"Britain's shame", screamed the Daily Mirror as it reported how 100,000 more children are now living in poverty.
The Sun stuck with the shame angle, choosing to focus on the total of 3.9m children living on the breadline. The Western Mail pointed out that one in four children in Wales is now living in poverty and highlighted the challenge to Labour to commit the £3bn needed to meet its target of halving child poverty by 2010.
- Teenage louts are getting off lightly, The Sun raged. Under the banner "Yobs' jail let-off", the red-top thundered that "thousands of young thugs" are "getting off" with community punishments instead of being banged up.
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