Papers examine Osborne's speech

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's Tory conference speech - offering voters the prospect of years of cuts - intrigues papers across the political spectrum.

Impressed, the Daily Telegraph picks out a key quote as its headline: "We're all in this together."

But the Daily Mirror shows leader David Cameron with a glass of champagne.

It says the photo was taken just before Mr Osborne called for a public sector pay freeze - and despite a champagne ban imposed by the Tory chairman.

Tragic role

Several front pages are dominated by comedian Matt Lucas and the suspected suicide of his ex-partner Kevin McGee.

The Daily Mail says they were one of the first celebrity couples to enter into a civil partnership and the first to seek a same-sex divorce.

Mr Lucas has pulled out of his West End run in the play "Prick Up Your Ears".

The Times notes that he was playing the intense role of Kenneth Halliwell, who committed suicide after killing his lover and fellow playwright, Joe Orton.

By the Booker

Hilary Mantel was the bookies' favourite to win the Man Booker Prize - and it appears the favourite of many of the newspapers' literary editors too.

Her book, Wolf Hall, about the rise of Thomas Cromwell, is praised by the Independent as "genuinely outstanding".

The paper's Boyd Tonkin gushes that Ms Mantel writes "brilliantly about the operation of power" and "deploys a salty, flinty language superbly".

The Daily Telegraph says it is her best and most ambitious novel to date .

Cable guy

The papers line up to praise one of the joint winners of the Nobel prize for physics, Charles Kao, whom the Guardian calls "the bloke from Woolwich Poly".

Professor Kao discovered in 1966 that glass fibres made from fused silica could efficiently transmit light.

This lead to the use of optical cables to carry superfast broadband data.

The Times says that when Mr Kao told his wife of its potential worldwide importance, she told him to pull the other leg in absolute disbelief.