Papers examine Lockerbie documents

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A mass of documentation has now revealed the way politicians in Edinburgh and London dealt with the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

But the Daily Mirror <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/">doubts whether that will change the views</a> of anyone.

In the Sun, David Cameron <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2616186/Gordon-Brown-did-not-want-Lockerbie-bomber-to-die-in-a-prison-cell.html">states his belief that an inquiry is required</a> "to get to the bottom" of what he calls "this sorry mess."

The Guardian concludes <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/01/lockerbie-megrahi-brown-rammell">there was one short, obscure paragraph that has "turned the heat back on London".</a>

Recession optimism

If the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror is right, though, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/">Prime Minister Gordon Brown is far from downbeat. </a>

It describes him as "cautiously optimistic" that the worst of the recession is behind us.

But, according to the Sun and the Daily Express, he is also full of hints that taxes will rise.

The Daily Express talks of <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/124424/Brown-to-tax-you-even-more-">a "grim warning" of punishing increases </a> that "will send a chill down the spine of Middle England".

Troops 'shame'

The Sun highlights <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2618057/What-a-bloody-shower-Our-Boys-are-treated-badly.html">what it describes as a "squalid shack" in the "Afghan badlands" </a> where, for more than two years, British troops have had to wash.

"What a bloody shower" is the paper's angry, punning headline.

It argues voters have become angry because ministers fail to explain "why our Boys are putting themselves in the firing line without the right tools".

Meanwhile, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210546/The-doting-father-died-action-Soldier-killed-blast-takes-Afghan-toll-210.html">the Daily Mail says British troops have helped reduce opium cultivation in Helmand by a third. </a>

WW2 anniversary

The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII brought together the leaders of countries who are now allies.

However, as the Times reports, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6817552.ece">there was still tension crackling in the air between the former enemies.</a>

The sun <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/01/russia-poland-second-world-war-stalin">shone brightly over Gdansk says the Guardian</a> but the event was "clouded by bitter recrimination."

The Independent pays tribute to the 100-year-old British stockbroker, Sir Nicholas Winton, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/survivors-gather-to-pay-tribute-to-british-schindler-1780272.html">who saved nearly 670 mostly Jewish children from the Nazis.</a>