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The Daily Mirror reports that Matt Hancock is facing calls to be stripped of a £16,000 payout he is set to receive after resigning.

The Daily Mail asks “did affair with aide start a year ago?”. The day before it was reported the relationship only started last month.

Metro says that Matt Hancock has been reported to the police over his breach of social distancing guidance.

The death toll from the Florida building collapse rose to nine, as rescue workers search for more than 150 other people.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious Delta variant.

Nine people, including 4 police officers, have died in separate attacks across Colombia, which has seen a recent surge in violence.

US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported.

Italy became a mask-free, “low-risk” zone for coronavirus, marking a milestone for the first European country to be hit by Covid.

BBC News says health secretary Sajid Javid will update MPs later on when the remaining Covid measures will lift in England.

The Sunday papers report heavily on the resignation of health secretary Matt Hancock following the kissing scandal with aide Gina Coladangelo.

Friends of Prince Harry believe that while back in Britain he’s planning to reconnect with old pals from the life he left behind.

The Daily Express: BREXIT has been an “unalloyed success” which has “exceeded expectations” and set the country up for decades of growth and innovation, business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said.

GERMAN media has savaged Angela Merkel and accused of the Chancellor of double standards on the nation’s coronavirus restrictions as “football fans are not allowed to go to London, but she is”.

COUNCIL officers have warned that changing street names due to their “offensive” connotations could cost residents hundreds, according to reports.

HEALTH OFFICIALS have warned Brits not to “become complacent” as the nation approaches Freedom Day.

The victims appear to members of the Sinaloa and Jalisco gangs fighting for control of the narcotics trade in Zacatecas state

HOSPITALS across the UK have seen their A&E departments “overwhelmed” by children with mild symptoms

These photos show the poignant tribute a 26-year-old man paid to his late granddad – by having the moment he met his great-granddaughter for the first time immortalised in ink. Macca Harper captured the emotional meeting on camera last year – three months before his beloved granddad John Harper died from cancer on his 70th birthday.

Winston Marshall’s millionaire Brexiteer father backs him for quitting Mumford and Sons after he became ‘cancel culture’ victim of ‘viral mob’ when he praised US conservative journalist

The Daily Express says Jeremy Clarkson has blasted “Vile, woke cancel culture” after Mumford & Sons star Winston Marshall quit the band today

The Times says a simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be used as a screening tool for the over-50s.

Loved up selfie that exposed nursery nurse’s double life as a coke dealer in Moss side A nursery worker and…

The Times says no sooner had the arched gateway to Herat receded from view on the highway behind us than the omens of a war gone wrong pressed in from the desert hills through which the patrol sped.

The Times says the pressure on A&E departments is as bad as it is in winter, according to doctors, partly because parents are bringing in young children with mild fevers

The Times says for the musician Winston Marshall, abusive comments came with the territory. As he put it himself, he is a banjo player after all.