US kidnap victim grips newspapers

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Yet more details about the 18 years US kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard was held in a property get wide coverage.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/31/pervert-phillip-garrido-wrote-sick-fantasy-sex-lyrics-in-jail-115875-21636491/">Daily Mirror reports that kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido "idolised" Miss Dugard </a> and treated her like a wife, while his real wife did the chores.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2614821/Jaycee-became-second-wife-to-captor-Phillip-Garrido.html">Sun says police believe Miss Dugard accepted she was Garrido's wife</a> and chose not to reveal who she really was.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/96368/Sick-trips-to-killing-fields-of-vice-girls/">Daily Star, meanwhile, claimed police suspected Garrido</a> of murdering up to 10 prostitutes.

School places

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6815590.ece">Times says one in 10 children about to start school</a> for the first time has been denied a place at any of the primary schools their parents chose.

The paper blames a population boom and the recession for a surge in applications for places.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8842fc76-95c4-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">Financial Times reports that the usual "back-to-school" spending boom</a> has failed to materialise this year.

It says spending has dropped in the UK for the first time since 2002 because of the recession.

'Nose cut off'

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/">Daily Telegraph tells us a growing number of people believe the worst of the recession is over,</a> quoting a poll.

It says two thirds of voters now think their financial situation will stay the same or get better over the next year.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mutilated-ndash-for-voting-in-defiance-of-the-taliban-1779627.html">Independent, meanwhile, interviews an Afghan farmer who says the Taliban cut off his nose and ears</a> when he defied orders to boycott elections.

The paper says Lal Mohammed's account is the first from a victim of Taliban retribution since the poll.

Bulb turn off

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1210150/MICHAEL-HANLON-Making-illegal-sell-100-watt-light-bulbs-simply-dimwitted.html">The ban on sales of traditional 100 watt light bulbs angers the Daily Mail's</a> Science Editor Michael Hanlon.

He calls the measure "a meaningless nod to environmental correctness" and says the energy saved will be negligible.

The main story in the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/123998/New-pill-cuts-risk-of-stroke-">Daily Express is a new pill said to reduce the risk of stroke</a> by more than a third.

The blood-thinning drug Pradaxa is reported to be safer than warfarin and described as the biggest development in treatment for more than 50 years.