Saturday's papers

Gordon Brown fights back after the Tory party conference this morning.In an interview with the Telegraph he tells the paper that the economy is poised to recover far more quickly than expected.

By contrast, David Cameron’s Conservatives are "pessimists" whose plans for the biggest cuts in public spending for 30 years would prolong the recession, claims Mr Brown

Meanwhile the Guardian has found a £3bn mistake in George Osborne's budget plan

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the shadow chancellor's proposed saving, outlined at the Conservative party conference this week, would take five years longer than estimated and fall £3bn short.

There are two stories on the front of the Independent under the headline War and Peace

The bitterness, recriminations and accusations of betrayal which enmeshed the Iraq war surfaced unexpectedly and powerfully at a memorial service for the fallen yesterday.

says the paper reporting that

the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of the Devil's influence as he condemned policymakers for failing to consider the human cost of their actions.

The Mail leads with the news that

A father’s grief and anger boiled over yesterday when he came face to face with the man he blames for his son’s death.
Tony Blair offered his hand to Peter Brierley during a reception following a service at St Paul’s to commemorate the dead of the Iraq war.

On the same day that

A slightly sheepish President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize as a "call to action" to the whole world to confront the global challenges before it, ranging from climate change to the threat of nuclear proliferation. But he made no attempt to conceal his astonishment at being selected.

The Times reporting that

International reaction ranged from delight to disbelief. The former winners Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu voiced praise, the latter lauding the Nobel Committee’s “surprising but imaginative choice”.

It leads with the return of MP's expenses.The paper has learnt that

up to 100 MPs will be asked to repay expenses, or prove that their claims were legitimate. About a dozen are likely to face demands to hand back significant sums, in some cases “tens of thousands of pounds”.

The Guardian returns to the subject of Baby P

A leading MP demanded an inquiry after a whistleblower at Ofsted claimed an official report into Haringey council was secretly downgraded from "good" to "inadequate" because of the furore over the death of Baby Peter.

says the paper

The Express leads with the news that

A SUSPECTED Al Qaeda spy has been arrested at Europe’s biggest nuclear ­laboratory on suspicion of plotting to cause a terrorist outrage.

The 32-year old Frenchman of Algerian origin and his 25-year old brother were being held last night at the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, France’s equivalent to MI5, near Paris. says the Telegraph

The Sun returns to a familiar topic as it reports that

AMY Winehouse has secretly had a boob job in readiness for her planned TV comeback on Strictly Come Dancing tonight.
The 26-year-old singer paid £35,000 to a clinic in London's Harley Street to restore the voluptuous curves she boasted when she first hit the charts.

Silvio Berlusconi claims that he is the most persecuted man in history,

The Italian Prime Minister, who on Wednesday lost the immunity from prosecution that has protected him from criminal proceedings, lamented his fate yesterday, saying that he was “absolutely the most persecuted by the judiciary in all of the history of the entire world”.

Finally the news that Marge Simpson has made the cover of Playboy

The long-suffering wife of Homer follows in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson, as she is pictured behind a signature Playboy Bunny Chair on the November issue

says the Telegraph