This topic wont go away.Following David Miliband's appearence on Andrew Marr at the weekend,it seems all the attention is on the first president of the EU.
The Guardian reports that Gordon Brown has assigned senior officials to help secure the role for the former PM
amid warnings from allies in government that the former prime minister will lose his chance unless he launches a dynamic campaign.
John Cunliffe, the prime minister's most senior Europe adviser, and Kim Darroch, Britain's EU ambassador, are taking soundings at senior levels. David Miliband, meanwhile, has also intensified Britain's campaign for Blair to become the first president of the European council.says the paper
The Independent meanwhile looks at another European opportunity
In the most pro-European speech by a British foreign secretary, Mr Miliband warned that the EU – and Britain – risks becoming marginalised by a Chinese-American "G2" elite unless its 27 members dropped their differences to develop a vigorous common international policy. His message contrasts with predecessors' emphasis on the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. Hours after Mr Miliband set out his vision of a more unified continent punching above its weight around the globe, he travelled to Luxembourg City to gauge support among fellow foreign ministers for Mr Blair's candidacy.
The Times meanwhile reports that Lord Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister,has predicted that David Cameron would be forced into a swift and humiliating retreat on Europe if he wins power.
Criminal checks even if you dont' work with children is the main story in the Telegraph.
Employers will come under pressure to register staff with the Government's anti-paedophile database even if they have little contact with children, the head of the scheme has said.
The Mail leads with the story that record numbers of middle-aged people are being ‘criminalised’ by target-chasing police.
After decades of abiding by the law, people are being punished for crimes such as motoring offences or refusing to pay wheelie-bin fines.says the report
The Sun reports thatministesr were last night accused of creating "total confusion" to hide the number of lags freed to re-offend.
New statistics show a "snapshot" of the number of violent and sexual offenders under supervision on March 31 instead of totals for the year.
The Times leads with Lord Stern of Brentford who tells the paper that people will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
The author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming,said
“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Both it and the Telegraph give prominence to the coroner's report which blamed lack of experience and poor discipline at an RAF base for a helicopter crash which killed three servicemen.
Flt Lt David Sale, 28, Sgt Phillip Burfoot, 27 and 17-year-old Pte Sean Tait died in the accident near Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, in August 2007.reports the latter
They were in a £20 million Puma aircraft which crashed at the end of a training exercise during which the crew joked, listened to music over the speaker system and quoted the Tom Cruise film Top Gun.
According to the Guardian,The government wants allegations that it was complicit in the torture by the US of Britons held as terrorism suspects to be heard in secret.
In documents seen by the paper
lawyers for the government argue it must be allowed to present evidence to the high court with the public excluded, otherwise Britain's relations with other countries and its national security could be damaged. The government also wants its evidence kept secret from defence lawyers.
Strikes ahead as the Independent says that
British Airways staff fighting planned cuts in cabin crew are to vote on strike action next month in a bad-tempered dispute that threatens to paralyse the heavily loss-making airline over the busy Christmas period.
Meanwhile talks between Royal Mail and Communication Workers Union aimed at heading off fresh postal strikes have been adjourned till Tuesday.says the Telegraph
An Amnesty International report will today accuse Israel of denying the West Bank and Gaza access to adequate water through a "total" and "discriminatory" control that enables its own people to consume four times as much as the Palestinians. reports the Independent
The latest political moves in Afghnaistan are reported in the Guardian as President Karzai snubs Abdullah Abdullah's terms for participation
The victims of Radovan Karadzic voiced outrage yesterday after the former Bosnian Serb leader made a mockery of the first day of justice for the worst atrocities seen in Europe since the Second World War. reports the Times adding that
Dr Karadzic, 64, remained in the plush detention centre nicknamed the “Hague Hilton” rather than face charges of genocide and war crimes in his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He has vowed to do the same today.
Three babies are being aborted every day due to Down's syndrome, according to a study which shows the number of terminations has more than trebled in the last 20 years. says the Telegraph
Finally to cheer us up the Express leads with the news that we are basking in one of the warmest late October weeks on record.
As the balmy Indian summer continued yesterday, the Met Office revealed we are going to enjoy higher temperatures than Corfu.
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