Big splash for little Leo

The arrival of the latest addition to the Prime Ministerial family fills most of the front pages...and many more inside.

"He's a lovely little kid" is the quote from Tony Blair in the Mail on Sunday, while the Express opts for the headline: "Our Leo is just gorgeous".

The Sunday People - beneath the headline "Pooh Blair" - reveals that the prime minister is "already changing his new offspring's nappies". Other papers are more cynical.

The Observer thinks that Mr Blair's joy at Leo's birth "belied a carefully crafted strategy to ensure that the media were given glimpses of the event, to whet an enormous public appetite".

The Sunday Mirror reckons that for the prime minister, it will be more or less business as usual, despite the new baby's arrival.

Scrapping the pound?

The Sunday Telegraph - while not ignoring the Blair baby - opts for a different main story on its front page.

The paper reports that the Prime Minister has insisted that he can persuade the Euro-Sceptical British public that it's right to scrap the pound.

The Telegraph thinks it is Mr Blair's strongest recommendation yet for membership of the Euro.

Rimmington 'wanted'

The Sunday Times reports that senior officers in MI6 wanted to secure the arrest of Stella Rimington - the former head of MI5 - over her plans to publish her memoirs.

But according to the paper, when their attempt failed, they launched a "dirty tricks" campaign against her.

A columnist in the Mail is looking forward to the revelations from Mrs Rimington.

In the view of Peter Dobbie: "If she discloses how MI5 gathered mountains of dirt about political figures, then we could be in for a treat."

Sierra Leone 'bankrupt'

According to the Observer, Britain is considering a request from Sierra Leone to supply its army with ammunition to fight the rebel forces in the country.

The paper says that such a move would be a dangerous new escalation in Sierra Leone's civil war.

But in its view, the country will require much more than munitions: it's bankrupt, and officially the world's poorest state.

In contrast, its rebels control the diamond fields, and have the backing of Liberia's President Taylor for arms.

Human cloning

The News of the World claims that the Government is to grant scientists permission to grow human organs by cloning them in other animals.

It says that if the experiments prove successful, replacement organs could always be available.

Commenting on the possible move, the News of the World says it is certain to cause uproar, and scientists involved should proceed with caution.

Let them eat GM cake

There are claims in the Independent on Sunday that government ministers kept quiet about the accidental planting of GM crops across Britain.

In a front page report, the paper suggests that even ministers' own advisers were not informed.

And the GM theme is taken up in a Sunday Telegraph editorial, which argues that it's nonsense to suggest an end to experimenting in genetically modified organisms.

The paper thinks that Prince Charles's proposal would be as helpful a contribution to feeding the world's burgeoning population as Marie Antoinette's suggestion to "let them eat cake".