Criticism of sailors' media deals

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The freed sailors continue to dominate the papers.The Ministry of Defence's decision to allow the British navy crew captured by the Iranians to sell their stories to the media is widely condemned by the papers.

There is "anger" in the Guardian, "outrage" from the Daily Mail, while the Daily Express weighs in with "shameful".

The Times adds its own criticism.

It quotes Sally Veck, the mother of a medic killed in Iraq last week, who says they should not expect to make money from their ordeal.

Leading Seaman Faye Turney and sailor Arthur Batchelor are pictured on the front pages of the Sun and the Mirror respectively.

Leading Seaman Turney tells the Sun she feared she might be raped by her Iranian captors and might never see her three-year-old daughter again.

Operator Maintainer Batchelor tells the Mirror how he was stripped, blindfolded and put in solitary confinement.

He says he eventually broke down and sobbed in his cell, fearing he would be killed.

The Daily Telegraph sets its sights on the rising cost of staging the London Olympics.

It says that MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee visited former hosts Seoul, Beijing and Athens - and is planning trips to the United States and Canada.

The paper points out that they need have gone no further than Barcelona.

But it reckons the city is tediously nearby for what it calls "budding global statesmen".

The Times reveals that Mills and Boon, publishers of romantic novels, are making their titles available by downloading them onto mobile phones.

Trials in Japan over the last few months have proved successful.

From next month they will be offering to UK subscribers such tales as All Night With the Boss and The Greek Millionaire's Mistress.

The publishers say there is still an embarrassment factor in carrying one of the steamy sagas around.