What the Scottish Sunday papers say

The Sunday Mail reports that health chiefs have admitted patients face a nine-month wait for an MRI scan that will tell them if they have cancer.

The Sunday Times Scotland says a government adviser has warned plans to spend an extra £8.2bn on Scotland's health service could prove worthless unless private business practices are introduced.

Continuing the health theme, the Sunday Post says hospital waiting lists could be cleared if doctors and specialists gave up private work and concentrated on their NHS patients.

Millions of pounds of Scotland's massive Budget windfall will be diverted from frontline NHS services to fund a wider 'health revolution' north of the border, reports Scotland on Sunday.

The Sunday Herald reports that a bid to use the World Cup to rescue England's national flag, the Cross of St George, from its association with hooliganism and bigotry is to be launched this week as the country celebrates its saint.

The News of the World leads with claims that England soccer boss Sven Goran Eriksson was caught having sex with Ulrika Jonsson by her children's nanny.

The Scottish Mail on Sunday says Gordon Brown has made his most audacious assault yet on Tony Blair's authority by attacking his conduct on the world stage.

Police chiefs in Scotland are to demand harsher sentences for child thugs as part of a major blitz on spiralling crime, reports the Scottish Sunday Express.

The Independent on Sunday says Tony Blair is ready to follow his biggest gamble on last week's Budget by accelerating moves towards entry into the euro.

The Observer reports that more than half of Britain's 16 to 24-year-olds have taken illegal drugs, according to one of the most extensive studies undertaken into the growing drug culture.