Newspaper headlines: Kate 'pictured in public' and 'key' Rwanda vote

  • Published
1px transparent line
Image source, Getty Images

The Sun carries a series of what it says are the first photographs of the Princess of Wales out in public since she underwent abdominal surgery in January.

Under the headline "Great to see you again, Kate!" she is pictured at a farm shop in Windsor with her husband Prince William. Inside, the Sun says it decided to publish the images - which it reports were captured by a member of the public - to dispel conspiracy theories about Catherine's health which have spread online in recent days.

The prime minister's plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is the lead in the Times. It reports that the policy could face further delays after Labour promised to oppose it in a crucial vote in the House of Lords tomorrow.

If the government is defeated, the paper says, this may delay the first flights taking off until June at the earliest. The Daily Express reports Rishi Sunak is still committed to his spring deadline for flights to leave, despite the Parliamentary battle over the scheme, and says 200 migrants have already been selected to be the first to be deported.

The Daily Telegraph looks ahead to a speech that the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will make later where she is expected to liken the economic challenge awaiting the next government to that faced by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. The paper says she will vow that a Labour government would work with businesses to create a decade of "national renewal"and promise to "hardwire" economic growth into future budgets.

The i newspaper says energy customers are set for pay outs worth billions of pounds in a scandal which it calls "bigger than PPI". It comes after a small business won a landmark legal case against a French energy company, with a judge ruling the energy broker had hidden additional fees in the business's bills. The paper says experts have suggested the ruling could open the floodgates for hundreds of thousands of other compensation claims from "micro-businesses".

The Times and the Metro both report on research from scientists on a popular diet. Intermittent fasting requires people to eat only during an eight-hour daily window and abstain for the rest of the day. The research claims the approach may be linked to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease. T

The Times says the study tracked 20,000 adults and found they were nearly twice as likely to die of heart attacks or strokes, compared with those who spread meals and snacks across 12 to 16 hours. But the paper says researchers stressed the results must be treated with caution and other experts said follow-up studies would be "valuable".

The front page of the Daily Telegraph features a photo taken by the Princess of Wales of the late Queen Elizabeth II surrounded by her 10 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, which it says has been deemed to be "digitally enhanced at source" by the picture agency Getty Images. It reports that the agency reviewed the image - which was released in April last year - after the princess admitted last week that she had edited a Mother's Day picture of herself and three children.

Sign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.