Lotto win prisoner angers papers

Fury at the convicted rapist who won £7m on the lottery continues to fuel the papers on Thursday.

The Daily Mirror calls for a change in the law to prevent criminals convicted of serious crimes from benefiting from Lottery windfalls.

Writing in an editorial in the Sun, Home Secretary David Blunkett says he will do just that.

But the Independent argues the outrage misunderstands the nature of the lottery. It says it is exactly that - a lottery.

Life-saving research

The Times thinks the decision to allow scientists in Newcastle upon Tyne to clone human embryos for research sees the UK embracing the cloning age.

The Daily Mirror says hysterical protests must not drown out the fact that regulated stem cell research could save many lives.

The Financial Times thinks the decision will lead to tremendous clinical and commercial spin offs for the region.

The Daily Telegraph reports that scientists could make their first cloning attempt as early as next week.

Torture 'endorsed'

The Independent and the Guardian lead with the Court of Appeal's decision to reject a challenge to the detention without charge of terrorist suspects.

The 10 men's lawyers say they should not have been held because evidence against them was obtained from Guantanamo Bay detainees under torture.

The Independent says the ruling endorses torture to obtain evidence.

The Guardian says it is shocking two of the highest judges in the land would ignore international conventions.

Guerrilla warfare

Adrian Blomfield in the Daily Telegraph reports from the sprawling slums of Sadr City in the north-east of Baghdad.

He says the area resembles 1980s Beirut - it is overrun by guerrilla warfare and armed Shia militants loiter on every rubbish-strewn corner.

The Guardian details South Korea's plans to replace Seoul as the seat of parliament with a new capital.

It says the plan aims to ease overcrowding, redistribute wealth and put it out of range of North Korean missiles.