Monday, 19 October 2009

Monday's papers

Varied headlines in the papers this morning.

The Times leads with an exclusive.Louise Casey has told the paper that the Government’s own neighbourhood crime adviser has accused Gordon Brown of letting people down on antisocial behaviour.

not enough was being done to stop yobs making other people’s lives a misery. She said that, unless police and councils got a grip on the problem, it would pass from generation to generation.


The Guardian has learnt that Government officials have drawn up secret plans to tax electricity consumers to subsidise the construction of the UK's first new nuclear reactors for more than 20 years,

The planned levy on household bills would add £44 to an annual electricity bill of £500 and contradicts repeated promises by ministers that the nuclear industry would no longer benefit from public subsidies.
says the paper

Homebuyers applying for mortgages will have to provide much more detailed information about their monthly spending habits under new rules to clamp down on reckless lending. reports the Telegraph

the Financial Services Authority will tell lenders they must carry out in-depth examinations of households' disposable income before granting a mortgage.


The Independent leads with Iraq and an Asylum-seeker deported from UK explains why he fears for his life

Abu Yousif is back home, back to Baghdad, where his brother was murdered and where, he believes, the same fate awaits him in the hands of the vengeful killers.


The Guardian reports that a British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast copper plant that the firm is seeking to develop in the mountains of northern Peru.

Yesterday's suicide attcak on Iran's revolutionary guards is being blamed on the West

Iran vowed revenge on Britain and the US yesterday after blaming them for a devastating suicide attack against the elite Revolutionary Guards that killed 42 people, including six senior commanders. reports the Times

The Telegraph as does many of the papers reports that Pakistan's armed forces are closing in on the stronghold of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, with heavy losses reported on both sides.

Meanwhile across the border,Hamid Karzai, has threatened to ignore findings by a UN-backed watchdog that hundreds of thousands of votes cast in August's presidential election were fraudulent.says the Independent

Britain has a new formula one champion.Brilliant Button says the Sun on its front page

Brawn's British ace roared up from 14th with some incredible early overtaking to wreck the title hopes of team-mate Rubens Barrichello (eighth after a late puncture) and Red Bull's Sebastien Vettel (fourth).


it was the first time since 1969 that the championship has been won in consecutive years by British drivers, with Button succeeding Lewis Hamilton, who also won his title in tense circumstances in Brazil a year ago.
says the Times

British scientists have made a dramatic IVF breakthrough which could bring hope to thousands of women.says the Mail

They have developed an embryo screening technique which makes it far more likely a woman will give birth.
A trial showed that it doubles the rate of conception, even for patients in their late thirties.


Health issues on the front of the Express which reports

Vitamin supplements taken by millions of Britons do nothing to stave off illness and could even cause cancer, a leading expert warned last night.


Finally a sequel to one of last week's stories

The Colorado sheriff investigating the bizarre balloon-boy incident on Thursday, when millions of Americans thought that a flying saucer-shaped mini-blimp zipping over the high plains was carrying a six-year-old child, said yesterday he considered it a "hoax" and that criminal charges would be filed.
reports the Independent

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