Newspaper review: Outrage at lifting of prison ban

A photo of women prisoners at a fancy dress party inside Holloway jail led the last government to ban such events.

The lifting of that prohibition by the new justice minister and others, to republish that image and revive their sense of outrage.

The Daily Telegraph sees the decision as a "return of the Monsters' Ball" - the women were dressed as Halloween characters in the original picture.

the Daily Mail tells its readers.

'Institutional failure'

Disquiet is displayed in response to the decision not to prosecute a police officer suspected of assaulting a newspaper seller who later died.

says the Times. The Daily Mirror complains of a "cover-up".

The Guardian sums up the official investigation as a story of

Like the Times, it sees evidence of an "institutional failure".

Not welcome

There is widespread approval for what the Daily Express calls to BNP leader Nick Griffin.

But it said the episode had allowed Mr Griffin "to adopt his favourite pose as a martyr for freedom of expression".

The Daily Mirror The Daily Star imagines her saying:

The Independent has the monarch pronouncing:

Last orders

Promises from ministers to stop the days of 24-hour drinking are hailed by the Daily Mail as

The result was that town and city centres became says the Daily Telegraph.

The Independent recalls the days when the cry of "last orders" would mean

A cartoon in the Financial Times shows a barman calling time and asking his customers: