School 'defects' check ordered and 'young adults too ill to work'

The death of Jimmy Carter was announced too late for many of the first editions. But the front page of the Times features a picture of the former president in his armchair reading about the poet Dylan Thomas. The paper calls Carter "the farmer that led the US". "The president for peace dies at 100" is the Daily Telegraph's headline. The paper says his most notable achievement in office was negotiating a Middle East peace deal between Egypt and Israel in the late 1970s. The Daily Mirror goes with the headline "man of honour". In America, the Washington Post called Carter "a tenacious Southerner who improbably rose to the nation's highest office". The New York Times says he was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life as he was for his single presidential term.

The crash of a passenger plane in South Korea features on a number of the front pages. The Guardian says a stench of jet fuel hung over Muan international airport last night. The paper says the disaster happened at a time of unprecedented political turmoil for the country, sparked by a short-lived attempt to introduce martial law earlier this month. It says the crash has raised concerns about the ability of the acting president Choi Sang-mok to respond effectively, while he juggles his new role with his existing jobs as finance minister and deputy prime minister. "Probe as 179 die in jet hell" is the Sun's headline. The Financial Times has a photo of officials searching the Boeing 7-3-7's smashed fuselage, with the headline "fireball horror".

The Times is warning that the number of under-25s who are too ill to work has almost doubled in the past decade. The paper says official figures show that for women, the number who are long term sick rose to around 118,000. But the Times says this has been offset in the workforce by a huge reduction in the number of young mothers looking after families full time. The figure was a quarter of a million 10 years ago. It is now just under 94,000. Experts suggest this could be down to a falling birthrate, as well as policies to get more parents back to work.

"Beware risks of weight loss drugs bought online" is the warning on the front page of the Daily Express. The paper quotes leading health experts, who say criminals selling the treatments are going to great lengths to make online stores look authentic, but may be selling toxic products. Drugs such as semaglutide are prescribed by NHS specialists. But the Express says access is limited and waiting lists are growing - and that hundreds of thousands of people are turning to private pharmacies.

"Councils let staff 'work from beach' in Ibiza and Australia" is the front page splash in the Daily Mail. The paper says councils have approved 2,000 requests to work from abroad since the pandemic - as local services are slashed and taxes soar. The Mail says critics are calling for a crackdown amid plummeting public sector productivity.

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