Varied themes on the front pages this Monday morning.
The main story in the Guardian is that thousands of activists are being onitored on anetwork of overlapping databases.The paper reports that in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests,
Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.
The Independent reports on the rain forests and the news that
A vital safeguard to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.adding that
Under proposals due to be ratified at the summit, countries which cut down rainforests and convert them to plantations of trees such as oil palms would still be able to classify the result as forest and could receive millions of dollars meant for preserving them.
The Express meanwhile claims that
MOTORISTS would be forced to find an extra £3,300 for a new car and cope with fuel duty tripling under new Government-backed proposals for a green tax blitz.
According to the paper
Public spending campaigners and motorists’ organisations last night reacted with anger to proposals for £150billion of new “eco-taxes” on businesses and households.
The Mail leads with the news that millions of grandparents will be given sweeping new legal rights if the Tories win the next election.
The law will be changed to ensure they do not lose contact with their grandchildren after a family separation, divorce or bereavement.says the paper
They will also be put at the front of the custody queue if their grandchildren face being fostered or taken into care.
According to the Telegraph,Gordon Brown is being forced to backtrack over planned cuts in Territorial Army training amid fears that it would turn into a political disaster rivalling his humiliation over the Gurkhas.
The Ministry of Defence has ordered £20 million to be stripped from the budget allocated for drill nights and weekend training for TA soldiers. It has left scores of reservist soldiers threatening to leave the force, which already suffers from a shortfall of 6,000.
The Times leads with the news that David Miliband has come out in supporting Tony Blair as the new EU president
Tony Blair should be made head of a stronger European Union that would be able to compete with China and the United States on the world stage, adding that
With EU leaders preparing to start talking about Mr Blair’s prospects this week, his supporters have begun a sustained campaign to showcase the advantages he would bring to the role.
George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, will call today for the Treasury to step in to prevent retail banks from paying excessive cash bonuses to their senior staff.says the Independent
Mr Osborne's proposal applies only to retail banks, not to those operating in the "casino economy" – whose huge bonuses for senior staff are also a target of public anger – and only to "significant" cash bonuses.
With the news that police are reopening the Lockerbie case,the Times reports that a detective who headed the original Lockerbie investigation has revealed that eight other potential suspects in the bombing were identified at the time but they were never interviewed.
Stuart Henderson, a former detective chief superintendent with Lothian and Borders Police, led the Lockerbie Incident Control Centre from 1988 until 1992. He told The Scotsman newspaper: “We submitted eight other names of people that we wished to interview that were strong suspects. Unfortunately, we never got that opportunity. I am delighted they are making moves to see if there is anything further, because no matter what anybody says, we did not ever say it was just Megrahi we were after. We never said that. We were after his bosses.”
Carnage in Baghdad as
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months before a national poll that will be contested on supposed security gains.reports the Guardian
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the Iraqi government was quick to blame the attacks on al-Qaeda or remnants of Saddam Hussein’s party. says the Telegraph
Teenage girls wanting to join violent male gangs are being forced into having sex and ferrying guns, knives and drugs, police and charities have found.reports the Times.The report says that
When they first join they are told they must have sex with one member of the gang — and then find several of the gang waiting for them.
Meanwhile the Sun exposes the binge drinking culture
A DRUNKEN young girl's night out ends with her hunched and heaving in the road - next to a poster urging moderate drinking.
It was far too late for her to be "drink aware".
In a culture where binge drinking has become socially acceptable, even normal, she is one of thousands of young women whose boozing sparked a warning from worried health experts last week.
The Mail reports that the number of paedophiles, rapists and sex attackers rated a danger to the public has increased by half in only five years.
The big rise in the number of convicts placed on the Sex Offenders Register - which now stands at 31,392 - came amid allegations that ministers are concealing the extent of their reoffending.
The news that Andrew Lloyd Webber has cancer is widely reported.
A spokesman said that his condition was in its "early stages" and that the composer, 61, was expected to be "fully back at work before the end of the year". No further details of Lord Lloyd-Webber's condition were available. says the Independent
Finally the Star leads with the news that the military top brass have rejected troubled Kate Price’s offer to visit Afghanistan – because she is too trashy for the troops.
The glamour girl wanted to fly to war-torn Helmand on a morale-boosting trip in the run-up to Christmas.
But we can reveal she suffered a humiliating setback after her offer was considered at a formal MoD meeting.
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