Papers focus on airline bomb plot

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Most papers lead on the conviction of three British Muslims on charges of conspiring to blow up transatlantic passenger planes.

"Guilty of plotting seven Lockerbies" <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2626700/Terrorists-bid-to-kill-5000-in-4-hours.html">is how the Sun tries to convey the scale</a> of what might have happened.

The Times says <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6825404.ece">the plotters intended to rival the horror of 9/11,</a> while, according to the Independent, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/guilty-of-plotting-britains-911-1783387.html">their attacks would have been even deadlier.</a>

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210876/Islamic-extremist-guilty-liquid-bomb-plot-blow-transatlantic-jets.html">"It was the plot that changed air travel for ever,"</a> the Daily Mail said.

Serious threat

The Guardian <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/terrorists-plot-atlantic-liquid-bombs"> talks of the "Lucozade Bombers,"</a> after the drinks bottles they planned to put their explosives in.

It says the threat was taken so seriously that President George Bush was repeatedly briefed on the status of a surveillance operation.

In an editorial, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/terrorism-law-threat-conviction">the Guardian points out the men who have been convicted are British,</a> influenced from Pakistan.

"Britain's Afghan war," it says, "justified as part of the fight against terror, would not have stopped them."

Wogan's goodbye

The announcement by Sir Terry Wogan that he is stepping down from his breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 makes throughout the papers.

The Daily Mirror gives <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/">the story a double-page spread and uses the huge headline: "Terry WoGONE". </a>

Fellow Radio 2 DJ Stuart Maconie lauds Wogan in the paper, saying, "he does the most difficult trick of all on the airwaves, he makes it look easy."

"Wogan finally goes Blankety Blank" <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6825271.ece">says an editorial in the Times. </a>

Good food

Finally, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/">an earth-shattering piece of news is buried away</a> in a few paragraphs on page seven of the Daily Telegraph.

According to The Good Food Guide, restaurants in Britain are now "better than those in France".

There are so many good ones that the guide has stretched its normal top 40 list to a top 50.

The guide's editor, Elizabeth Carter, says: "Once there was just Marco and Gordon, but now there is a whole army of young, confident chefs."