Many of the front pages focus on next week's Tory party conference
The Tories warn of backlash to Blair's EU presidency is the top story in the Times this morning.
William Hague has told the paper that "There could be no worse way to sell the EU to the people of Britain.”
He dangled the prospect of a referendum in Britain to take back powers from Brussels, even if a “yes” vote in the Irish Republic leads to the rapid ratification of the Lisbon treaty. He also indicated that the Conservatives would use a Blair presidency to mobilise opposition in such a vote on Britain’s relationship with Europe.
Meanwhile the Independent reports that according to a survey for the paper,David Cameron is facing a major revolt by the Conservative Party grassroots over his policy on Europe.
The poll of 2,205 Tory members by the ConservativeHome.com website found that more than eight in 10 want him to call a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon even if it has been approved by the next general election – a pledge he is refusing to make.
Two prominent east European allies of the Tories at the centre of a bitter row over their far-right links will be attending the Conservatives' annual conference in Manchester next week. reports the Guardian adding
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, yesterday accused Michal Kaminski, the rightwing Polish leader of the Conservatives' caucus in the European parliament, of having an antisemitic and neo-Nazi past. He also said the rightwing Latvian party led by Roberts Zile, For Fatherland and Freedom, was guilty of celebrating Hitler's Waffen-SS.
The Telegraph leads with the story that
Police officers spend less than six hours a week patrolling the streets because they are swamped with paperwork and rushing between incidents like a "fire brigade
The paper adds
The proportion of time on the beat has dropped by almost ten per cent in just three years while the amount of paperwork has risen by the same proportion, despite Government pledges to slash red tape
The Times reports how rescuers fight to save thousands trapped by Indonesia quake.
As dawn broke over the city yesterday the enormity and capriciousness of the earthquake became clear. Many buildings had crumbled to dust; next to them were others that had suffered barely a scratch.
The Telegraph reports how a young British woman has described the terrifying moment waves smashed through her windscreen and water filled her car after she attempted to outrun the tsunami on Samoa.
The Independent reports on a disaster looming where
On the plains of Marsabit the heat is so intense the bush seems to shiver. The leafless scrub, bleached white by the sun, looks like a forest of fake Christmas trees. Carcasses of cattle and camels are strewn about the burnt red dirt in every direction.
According to the Mail,The Tories say they will prevent the elderly ever having to sell their homes to pay for long-term residential care.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne revealed that pensioners will be invited to pay an £8,000 lump sum when they reach 65.
According to the Guardian
Two key figures in the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber were secretly given rewards of up to $3m (£1.9m) in a deal discussed by Scottish detectives and the US government, according to legal papers released today.
Police are hunting for a fourth person on the internet Paedophile case
Fears were raised after an unidentified adult hand appeared in one of the sick snaps exchanged by nursery nurse Vanessa George, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen.says the Sun
Forensic experts will digitally enhance the poor-quality image to look for moles, birthmarks or scars that might pinpoint who it is.
Finally the Times reports on
an 18th-century plot to invade Britain with an American army during that country’s War of Independence.
Drawn up by a French general, the scheme was to bring over an American force of 10,000 that would find a Britain so distracted by the war on the other side of the Atlantic, that victory would seem certain. Just to make sure, however, the general suggested that the force include a corps of Native Americans, or “sauvages”, as he termed them, who would strike such fear in British troops that any resistance would collapse immediately.
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