Metro

Theatres, museums, cinemas and art galleries have been promised a £1.57bn boost in “the biggest ever” spending splurge on arts and culture, the Metro reports.

Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly on suicide watch in custody after being charged with facilitating the abuse of underage girls, according to Metro.

Metro reports the government has been accused of burying COVID-19 data by publishing figures of people testing positive in hospitals but not including those testing postive elsewhere until later to make figures appear better than they are.

Metro reports that Leicester’s mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, flouted lockdown rules to visit his girlfriend overnight in previous months. 

Metro writes that Leicester’s coronavirus cases were “continuing to rise”, according to Matt Hancock, with children “particularly impacted” as it becomes the first UK city to go back into a strict lockdown.

Metro leads with warnings that the UK is on the cusp of a second wave of COVID-19 infections.

Metro leads with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s sacking of former shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey.