Papers lead on letter bomb attacks
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/6341119.stm Version 0 of 1. The letter bomb attacks are the main story for the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror. "Find the letter bomb maniac," the Express says, adding that police have no idea about a motive. Seven letter bombs have been sent to companies and one individual in England and Wales in the past three weeks. The Telegraph reports that detectives are desperate to catch the attacker before the danger grows. The Daily Mail says experts fear the packages are becoming increasingly dangerous to the point where they could kill. 'Death tape' The Sun claims to have a picture of the US pilot who fired on a British army column in Iraq in 2003, killing Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull. It also names the man as Col Gus Kohntopp and says he was the voice from what it calls the "death tape" which emerged this week. The man was cleared of wrongdoing by a US investigation. The Sun says Col Kohntopp is an experienced and accomplished member of the US Air Force. Plutocrats' paradise The Independent devotes its first seven pages to "Boom Britannia" where art sales are breaking records and the property boom has hit a new peak. It says Britain is the "new plutocrats' paradise", a magnet for a select group of international billionaires who are choosing London above competitors. People are choosing the capital over New York and Dubai as a place to make their homes, the paper adds. Not surprisingly the paper's headline is: "Spend! Spend! Spend!" 'Misery and chaos' The Times asks its readers: "Have you dared to look outside yet?" It is, the Express says, Britain's worst snow for 10 years. That brings warnings of, in the words of the Guardian, "misery and chaos" on roads. But the Mail worries about how nature - fooled into an early Spring - will cope. It asks what squirrels which have not hibernated will do? The Telegraph declares that we should forget global warming for a day. "Here comes winter," it says. |