Newspaper headlines: Farage gets apology and King Charles gets 'pay rise'

Several papers are starring connected Nigel Farage receiving an apology from Coutts slope for "deeply inappropriate" comments made astir him successful a papers connected his suitability arsenic a customer. The Times reports that Dame Alison Rose, the caput of NatWest Group, said that Mr Farage could person a NatWest account, but stopped abbreviated of offering him his Coutts relationship back.

The Mail reports that determination are calls for the BBC to explicate wherefore it had suggested Mr Farage nary longer met the bank's fiscal threshold. The BBC had quoted "people acquainted with Coutts' move" who said it was a "commercial" determination but a study from the bank's reputational hazard committee said it did not deliberation Mr Farage was "compatible with Coutts fixed his publicly-stated views that were astatine likelihood with our presumption arsenic an inclusive organisation".

The Telegraph besides leads connected Mr Farage, adding that the comments successful the papers did "not bespeak the presumption of the bank". It reports connected a wellness survey that women are much apt to person precocious cholesterin than men, with "nearly 2 thirds suffering from a unsafe level". Experts person warned that millions of radical are unknowingly astatine hazard of experiencing a changeable oregon bosom attack, the insubstantial reports.

The Guardian leads with reports that King Charles is to person a "huge wage rise" contempt the outgo of surviving crisis. It reports plans to boost yearly nationalist backing of the monarchy by 45% from 2025 - from £86m to £125m. The emergence was reported successful a reappraisal of royal backing published by the Treasury, the insubstantial says.

The Daily Mirror focuses connected the Duke of York's 2019 interrogation connected BBC Newsnight astir his links with convicted enactment trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew has ever denied immoderate wrongdoing. The Mirror says it has approached him for comment.

The FT has a communicative connected however UK efforts to boost renewable vigor person suffered a "significant setback" aft 1 of the country's biggest offshore upwind workplace projects was halted. The Swedish vigor elephantine Vattenfall is to unopen down improvement of the Norfolk Boreas site, disconnected the Norfolk coast. Market conditions deteriorated since it signed a declaration to hole the terms of energy it sells for 15 years, the institution said.

The one reports that an estimated 9 cardinal radical successful England volition beryllium connected NHS waiting lists if doctors' strikes continue. Dr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, told the insubstantial that the model of accidental to instrumentality enactment to halt the emergence successful waiting lists was "rapidly closing" - and that trusts were connected the verge of having to gully up large incidental plans.

The Daily Express leads connected a communicative astir however the Treasury is readying to scrap a taxation interruption connected pensions, which it says could pb to tens of thousands of radical being retired of pouch each year. The proposals volition bring an extremity to an exemption that benefits those who inherit untouched pension pots, it reports.

The Metro leads connected Just Stop Oil protesters getting ringed successful by a abstracted counter-protest radical successful London's Elephant & Castle. The rival radical wore akin orangish outfits and formed a quality concatenation astir them successful a bid to halt a protest. A subordinate of Just Stop Oil is quoted arsenic saying: "We cognize disruption isn't comfortable, but it's necessary."

The Sun has a beforehand leafage communicative astir however ITV has "beaten" the BBC to get presenter Josie Gibson to contiguous I'm a Celebrity implicit Strictly Come Dancing. It's besides promoting a three-page "editorial special" to people Prince George's tenth birthday.

Finally, the Daily Star leads with a communicative astir however radical are reportedly being fined for feeding ducks, flying kites and climbing trees. "Are they quackers?" the insubstantial asks. Also featuring connected the beforehand leafage is simply a communicative astir a constabulary hunt for an carnal they judge is simply a lioness successful the outskirts of Berlin.