Koran burning row grabs headlines
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The row surrounding a US pastor who planned to burn copies of the Koran is widely reported in the papers.
An image of the pastor, with a headline referring to the "burning issue", is on the front page.
The reports that he opted to call off what it refers to as the "Koran bonfire" after the world had been "put on terror alert".
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Despite interest rates being held at a 300 year low, the paper says, banks are fleecing their cash-strapped customers by charging record overdraft rates.
Several papers report that a sacked social work boss has been asked to give expert advice on child safety to MPs.
The to the Commons Education Committee in an inquiry on safeguarding children.
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It says earthquakes have only killed 11 people in Britain since records began.
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Stephen Wilce had been New Zealand's Chief Defence Scientist, with top-level security clearance.
'Soap's fieriest landlady'
The Queen Vic pub burned down in Eastenders and Barbara Windsor - who the says is "arguable the nation's best-loved soap star" will bow out of the programme after 16 years.
Windsor will appear in her final scenes as Peggy Mitchell later.
The played by the former Carry On star, calling her "soap's fieriest landlady".
It says: "How better for Babs to bow out of Eastenders than in a blaze of glory as the Queen Vic burns down?"