Papers ponder other Browne's exit

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Many of the papers report on the decision by Lord Browne to stand down as chief executive of BP.

The Daily Mail says that he will be handed one of the biggest payments in the history of public companies when he leaves in the summer.

The paper says despite being one of the best business brains of his time, he presided over a catalogue of problems.

The Financial Times notes his exit has caused a share price spike, with the company's value rising £3.3bn.

New cross row

The tale of 13-year-old Samantha Devine who has been barred from wearing a crucifix necklace in school appears in many of the morning editions.

The Robert Napier School in Gillingham in Kent cites health and safety rules.

They say Samantha could wear a cross as a brooch, but in the Mail and the Express the teenager questions what hazard her crucifix could cause.

She says she is determined to keep wearing the religious symbol even if she is suspended or expelled.

Horrors of war

Some of the papers are less than enamoured with Tony Blair's speech on his interventionist foreign policy.

The Independent focuses on his "tired old tricks" of blaming the media for simplistically portraying the horrors of the war in Iraq.

The Guardian says Mr Blair is aware of how unpopular he is but is not prepared to acknowledge criticism.

The Daily Star goes further than any other paper in headlining the lecture "Blair: I want more blood".

Meter bombers

And finally the Independent reports on a vigilante backlash against parking restrictions in the normally quiet Sussex town of Lewes.

Since meters were introduced in 2004, they have been attacked with explosives 200 times, leading to 35 of them being written off and creating a repair bill of £300,000.

Many businesses have complained the restrictions are driving custom away.

Mayor Merlin Milner has said the bombings are a form of terrorism, but says the town should not be a police state.