While there are no medals for the weather, there are plenty of plaudits for Manchester following a spectacular end to the Commonwealth Games.

Despite the omnipresent rain, as the The Guardian politely puts it, the 17th Commonwealth Games are being widely seen as one of the most successful sporting events ever staged in Britain.

According to the paper's Richard Williams, Manchester hosted a festival of sport that left pessimists confounded.

The Times agrees. The games, it says, ended in a "blizzard of fireworks", a massive street party and a "heartfelt thanks" to the city, for holding one of the UK's most memorable and moving sporting competitions.

'Stinking remnant'

Such is Manchester's triumph, the Daily Telegraph offers, that it must surely open the way for London to bid for the 2012 Olympics.

But The Independent sounds a note of caution.

It says the games have transformed parts of the city that were once a "stinking remnant" of the industrial revolution, but it wonders if Mancunians will pay too high a price for playing host to such an occasion.

The paper says that once the cameras are put away, and the athletes have gone home, local people might find there is suddenly less money to go around.

'Influx'

A report from a campaign group, Migration Watch - which predicts a big increase in immigration over the next decade - makes the main front page story in the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.

The Mail wonders how already crowded islands can cope with the pressure.

In its editorial, the paper says immigrants have and do make a huge contribution to the life and well-being of Britain.

But it says an apparent lack of controls on the influx of people raises concerns about the government's handling of the immigration issue.

The Telegraph says levels of immigration are now "startlingly high".

Organ donors

The Times reports that a shortage of organs is damaging Britain's transplant programme.

The paper says the system is facing "disaster" because of a sharp decline in donors, while the number of people waiting for transplants increases.

The paper says the organ retention scandal at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool has not helped the situation.

But it says the UK has also failed to learn from Spain, where organ donation rates have doubled in ten years.

This is largely due to a programme set up to identify potential donors in hospitals.

The Times says the Department of Health and the medical profession, in general, now need to convince the public that organs from people who die early will help others to live longer.

'Snub'

The news that Black Rod - Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Willcocks - is not included in a special honours list, marking the Queen Mother's death, prompts much speculation.

The Daily Mail reckons the omission will be regarded by some as a "deliberate snub" after the feud with Downing Street over the lying-in-state, which Sir Michael organised.

"Black mark", is how the Daily Mirror sees Black Rod's exclusion.

It says that almost every other official who took part in the funeral ceremony in April is awarded an honour.

'Taste of freedom'

The Sun devotes its front page to Lord Archer.

The paper reports that the former Conservative party deputy chairman and novelist has been allowed out of prison, for his first visit home since he was jailed for perjury and perverting the course of justice last year.

Wearing jeans and a casual shirt, he is pictured in the grounds of his mansion in Cambridgeshire on Sunday, where the paper says he enjoyed "a taste of freedom" with his family.