Saturday's National Newspaper Front Pages
THE PAPERS' TOP STORIES
:: The Independent
Lord Ashcroft has blamed David Cameron for the Conservatives' failure in opening up an opinion poll lead over Labour - and claims that Ed Miliband has performed better than voters expected.
:: Daily Mail
Police and social workers were told more than 20 years ago that Lord Janner had abused a vulnerable boy - but all references to the politician were removed from the child's social services file.
:: The Sun
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Alison Saunders, worked at the same legal chambers as Lord Janner when she was starting her career. However, a CPS spokesman told Sky News: "This is ridiculous. The DPP and Greville Janner have never met."
:: The Daily Telegraph
Nigel Farage has dismissed rumours about his health by admitting that he has been receiving hospital treatment - including a prescription for temazepam - for a serious back condition which recurred recently.
:: The Times
Nicola Sturgeon has said the SNP expects to wield "enormous influence" over Labour if the party manages to form a minority government - but assured English voters that Mr Miliband's reliance on SNP votes wouldn't be a "mess".
:: i
Some 1,200 teachers have written an open letter to say their classrooms are heading for crisis - as stress, longer hours and suffocating bureaucracy are "bleeding the profession dry".
:: The Guardian
Navinder Sarao, the British financier who allegedly made £27m by manipulating US stock markets, invested £2m in a company linked to a former appeal judge, a City grandee, a media entrepreneur and two private equity tycoons.
:: Daily Mirror
A British couple with a combined age of 193 are going to become the world's oldest newlyweds next month.
:: Daily Express
An extract taken from rare mushrooms could provide a cure for arthritis.
:: Daily Star
One Direction fans have backed Louis Tomlinson after he was photographed rolling a "suspect cigarette".
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