Expenses row focuses on Lib Dems

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After six days of the Daily Telegraph's revelations into MPs' expenses claims, the leaked data is still driving the news agenda across the newspapers.

And now it is the turn of the Liberal Democrats to feel the heat.

The paper says <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5315055/MPs-expenses-Liberal-Democrat-claims-for-308000-flat-used-by-daughter-as-bolt-hole.html">Lib Dem MP Andrew George claimed for mortgage interest payments and furniture</a> on a flat used by his student daughter.

The backbench MP for St Ives has vehemently denied his 21-year-old daughter lived in his flat.

'Tory squirearchy'

But it is what the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/">Independent</a> calls the "lord of the manor" lifestyles of senior Conservative MPs that continue to attract the most interest.

The Daily Mail treats its readers to aerial pictures of the country homes of what it calls the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180696/Repay-expenses-Ill-kick-party-Camerons-warning-Tory-MPs.html">"Tory squirearchy".</a>

However the response of party leader David Cameron - ordering his senior MPs to pay back excessive claims - is loudly, and widely, praised.

For the Times, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6276248.ece">he showed that he fully understood the public's attitude.</a>

'Leniency for addicts'

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2426262.ece">Sun's front page</a> leads with the latest celebrity relationship breakdown - the divorce of singer Peter Andre and model Katie Price, aka Jordan.

The Daily Express says <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/100687">judges have been told not to jail burglars</a> if they are drug addicts kicking their addiction.

It says guidelines also recommend leniency for alcoholics and gamblers.

Smoking loophole

A pub has found a loophole in the law to get round the ban on smoking.

The Daily Mail says a regular of the pub, in Barnsley, discovered a <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180826/Landlady-transforms-pub-smoking-research-centre-legal-loophole-customers-smoke-indoors.html">"smoking research centre"</a> could be introduced in a separate room of the pub.

Customers could smoke in the room after filling in a research questionnaire about their smoking habits.

The Sun says if other pubs and clubs copy the idea, the ban could <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2426476.ece">"go up in flames".</a> But the Mail points out the loophole is likely to be closed.