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Exclusive: In The Herald, business editor Ian McConnell talks to Bank of England governor Mark Carney, visiting Scotland for the first time since the independence referendum in 2014.
The Herald, Mail, Record, Sun and Express picture MP Natalie McGarry, who has been charged in connection with alleged fraud.
Vivienne Nicoll in the Evening Times looks at ambitious council plans for Glasgow’s Easterhouse, including a new transport system.
The Sun says the Tartan Army is “gloating” over England manager Sam Allardyce’s departure. The Telegraph, which broke the story, gives over its front page today to its continuing investigation into “football for sale”.
“Corbyn rules out cutting immigration” is the headline in the Guardian. The leadership was under pressure from some backbenchers, says the paper, after the Brexit vote.
The Times and Scotsman lead on the arrival of the first tanker carrying shale gas, with the Times saying Ineos is on a “collision course” with the Scottish Government over fracking after no minister turned up.
The FT pictures a cheery Hillary Clinton after her generally agreed victory in the first televised US presidential debate.
Camley’s Cartoon
Camley drops in on Donald Trump’s post-debate briefing.
FFS: Five in five seconds
At 1415 today, the re-elected Jeremy Corbyn delivers his second leader’s speech to the Labour party’s conference in Liverpool. Will he make peace with his critics or start a new conflict? And will Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale join in the traditional post-speech standing ovation after a difficult week in which she had to fight for a place on the NEC? To mark the occasion, here are five memorable moments from leaders’ speeches past:
“I will fight and fight again to bring back sanity and honesty and dignity so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.”
1960 and a beleaguered Hugh Gaitskell, to boos from the audience, speaks out against unilateralism.
“I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code. And you go through the years sticking to that outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - a LABOUR council - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers.”
1985 and Neil Kinnock takes on Militant. Below, one of the thorns in Kinnock’s side at the time, former Liverpool Council leader Derek Hatton, is back at this year’s conference. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
'It is time we had a clear, up-to-date statement of the objects and objectives of our party.”
1994 and Tony Blair, in the last moments of his speech, announces his intention to rewrite Clause IV, the party’s totemic commitment to nationalisation. The Blairite revolution had begun.
“Wherever I am, whatever I do, I’m with you.”
It’s that man Blair again, bowing out in 2006 with prophetic words.
“That brings me to some of the names I've been called... Wallace out of Wallace and Gromit...I can see the resemblance Forrest Gump...Not so much. And what about Red Ed? Come off it.”
2010, and Ed Miliband attempts a humorous start to his term in office.
Afore Ye Go
"Jeremy, I don't think she got the unity memo."
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson tackles a heckler during a speech in which he said he did not know why the party was trashing the Blair era. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
"It's fun actually. It's all going to come round, don't worry about that.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on the joys of leadership, despite the critics. Five News. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
"Show some respect for the people of this city.”
Tony Kearns, Communication Workers Union assistant general secretary and a Liverpool fan, explains why he asked for copies of The Sun to be banned from the Labour Party conference. Above, a Liverpool fan at the FA Cup Semi Final between Aston Villa and Liverpool in 2015. Mike Hewitt/Getty Images
We've got MSPs doing Tai Chi in @ScotParl to promote being active! pic.twitter.com/ichgcs8AZz
— Age Scotland (@agescotland) September 27, 2016
The LibDems' Willie Rennie shows he's a lovely little mover. Next stop Strictly?
"What comes to mind is, it was like a US version of Would I Lie To You? It's quite a frightening thought that he may become one of the most powerful men in the world shortly.”
Trump critic and Apprentice rival Lord Alan Sugar on the televised presidential debate. A new series of The Apprentice starts soon. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
"Don't really know how this happened ... but it did!”
Actress Kate Hudson tells her instagram followers how she came to be hoisted into the air at a party in LA by Tony Blair, Sly Stallone, and two Cirque du Soleil acrobats. As you do.
“There was this funny little door that you had to kind of speak to someone on a microphone (about) to get from one part of the building to the other. I think actually that was used not for security, but to keep the cats out from one end of the building to another. Totally British. The cats come first.”
Ex-Deputy PM Nick Clegg on how the warring cats of Downing Street, Larry, above, and Palmerston, influence layout. Absolute Radio's Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. Hannah McKay/PA Wire
"Apparently if I don't don the paper pants and climb into the tanning booth pre-show, I'll look very pale compared with all the other dancers - 'It's the lights, darling, they'll wash you out!’”.
Way too much information there from former shadow chancellor turned Strictly contestant Ed Balls. Chris Jackson/Getty Images
“We are lucky in the United Kingdom to be one of the biggest recipients of Turkish goods. I am certainly the proud possessor of a beautiful, very well-functioning Turkish washing machine, like so many other people in my country.”
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, on a visit to Turkey, tries his best to make up for once penning a poem about the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which described him as a “wankerer" from Ankera. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Do a little dance 💃🏼 #debatenight pic.twitter.com/FnJVOKVgbl
— New York Post (@nypost) September 27, 2016
To add to the Time Warp and the Mashed Potato, there's a brand new dance doing the rounds, kids - the Hillary Shimmy.
Katy Perry strips off to encourage people to vote in presidential election https://t.co/A4PMLPR9aA
— ES Entertainment (@StandardEnts) September 27, 2016
Singer Katy Perry's attempt to boost turnout.
Because nothing says "democracy" better than a famous woman stripping naked to get you to watch her video. Sigh. https://t.co/YPESOkxav6
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) September 27, 2016
Broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer is unimpressed.
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