Paper Review
<link> <caption>Readers of the Daily Telegraph find themselves looking down the barrels of two RAF snipers' guns</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9399518/London-2012-Olympics-Games-could-need-more-troops-Lord-Coe-suggests.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> , in a front page photograph illustrating one aspect of the Olympics security operation.
The papers have their sights trained on private contractor G4S for its failure to hire enough security guards.
The <link> <caption>Daily Mail says hundreds of extra police are to be drafted in</caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173322/London-2012-Olympics-Now-police-forced-plug-gaps-Olympic-security-Fears-public-safety-officers-dragged-beat-deepening-Games-fiasco.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> , as well as the 3,500 troops already called up.
It is a major embarrassment for Home Secretary Theresa May, the paper says.
Security pass
<link> <caption>Daily Mail journalist Ryan Kisiel reports that he was able to sign up for training as a G4S security guard</caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173338/London-2012-Olympics-Mail-reporter-experiences-shambolic-G4S-training-centre.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> "in 90 seconds" - but then found "utter confusion" and "administrative chaos".
The <link> <caption>Times</caption> <url href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/" platform="highweb"/> </link> and the <link> <caption>Daily Telegraph</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" platform="highweb"/> </link> say Games organisers have refused to rule out the need to call up more soldiers.
One Olympics guard has told the Times that a security pass he was sent had someone else's photograph on it.
The <link> <caption>Daily Mirror</caption> <url href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/" platform="highweb"/> </link> calls the situation a fiasco and a "corporate disaster".
Football fallout
<link> <caption>Footballer John Terry's acquittal is the main story for the Guardian</caption> <url href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/13/john-terry-anton-ferdinand-racial-abuse-trial" platform="highweb"/> </link> .
The paper says his trial exposed a culture of swearing and abuse in the Premier League.
The <link> <caption>Sun believes the Football Association will impose a ban on both Terry and Anton Ferdinand</caption> <url href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4428868/John-Terry-not-guilty-of-Anton-Ferdinand-race-slur-but-still-faces-FA-ban.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> , the player he was cleared of racially abusing.
The <link> <caption>Daily Express finds it impossible to imagine the likes of Sir Bobby Charlton or Sir Tom Finney</caption> <url href="http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/332768/Mr-Terry-is-innocent-but-the-beautiful-game-is-not" platform="highweb"/> </link> ever behaving in "such an uncouth manner".
House divide
The <link> <caption>Times</caption> <url href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/" platform="highweb"/> </link> reports that footage of the latest mass killing in Syria shows Russian-made helicopters and tanks bombarding the village of Tremseh.
It says Moscow is under huge diplomatic pressure to abandon the Assad regime and halt the supply of arms.
Finally, the <link> <caption>Sun highlights the north-south property price divide</caption> <url href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4428659/Shabby-15ft-garage-on-market-for-100000.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> in the UK.
A "shabby" 15ft lock-up garage has gone on sale in central London for £100,000 - for the same money you could buy 12 houses in Ferryhill, Durham, it says.
