Floods spread across front pages

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Dramatic images from the deluged towns of Cumbria make most front pages.

The most widely used picture shows emergency crews carrying an elderly woman over a wall and into an inflatable dinghy.

Alongside it, the Times has the headline: <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6926363.ece">"Once every 1,000 years rain falls like this."</a>

Coverage in the Sun focuses on the death of the police officer, Bill Barker, who the Mirror describes as the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/20/widow-s-tribute-to-hero-pc-swept-away-in-floods-115875-21837607/">"Hero of the floods".</a>

Troops out?

According to the Telegraph's main story, the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6617358/Tories-to-pull-British-forces-out-of-Germany.html">Conservatives plan to pull British forces out of Germany</a> if they win power.

Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox tells the paper their withdrawal would be designed to free troops for operations outside Europe.

The Guardian leads with an interview with Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

In it, he warns that the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/20/miliband-warns-karzai-fail-nato">Afghan government could fall within weeks</a> if Nato troops pulled out now.

Fourth choice

The Telegraph reports that <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6617478/Gordon-Brown-accused-of-taking-wrong-EU-job.html">Lady Ashton was Britain's fourth choice candidate</a> for the new post of European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

It says British and European officials have disclosed that David Miliband and two others were considered before her.

Business Secretary <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6926157.ece">Lord Mandelson was tempted but concluded his first duty was to stay with the Prime Minister</a> , says the Times.

It adds that ex-Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon had "only a flicker of support".

Marmite madness

Finally, the hunt is on for what the Sun calls the thief on Britain's oddest crime spree - <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2739431/Spread-em-Hunt-for-Marmite-thief.html">stealing only jars of Marmite.</a>

The man has targeted a petrol station shop in Northamptonshire four times, clearing out its entire stock of jars.

On one occasion, the Mail says, he <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229645/Find-Mr-Marmite-Petrol-station-stops-selling-spread-thief-steals-18-jars-month.html">left two jars behind and came back for them the following night.</a>

The thief has proved so persistent, the paper adds, that the manager has now stopped selling Marmite.