Bird flu controversy rages on

Version 0 of 1.

The name of a man and his eponymous company appears on a number of front pages for what could be described as all the wrong reasons.

"Is Bernard Matthews to blame?" asks the Daily Mail. Like the Times, it says the farm giant is being investigated over the bird flu outbreak.

There are other questions too. In the Daily Express: "Is infected food on shelves of British shops now?"

And in the Daily Mirror: "Did Bernard bring bird flu in from Hungary?"

Ethical issues

A multicoloured scan of a human skull - and, in particular, the brain - graces the front page of the Guardian.

It tells how German and British neuroscientists say they have developed a method of reading people's intentions before they act.

The paper says it raises serious ethical issues.

One scientist, from Germany's Max Planck Institute, tells the paper: "It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall."

Ceasefire terms

The Independent also has a head pictured large on its front page - that of a hooded Sunni insurgent in Iraq.

It says that, for the first time, a principal insurgent group has set out ceasefire terms that would allow US and UK forces to leave the country.

"The present terms would be impossible for any US administration to meet," says the paper's Robert Fisk.

"But it shows that the groups which have taken 3,000 US lives are actively discussing the opening of contacts."

Podcast

Those eagerly awaiting Prime Minister Tony Blair's memoirs could well find them a little hazy on detail in places.

The Daily Telegraph reports that, in a podcast on the Downing Street website, Mr Blair has disclosed that he does not keep a diary.

The paper says the PM is understood to have already agreed a multi-million pound book deal.

Mr Blair will have to draw heavily on official papers and the recollections of friends and colleagues, it adds.