Sunday's papers

As we approach the statement on the country's finances,the Sunday Times reports that the Chancellor is to tell government departments that the money has run out and they face a three-year cash freeze on spending.

The message, the toughest to be delivered by a chancellor since the last Labour government was bailed out by the International Monetary Fund in the 1970s, will mean public sector pay freezes and big job cuts. The cash freeze in Whitehall will mean a “real” cut of nearly £40 billion in spending over three years.

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The Observer meanwhile claims that the Chancellor is is drawing up plans to face down the country's top bankers

by taking the "nuclear option" of a windfall tax on their bumper bonuses as part of measures aimed at the super-rich.

The dramatic move, which was off the agenda just weeks ago, is under active discussion as the Treasury and No 10 try desperately to control the explosion of public anger over bankers' pay.

The latest opinion polls show the Conservatives once again on course for a majority at the general election.The ICM poll in the Telegraph

It leads with the story that The Queen has authorised a crackdown on the paparazzi amid her growing anger at intrusions into the private lives of members of the Royal family and their friends.

The new get-tough approach has the full support of the Prince of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry and other senior members of the Royal family, who are now prepared to take legal action against what they see as the "intrusive and unacceptable behaviour" of photographers. says the paper
sees the Tories hitting the key measure of 40 per cent with Labour 11 points behind on 29 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 19 per cent.

Privacy takes the lead in the Independent as well as the paper reports that

The Government has been asked to confirm that the voicemail messages of a cabinet minister were the subject of attempts at illegal hacking.

According to the paper

an investigator working for the News of the World eavesdropped on messages left on the mobile phone of Tessa Jowell when she was Secretary of State at the DCMS.

Climate change is all over the papers ahead of this week's summit.The Observer says that

Attempts have been made to break into the offices of one of Canada's leading climate scientists, it was revealed yesterday. The victim was Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria scientist and a key contributor to the work of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In one incident, an old computer was stolen and papers were disturbed.

The Telegraph reports that nearly one in two voters believes there is no proof that mankind is causing global warming, according to a new opinion poll.

Political scandal in the Mail on Sunday which reports that a vicious feud has broken out over a Labour-appointed peer who unexpectedly quit as head of an NHS watchdog at the centre of controversy over shocking hospital death rates.

Well-placed Government sources claimed that Baroness Young, chair of the Care Quality Commission, was 'volatile and hot-headed' and had sent abusive emails to colleagues.

According to the Sunday Times

Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.

A warm cup of hot milk for the She devil of Perugia says the Independent

After hearing her sentence, they waited up past midnight, made her warm milk and reassured her with hugs when she walked back into her cell. Amanda Knox's cellmates – a Roma, a woman from China and another from Kosovo – held a vigil on Saturday for the 22-year-old from Seattle

The Observer meanwhile asks whether the judges in the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito influenced by factors beyond the investigation?

The News of the World breaks the latest Tiger Woods story claiming that he had an affair with a busty waitress while his model wife was pregnant

"Sometimes I looked like a rag doll after we'd made love," she said. "He really did like it quite rough.
"He wanted to spank me and loved pulling my hair as we had sex. He also liked me to talk dirty to him, but hair-pulling was what really turned him on."

Back to more serious matter and the Telegraph reports that Six senior doctors have begun legal action to force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly,

Some suspect that Dr Kelly, 59, was murdered shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC story which alleged that evidence against Iraq had been "sexed up" by the Government in order to justify the 2003 invasion.

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The Observer reports that the British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates six weeks ago were on the verge of being freed for a £100,000 ransom when the government blocked the deal,

Finally two more stories about the Queen as the Mail on Sunday claims that she is to be forced to go through an identity check every time she flies into and out of Britain.

Foreign heads of state, including US President Barack Obama, and other members of the Royal Family will also have to submit to the security checks under new border controls, called e-Borders.

The Express reports that she stepped in to stop the sale of intimate notes penned by the Queen Mother after her cousin tried to cash in with a low-key auction of royal memorabilia.

The letters were among dozens of highly personal items which Lady Elizabeth Anson, the Queen Mother’s niece and Queen’s first cousin, had been hoping to sell at last month’s Paris auction.