The latest US research into the effects of taking hormone replacement therapy occupies Wednesday's papers.

It prompts the stark headline in the Daily Express: "Millions in HRT Danger".

A woman doctor tells the Express that she will continue taking the drug because she believes the benefits outweigh the potential risk.

The Sun describes the findings as a bitter blow to millions of women.

It calls on the government to issue urgent advice on whether they should continue taking the drug.

But the Times's medical expert tries to calm fears saying women should consult their GP before flushing their HRT tablets away in haste.

The Independent says the scale of the American research means the results cannot be ignored but this does not mean women should stop taking the drug.

Fertility clinic mix-up

The story of the IVF mix-up which led to a white couple having black twins has been given widespread coverage.

But the Sun, which first reported the news, is angered that the health authority at the centre of the case has won a court order preventing it from asking questions about the affair.

If this scandal remains cloaked in mystery, it argues, people will never feel assured that procedures have been tightened so it can never happen again.

The Guardian though is more concerned that the future of the twins will not be decided until November.

It believes the case is far more suited to mediation than a fight between lawyers.

Cannabis trials

Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith's visit to Brixton was designed to highlight his opposition to the police's decision to relax its policy on the use of cannabis in the area.

However as the Times reports the event at a local church backfired when he was jeered by community workers who had been handpicked by Tory party officials.

The Independent, which calls the event "bizarre", tells how two of the people Mr Duncan Smith met did not even know who he was.

The Daily Mail contrasts the meeting at the church with the reality on the streets.

Its reporter describes how police officers walked by as drug dealers operated outside a fast food restaurant used by mothers and children.

The Daily Telegraph also highlights the impact of the experiment, quoting a priest at another church who says she has been offered drugs about twice a week.

Obsession with the weather

Our interest, and on occasions obsession, with the weather shows no signs of abating.

The recent rain leads to the Daily Mirror to declare: "What the Hell happened to our summer?"

Inevitably, there is much speculation about when the sun will finally show its face.

The Mail suggests many of us will be hoping for at least a patch of blue sky next Monday, which is St Swithin's Day.

An old rhyme says the weather that day dictates what will follow for the next 40 days.

Hole in one twice

The Times tells how two golfers disproved the theory that lightning never strikes twice.

Dr Martin Pucci hit a hole in one during a club competition in Aberdeenshire and then Trevor Ironside, who was playing next, repeated the feat.

They did not realise what they had done until they saw their balls sitting in the hole.

According to the paper, the feat has been achieved only twice before.