Papers tap into hacking claims

The Guardian continues to ratchet up the pressure on the News of the World, with no let-up in claims about who were the victims of illegal phone taps.

In its latest allegations, calls made by Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson were recorded by private investigators hired by the tabloid.

The Daily Telegraph reports more than a dozen high profile figures who believe they were targeted could sue the paper.

It calls it an "unprecedented, multi-million pound group legal action".

'Classroom horror'

All the papers report on the 14-year-old boy who is seriously ill in hospital after allegedly being attacked by his teacher.

"Horror In The Classroom" is the Sun's front page headline.

The Daily Express understands that pupils at the Nottinghamshire school are "undergoing counselling".

It quotes one former pupil as saying "the school is one of the best in the area, the last place you would expect anything like this to happen".

Farm workers

Beneath the headline "Tale of Two Boy Soldiers", the Daily Mail carries the photographs of two privates who went to fight in Afghanistan.

But now Robbie Laws is dead and his friend, Danny Eaglesfield, is wounded following a Taliban rocket attack.

The Independent's front page focuses on Britain's fruit farm workers.

It says foreign fruit pickers are taking home just £45 a week at a company which serves some of Britain's largest supermarkets.

Irritating art

Two weeks after his death and two days after his memorial service the tabloids continue to devote their front pages to Michael Jackson.

The Daily Mirror has exclusive pictures of the star in disguise.

Why life is irritating art at the National Gallery? is the picture headline in the Times.

Its director says Trafalgar Square has become uncivilised, with loud music and loutish behaviour ruining the tranquillity inside the gallery.