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The front pages of Mlada fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny carry photos of popular Czech actors and singers who took part in Sunday's fundraising performance at Prague's National Theatre. Inspired by last year's television show organised after the September terror attacks by United States actors and music stars, Czech celebrities answered phone calls from viewers who pledged to donate money.

Starting with Lidove noviny, the paper reports on one of the possible reasons why water leaked into such a large part of Prague's metro. Apparently, at the Mustek interchange station the floor in a corridor collapsed under the continuous pressure of tons of water and floodwater leaked from one metro line into another through the gaping hole, the paper says.

And we begin with a headline from Lidove noviny that blames Prague conservationists for blocking anti- flood protection proposals in recent years, that could have prevented the recent flooding of Prague's famous Kampa island, adjacent to the Vltava river. According to the paper conservationists blocked earlier proposals on the grounds that anti-flood barriers would have ruined one of Prague's most well-known tourist sites, and would have marred the famous city panorama featuring Kampa and Prague Castle.

Flood-related problems continue to fill the pages of all Czech dailies. And the focus is on two key questions. Who's to blame and who will foot the bill? Although it is clear that a natural disaster of such proportions could not have been averted there's a lot of squabbling at present as to whether enough was done to minimize the damage.

All the Czech newspapers today - as the case has been for the last two weeks - inform readers about the implications of the recent devastating floods, and new facts are emerging every day, some of them quite appalling.

Although more than a week has passed since the worst floods in the country's history, Monday's papers still carry plenty of bad news. Pravo, which occasionally does some investigative reporting, writes that according to available information hundreds of lives were put at risk because the Prague subway closed down 35 hours later than emergency regulations require.

Another flood-damaged edition of Press Review today - all the papers continue to report on the clean-up operation underway in the Czech Republic, as well as news of more floods elsewhere in the world - both Lidove noviny and Mlada fronta Dnes feature identical colour photos of German volunteers basking in the sun on a pile of sandbags, waiting for the wave of water to hit the city of Hamburg. Meanwhile, China is bracing itself for a flood of truly biblical proportions, with up to a million people being evacuated from the swollen Lake Dongting.

The floods in Central Europe remain the dominant topic in every Czech paper.

Most of today's headlines focus on the damage caused by last week's floods. All the papers carry photographs of the Spolana chemical factory which leaked out dangerous chlorine gas last week, although Lidove noviny's picture accidentally shows a coal-burning power station instead of the Spolana plant.

The demise of Gaston the seal came too late for today's papers, although they are full of references to his recapture after five days on the run. Mlada fronta Dnes even features a cartoon showing a policeman standing waist-deep in water, directing traffic with a baton. The "traffic" consists of four fish and a seal, presumably Gaston. A sign behind the policeman reads "No Entry for Sharks".