What the papers say

Journalist Malachi O'Doherty takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning's papers.

A little girl on her first day at school on the front of the Irish News in a touching picture by Hugh Russell, her socks up and trailing her new schoolbag behind her.

However, she is coming home, having been taken out of Holy Cross school by her parents after two security alerts.

The main lead is that the Police Ombudsman, Nuala O Loan, has had to abandon an investigation into police handling of a drink drive double killing because the key witness is ill.

The same incident makes the lead in the News Letter from a different angle, the imprisonment of the driver of the car, 55 year old Mary Mullan.

Relatives of the dead girls - Laura Robinson and Leigh Creany - claim the sentence is too lenient.

"Who do the IRA think they are?" asks Monsignor Denis Faul looking out from the front of the Mirror.

'Trimble tactics'

He says they are lying gangsters and that he does not believe their denial that they murdered father of two Gareth O'Connor.

David Trimble is planning a John Major-style "Back me or sack me" move if his critics win the vote at the Ulster Unionist Council on Saturday.

That's the assessment of London editor Frank Millar in the Irish Times.

In effect, Mr Trimble will not voluntarily relinquish the leadership of the party.

Meanwhile, there are behind the scenes talks about a dream ticket new leadership of Jeffrey Donaldson and Reg Empey.

"Betrayed, betrayed, betrayed" - the word is on all the broadsheet front pages, in a quote from Janice Kelly, describing to the Hutton enquiry how her husband David felt in the last days of his life.

Magnus Linklater in the Times says that nothing in the Hutton inquiry so far has matched the drama of Mrs Kelly's evidence.

The Guardian, unusually, uses her own word in quotation marks for the front page lead.

Janice described how she realised there was a problem when Nick Rufford of the Sunday Times arrived at the house with an offer to put them up in a hotel away from the media spotlight while Dr Kelly wrote his story for them.

Government's future

She had been watering the plants at the time. Rufford told them that the media would be coming in droves.

Hugo Young inside the Guardian says that Hutton is "little more than a brilliant, beguiling distraction from the questions on which the future of this government ought to rest".

Fat Cat bosses are grabbing our pensions. That's the lead in the Daily Express, citing a report which says that bosses are helping themselves to big pensions out of the same pot of money that ordinary workers get theirs from.

The Mail's Philip Norman speculates that Yoko Ono, the woman blamed for splitting the Beatles may have had a part in some of the best Lennon songs.

And who was it that Bernadette Soubirous saw in a vision at Lourdes? According to the Independent, in a caption under a picture of a parade there, it was Mary Magdalene.

And the Sun's Littlejohn makes much of the fact that staff at call centres in the Philippines, which handle our directory enquiries are being shown Austin Powers and James Bond movies to help them with their British accents.