Sunday papers

It's all about tax cuts in the Sunday's

A major political row has broken out after the Tories seized on Treasury documents to claim that Labour was planning a “bombshell” rise in income tax of 3p in the pound if it won the next general election says the Telegraph adding that

The Treasury figures — marked “confidential” — disclosed a big rise in projected income tax receipts between now and 2011-12, as well as in subsequent years. They led the Tories to accuse ministers of “factoring in” an immediate rise in income tax if Labour was returned to power.

ED BALLS, the schools secretary, last night became the first minister to spell out how Labour would make spending cuts, announcing plans to axe thousands of school staff and restrain public sector pay. reports the Times

Whilst the Observer says that

George Osborne was last night at the heart of a bitter row over the economy after claims that Gordon Brown was planning a hidden "tax bombshell" began to backfire on the shadow chancellor.

According to the Mail on Sunday

Officers from the UK Border Agency last night dramatically raided the home of the illegal immigrant Attorney General Baroness Scotland employed as a housekeeper.

Four immigration officials in blue boilersuits swooped on Tongan cleaner Loloahi Tapui’s flat in West London just after 3pm, breaking down the door with a 3ft metal battering ram. They spent two hours searching the flat for evidence and are understood to have left with a number of documents, which they sealed in clear bags before transferring them into black holdalls.

More politics as the Indy reports that Gordon Brown is planning a mini reshuffle this week amid growing signs that Baroness Scotland will be forced to resign over the affair involving her employment of an illegal immigrant.

It thoiugh leads with the news that

Britain was last night accused of stalling on a deal to use banks' multibillion-pound profits to help the world's poorest nations as new figures show that the global recession has opened up a $70bn (£43bn) black hole in the budgets of sub-Saharan Africa.

The party conference season is underway and the Observer reports that

David Cameron and Nick Clegg were last night locked in a battle for the soul of liberal Britain after the Conservative leader claimed there was "barely a cigarette paper" between their two parties.

According to the Times,Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, the children’s minister,has received more than £140,000 in expenses by saying a holiday cottage in west Wales is her main residence.

An ICM survey in the Sunday Telegraph found that 40 per cent want Britain to leave the European Union altogether, a higher percentage than in other recent polls.

The Express returns to a familiar topic

MADELEINE McCann was abducted by at least two kidnappers who must have carried out several dry runs in the days leading up to her disappearance.it reports saying that

Donal MacIntyre,after spending a week on the ground investigating the case and the methods used by the kidnappers, concludes that they must have entered the apartment to carry out a rehearsal, because they were working to an incred­ibly tight schedule.

According to the Mail on Sunday,

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson have given up hope of Gordon Brown winning the General Election and believe he may throw in the towel to avoid humiliation by David Cameron, it was revealed last night.

Helping terminally ill and incurably disabled patients to commit suicide is set to be decriminalised in Britain under guidance to be issued this week. reports the Times

The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world's poorest nations unless £900m can be raised from rich countries to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines,

says a UN report leaked to the Observer.

Finally the Indy reports that

A British man has become the fastest person ever to cycle around the world, pedalling past the finish line in London's Hyde Park less than six months after he set off.

Sporting a shaggy red beard and a suntan, an exhausted James Bowthorpe was greeted by cheers from friends and family yesterday after an epic, 18,000-mile circumnavigation that has taken him through 20 countries in 175 days.