Honours advice on offer in papers

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The papers offer some advice to those in authority over the cash-for-honours affair.

The Sunday Telegraph cautions the Attorney General that the final decision will present him with a "supreme test" of his independence.

The Sunday Times believes decisions on prosecution "should be left to the professionals in the Crown Prosecution Service".

The Sunday Telegraph sees the affair as a sign of how times have changed.

It sums up Mr Blair's decade in power as a path that has led Labour "from a brave new dawn to the brink of an Old Bailey trial".

French choice

As French voters begin to choose a new president, some of the papers take a squint across the Channel.

The Sunday Mirror sees it as a battle between "Joan of Arc and Napoleon".

To the Sunday Express, Segolene Royal is "Mademoiselle Blair" while Nicolas Sarkozy is "Monsieur Maggie."

Most believe France is ready for change.

'Jack the lad'

Several papers celebrate the fact that, on his 70th birthday, the actor Jack Nicholson is the same as he ever was.

The Sunday Express pays tribute to a "fabled womaniser" and says it is hard to believe that he is "well, old."

The paper says he is still "dating women with ages considerably smaller than their bra sizes."

Jack, says the Daily Star Sunday, is "still the lad!". Or, as the Express puts it, "the only thing he hasn't really tried is ageing with dignity."

Model looks

According to the Observer, John Lewis has been considering concerns that too much advertising features only "thin models".

It says the retailer is determined to show British women as they really are, by using "a diversity" of models.

And the Mail on Sunday says violent gangs mark their territory by leaving pairs of trainers dangling from overhead telephone wires.

The police say the message is there to frighten off rival gangs.