Cheerful welcome for the rate cut

A yellow smiley face on the front page of the Sun greets the Bank of England's decision to slash interest rates to 2%.

But the Daily Mail isn't quite so cheerful - millions of savers have been "thrown to the wolves", it says.

There is no love lost for the high street banks, the Daily Mirror says the banks that do not pass on the rate cut will be named and shamed.

It goes on to accuse the Halifax of "ripping off" 250,000 homebuyers.

'Pure evil'

The rate cut shares the front pages with the story of Karen Matthews, the mother convicted of staging her daughter's kidnapping.

The Sun, the Daily Mirror and the Star carry the headline "Pure Evil", the words used to describe Matthews by the detective who led the inquiry.

According to the Sun, police believe Shannon could have been killed if Michael Donovan had escaped with her.

The Mirror says she may have been minutes from death when she was found.

DNA ruling

It took 17 judges to decide but now the Guardian says more than 850,000 samples of citizens will have to be deleted from the national DNA database.

The Daily Mail says its campaign against the "intrusive, authoritarian government" has been vindicated.

But the Daily Telegraph says hundreds of murderers might not be caught as a result of the Strasburg ruling.

Such as Mark Dixie who was identified as the killer of 18-year-old Sally Ann Bowman from DNA taken after a brawl.

Unwanted call

A Republican Congresswoman in Florida will probably think twice before hanging up on any unwanted callers.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has admitted she twice put the phone down on Barack Obama, refusing to believe he was ringing her.

The Independent says all across America high-flyers have been eagerly awaiting his call.

She assumed it was a prank from a local radio station and she then cut off his chief of staff too.