STAR
BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT STAR IS POISONED
A top act in the final of Britain's Got Talent was last night at the centre of a poisoning riddle.

COST OF FOOD SOARS 16% IN FIVE MONTHS
The cost of fruit and veg has risen 16% since the start of this year.

GUARDIAN
PRIVATE SCHOOL CHIEF: STATE PUPILS FACE ANARCHY IN CLASS
State schools are struggling with unteachable children, ignorant parents, staff who don't want to be there and headteachers who don't understand their leadership, according to the chief executive of the Independent Schools Commission.

COULD US SCIENTIST'S 'CO2 CATCHER' HELP TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING?
A group of US scientists say they have made a breakthrough towards creating a machine that can "suck" CO2 from the air, reducing the warming effect of the billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas produced each year.

OOPS, WE DIDN'T MEAN MALAYSIANS ARE TERRORISTS - MARINES IN RETREAT AFTER GAFFE
A high-octane recruiting film by the Royal Marines forced the Ministry of Defence into headlong retreat yesterday, after complaints that it portrayed one of the most peaceable countries in Asia as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.

City
HSBC DIRECTORS SEE OF BACKLASH OVER PAY DEAL
Almost one in five HSBC shareholders refused yesterday to back a controversial executive pay scheme that could see the bank's top six executives pocket up to £120m over three years.

ORIGIN SNUBS BG'S HIGHER OFFER AFTER DOUBLING ESTIMATED RESERVES
The international energy group BG has been rebuffed again by Origin Energy after the Australian group doubled its estimate of its coal seam gas (CSG) reserves.

FINANCIAL TIMES
FSA CHIEF HEATS FUEL DEBATE
Higher energy prices are a "legitimate" way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Gordon Brown's chief adviser on climate change said on Friday, even as the government faces mounting pressure from MPs to ease fuel taxes.

BANKS SHUT DOOR ON £1M-PLUS MORTGAGES
Multi-million pound mortgages from high street lenders are heading for extinction, mortgage brokers said yesterday, as banks impose tough new limits on how much they will lend, or charge steep arrangement fees of up to £40,000.

BANKERS REJECT CRITICISM TO STAND FIRM ON WAY LIBOR IS CALCULATED
The British Bankers Association, which oversees the London interbank offered rate - one of the most important financial indicators - on Friday decided that despite mounting criticism it would not change the way the rate is calculated.

Companies and markets
HIGH STREET BANK STOCKS TAKE ANOTHER POUNDING
It was a gloomy end to a rotten but mercifully short week for the UK banking sector. Shares in the UK's big lenders fell yet again yesterday.

BRIAN MAY LEFT TO FRET OVER PLANET ROCK
Brian May appears to have lost a battle of rock rivals.

HEALTH SCARE
Health workers yesterday massively rejected a three-year pay offer.

TIMES
TOP POLICE BOYCOTT OFFICIAL PAPERWORK
The country's most successful police force is leading a revolt against Home Office targets that it says stifle officers with form-filling bureaucracy.

COMPLACENT LABOUR MUST GET BACK TO WHAT IT DOES BEST, SAYS PRESCOTT
John Prescott blamed complacency for Labour's problems yesterday as Gordon Brown entered a crucial weekend trying to head off two revolts and defending moves to help the vulnerable with fuel bills.

CUDDLING THE CLASS PET IS CRUEL, RSPCA TELLS SCHOOLS
Clutching the school guinea-pig or charting the growth of tadpoles in a jar has, for generations, been many children's first encounter with the natural world. But the practice of keeping animals in school is endangered and may even become extinct if RSPCA guidance is enforced.

City
SPY ALLEGATIONS FLY IN MOSCOW AS FRUSTRATED DIRECTOR OF TNK-BP QUITS
The dispute over ownership of BP's joint venture with Russia erupted again yesterday as a senior director abruptly resigned after admitting he could no longer help to resolve the issue.

SILVERJET LEFT GROUNDED AS SKY-HIGH FUEL COSTS BRING END TO GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING
Silverjet, the business-class airline, collapsed into administration yesterday hours after grounding all its jets.

INDEPENDENT
SHOCKED! HOW THE OIL CRISIS HAS HIT THE WORLD
All around the world, in a multitude of ways, the soaring price of oil is hurting rich and poor alike.

MAYBE IT'S TIME TO LET MEN JUDGE ORANGE PRIZE, CHAIR OF JURY SAYS
The chair of the jury of Britain's leading women's literary prize has called for a debate on whether men should be included on the judging panel to ensure a broader mix of tastes.

THERE ARE NO MORE GREAT WRITERS, SAYS VS NAIPAUL
The novelist VS Naipaul has damned the achievements of his literary contemporaries by declaring that there are "no more great writers".

City
BG JILTED BY ORIGIN AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR
BG Group executives sent to Australia to seal the gas group's takeover of Origin Energy left empty-handed yesterday after the Australian energy group had an 11th-hour change of heart and rejected the £6.6bn bid.

SILVERJET COLLAPSE LEAVES THOUSANDS STRANDED
Silverjet has become the third business-class only airline to fall under the weight of the record oil price.

SUN
HOLIDAY FROM HELMUT
A British tourist has won cash compensation for a spoiled holiday - because his hotel was swamped by Germans.

HEROIN MUM'S 3 JUNKIE BABIES
A junkie mum who keeps giving birth to children hooked on heroin has been slammed by a coroner after one died.

NAOMI LOST IT ON 'AIRLINE
Supermodel Naomi Campbell is going bald, a pal confirmed this week.

MIRROR
YOU DID RIGHT
A brave mum who shopped her two thug sons landing them in jail was backed by an admiring nation yesterday.

ABBEY: MY CAR CRASH HORROR
Wag Abbey Clancy has told how she cheated death in a horrific motorway smash - and how the experience has changed her life.

NHS PAY SICKENER FOR BESIEGED PM
Thousands of health workers have massively rejected an 8% pay deal over three years - putting them on a collision course with the government and causing fresh problems for Gordon Brown.