Wednesday papers

Climate change leads in both the Guardian and the Independent this morning.

According to the Indy,

Human society faces a global health catastrophe if climate change is not effectively tackled at the UN conference in Copenhagen in December, leading doctors from around the world warn today.

The Guardian meanwhile says that,key differences between the US and Europe could undermine a new worldwide treaty on global warming to replace Kyoto.The paper understands that

key differences have emerged between the US and Europe over the structure of a new worldwide treaty on global warming. Sources on the European side say the US approach could undermine the new treaty and weaken the world's ability to cut carbon emissions.

The Times reports a row over Tory plans to axe £30bn defence projects

George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, said in a speech on the economy that he would hold a Budget within weeks of a victory. Afterwards, he was asked to identify specific savings that an incoming Conservative government might make.

The Guardian says that at last Gordon Brown has used the C word

In keynote address to TUC, prime minister says Labour will cut costs, cut inefficiencies, cut unnecessary programmes and cut lower priority budgets
Labour is preparing to scrap government projects and "lower priority budgets" in a bid to protect vital public services that people depend on, Gordon Brown told trade unions today.

adding that

he cited the £20billion Eurofighter/Typhoon project, the £4billion project to build two aircraft carriers and the £2.7billion order for 25 A400 transport aircraft as areas ripe for cuts.

Hallelujah! says the Mail adding that

Mr Brown's 35-minute speech to the TUC in Liverpool, which effectively launched the general election campaign, was devoted to insisting that overall cutbacks would be wrong.

It once again leads with the postal strike reporting that

Thousands of families and firms are facing misery because of the postal strikes.
Credit card and store card statements are among more than 20million letters trapped in a backlog as the chaos escalates.

According to the Times,

The music industry is preparing to back down from its demands that people caught downloading songs illegally be disconnected from the internet after a revolt by leading musicians.

The Telegraph leads with the story that Motorists who leave their cars uninsured face fines of up to £1,000 even if they are locked away in a garage or kept on a driveway.

The draconian new powers are intended to tackle an estimated two million uninsured motorists who, the Government says, are responsible for 160 deaths a year.

says the paper

The Express leads with news of a A twice-a-day pill designed to fight breast cancer could offer hope to thousands of patients with other forms of the disease,

In a British breakthrough, scientists have shown the drug disables cancers in the womb, prostate, colon and skin that are triggered by genetic mutations.

Ministers are urgently drawing up measures to try to prevent a "job-lite recovery" in which unemployment continues to rise even when the economy starts to grow again.says the Independent

Official figures due out today are expected to show that unemployment has risen to about 2.5 million. There are growing fears that it will remain above two million by the end of 2010.

Finally yesterday saw two deaths

Tributes have been paid to Keith Floyd, the outspoken television chef, who has died after a heart attack. reports the Telegraph

The Sun reports that

DEMI MOORE led the tributes yesterday as Hollywood mourned one of its bravest - and she insisted that cancer victim PATRICK SWAYZE's words in their hit film Ghost were true.