Shock Hamilton arrest grips papers

The surprise arrest of Neil and Christine Hamilton over a sex assault allegation appears on all the front pages.

In what The Sun calls "a bizarre twist", it reports that the couple were accompanied to a police station in east London by the TV presenter, Louis Theroux, who is making a documentary about them.

The Daily Mail recounts the timetable of Friday's events, explaining how the Hamiltons were driven to Barkingside police station having attended Lord Longford's funeral earlier in the day.

The paper says that on leaving the police station, Mrs Hamilton told reporters the allegations were "an absolutely monstrous fabrication".

Israeli orphan

All the broadsheets carry front page photographs of a child wounded and orphaned in Thursday's bomb attack on a restaurant in Jerusalem.

"Girl at the heart of Israel's grief" is the headline in The Times, as it describes how 10-year-old Leah was taken on a stretcher to the funerals of her parents, brother and two sisters.

The Guardian explains how no-one among the thousands of mourners who attended "could produce an answer for Leah as to why she lost her family".

Omagh lawsuit

The Daily Telegraph leads on the attempt by relatives of victims of the Omagh bombing to sue five men alleged to have carried out the atrocity.

The paper says the families will make legal history when they formally launch their legal action on Saturday - almost three years ago to the day since the bomb attack in which 29 people died.

The paper notes that three of the men in the writ were named in the BBC's Panorama programme last October.

Straw 'backs' Star Wars

Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is on course for a "big row at the Labour conference", after appearing to back President Bush's controversial missile defence project, reports The Guardian.

Calling it the government's "strongest backing so far" for the project, the paper claims that his "enthusiastic endorsement" comes in a briefing document sent to all 412 Labour MPs.

It says Mr Straw's move will be met with "surprise" in Whitehall, where senior officials have expressed misgivings about the Bush administration's plans.

Wrestling over title

The story of how the animal kingdom overcame the world of wrestling is reported in many of the papers.

"First round to the panda" says The Telegraph, explaining how the World Wide Fund for Nature found itself up against the World Wrestling Federation for the right to use the coveted initials, WWF.

As The Times puts it, the "wrestlers were floored", as the High Court ruled that the federation had breached a contract signed by the conservation charity in 1994.