Papers cover Gordon Brown rumours

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There's further chattering about the prime minister's future in many of Saturday's papers.

The Daily Express names the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, as the favourite to take over at Number 10.

It comes amid what it says is growing speculation in Westminster of a bitter leadership challenge.

With rumours Mr Straw is set to take over circulating on the internet, the Guardian talks of a "deepening farce."

Unforgivable

The Daily Telegraph believes the jockeying for position for the Labour leadership is unforgivable given the scale of the crisis the country faces.

"It's not quite of wartime dimensions, but things have been about as bad as they can get in peacetime," it says.

Matthew Parris joins in, in his column in the Times. "Ed, Hazel, Ed, who's up, who's down, who cares?" he writes.

"They're soon-to-be nobodies in a government that's soon to be terminated," he says.

Standford

Things aren't always what they seem, as investors in Bernie Madoff and Allen Standford's empires are discovering.

The Times recalls the "defining moment" last year when the Texan arrived in style at Lord's in a Standford Corporation Sikorsky helicopter.

And how a security firm showed off a chest containing $20m (£14m).

However, it turns out that Standford didn't own a helicopter, he'd simply hired one and the money chest could have been padded out with paper.

Jade's wedding

There are many front page pictures of Jade Goody, as the dying reality TV star prepares to get married tomorrow.

Her groom, Jack Tweed is quoted in the Sun saying: "I know how hard the next weeks will be, and I'll be fighting back tears at the service."

The Daily Mirror says Miss Goody is so ill, nurses will be on hand.

It says her fiance has told friends:

"She will go down the aisle with me, even if I have to wheel her in her hospital bed."