PM starts year in fighting spirit

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According to the Observer, PM Gordon Brown is greeting the new year in fighting and decisive spirit.

In an interview with the paper, he indicates he is likely to give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations as early as Tuesday.

But other papers will make less than welcome reading for the prime minister.

The Mail on Sunday accuses Labour of wasting NHS training budgets, and the talents of jobless doctors who will be unable to find work in the UK.

The Labour health ministers who devised such a "cack-handed system" should get their heads examined, thePeoplesuggests.

Celebrity coverage

Coverage of Britney Spears has divided the papers.

The Sunday Mirror is among many to publish photos of her being taken to hospital after trying to prevent her sons being returned to their father.

She screamed suicide threats at the emergency crews who arrived at her Beverly Hills home, according to theSunday Express .

The News of the World says the incident was prompted by her ex-husband's fears that she would kill her sons.

But the Sunday Telegraph questions what it says about celebrity when a breakdown takes place before "cameras for the benefit of an insatiable public".

The Sunday Express reports that DNA evidence could prove the innocence of Dr Crippen, who was hanged for murder in 1910.

Crippen's closest surviving relative says the evidence indicates that the body found under the doctor's floor was not that of his wife at all.

US race

The Sunday Times reports a survey by a US national pollster putting senator Barack Obama 10 points ahead of rival Hilary Clinton in New Hampshire.

After appearing unassailable in the Democrat nomination race there, Mrs Clinton now faces a possible "mincing" - the Independent on Sunday claims.

The Mail on Sunday reports that churches will now offer gluten free communion wafers.

Thousands have been supplied to clergy around the country after reports that parishioners with potentially fatal coeliac disease had fallen ill, it says.