What the papers say

Journalist Keith Baker takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning papers.

Many of the front pages have pictures of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The Irish Times shows rescuers battling through the floods to get to a stranded family, while the Independent gives us a picture of the actual eye of the storm as seen by satellite.

The Daily Express calls it the £15bn hurricane, which is the expected bill for insurance losses.

Hurricane Katrina

The Financial Times and others seize on the fact that oil prices have gone up.

Daily Ireland finds a local angle to the story.

The paper has been talking to the family of a Tyrone man who owns a pub in New Orleans.

He is believed to have booked into a 12th floor room on the outskirts of the city in a bid to beat the ravages of the storm.

Elsewhere, the Irish News gives us a story about hospital car parking fees.

It highlights the issue of the breast cancer patient who paid more than £500 in fees at Belfast City Hospital while she was having chemotherapy.

The paper says she is now backing calls for an urgent review of the system.

Apparently, as a cancer patient, she is entitled to park for nothing but she says "no-one told her".

Bare knuckle boxing

The Belfast Telegraph has the story of the latest eBay attraction - DVDs of bare-knuckle Irish Travellers' brawls.

It says it told eBay about the offending items, as a result the DVDs were removed but within days more of them appeared for sale again.

The News Letter highlights the success of the late Joey Dunlop's nephew, Sam, who was crowned best newcomer at the Manx Grand Prix.

Among the cross-channel papers, the Express and the Mirror concentrate on the story of the Newcastle on Tyne woman forced to dial 999 using her tongue after a gang tied her up and set her house alight, causing the death of her baby son.

The Times reports that there has been a huge scramble for university places and many are now closing their doors because they are full up.

The paper says tens of thousands of students still searching for a place could be disappointed.

Trade dispute

Peter Mandelson is under fire in the Express.

The paper dismisses his efforts to resolve the dispute over imports of Chinese-made clothes and is convinced he caused the problem in the first place.

Many papers have pictures of a smiling Kylie Minogue strolling in Paris where she has been having cancer treatment.

Finally, after England's test match success against Australia, the Independent wonders if cricket is the new football.

It says no-one could have imagined that "a sleepy old game which lasts five days and is watched by a load of old codgers could have provided such entertainment".