Papers divided over 'broken Britain'

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Cries of "broken Britain" prompted by the violence of two brothers in Edlington divide opinion in the papers.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/barbara-ellen-grim-truth-edlington">Observer's Barbara Ellen wonders if talk</a> of a "feral underclass" isn't a new way of saying "them and us".

But the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/24/tortured-boys-fear-their-tormentors-will-finish-them-off-when-they-get-out-115875-21990210/">parents of one victim tell the Sunday Mirror</a> the attackers are "rotten apples" and the paper blames their "disgusting parents" too.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245601/Name-Devil-Boys-We-let-hide.html">Mail on Sunday says "indulgence of the undeserving does not just create parasites,</a> it helps to breed monsters".

Plane hijack

The papers offer reasons why the government judges the threat of a terrorist attack is now severe.

The People suggests the risk may come from Northern Ireland.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/yemen-meeting-caused-switch-to-severe-terror-alert-1877352.html">Independent</a> and the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/153778">Sunday Express</a> both say there may be an al-Qaeda plot hatched in Yemen to attack this week's Afghanistan conference in London.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6999959.ece">Sunday Times</a> reports there are fears an Islamist gang might hijack a flight from India and try to crash the plane into a British city.

'Brown's war'

The appearance of Tony Blair before the Iraq war inquiry next Friday has already set some pulses racing.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245614/Nervous-Blair-works-till-3am-prepare-Chilcot-grilling.html">Mail says Mr Blair is nervous</a> and has been working late, reading piles of memos, reports and letters.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/iraq-war-chilcot-gordon-brown">Observer says "Iraq was pre-eminently Tony Blair's war"</a> but the inquiry has served to remind the public it was also "Gordon Brown's war".

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article6999648.ece">A cartoon in the Times shows Mr Blair's skeleton lurking in a closet,</a> with Mr Brown trying to keep the door shut.

Pet cemetery

Animal-lovers are happy to share their kitchens, sofas, even their beds, with a favoured pet, but what about their final resting place?

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/153754/Pet-lovers-can-be-buried-with-their-animals">Express reports that this is what is being proposed</a> in the Lincolnshire village of Stainton by Longworth.

The Environment Agency describes the idea of shared human and pet graves as "a new but rather strange trend".

One local tells the Express some might like the idea but it is "a very peculiar sort of planning application".