Papers lap up Currie revelations

The fallout continues from Edwina Currie's revelation of her love affair with former Prime Minister John Major.

The Times reports that Mrs Currie has "vented her anger" on hearing that the former Conservative leader is "most ashamed" of the affair.

The paper, which has begun serialising Mrs Currie's diaries, quotes her as saying "he was not very ashamed of it at the time, I can tell you".

The Daily Mail suggests that news of the affair may cost Mr Major the honour of becoming Knight of the Garter- a privilege given to all other surviving former prime ministers.

"Major tried it on with us, too" is the headline in both the Daily Star and Daily Express, which claim that Mr Major tried to charm two other Tory women - the ex-Billericay MP, Teresa Gorman, and the Conservative defector to the Liberal Democrats, Baroness Nicholson.

Bloody Monday

The Express believes that all the talk of the Currie-Major affair has deflected attention away from what had promised to be a difficult Labour Party conference for current Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Nevertheless, the Sun suggests that today could still prove to be "Bloody Monday" for Mr Blair. The paper expects that unions will use their block votes to "humiliate" Mr Blair over his determination to let private firms build hospitals and schools.

Further bad news for the government appears in the Independent following a survey which suggests that almost two-thirds of voters are dissatisfied with Mr Blair's overall performance.

Prison trouble

Several papers report that it is a curry of a different kind causing problems for another former senior Tory.

The Daily Mirror says Lord Archer had a plate of hot curry thrown at him by a fellow inmate at Lincoln jail, shortly after arriving after his relocation from an open prison.

The paper says the peer was "stunned, but unhurt".

According to the Express, the incident followed an earlier attack in which Lord Archer was "beaten-up" by another prisoner, amid rumours that he had informed the authorities at his previous jail of drug dealing among inmates.

Easy Ryder

Most front pages carry images of Europe's jubilant golfers after they regained the Ryder Cup from the United States at The Belfry.

The Financial Times reports that there were "delirious scenes" on the 18th green when Ireland's Paul McGinley sank the winning putt.

Under the headline, "Soaking It Up", The Guardian shows McGinley celebrating having been thrown in to the lake.

"Sam Goes Bats at the Belfry" is how The Sun describes a picture of the Europe captain, Sam Torrance, drenched in champagne.

Wealthy words

The Times describes the immortal words of commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme at the end of the 1966 World Cup as "the best-known phrase in English sport".

It has also emerged that it helped make Mr Wolstenholme a millionaire.

Back in 1966, the BBC paid him just £60 for his commentary on England's World Cup Final victory over West Germany which he ended with the words - "They think it's all over. It is now".

But before his death in March of this year, fees from personal appearances and after-dinner speeches mounted-up, and his estate has been valued at £1.1m.