Expenses row refuses to go away

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MPs' expenses claim details continue to emerge, with the Sunday Telegraph picking up where its sister paper left off, and other media following.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/">The Telegraph examines claims from Sinn Fein, Conservative and Labour MPs.</a>

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/">Matt's cartoon depicts an exasperated man</a> telling his shop-happy wife: "I'm only a Premiership footballer, love. You spend money like I'm an MP."

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301176/MPs-expenses-Its-easy-to-blame-the-system-without-taking-responsibility.html">One commentator says the scandal is "more worrying than a few bad apples",</a> adding that "the whole orchard [has] gone rotten".

All the papers make use of the details on MPs' expenses obtained by the Telegraph, with <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179937/The-Speakers-scapegoat-Official-signed-MPs-expenses-didnt-accountancy-qualification.html">the Mail on Sunday leading on the "Speaker's Scapegoat".</a>

Head of the Commons Fees Office, Andrew Walker, voiced concern about possible abuses of the system five years ago, but was ignored, says the paper.

Lord Carey's comments condemning the "clawing greed" of some MPs are part of a spread in the News of the World.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/100092/EXCLUSIVE-MPs-vote-for-16million-more-expenses">The Sunday Express claims MPs have voted</a> to add £16m to the expenses pot.

As MPs are condemned there is praise for Major Phil Packer, the UK soldier who completed the London marathon after losing the use of his legs in Iraq.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/athletics/article6255639.ece">The Sunday Times reports that he felt his feat was "bittersweet", </a> coming after more soldiers lost their live in Afghanistan.

"Last in the marathon, but <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/last-in-the-marathon-but-still-a-winner-1682298.html">still a winner" says the Independent on Sunday. </a>

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/299354/Tory-MP-James-Gray-is-exposed-as-a-greedy-skinflint-after-claiming-for-Remembrance-Day-WREATHS-on-expenses-while-Marathon-hero-Phil-Packer-crossing-finishing-line.html">The News of the World believes his feat puts the "grasping MPs" to shame.</a>

Meanwhile the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/mumbai-terror-attacks-compensation-britain">Observer reports on the campaign to increase compensation</a> for survivors of terrorist attacks abroad.

The Observer also prints a <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/10/alcohol-intake-dementia-memory-loss">new warning about the dangers of binge drinking.</a>

It says doctors have found that up to a quarter of dementia cases may be linked to heavy drinking, with women at greater risk.

And the News of the World describes how supermarket trolleys of the future will be programmed to warn shoppers against buying too much fattening food.

A report also predicts that trolleys will guide people to the right aisle, according to their shopping list.