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Many of Thursday’s front pages lead with Prince William’s return to work for the first time since King Charles’s cancer diagnosis and his wife Catherine’s abdominal surgery.

There are also stories about Tory MPs and critics rounded on PM Rishi Sunak for insensitivity over comments he made in the Commons about transgender people – whilst Brianna Ghey’s mother was in the gallery. The teenager was stabbed to death last year by two fellow teens. 

The number of children referred for emergency mental healthcare in England has soared by more than 50% in three years.
The Guardian reports more than 32,000 emergency and urgent referrals were made to child and mental health services in 2022-23 – equivalent to more than 600 a week.

The number of children referred for emergency mental healthcare in England has soared by more than 50% in three years, it says, citing data by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.