Crucial week for Blair

The headline writers opt for the dramatic when it comes to describing the coming crucial week for Tony Blair.

With more than a nod towards a Hollywood epic the Sunday Telegraph plumps for "High Noon."

For the Independent on Sunday the next few days will be "Blair's moment of truth."

Both the Telegraph and the Sunday Times report that Tony Blair will be cleared of lying over the events that led to the death of the government weapons inspector, David Kelly.

Senior aides have told the Telegraph that he will be the only key player in the inquiry by Lord Hutton to escape censure.

But just who will be the focus prompts furious speculation.

The Telegraph says among those who will be criticised include Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, Mr Blair's former director of communications, Alastair Campbell, BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan and the corporation's director-general, Greg Dyke.

The Times thinks that Downing Street has been "spinning like a top" to get out the message Tony Blair will escape largely unscathed from the Hutton report.

In an interview with the Observer, Mr Blair tells the paper he considers his job is "at risk" as he faces not only the Hutton report, but also a rebellion by his own backbenchers over tuition fees.

But he leaves the paper in no doubt that he is not contemplating defeat and he still expected to be prime minister by the end of the week.

'Blair on brink'

The paper's leader writer thinks Mr Blair is likely to survive the Hutton Inquiry - but it will be his own rebels who will eventually do for him.

The Independent devotes several inside pages to what it calls "Blair on the Brink".

The paper's political editor writes that the prime minister will survive, but asks at what cost.

It argues in its editorial that Labour MPs are fed up with receiving lectures on the importance of top-up fees from a prime minister who got it so wrong on weapons of mass destruction.

As the paper's columnist Steve Richards puts it, Lord Hutton will on Wednesday be a god-like figure shaping the immediate destinies of two mighty and mightily nervous institutions; the Labour government and the BBC.

Frontier police

The Sunday Express claims an exclusive on its front page saying that border guards are to be introduced in Britain to combat what the paper calls the massive influx of asylum seekers into the country.

The new frontier force will co-ordinate the work of immigration officers and Customs staff to make sure there is better control over who enters the UK.

Finally several of the papers report from Australia on the final preparations for the latest series of the reality television show, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

As the Mail on Sunday points out the contestants - or as it calls them, the C-listers - all stand to gain a higher profile and lucrative rewards for their ordeal.

At a photo call on Saturday all ten were on hand. The Mail's tip to win is Kelly McFadden, who used to be in the pop group Atomic Kitten.

Her gimmick, says the paper, is just to be nice - and it reckons it might just work.