Newspaper headlines: 'Praying for miracle' and Tory split over mortgages

The hunt for the Titan submarine, which went missing with 5 radical connected committee portion connected a dive to the wreck of the Titanic connected Sunday, continues to predominate the papers. The Daily Mail leads with comments by the US Coastguard, which has said that the "breathable air" connected the vas could beryllium utilized up by 10am connected Thursday UK time.

Relatives of the British nationals connected committee the submarine person gathered successful the Canadian municipality of St John's, from which the ngo acceptable off, and present look an "agonising wait" for news, according to the Daily Mirror. The insubstantial adds that 1 of the men - businessman Shahzada Dawood - is simply a protagonist of the Prince's Trust and that the King has sent prayers for the group's harmless return.

The Daily Mail says the men's families person asked the satellite to "pray for their safety" but adds that rescuers are scouring an country of 7,600 sq miles (19,700 sq km) supra and beneath the ocean's aboveground and that hopes they volition beryllium recovered harmless and good are "dwindling".

The past photograph taken of the submarine earlier it began its dive, successful which a radical of radical tin beryllium seen connected a level surrounding the vas successful the mediate of the ocean, appears connected the beforehand of the Metro. Another representation shows David Concannon, an American diver and advisor to the institution which operates the submarine, who has said helium was expected to articulation the expedition but had to cancel to assistance different client.

The header successful the Daily Star reads: "Video crippled submarine". The insubstantial says the vas is steered by a games controller that tin beryllium bought connected Amazon for £42.

The Sun carries comments from Chris Brown, a British businessman and person of Hamish Harding, 1 of the men connected committee submarine, who has said helium paid for a travel connected the vas on with Mr Harding but aboriginal pulled retired implicit information concerns. Mr Brown says helium asked for his deposit backmost aft a fig of features of the trade - including the "computer game-style" controllers - near him disquieted that the steadfast moving it was "cutting excessively galore corners".

A akin communicative astir concerns antecedently raised implicit the information of the trade leads the Times. The insubstantial reports that David Pogue, a newsman with US broadcaster CBS who dived to the Titanic connected committee Titan past year, has said passengers had to motion a waiver which said the vas had "not been approved oregon certified by immoderate regulatory body" and that the expedition could effect successful death. It adds that Mike Reiss, a writer connected The Simpsons who besides made the travel past year, said helium had mislaid connection connected 3 journeys with Oceangate, the institution that operates Titan.

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The one says the Conservative Party faces a "mortgage clip bomb" amid unit connected the Bank of England's Monetary Police Committee to rise the basal complaint by 0.5 percent points erstwhile it meets connected Thursday. The insubstantial says its investigation has shown that alleged Blue Wall seats presently held by the Tories successful the southbound of England would "take the biggest hit" from immoderate hike and would apt beryllium targeted by Labour and the Liberal Democrats astatine the adjacent election.

Conservative MPs are "increasingly split" implicit whether the authorities should connection much enactment to assistance with the outgo of mortgages, the Guardian reports. The insubstantial says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is nether peculiar unit from MPs successful bluish seats won from Labour astatine the past predetermination and quotes Jake Berry, seat of the Northern Research Group of MPs, informing that the wealth the authorities has spent subsidising vigor bills "will person been wasted if they suffer their home".

The Financial Times says Mr Hunt volition conscionable with officials from the biggest banks connected Friday to "assess the owe marketplace and reappraisal what further assistance they tin supply for radical struggling with their monthly repayments", but has ruled retired giving nonstop fiscal enactment to households. The insubstantial quotes Hunt saying that pumping much wealth into the system would propulsion prices adjacent higher and that helium "won't bash thing that volition prolong the inflationary agony that radical are going through".

And the Daily Telegraph reports that Dame Sally Davies, the erstwhile main aesculapian serviceman for England, has told the Covid enquiry that the pandemic lockdown "damaged a generation". The insubstantial quotes Dame Sally saying she inactive supports the archetypal nationalist lockdown, but that "during that we should person thought, bash we request to [think] further?" She added that pupils successful pre-schools "haven't learnt however to socialise and play properly" and that "we indispensable person plans for them".