Guardian

The Guardian leads on the reported pay rise offer being made to NHS staff of 1%, saying the chancellor is under pressure to find more cash for them.

The Guardian leads on the rising cost to the Treasury of keeping the economy afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and says the chancellor has signalled Britain’s businesses and middle earners will pay the price later.

Rishi Sunak’s furlough extension leads The Guardian, with the paper warning tax rises could follow.

The Guardian describes how Health Secretary Matt Hancock “seized on new data” to persuade the EU to give the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine another try.

The government is facing calls for tougher border measures following the news that a worrying Brazilian variant of the coronavirus has been found in the UK, The Guardian reports.

The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a declassified assessment of the killing released to Congress by US intelligence agencies, The Guardian reports.Read more on this story here.

The Guardian leads with a warning that the UK could get more extreme winters after scientists said the Gulf Stream was its weakest for more than 1,000 years.

Teachers will have extended powers to decide exam results in England this year and will be not required to use previous results as a guide under new government plans, The Guardian says. 

Ministers are being urged to offer some vaccines in the comfort of people’s homes over fears there are hard to reach or deprived communities missing out because they are unable or unwilling to travel to vaccination centres, writes The Guardian. 

Spring and summer are set to be “incomparably better” following months of tight coronavirus restrictions, Boris Johnson is quoted as saying in The Guardian.