Newspaper headlines: Corruption crackdown, wills warning, Sewel saga and Bake Off

David Cameron is to announce a crackdown on money laundering through the buying of luxury properties in the UK, and this makes the front page lead for the Guardian.

The paper says Mr Cameron will express concern that some properties, mainly in London, "are being bought by people overseas through anonymous shell companies, some with plundered or laundered cash".

The prime minister will set out his determination to ensure that "the UK must not become a safe haven for corrupt money from around the world", it adds.

The Times says the announcement comes days after one of Britain's leading financial crime investigators told the paper that the UK's housing market has been distorted by money launderers.

"In a vow to stop Britain from becoming a haven for 'dirty money', the prime minister will disclose plans to shine a light on the secretive and sometime criminal companies buying homes in the most exclusive neighbourhoods," the Times says.

It adds: "There are concerns in Whitehall that the City could develop a reputation as a money-laundering centre, which would tarnish the financial services industry."

The Telegraph says buying London mansions via anonymised offshore accounts is seen as an easy way for foreign criminals and corrupt leaders to launder large sums of money in a single transaction.

The Telegraph focuses on a landmark court ruling which looks like it could change the way people's wills are dealt with.

It comes after a woman was awarded £164,000 from her estranged mother's estate, even though the mother stated she did not want her daughter to receive a penny.

The mother left her £500,000 estate to animal charities when she died in 2004 but her 54-year-old daughter was granted a third of that money on the grounds that her mother did not leave "reasonable provision" for her in the will.

The Court of Appeal ruled that the daughter would otherwise face a life of poverty because she was on benefits and could not afford to go on holiday or buy clothes for her children.

The judges said the fact that the mother had little connection with the charities played a part in their decision.

The Telegraph notes that the daughter challenged the will under a right to "reasonable provision" in the 1975 Inheritance Act which is normally used for young children who are left out of wills.

"Legal experts last night said the ruling had implications for how people needed to draw up their wills," state the paper.

"They said it suggested that people would in future have to explain their reasons for why they had left money to certain parties and demonstrate tangible connections to them.

"It will also make it easier for adult children who are disinherited by their parents to challenge their wills and gain a proportion of any estate, according to lawyers."

The Times says the decision was condemned by animal charities which warned that it could deter people from leaving the legacies they heavily depend on.

The charities' solicitor said they would now carefully consider whether to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Lord Sewel saga shows no sign of subsiding, after he was caught on film allegedly taking drugs with prostitutes.

The Times says police raided the former House of Lords deputy speaker's home as he made clear he would fight the allegations against him.

"His refusal to step down as a peer raises the prospect that he could be expelled under rules that he helped to create," says the Times.

In a leading article, the paper says: "Lord Sewell has embarrassed the Lords by breaking his own rules. He should resign before he inflicts further damage.

"Yet the removal of one errant peer from a bloated chamber will not suffice. It's time for the House to be downsized."

The Mirror goes further, suggesting that the Lords should be done away with altogether.

"Lord Sewel should, of course, resign or be expelled by his - literally in this case - peers instead of taking a few months off, but neither outcome would solve the fundamental problem of an unelected House of Lords," it says.

"The solution is to give a P45 to every one of the near-800 cronies, has-beens, never-weres, party donors and assorted placemen and women and replace the medieval relic with a modern, democratic, elected 21st Century chamber."

In an editorial, the Independent brands the state of Britain's second chamber an "embarrassment".

It says: "The complacency with which Lord Sewel appears to have treated the seriousness of his office, and the arrogance of his behaviour, are emblematic of a parliamentary chamber which is itself flabby, self-important and in need of a corrective."

The Daily Telegraph urges Lord Sewel to "do the right thing now".

In an editorial comment, the Telegraph says: "Lord Sewel has already lost his senior position and his good name.

"His departure from the upper House is surely inevitable, but he still has a choice between being forced out by peers under the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act, or leaving now of his own accord.

"He should take the latter path and resign, in the hope of salvaging a scrap of honour from the wreck of his career in public life."

The papers welcome the return of The Great British Bake Off which is back on our screens next week.

The Telegraph focuses on one of the contestant in particular, 32-year-old Lithuanian female bodybuilder Ugne Bubnaityte, who doesn't quite seem to fit the bill.

"To win a coveted place in The Great British Bake Off, a passion for sticky pastries, sugary puds and calorie-laden custard would seem to be a basic requirement," says the Telegraph.

"Not so for one of this year's amateur bakers, the first Bake Off contestant to describe cake as 'a nutritional sin', and extol the virtues of low fat, vegan, gluten-free food."

Among the 12 contenders, the Telegraph tells us, are the Dalai Lama's personal photographer during his visits to Britain, a fireman, musician, accountant, nurse, trainee anaesthetist and a former Coldstream guard turned prison governor.

As the Mail puts it: "Take one bodybuilding mother of two, mix with a burley prison governor and add a gap-year teenager.

"Stir in a nurse, accountant and singer, sprinkle with a little sugar and spice, and you have, producers hope, the perfect recipe for the latest season of The Great British Bake Off."

The Guardian says: "With its mixture of spectacular recipes, soggy-bottomed disasters and relentless double entendres by presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, the primetime cookery show may sound an unlikely TV hit.

"But the show, judged by experts Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, has grown in popularity every year since it began on BBC Two five years ago.

"And it was crowned the biggest entertainment hit of last year, ahead of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing and Simon Cowell's The X Factor on ITV."

Last word to the Sun's telly writer Will Payne who says things are heating up as the return of television's cooking show phenomenon edges ever nearer - and this series promises to be yet another blockbuster.

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