Reid saga dominates papers

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Home Secretary John Reid continues to dominate many of the Sunday papers.

The News of the World approves of Mr Reid's plan to make paedophiles take lie detector tests, hailing it as "a great idea".

It also lambasts police forces who have lost track of hundreds of sex offenders, for refusing to name them or list their crimes.

The Sunday Times believes lie detector tests will be seen as an attempt by Mr Reid to reassert his authority.

'Queue' for jail

The Independent on Sunday says it can reveal that a "desperate" Mr Reid has drawn up plans to place offenders on waiting lists for prison places.

People sentenced to jail could be held in a queue while under supervision for as long as three months before being given a prison place.

Mr Reid, in a column for the Sunday Express, insists: "I will solve the prisons crisis."

He argues he is not the first home secretary with rising prisoner numbers.

Blair 'paper trail'

The Sunday Telegraph claims police investigating the cash-for-honours affair have found a paper trail leading directly to Tony Blair.

They say a handwritten note by Mr Blair among new evidence has widened the probe, although Downing St denies it.

In the Observer, David Cameron "smashes the Tory hard line on British values" in a column for the paper.

He says he wants the Tories to stand for a "broad and generous vision of British identity".

Wait for adoption

The Sunday Telegraph says more than 1,500 children are languishing in care waiting to be adopted - despite couples desperate to adopt.

The paper says they are among 60,000 children living in foster homes or residential institutions in England.

The children have been put on national registers as adoptive parents have not been found in their own areas.

A petition against plans for national road-pricing has grown to 600,000 the Mail on Sunday says.

Mother at 67

The front of the News of the World is given over almost entirely to a picture of a happy mum with her baby twin boys.

Carmela Bousada, a Spanish woman, has become a mother for the first time at the age of 67.

In a feature inside, Miss Bousada tells the paper she lied about her age to doctors in the US to get IVF treatment, saying she was 55.

She says she sold her house to fund the treatment, chose the egg donor - and is now looking for a young boyfriend.