'True heroes' dominate the papers

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The newspapers are dominated by photos, not of the Navy crew released by Iran, but of the four British soldiers who were killed by a bomb in Basra.

The Daily Mail describes them as the "true heroes" of the past week.

Many of the papers, including the Daily Mirror, note that one of the casualties, 2nd Lt Joanna Yorke Dyer, was a close friend of Prince William.

According to the Sun he sent her a good luck note when she was posted to Iraq.

The death of two female soldiers in Iraq, combined with events in Iran, has lead to a renewed debate on the role of women in the Armed Forces.

Britain's first female fighter pilot, Jo Salter, tells the Daily Mirror that women should serve alongside men.

But another trailblazer Major Judith Webb, the first woman to command an all-male field force squadron in the Army, takes a different view.

She tells the Daily Mail that women may be capable of incredible mental and physical toughness, but there is no getting away from the fact that they are the more compassionate sex.

The Times claims that more than 1,300 mentally-ill children are being treated on adult psychiatric wards.

The paper says that figures from a government watchdog show that teenagers are being housed in the same units as dangerous patients.

The Guardian has another unsettling story for the government.

It says that six out of nine English regions have too few midwives to achieve even a basic level of care for families when they have a child.

Finally, the Telegraph has a theory as to why Mr Darcy was the strong but silent type.

A Canadian speech pathologist claims the hero of Pride and Prejudice was autistic.

She says Jane Austen wrote about the condition without knowing about the brain disorder.

The academic also suggests that Mr Collins, the clergyman, was a sufferer.

And that Lydia Bennet had attention deficit disorder.