Budget anxieties make the papers

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It may still be two days away but the Budget is already causing much anxiety in the day's newspapers.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/budget/article6129001.ece"> The Times thinks Alistair Darling will demand £15bn </a> of Whitehall efficiency savings which, the paper claims, "will have massive implications for services".

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1171936/Dangerous-optimism-Darling-promises-Budget-cuts-recovery-Christmas-critics-warn-hes-denial.html"> The Daily Mail questions whether the Chancellor is in denial </a> about the true state of the country's finances.

The Sun's editorial says Mr Darling's Budget "will be Labour's last chance saloon after 12 years in power".

Many of the papers include news of the death of the acclaimed author JG Ballard at the age of 78.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/j-g-ballard-dies-aged-78-after-long-illness-1671321.html"> The Independent says he was "frequently controversial" </a> but "earned the rare distinction of appearing as an adjective - Ballardian".

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/20/hillsborough-campaigners-call-for-secret-files-to-be-made-public-as-quickly-as-possible-115875-21290748/"> Hope is the single-word headline for a story in the Daily Mirror. </a>

This reflects the Home Secretary's call to have secret files about the Hillsborough stadium disaster made public 10 years ahead of schedule.

The Daily Express examines the possibility that British scientists may have discovered a way to put a "brake" on the development of all cancer types.

'Nastiness' claim

Former Labour MP Alice Mahon, who quit the party over the Damian McBride affair, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/alice-mahon-why-i-could-stay-and-fight-no-longer-1671323.html"> mounts an attack on her former colleagues in the Independent. </a>

She claims that "'nastiness' has always been the hallmark of New Labour".

She also says that things have not changed since Gordon Brown moved into Number 10.

After three years, a fight to save the Victorian railways gates at the entrance to the Essex town of Frinton-on-Sea has been lost.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/5183431/Ungated-community.html"> The Daily Telegraph reports that engineers from Network Rail </a> moved in and removed the wooden gates which had been in place for more than a century.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/20/one-hundred-year-old-colour-images-found-in-an-old-cupboard-115875-21290712/"> The Mirror covers the discovery of images from the dawn of colour photography, </a> during the Edwardian era.

They were taken, early last century, by the banker Lionel de Rothschild.