Papers consider cancer drug 'secret'

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Claims that some doctors in England are not telling cancer patients about potentially-life saving drugs are reported in Tuesday's papers.

The Times and Daily Mail say this is because they think it will be impossible for the NHS to pay for them.

A quarter of bone marrow cancer specialists who responded to a survey "hid the facts" about new drugs to treat the disease, the Times reports.

And the Mail says many of the drugs are available in Europe.

eBay data

The Financial Times has conducted a poll which suggests more than half of voters blame government ministers for the economic downturn.

The same poll suggests a quarter of people who have always voted for Labour now feel less inclined to do so.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports that thousands of people's bank account details and other personal data were on a PC which was sold on eBay.

The paper wonders when a run of data losses will end.

Power vacuum

The Guardian looks at the work of a government office which it claims is trying to promote the global message that al-Qaeda is a spent force.

It says the unit asks volunteers to spread what the paper calls "propaganda" through internet forums, and tries to get it into the UK media.

And the Independent fears there could be a power vacuum within Pakistan.

The paper's concerns come after the withdrawal of Nawaz Sharif from the coalition government.

Spooky city

The return of a grandmother from Tenby in Wales, who has come home after five years spent walking around the world, is marked by the Independent.

The Daily Express reports on piracy on the high seas in the Mediterranean, where a luxury yacht was targeted by masked gun-toting raiders.

And Derby is Britain's spookiest city, according to the Sun.

The paper has spoken to what it calls a ghost expert, who has conducted a supernatural survey of Britain.