Papers commend car aid package

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Government measures to help the car industry are the focus for many papers.

The Times commends the desire to act, saying the crisis was made in the City of London and Canary Wharf but its consequences have travelled north.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times says it is glad that the offer of help so far is "cautious and small scale".

The Daily Express has an image of 8,000 unwanted Honda cars while Lord Mandelson is portrayed as a breakdown man in a Daily Star cartoon.

'Clean-up'

Accusations four Labour peers accepted cash to change laws continue to concern the papers.

"It's time the Lords had a clean-up," declares the Daily Mirror. "You can be a bigger gangster than Al Capone and still not get kicked out."

The Guardian highlights the intention of the leader of the Lords to exclude peers who defy the rules on earnings.

And in the Independent, David Cameron says Lords who transgress should be stripped of their peerages.

Prolific writer

Portraits of author John Updike appear on the front of the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Independent.

All try to sum up the quality of his prolific output, 28 novels and more than 40 other books.

"He observed and described," says the Guardian. His prose became, "ever more supple and rewarding... freshly minted decade after decade."

The Times thinks he had few equals as "chronicler of the financially and sexually liberated middle classes".

Babies

There's much coverage of the eight babies born to a Californian mother and the Daily Star hopes and prays the story will have a happy ending.

The Daily Mirror interviews a woman whose mother had quintuplets.

And a headline in the Sun captures the delivery in terms that will make many parents a little weak at the knees.

"It's a boy .... It's a girl ... It's a boy ... It's a girl.... It's a boy .... It's a boy... It's a boy .... Oh and it's another boy," it says.