Monday's papers

It's the start of the Labour party conference and the front pages are full of news from Brighton.

Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown will widen Labour’s attack on banking’s “greed and recklessness” today in an attempt to create a new election divide with the Conservatives

. says the Times adding that

The Chancellor will tell the party conference in Brighton that legislation to be introduced in the next few weeks will scrap automatic year-after-year bonuses and stop executives getting payouts unless they can prove they are deserved

According to the Guardian

Gordon Brown today moved to lift Labour's depressed morale on the first day of its pre-election conference by mounting a populist warning to reckless banks that he will use new laws, and unprecedented ministerial pressure, to demand they rein in bonuses.
As party officials tried to portray the conference as the start of a concerted fightback, Brown insisted in an interview: "I do not roll over" – but admitted he had thought privately as to whether he was the right man to lead Labour.

Meanwhile the Independent reports on the latest ComRes poll which suggests

that Labour would do better under all eight alternative leaders, whose support it tested with the public, than under Mr Brown. Under David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, or Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, Labour would be the largest party in a hung parliament, raising hopes that it might cling on to power for a fourth term.

The Telegraph says that Downing Street was involved in a heated row with the BBC last night over the corporation’s “astonishing” questioning of Gordon Brown's health.

Andrew Marr, the BBC’s main political presenter, shocked the Prime Minister during a live television interview on the opening day of Labour’s annual conference in Brighton by asking whether he took pills to help him “get through".

The Independent says that

Labour will today announce a plan to find jobs for 500,000 people who are out of work, as it seeks to make unemployment a key general election issue

. adding

Yvette Cooper, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will treble to 750,000 the number of jobless people who will be helped back into the labour market through tailored personal support. The £18m scheme will be announced at the Labour conference.

Scotland Yard is facing a potentially huge compensation claim over its failure to prevent the murder of Rachel Nickell.according to the Mail

The father of Miss Nickell's son Alex, who as a toddler witnessed her murder on Wimbledon Common, is preparing to sue the Metropolitan Police over the appalling bungles that blighted the case.

The Telegraph reports that Iran has test-fired medium-range misiles,

The missile manoeuvres coincide with increased tension in Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, after last week's disclosure by Tehran that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant. The U.S. and its allies condemned the discovery of a newly revealed underground nuclear facility that was being secretly constructed.

Global warming in the Guardian as it reports that

A study, prepared for the Department of Energy and Climate Change by scientists at the Met Office, challenges the assumption that severe warming will be a threat only for future generations, and warns that a catastrophic 4C rise in temperature could happen by 2060 without strong action on emissions.

Angela Merkel surged back into power last night at the helm of a pro-business Government that is committed to cutting taxes and ending a ten-year taboo on the use of nuclear power. reports the Times

The Telegraph claims that Britain has more military bureaucrats for every active serviceman than any of its Nato allies,

Figures obtained by the Daily Telegraph show that the 27 other western alliance countries, including the United States, all employ proportionately fewer civilians in their defence ministries.

Finally many of the papers report how the past has finally caught up with Roman Polanski.

The film director was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday on a decades-old warrant relating to the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
The director had travelled to Switzerland to accept a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich film festival, the organisers of which expressed "great consternation and shock" at his detention.

reports the Guardian