Thursday's papers

Both the Telegraph and the Times lead with the story that patients will be able to register with a GP anywhere in the country in a radical move to abolish restrictive catchment areas,

Under new plans to be announced in a keynote speech in London Mr Burnham will say GPs will not be able to refuse to take patients because they live too far away.

says the former

The Conservatives signalled broad support, meaning that a radical overhaul of how GPs operate within the community is on the cards regardless of who wins next year’s election. adds the Times

The Guardian leads with the news that it can reveal evidence today of a massive cover-up by the British oil trader Trafigura, in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history.

Thousands of west Africans besieged local hospitals in 2006, and a number died, after the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic oil waste around the country's capital, Abidjan. Official local autopsy reports on 12 alleged victims appeared to show fatal levels of the poisonous gas hydrogen sulphide, one of the waste's lethal byproducts.

The Indy also leads with the story reporting that

The bitterly contested legal action has seen Trafigura repeatedly deploy one of Britain's most aggressive firms of lawyers to dispute reporting on the case by media outlets including the BBC. Under the deal, thousands of Ivorians who suffered short-term illnesses, including vomiting, diarrhoea and breathing difficulties, receive a payout understood to be set at several hundred pounds.

Britain is facing the tightest squeeze in public spending since the 1970s, after leaked Treasury documents showed a major deterioration in the nation's public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies will warn tomorrow.reports the Guardian

Social security payments will cost almost £200 billion in four years time says the Telegraph

Combined with a debt interest bill of more than £63 billion, items Gordon Brown once called “the costs of failure” will absorb more than a third of all Government spending.

Meanwhile the Times reports that

Measures to curb binge drinking top a list of regulations to be shelved in the latest U-turn forced on Labour by the economic downturn.

The big topic from abroad is that

awkward questions about race and bigotry burst into the open yesterday after Jimmy Carter forthrightly suggested that "an overwhelming portion" of the more violent opposition to President Barack Obama and his policies has to do with the colour of his skin.

as the Independent says

The Mail leads with the news that the minister in charge of prosecuting criminals has been employing an illegal immigrant.

For the past six months Attorney General Baroness Scotland has paid Loloahi Tapui, 27, from Tonga, to look after her large family home in West London. using the National Insurance number issued to her as a student.

Energy and climate change secretary announces funding for a new factory that will make the largest offshore windblades in the world reports the Guardian

Miliband used a speech to the TUC in Liverpool to unveil a £4.4m grant to Clipper Windpower to develop offshore wind turbines, with blades 70m long and weighing over 30 tonnes, "the size of a jumbo jet".

The Independent says that

the word in Labour circles is that Ed is no longer trailing in his brother's wake. Indeed, some senior figures believe he has already overtaken him in the game that increasingly occupies Labour minds as the party appears to head for a general election defeat – its future leadership stakes