Papers look ahead to Brown Budget

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With the Budget just three days away, several newspapers are looking ahead to the likely winners and losers.

The News of the World believes Wednesday will turn out to be "bloody nose day" with taxes set to rise again.

The paper says decisions not to change thresholds for income tax, stamp duty and inheritance tax mean everyone will pay £10,000 a year to the Exchequer.

The Sunday Mirror expects £4.5bn more a year for schools, which the People calculates as £100 more for each pupil.

U-turn on cannabis

The Observer remains sceptical that higher spending equals better services.

It highlights a survey which suggests "billions of pounds of taxpayers' money" pushed up NHS doctors' salaries without improving patient care.

Meanwhile the Independent on Sunday has abandoned its 10-year campaign to decriminalise cannabis.

It accepts there is strong evidence to suggest the drug, especially skunk, a newer, more powerful form of it, can cause people to suffer mental illness.

Flight taxes

The Mail on Sunday focuses on green issues with a survey that suggests voters are against the Conservatives' proposals for new taxes on flights.

The Sunday Express complains that Mr Cameron and Gordon Brown will not say if they will give up foreign holidays.

'Broken woman'

Almost all the papers reflect on the life and death of Sally Clark - the solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her baby sons.

The Independent asks "Who is to blame?" for the death of this "broken woman".

The Mirror thinks everyone who heard the news will have felt "shocked, angry, horrified... but not surprised".

And the News of the World says she was a victim of a tragedy, who showed "incredible strength to survive her ordeal and beat the justice system".