The furore over Lord Winston's scathing attack on Labour's handling of the NHS provides the papers' main theme.

While the inside pages and leader columns consider the Labour peer's particular criticisms in greater detail, the front pages focus on accusations that the government tried to gag him once his views became known.

"Damned Lies and Labour" is the headline in the Daily Mail; "Nobbled," says The Mirror. The Times speaks of a day of political turmoil; The Independent a hectic day of claim and counter claim.

The Mirror describes it all as blundering, confusion and a shambles. For the Mail, Downing Street's response starkly reveals the government's increasingly Stalinist attitude to the truth and those who speak it. It's not, it says, as though Lord Winston had said anything about the NHS that the great majority of the country do not already know to be true.

The journalist who carried out the interview with Lord Winston in which he made his remarks, Mary Riddell, writes in the Mail that the peer offered his opinions fully and on the record. The text of the interview, she says, was not culled from a few rash quotes.

Furore over drug ads

The main report in The Guardian is that ministers are to unveil pay rises above the rate of inflation for all health workers next week as they hit back at the criticism of Labour's stewardship of the NHS. The paper says nurses, doctors and other medical staff will receive increases of more than 3%.

The Times says the White House has been offering financial incentives to American television networks that weave an anti-drugs message into the scripts of popular programmes. Under the little-known arrangement, officials reviewed the scripts of about two dozen shows, including ER, Beverly Hills and Cosby, and offered suggestions on plots in which characters suffer the dire consequences of drug abuse.

In return, the paper goes on, networks are allowed to reduce the number of public service announcements they have to make, freeing up airtime for paid advertisements. But the deal has angered some television executives. They believe it will undermine the credibility of the anti-drugs messages, which will now be seen as motivated by financial rather than moral considerations. In response, a White House official is quoted as saying: "We plead guilty to using every lawful means of saving the lives of children."

There's further criticism of the Millennium Dome, as the family who underwrote the troubled Faith Zone with a cheque for £1m complain about the lack of queues for their sponsored attraction. The head of the family, Srichand Hinduja, tells The Times that he wants a series of religious festivals to bring more people into the zone.

And with another millennium attraction hitting fresh trouble, The Independent reports that a feng shui expert believes the problems of the millennium wheel are down to the fact that it's turning the wrong way. According to the paper, the expert says the wheel, viewed from the Houses of Parliament, should not be turning in the same direction as the flow of the Thames, but anti-clockwise instead, to catch the positive energy brought by the river.