The Papers: Job cut fears and PM 'rejects whole-life term reform'

Rubble from the partially collapsed wall of a supermarket after Storm Éowyn hit the Scottish town of Denny

A variety of stories lead Saturday's papers.

The Guardian says it could take police years to retrieve the internet search history of the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana. The paper says officers are locked in a lengthy legal process to get the data from Google and Microsoft because the teenager deleted the browsing history on his devices before carrying out the attack. The Guardian says the information could provide vital clues about why he targeted a group of children. Google says it is supporting police with their inquiries, while Microsoft has declined to comment.

The Daily Telegraph says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of "hiding behind the UN" after he refused to extend whole-life prison sentences to teenage murderers like Rudakubana. Downing Street says it is bound by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The former Conservative justice secretary, Sir Robert Buckland, tells the paper that those rules are not binding and have not been incorporated into UK law.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has talked up the economy in an interview with the Times. She tells the paper there could be as many as six interest rate cuts by the middle of next year and that the UK could do with a dose of US President Donald Trump's "optimism". She also says there are good reasons why Britain could avoid the tariffs Trump is threatening to impose. Reeves says the president is "worried about countries that have large and persistent trade surpluses with the US" and that that's not the case for the UK.

The weekend edition of the i says the government is being warned that it will have to open up the NHS to private companies if it wants a trade deal with Trump. The paper says US drugs firms want the UK medicines watchdog to relax its rules on prices. The article says government sources insist access to the NHS would be a red line in trade talks.

A couple of the front pages highlight studies that paint a gloomy picture of the UK economy. The Daily Mail's focuses on one that warns thousands of companies are struggling to survive, while the Financial Times leads on a separate report that suggests the pace at which firms are cutting staff has surged.

Many papers have photos of the destruction left by Storm Éowyn. The Sun has images of huge waves at Porthcawl in south Wales and a car that has been crushed by a falling brick wall in Sunderland. The Daily Express pictures an overturned lorry blocking a road in County Durham and houses in Northumberland covered in building materials blown from a nearby construction site.

The Daily Mirror says a lock of Sir Paul McCartney's hair is being sold for more than £20,000. The paper says it was snipped from the singer's head during the peak of Beatlemania 60 years ago. The fan who cut the lock says she grabbed Sir Paul's hair as he left a studio in London. She says while it "sounds dreadful now" it was a "normal thing to do" back then.

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