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This is a trial post for a Roundup of the Daily Papers Front Pages. Sky News have kindly agreed to our use of their front page scans. This presentation may change, as it will take some work to balance ease of production with ease of reading. This morning I’ve added a brief “Storyfix”.

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Here is todays roundup of stories.

Comment

Philip Johnston (Telegraph) - Abu Hamza extradition is no cause for rejoice
There has been general rejoicing at the news that Abu Hamza, the militant Islamist cleric serving seven years for stirring up racial hatred, is to be extradited to America to face terrorist charges there. The High Court ruled that he should go on trial in the US, where he faces an immensely long jail sentence, locked up for 23 hours a day in a top-security jail in Colorado. Two judges ruled that the decision to extradite Hamza was “unassailable”. So is that the end of the matter? Almost certainly not.

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Here is todays roundup of stories.

Comment

Philip Johnston (Telegraph) - Abu Hamza extradition is no cause for rejoice
There has been general rejoicing at the news that Abu Hamza, the militant Islamist cleric serving seven years for stirring up racial hatred, is to be extradited to America to face terrorist charges there. The High Court ruled that he should go on trial in the US, where he faces an immensely long jail sentence, locked up for 23 hours a day in a top-security jail in Colorado. Two judges ruled that the decision to extradite Hamza was “unassailable”. So is that the end of the matter? Almost certainly not.

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Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Comment

Brian Wheeler (BBC) - Could the web win it in London?
The internet is fast becoming a key battleground in the race to be the next mayor of London.

Jenny Jones (Comment is Free) - 10,000 trees? Yes please!
London elections 08: The Green party would welcome more trees. But we’ve already organised planting far more than that in the city

Economist (Economist) - Paper tigers?
Nepal goes Maoist: How worried should we be?

Charlotte Phillips (Times Online) - The Holocaust and the iPod generation
I took my children to Berlin to learn about Nazi Germany where my grandparents were killed. Did my history lesson succeed?

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Here is todays roundup of stories.

Comment

Ian Buruma (Comment is Free) - Tibet last stand
The last glimmers of Tibetan culture are in danger of being extinguished by restrictions on language and the breakneck pace of development

Economist (Economist) - Palaeontology - Seeing the light
Palaeontologists can now look inside fossils without damaging them

Mark Jones (Times Online) - The hitch to marrying a rich woman
Men are happy to be with a woman who earns more than they do, a recent survey claims. But our writer, after his own research, doubts that

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The Daily News Roundup is a selection of stories from the media and websites. It includes News and Comment, and also stories from both Wales and Scotland. Occasionally it includes an obituary or a blog item. The aim is to highlight unusual stories, or interesting angles on the main stories - to highlight items that you may not find elsewhere.

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I have not done a Daily Roundup today, as there are two reports coming out later this morning about weekly events at Holyrood and Westminster on the Wardman Wire.
There will also be the first introductory column in our new “Senedd Circular” column by Pippa Wagstaffe, who edits the “Miss Wagstaff Presents..” blog watching the Welsh [...]