At least 325 MPs will be ordered this week to repay money or provide further details of their parliamentary allowances by the head of an official inquiry into the Commons expenses scandal.reports the Telegraph
The Sunday Times leads with the story that
A multi-millionaire ally of Gordon Brown pretended that a small flat occupied by one of his employees was his main home so he could claim £38,000 in expenses from the Lords. adding that
Lord Paul, one of Labour’s biggest donors and a friend of the prime minister, has admitted he never even slept in the flat, despite stating it was his main residence.
and more problems for the Prime Minister as the Independent reports that
Gordon Brown made clear yesterday he would continue as Prime Minister despite being told his eyesight could be affected by a new medical condition. Mr Brown, who is blind in his left eye after a teenage rugby injury, attended Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London on Friday after tests last month revealed he has two minor rips on the retina – light-sensitive tissue – of his right eye.
The Observer leads with David Miliband who writing in the paper
expresses astonishment that William Hague, his Conservative opposite number, can describe as a "good friend" a Polish politician who reiterated last week his opposition to an unconditional apology by his countrymen for the massacre in 1941 of at least 300 Polish Jews.
The army is not far away from the headlines as the Mail reports that
Labour is threatening to impose a £40,000 ‘fine’ on former Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt in revenge for defecting to the Conservatives.
Former Cabinet Minister Frank Dobson yesterday called on the Government to stop paying Sir Richard who, in line with Army custom, continues to be paid for three months after retiring in the summer.
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports
Cherie Blair raised questions about her husband's passionate advocacy of the Iraq war, describing the invasion a ''51-49'' decision.
According to the Times
SENIOR doctors say NHS patients are dying as a result of new European Union rules that impose a 48-hour week on hospital staff.
The Royal College of Surgeons said, in a hard-hitting report, that lives were being lost because patients had to be switched between up to four doctors every 24 hours, instead of being cared for by the same team round the clock.
The Independent leads with The missing: Each year, 275,000 Britons disappear as an Independent on Sunday investigation has established that the numbers of Britons who disappear each year is now at record levels.
Missing People, the charity that helps both the disappeared and those left behind, told us that 250,000 missing persons reports each year – more than 30,000 higher than any previous total – is "probably an underestimate"; others put the total nearer 275,000.That is the paper says
the equivalent of the entire population of Plymouth being spirited away, means that, across the country, one person goes missing every two minutes.
On that topic the Express leads with the story that
The kidnapper of Madeleine McCann drugged her and her twin brother and sister so they would all be quiet while she was snatched.
BBC storm as two of BNP's most notorious activists are invited on Radio 1 to insult Ashley Cole is the lead in the Mail on Sunday
Back to the Observer which reports on the latest phenonoma in education
Private tutors are now dedicating themselves to ensuring that children win a grammar school place. The result is a widening class divide and some children studying for up to six hours a day
From the tabloids the News of the World reports how
FOOTBALL legend Paul Gascoigne's battered ex- wife Sheryl has sensationally branded him an ABUSER who INSISTED on sex TEN TIMES a day - even when she didn't want it.
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