Papers look at Legionnaires' disease

As many of the papers relate the seriousness of what The Times warns could be the UK's worst outbreak of legionnaires' disease for a decade, the Daily Mail offers a helpful question-and-answer feature on "the killer that lives in the water".

The paper warns the disease is fatal in up to 15% of cases.

But it reassures readers you cannot catch it from an infected person.

Bad blood

The Guardian has a different health story on its front page.

It says scientists have upgraded the risk of catching variant CJD from blood transfusions from "theoretical" to "appreciable."

One in six sheep given blood from an infected animal caught the disease, the paper reports.

Legal pardon

The Sun tells the story of a deaf man arrested by police in Sunderland who thought he was making a rude gesture at them.

The paper explains the sign for "I am deaf" involves sticking up your two first fingers and pointing at your ear.

It was five months before magistrates threw out the case - not the police's finest hour, says The Sun.

Calling this "Cop blunder one," The Mirror details what it says was a second howler by the same police force, which arrested and took DNA samples from three 12-year-old children, caught playing in the street with a toy gun.

Stranger than fiction

Tired of sequels, and nervous about action thrillers after 11 September, Hollywood is turning to British reality television, according to The Times.

The paper describes how a Channel Four documentary about a classical cellist who became a nightclub disc jockey after four weeks of training has been bought by Buena Vista - although a love interest has been added by the film-makers.

And the paper says Miramax and BBC Films are among companies bidding for the rights to another Channel Four documentary about a couple who uprooted their family to turn a Caribbean island into a holiday resort.

They were later kidnapped by rebels and escaped by setting fire to their captors.

But the paper says producers are toning down the real-life horrors to make the story more believable.

And The Star speculates film producers are looking further back in the TV schedules for their next blockbuster, thinking about bringing 1980s soap opera Dallas to the big screen.