What the papers say

Journalist Liz Kennedy takes a look at what is making the headlines in Friday's morning papers.

A decision by the Parades Commission making the front page of two of the local papers.

That ruling that a Sinn Fein protest against a homecoming parade by the Armed Forces can go ahead in Belfast city centre next weekend makes the front page of both The Irish News and the News Letter.

But the News Letter leads with the death threats made on a website against footballer David Healy.

The Northern Ireland star is quoted as being "shocked and angry" at the entire affair.

And that story about the Killyleagh man is covered inside the Irish News as well.

The abusive comments discussed online, centre around a controversial song about the Irish famine.

Now post match comments by Healy including the word "famine," after the San Marino match are said by him to have been "twisted" into a sectarian row and been wrongly linked to this "vile and offensive song", according to the Irish News.

That story is the lead in the local edition of the Daily Mirror as well, with the headline: "Healy, My Fury at Web Bigots."

Murder trial

Meanwhile, the Belfast Telegraph leads with the story that the Michael McIlveen murder trial was halted on Thursday at Antrim Crown Court .

The case has now been adjourned until 10 November, when a new jury will be sworn in.

So, the debate of the day: "Are petrol prices plummeting or set to soar?"

You buys your paper and you takes your choice, as regards predictions.

Locally, the Belfast Telegraph's Price Watch survey reports a petrol price of 94.9 pence per litre, which is said to be starting today at one of the local supermarkets.

Others are reducing prices by 3p per litre.

The prospect of a cut in the cost of petrol is also promised by the Daily Express.

It also reports that four big outlets are to start selling unleaded at less than 95p a litre.

The Express accepts the price may rise again in the run-up to Christmas, but it expects the cost to drop once more in the New Year.

The Daily Telegraph is less optimistic. It fears that lower production by the main oil-exporting nations could push up the cost by five pence a litre.

Elsewhere in the cross channel papers, there's fury over the admission that the official UK crime figures have been wrong. The Sun condemns what it calls a "scandal" and a "fiasco."

And The Daily Mail talks of a "devastating" blow to public trust.

Locally, it is police figures of a financial kind in the spotlight.

The Daily Mirror carries a story that the PSNI is facing a £200m shortfall this year, which it predicts, will have a "severe and negative impact on policing and the confidence and safety of the public".

More battles for the taoiseach in the Irish papers.

Education cuts

First it was the medical cards fiasco, now it is education.

The Irish Independent dubs it sabre-rattling by the Green Party as a new crisis seems to be looming over education cuts.

In The Irish Times, Mr Cowen is quoted as saying that the education cuts which he announced in his budget will not be reversed.

Finally, your morning cuppa may make you think better of people.

If you are just clasping your hands round a nice mug of tea or coffee, you may be about to see the world through rose-tinted glasses, according to the Guardian.

Psychologists at the University of Colorado have found that holding a warm cup of coffee, as opposed to an iced drink, is enough to make people think that strangers are more welcoming and trustworthy.