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What the Scottish Sunday papers say
Abi Titmuss has confessed all about the bizarre sex games she stages to thrill disgraced Scots TV star John Leslie - and how they snorted cocaine together, reports the Scottish News of the World.

The Sunday Mail says that a £150,000 flood has wrecked the new home of ex-footballer Ally McCoist's wife - forcing the warring couple to live together.

A helicopter crash that claimed the lives of six British servicemen during the Iraq war has been partly blamed on the lack of night flying equipment, Scotland on Sunday claims.

The Sunday Herald reports that Tony Blair's last-ditch charm offensive against MPs threatening to vote against the government in Tuesday's crucial vote on tuition fees was dealt a fatal blow this weekend by the US's leading weapons inspector in Iraq, who said Saddam Hussein had no arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.

The Sunday Post runs with the headline "Blair must own up to Iraq error" It says the pressure is mounting on Tony Blair to "admit" he sent British forces to war in Iraq on an unsound evaluation of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

The Scottish Sunday Express says Downing Street officials have played down rising speculation Tony Blair's condition may force him to quit No 10.

The lover of Ally McCoist's wife is cheating on her with his ex-mistress, alleges the Scottish Sunday Mirror.

The Sunday Times Scotland reports that the future of joint faith school campuses in Scotland is in doubt amid threats by the Catholic Church that it intends to pull out of a £150m flagship project.

Tony Blair will escape personal criticism over the events leading to the death of Dr David Kelly when the Hutton report is published on Wednesday, says the Sunday Telegraph.

Tony Blair is on the brink of a dramatic Commons defeat in the same nightmarish week that the year-old question of why he went to war in Iraq will return to haunt him, reports the Independent on Sunday.

The Observer in Scotland says that Tony Blair put his political future on the line when he admitted for the first time that he considered his job was "at risk" 48 hours ahead of the two-pronged attack on tuition fees and the Hutton report.


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