Blair's departure dominates press

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Tony Blair's expected announcement on his future as prime minister dominates the papers.

The Guardian shows four photographs of his face fading out of focus while the Daily Telegraph lists post-1997 words, including ASBO, hoodies and Wi-Fi.

The Times notes how the prime minister will bid farewell with a "world tour" while the Daily Mirror thinks he will be "going out with style".

The Sun says Mr Blair will finally put the chancellor "out of his misery".

Search frustrations

The hunt for missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal continues to feature in the press.

"Muddle and failure" is how the Daily Telegraph sums up the search, while the Daily Express reports a sighting of the girl at a petrol station.

The Sun says a list of 130 British paedophiles has been given to police and the Times claims detectives now believe she was abducted "to order".

But there is still no evidence of a chief suspect, says the Daily Mail.

Medal find

The Daily Express is one of several papers to report the discovery in an attic of a medal won in the Great War by poet Siegfried Sassoon.

The theory, it says, was that he threw his Military Cross into the Mersey in protest at the futility of war.

But, the Daily Mail reports, the find tells a different story - that the poet only tossed away the medal's ribbon.

It claims the "grand gesture" was "not all it seemed at the time". The award is to be auctioned next month.

Sick bull fight

The fate of Shambo the bull, who has tested positive for tuberculosis and faces slaughter, is also considered.

The Daily Mirror says the bull has been put in isolation at his home at a temple in west Wales and says requests for vaccination have been rejected.

Hindus plan to form a human chain around the five-year-old Friesian's home in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire, the Daily Mail reports.

Agriculture officials are to discuss his fate on May 14, says the Times.