What the papers say

Journalist Keith Baker takes a look at Monday's morning newspapers

The violent events at the weekend are reflected in the headlines.

The News Letter concentrates on the death of a man whose body was found in County Antrim.

The paper says a post mortem examination has shown he was knifed during an attack.

The Irish News has a front page picture of crowds gathering in North Queen Street in Belfast where trouble broke out on Sunday.

The paper highlights the injuries to a Catholic pensioner who was attacked near Duncairn Gardens, apparently by loyalists brandishing a cleaver.

'Lucky to be alive'

It says he is the second pensioner to come under attack in the flashpoint area within 24 hours.

The man's daughter tells the paper - "My father's a quiet man who gets on with everybody in the community. He's lucky to be alive".

The Mirror front page concentrates on the same attack but the headline there is - War and Peace.

The peace part is a reference to a claim that in Larne "loyalist terror bosses", as the paper calls them, may have called off their long-running campaign of intimidation against Catholics.

A loyalist insider is quoted. He tells the Mirror that all attacks on nationalists have been ordered to stop and any person found in breach of this ruling will be dealt with.

Meanwhile, in the Irish News again there's a claim that the UDA and UFF have closed their recruitment books because the number of people seeking to join has soared to a new high.

Wimbledon

In the cross-channel papers, the Mail and the Express are up in arms over remarks by the head of the Crown Prosecution Service who says the vast majority of people in Britain are racist.

The Mail calls this a breathtaking smear. And the Express says that thanks to these inflammatory remarks, we're one step further away from building a society in which race is no longer an issue.

On the sporting front, football fever is replaced by Wimbledon. And for the tabloids that's an excuse to run pictures of Anna Kournikova.

Other papers go for different angles. The most peculiar is probably in the Guardian. It says that today the first of 48,000 balls will be smashed across the genteel courts of SW19 but who ever pauses to wonder where they're made?

The Times says the people who run Wimbledon have been criticised for failing to mark the Golden Jubilee during this year's championships.

Twenty-five years ago, it says, there were lavish celebrations - not to mention the fact that Virginia Wade won the women's title - but this year there's no official tribute.

The World Cup is not forgotten, though. There are pictures of the England team coming back at the weekend but the Express wonders why they had to skulk home.

It says they barely acknowledged the thousands who were waiting for them at Heathrow.