nationwide network of "shooting galleries" to provide injectable heroin for hardened drug addicts across the country.

According to the Guardian,, union leaders have warned that

Moves to cut public spending will spark the threat of industrial action by millions of workers and a possible return to the riots last seen in the 1980s,

The Times has learnt that Labour is funding trade union activity inside Whitehall with millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money

Government departments are paying the salaries of dozens of union officials, some earning more than £60,000 a year, who do no work for the taxpayer

.says the paper

Cherie Blair has said that she intends to campaign for Labour at the general election.reports the Telegraph adding that

Her apparent support for Brown may surprise some as in her autobiography published last year, Speaking for Myself, she wrote about the "problem" between her and the former chancellor.

Labour is mounting a £400million stealth raid on the pensions of millions of ­middle-class Britons. reports the Express

Changes to the second state pension – which many rely on to top up basic payouts – means the benefits paid to middle earners will be slashed.

The Telegraph reports that tens of thousands of used-car buyers have unwittingly bought former rental vehicles from the official dealerships of leading manufacturers.

Two of Britain’s biggest hire firms have used a “front” company and an abbreviated company name to register vehicles, meaning buyers didn’t recognise the previous owner on the registration documents.

Many of the papers reportthat police and social workers launched an urgent investigation into the death of Charlotte Moody,whose,the Sun says

distraught parents of an eight-year-old girl wept in the street after her body was found hanging in her bedroom, a neighbour revealed last night.

Finally the Independent reports that the Maori legend of a man-eating bird is true

Te Hokioi was a huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips, in an account given to Sir George Gray, an early governor of New Zealand. It was said to be named after its cry and to have "raced the hawk to the heavens". Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago, shows their study in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.