Papers ponder cash-for-honours

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The Times says that, in the cash-for-honours affair, police may again question the prime minister's chief of staff, Jonathan Powell.

Its cartoonist links the affair with the operation to stop bird flu on Bernard Matthews' turkey farm.

A government tells a farmer there will be no cash compensation - "but we can offer you a peerage".

The Daily Mail connects bird flu with Muslim veils. It depicts turkeys escaping a farm disguised in burkhas.

'Friendly fire'

The Sun has a recording of two American pilots involved in a "friendly fire" incident in Iraq, in which a British solider was killed.

The paper's front page headline is "God dammit, we're in jail dude" - allegedly the words spoken by one of the airmen when he realised what they had done.

It says the cockpit tape is at the centre of a row between the UK and US.

The Sun says, in its leader, that it is pleased to be able to make the tape public despite its "painful" contents.

Taxpayers' money

The Daily Express is furious about how much was paid in legal aid to the lawyers representing the radical Muslim preacher, Abu Hamza.

"Hamza's lawyer on £17,000 a week and we're paying," reads the headline.

It says the sum has so far reached more than half a million pounds in just seven months.

The Express sees the saga as more evidence that taxpayers' money is being spent on "defending people suspected of plotting to destroy our free society".

'Woolly reputation'

The Daily Telegraph expresses delight that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has spoken out on the benefits of traditional marriage.

The paper is particularly pleased on two separate accounts.

Firstly, it is delighted that Dr Williams is agreeing with its own views on marriage.

And secondly, it speaks of its pleasure that the archbishop has begun to rid himself of what it calls his "reputation for woolliness".