Party leaders reach out to voters

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As the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/">Telegraph leads on MPs' expenses</a> for the 20th day, other front pages focus on how the parties are proposing to re-establish trust with the voters.

According to the headline in the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6368466.ece">Times, the party leaders are in a "scramble to clean up Parliament."</a>

"Power to the people," declares the Independent above pictures of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and rivals David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/campaign-for-democracy-brown-vs-cameron-vs-clegg-1691210.html">It quotes from articles each has written for the paper,</a> on reform ideas.

Independent challengers

Terry Waite - the former special envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury held hostage in Beirut in the 1990s - <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6367904.ece">tells the Times he may stand for Parliament.</a>

Independent candidates will not have all the answers but may breathe fresh air into a political hothouse that has suffocated for too long, he says.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5389597/MPs-expenses-Simon-Heffer-to-stand-against-Alan-Haselhurst-if-he-does-not-repay-claims.html">Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer says he may run against his MP,</a> Conservative deputy speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst.

The MP used allowances to pay for gardening at his country house.

Royal anger

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1188515/D-Day-snub-Queen-Palace-fury-Sarkozy-refuses-invite-royals-65th-Anniversary--Brown-wont-act.html">The Daily Mail says Buckingham Palace is angry at France's failure to invite the Queen</a> to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.

According to the paper, French officials said President Sarkozy was focused on the "main event" of hosting President Obama next week.

They never had any plans to invite the Royal family.

There was also anger at the government here, it says, for not securing a Royal invitation from Paris.

Driving dangers

With Manchester United facing Barcelona in the Champions League final, fans have been warned against listening to football on the radio while driving.

A study for an insurance company found motorists were easily distracted by commentary, the Telegraph reports.

Fans in a driving simulator overtook, accelerated, tailgated and changed lanes at key points in the game.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1188534/Listening-football-driving-make-crash.html">A spokesman for the insurance company told the Mail</a> it was safer to get a lift or stay at home.