Honours inquiry dominates papers

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Bold claims about the cash-for-honours investigation dominate some of the papers.

The Times and the Daily Mail both speculate about who could be in the firing line.

The Mail suggests that some close to the Prime Minister could be prosecuted.

Both the Mirror and the Financial Times are convinced that the Prime Minister himself is in the clear.

Do not expect any real resolution to this long-running saga anytime soon, though.

Many papers reckon the Crown Prosecution Service will take three months to decide on any action.

Cruelty

There is considerable anger because four women who encouraged two toddlers to fight one another have not been given a jail term.

The Mirror cannot understand why the women received suspended sentences.

It says in a separate case on the same day, a man from Birmingham was jailed for four months for staging fights between pit-bull terriers.

The Sun is also baffled at why cruelty to animals merits greater punishment than cruelty to children.

Winnie the Pooh

A campaign of civil disobedience, by what the Independent calls a group of Nimbies, is about to begin in Sussex.

The paper says protestors will chain themselves to the trees of Ashdown Forest, which was the inspiration for AA Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" stories.

The local council says it is overgrown and wants to chop down swathes of trees.

But one resident tells the paper that the whole thing is a form of "scientific fanaticism".

The papers are obsessed about the weather, and the unusually warm spring that many of us are enjoying.

The Daily Express pours cold water on the sunny weather, saying traditional April showers are set to return to the UK next week.

This will come too late for those running the London Marathon this weekend.

The Times says because it is so warm, Sunday's race could be the most dangerous in its 26-year history.