Tuesday's papers

The Telegraph leads with a warning about Britain's energy supplies as it reveals government projections show.Britain is facing the prospect of widespread power cuts for the first time since the 1970s.

Demand for power from homes and businesses will exceed supply from the national grid within eight years, according to official figures.
The shortage of supplies will hit the equivalent of many as 16 million families for at least one hour during the year, it is forecast.

The Express stays on the theme as it reports that

PRESSURE was growing on energy firms last night to slash rip-off gas and electricity bills.
Industry experts say prices should be almost 15 per cent or £170 a year lower but greedy firms have failed to pass on cuts in wholesale costs.

The Guardian stays on the topic as its front page reports from the frontline of climate change,Greenland

It is calving season in the Arctic. A flotilla of icebergs, some as jagged as fairytale castles and others as smooth as dinosaur eggs, calve from the ice sheet that smothers Greenland and sail down the fjords. The journey of these sculptures of ice from glaciers to ocean is eerily beautiful and utterly terrifying.

The paper launches its new initiative 10:10 to get us all to reduce our carbon emissions.

Libya has hinted for the first time that it is considering compensating the families of IRA victims in recognition that it armed the terrorists.says the Independent as it says

In a rare interview with a top Libyan official yesterday, the deputy minister for foreign affairs indicated that the IRA compensation claims were part of on-going discussions between Tripoli and London and that they could be approaching some form of agreement.

There is still much coverage of the Jancyee kidnapping.The Sun relays the words of the accused dad who says he worries that his son may be responsible for the deaths of 12 women and children

The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, yesterday called for a complete revamp of military strategy in the country, in a sweeping review of operations that acknowledges the disastrous approach of the last eight years and may pave the way for a demand for more troops.

reports the Guardian

The Telegraph meanwhile reports that two soldiers from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan,bringing total casualties now to 210

The Times meanwhile reports that

Widespread and systematic fraud during the Afghan presidential elections has tarnished the legitimacy of any future government and undermined the Nato campaign there, Western and Afghan officials have admitted.

Cut food and drink to avoid breast cancer says the Mail:

Thousands of women could avoid breast cancer if they adopted healthier lifestyles, experts say.
They blame alcohol, lack of exercise and being overweight for four out of ten cases.

The Times reports that

Disney has bought Marvel Entertainment in an amazing $4 billion deal that will create a combined entertainment force as powerful as any superhero.

adding that

The purchase will give Disney access to more than 5,000 Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, the Hulk and the X-Men.

Finally it is 70 years today since the outbreak of WW2 and the Independent reports that European leaders gather in the Polish city of Gdansk today to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, amid an acrimonious row between Moscow and much of Europe over who started the conflict.