Drug athlete row makes headlines

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All of the papers reflect the outcry over the inclusion in the Great Britain athletics team of Dwain Chambers, who admitted taking a banned drug in 2003.

The Daily Star is unhappy. "Drug Runner Gets OK" is its headline.

The Daily Express raises the possibility of promoters of big meetings getting together to bar "drug cheats" from their events.

Dwain Chambers tells the Sun people need to know he's now "clean".

"Stop treating me like a leper", he pleads.

Queen's distress

The Daily Telegraph reports the Queen is distressed by the row over Sharia law, which followed comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

A royal source says the Queen has not expressed any view on whether Dr Rowan Williams' comments were wise.

But as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, she is said to fear the row could undermine his authority.

It is feared it could also damage the Church, already facing possible schism over the issue of homosexual clergy.

'Chancellor's retreat'

The Financial Times is not impressed by the government's clarification of its plans for taxing the foreign earnings of non-domiciles in the UK.

The Treasury wants them to pay £30,000 a year, but now says it will not need full earnings details or back payments.

"Darling forced to retreat on non-doms" is the paper's main headline.

It says plans for a crackdown on non-doms had provoked a City backlash and there had been concern at the damage to the government's image as business-friendly.

The Telegraph says Alistair Darling's "retreat" follows a climbdown on plans to increase capital gains tax.

Shipping emissions

Environmental matters dominate both the Independent and the Guardian.

The latter carries a picture of a supertanker and suggests C02 emissions from shipping are three times higher than had previously been thought.

A leaked UN report is the source of the claim which is fully explored across two inside pages.

The study, it says, shows that "emissions from ships, which emit twice as much C02 as planes, have gone relatively unnoticed".