Hero co-pilot grabs the headlines

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The plane crash at Heathrow gives several of the papers their lead story.

The headline writers seize on the name of the co-pilot who skilfully landed the British Airways plane.

The Daily Mail's headline is "A hero called Coward". The Sun has "Coward is a hero". For the Daily Mirror, it is "Coward the brave".

The Guardian also picks up on the Senior First Officer John Coward's name, the paper says it could not have been more improbable.

'Financial bombshell'

Pictures of the British Airways crew of the plane that crashed at Heathrow appear on the front pages of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express.

However they choose to lead with other stories. For the Telegraph, it is the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop.

The computer is said to have personal details of more than half a million potential recruits to the armed forces.

The Express says recent price rises for British Gas customers will be a fiscal bombshell for millions of families.

Dead genius

The death of chess genius Bobby Fischer is widely covered by the papers.

The Daily Mirror describes him as the eccentric American who made chess sexy. It declares he was the greatest player of his and any other generation.

But the Guardian says after 1972 Mr Fischer became a recluse, rootless, and increasingly deranged.

Tragically, as the Financial Times puts it, by the end of his life his eccentricity and paranoia had come to overshadow his achievement.

Rocketing inflation

The Independent has a picture of the world's largest denomination bank note, which has been issued in Zimbabwe.

The paper says inflation in the country is 150,000% and the note is worth 10 million Zimbabwe dollars.

According to the paper, the rocketing level of inflation is the latest sign of economic meltdown.

Readers are told that prices change by the hour and plastic bags full of bank notes are needed to pay for basic goods.