Papers analyse Osborne's speech

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Shadow chancellor George Osborne's speech to the Conservative Party conference is closely analysed in Wednesday's papers.

The Daily Mail says Mr Osborne rose to the occasion, tackled the tax issue, and won himself a standing ovation.

What he indicated, thinks the Times, is that he has tax-cutting instincts but wants to proceed on his own timetable.

The Guardian, however, believes it suited Mr Osborne to play up the threat from the right of the party, so he and David Cameron can be seen to defeat it.

'Guilty secret'

The killing of five US schoolgirls continues to feature in the papers.

The Mail gives over the whole of its front to a picture of killer Charles Roberts - with a headline telling of "his guilty secret".

The Daily Mirror focuses on Roberts's final call to his wife when he confessed to molesting two young girls in his own family 20 years ago.

The Daily Telegraph writes of the Amish community's "stoic calm", and the Times says they are grieving, but not angry.

Airbus crisis

Some of the papers consider the plight of Airbus after it announced a further delay to its super-jumbo project.

A £3bn crisis is how the Financial Times describes the problems facing the company, reporting that airlines are threatening to cancel orders.

The Independent says cost-cutting plans announced by Airbus are likely to involve thousands of job losses.

The company's gamble in building the biggest-ever passenger plane may yet bring it to its knees, says the Times.

Court confusion

The papers have differing opinions over the outcome of a sex discrimination case considered by the European courts.

The Guardian says Bernadette Cadman won her case that employers cannot pay some workers higher salaries than others solely on the grounds of long service.

But the Times says the judges ruled that women who take maternity leave have no right to the same pay as male colleagues who have not had time off.

The Financial Times quotes Ms Cadman as saying she is delighted by the ruling.