High office the focus for papers

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All UK newspapers cover the admission by several cabinet ministers, including Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, that they smoked cannabis.

The Daily Mirror refers to "Jacqui's baccy" and a "Cabinet spliff", contrasting ministers who have owned up with those who refuse to comment.

This was, says the Daily Mail, an "extraordinary Cabinet confessional".

It puts pressure on the Conservatives to "come clean about their history of drug use", the paper adds.

Licensing hangover

The Daily Telegraph argues the latest crime figures have shattered government claims that all-night drinking would reduce alcohol-related crime.

It says that early morning violent offences have soared since the introduction of 24-hour licensing.

According to the Times, while crime has fallen around the traditional closing time, disorder has simply been shifted to the early hours.

The Sun says no one will see "pre-dawn hooliganism" as an improvement.

Wash out?

The Daily Express forecasts that Britain is facing two months-worth of rain in the next 24 hours.

It says downpours of at least 4in will cause more flooding in areas of England and Wales where the ground is still saturated from last month's deluge.

According to the Daily Mail, the rain will bring chaos to the roads as families start their summer holidays.

Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports will have to handle more than one million passengers between them this weekend, it adds.

Bird food

A hungry seagull in Aberdeen has caused something of a flap.

The Sun tells how, every morning, it lies in wait outside a corner shop, waiting for the door to open.

When it does, it waddles in and steals a bag of crisps, before wandering back outside to eat them.

A shop assistant tells the Daily Mail that the seagull is picky - it will only ever eat chilli-flavoured crisps.