Papers pre-empt Speech contents

Wednesday's papers focus on a range of new legislation to be outlined in the Queen's Speech later.

The Daily Mail's concern is care for the elderly, as Gordon Brown writes in its pages about the need to honour "our debt of dignity to the war generation".

The Financial Times is interested in plans to put "fiscal discipline" at the heart of future government policy.

The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, says children are to get a legal right to a good education - something teachers fear could amount to a "whingers' charter".

Car wars

The red tops have opposing views on the revelation that ministers spent £6.3m on chauffeur-driven cars last year.

The Sun claims it "wouldn't hurt" them to use trains and buses like normal people, before adding, "But when it's not your money, why bother?"

The Daily Mirror, however, accuses the Conservatives of "hypocrisy" on the issue.

They have called for the service to be scrapped, yet their own leader once famously cycled to work while a car followed behind him with his shoes.

'Dangerous delay'

The Independent reports that the world is "firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change".

Warning that "delay is just as dangerous as myopia", it says the recession must not prevent nations from spending money to clean up their economies.

The Guardian features the same research, saying it "gives greater urgency to the diplomatic manoeuvring ahead of the Copenhagen summit".

But it points out that the conclusions are "not universally accepted".

Wi-Fi Swindon

The Daily Express uses its leader column to attack comedian Ben Elton after he took a swipe at the Queen.

By doing so just before emigrating to Australia, "Elton has revealed himself to be less of an anti-establishment firebrand than a cynical opportunist," it says.

The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, report on grand aspirations in Swindon.

It hopes to become the UK's first "Wi-Fi town" by installing free wireless internet access for all residents.

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