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Newspaper review: Egypt violence dominates papers

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The violence in Egypt is reported on most front pages - and is the lead for the Guardian and the Independent.

The to wrest back control of the streets, crush the popular uprising and reassert its authority over the country.

It has the headline "The battle for Egypt".

For Robert Fisk in the as Egypt has come.

City 'battlefield'

The as a city at war.

Tahrir Square is a battlefield between supporters of President Mubarak and protesters, the FT continues.

And the apparent decision to use violence against the demonstrators suggests the regime has reached the end of the political concessions it is prepared to make, the paper adds.

The of trying to get order without being seen to take sides.

Prison 'shop'

The main story for the in England and Wales has said unmarried couples should get new rights to share property and money if they split up.

The in dozens of prisons to encourage inmates to claim compensation for not having the right to vote.

The - the so-called Crossbow Cannibal serving three life sentences for murder - is being questioned about the disappearance of seven more women.

Perfect condition

A retired factory worker who took an old vase to a Dorset auction house in a cardboard box is in line for a bonanza of £1m after being told the item was a Ming moonflask.

, the auctioneers found the vase in perfect condition.

Experts were amazed it had survived unscathed for almost 600 years.

The is a 79-year-old man who used to work for Cadbury.

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