"On the spot humiliation for Blair" is the front page headline in the Daily Telegraph.

It says Tony Blair was forced into his "most humiliating climbdown since becoming prime minister" after senior police officers said his idea of on-the-spot cash fines for loutish behaviour was unworkable.

The Guardian believes "the fatal crash landing" of the initiative was all the more painful for Mr Blair because it had been developed as a cure to the cabinet's bout of "post Women's Institute tension."

The Daily Express views Monday's crime summit in Downing Street as "another piece of vacuous spin".

It says it this kind of "meaningless posturing" which has to led to the "current cynicism" and widespread feeling that the government is "all mouth and no delivery."

The Independent raises the possibility of more controversy over the way government policy is being presented.

It claims the former minister for welfare reform, Frank Field, is threatening to publish a book revealing how close allies of Tony Blair undermined ministers by briefing against them.

According to the paper, Mr Field's book includes details of how two former cabinet ministers, David Clark and Gavin Strang, had been the victims of negative briefing.

Cash point success

There is a widespread view that Mr Blair was not alone in making a humiliating U-turn yesterday.

The Express sees the fact that all the major high street banks have now backed down over plans to charge customers for making cash withdrawals as an example that "people power works."

The Daily Mail claims customers "have scored a stunning victory over bank greed."

The Telegraph's city comment asseses Barclays' handling of the issue and concludes that it should serve to teach the bank that successful companies are those that try to put customers first.

The Financial Times sounds a note of caution. It says customers in rural areas could suffer as the banks scale back their plans for new cash machines.

'Latin giant'

Many of the papers consider the implications of the historic elections in Mexico.

According to The Independent, Vicente Fox - who as the former head of the Coca Cola subsidiary in Mexico turned his countrymen into the biggest per capita consumers of the soft drink in the world - has now pulled off "an even bigger revolution."

In its editorial it says the victory - which broke 71 years of unbroken rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party - will increase the country's prestige abroad.

The Times believes the end of one party rule will "reinvigorate a Latin giant".

A handbag?!

The Mail reports on how the headmaster of a leading independent school has warned his girl pupils that blindly pursuing careers could leave them lonely and unfulfilled.

John Arkell of Gresham's School in Holt in Norfolk told them that they could not all be similar to Nicola Horlick, who has five children while holding a top job in the city.

Under a headline "Thatcher handbags Cherie" the Daily Telegraph reveals how a handbag belonging to Lady Thatcher fetched nearly �400 in an on-line charity auction.

A fashionable zebra print bag donated by Cherie Blair was not so popular though - raising �56 for Breast Cancer Care.