'Rejoicing' over Johnston release

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The papers are delighted by the release of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. It calls for "immense rejoicing", the Independent says.

Pictures of him savouring his freedom feature in all the papers and the story makes the lead for the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent.

Mr Johnston's comments made after his release feature prominently.

His description of his ordeal, the Sun remarks, was textbook journalism - calm, articulate and objective.

Good humour

The Guardian reports that Mr Johnston celebrated his Gaza release with a haircut.

All the papers agree that the BBC man's calmness and fortitude during his ordeal in subsequent press conferences was exemplary.

For the Daily Mail, his decency, fair-mindedness and good humour shine through his every word.

He is, the paper says, the sort of Briton who gives our country a good name abroad.

'Clunking fist'

The Mail says Gordon Brown was well beaten by Tory leader David Cameron and outsmarted by Sir Menzies Campbell at his first Prime Minister's Questions.

Nobody expected him to be so tongue-tied and leaden-footed, the Daily Express remarks.

The Daily Mirror suggests that Mr Brown - "the big clunking fist" - tried to bore Mr Cameron into submission.

The Times, meanwhile, likens the prime minister to a learner driver, "creeping down the road in an old Mini".

'Prince of waves'

A number of the papers report on a visit by Prince Charles to flood-hit Toll Bar, in South Yorkshire.

It reports how the prince, smartly dressed in suit and shoes, was towed down a waterlogged street in an inflatable boat.

"I was determined to get into a boat," he told villagers.

Because of this, the Mail calls him the "prince of waves" while the Sun joins the paper in referring to him as "his royal dryness".