Nickell killer dominates papers
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7791161.stm Version 0 of 1. Many pages are devoted to the admission by Robert Napper that he killed Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992. "Obsessed with the wrong man, police ignored a rapist on their radar," says the Daily Telegraph. "Psycho killer" says the Daily Mirror's headline above Napper's picture, "and the police could have stopped him". But the Independent argues that the case should not to be used by those in favour of a "headlong expansion of the national DNA database". Battered notebook A number of papers tell how a pre-war shopping list has revealed the secrets of what the Daily Express calls "credit-crunch shopping, 1930s-style". The list, from a time when Britain reeled from the Great Depression, was found in a battered notebook. It shows how housewife Emily Bonwick from Surrey fed her husband and nine children for just one pound a week. Items listed in the Sun include a pound of tea - two shillings, and half a pound of lard - five pence. Historically fascinating For those still looking for the perfect Christmas gift, the Guardian reports that Nasa is putting its remaining three space shuttles up for sale. It says the cash-strapped space agency plans to sell off Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour to raise funds. They can be yours at a knock-down price of just £28m each - they will be stripped of their main engines though. This, says the Daily Telegraph, renders them historically fascinating but astronautically defunct. Rubbish decision According to the Sun, a jeweller from Torbay in Devon has been ordered by his local council to hand over valuable gold shavings as "commercial waste". Jeweller John Doble tells the paper the council thinks he puts his gold shavings out with the normal rubbish. The same paper has news of a seemingly new weapon in the fight against crime. Three smash and grab raiders attacking a jeweller's shop in Brighton apparently fled in panic when a passer-by filmed them on his mobile phone. |