'Budget will put us off hiring' and 'Cabinet assisted dying split'

Firefighters pumping water from Sion Street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd, after flooding in Wales

"Under siege," declares the Times, which carries a large front page photo of a flooded street in Pontypridd, in south Wales.

Partly-submerged vehicles are trapped along what the paper says is now a "waterway", after Storm Bert swept in.

The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph both feature the same photo of a rain-soaked woman, battling to keep floodwater from a house in Kingsteignton, in Devon.

The Daily Star warns that "Bert was just the start", with forecasters predicting five more storm blasts before Christmas - the next as soon as this coming weekend.

The Daily Express carries a front page appeal by Dame Esther Rantzen, who is terminally ill with advanced lung cancer, for MPs to change what she calls the “cruel, messy, criminal law” on assisted dying.

The paper says "the people have spoken". It points to four recent opinion polls - including one commissioned by the Express - which it says have shown "there is overwhelming support for the right to choose".

The i reports that there's a "cabinet split" over assisted dying, adding that the row over the vote on Friday is deepening. It says 14 Cabinet ministers support the bill, but eight - including Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, and the health secretary, Wes Streeting, oppose it.

The Metro features its own campaign to end what it calls the "epidemic" of violence against women and girls. According to the paper, more than one hundred women a year are killed by men in the UK - while around the world, a woman or girl is killed in their own home every 11 minutes.

The Daily Mail leads with claims of bullying at the GMB union - which has close links to Labour - and allegations that members' subs are "used like confetti" to fight complaints. The paper says the general secretary, Gary Smith and the Labour party were approached for comment, but did not respond. A spokesman for the GMB categorically denied claims of a "bullying culture" at union.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, Lord Hogan-Howe, wants ministers to review the use of non-crime hate incidents by forces. He was responding to findings by the Policy Exchange think tank - that police are spending up to 60,000 hours a year on such cases, rather than fighting crime.

Lord Hogan-Howe tells the Telegraph that the government should study the report, and consider whether police should be investigating the incidents at all.

And the missing football shirt - famously worn by England's World Cup winning skipper, Bobby Moore - has been "tracked down to Wales," according to the Sun. The paper says the red number 6 jersey was last seen at his ex-wife's home in Essex, 30 years ago. Bobby Moore wore the shirt as he lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy, at Wembley, in 1966. The jersey is now said to be worth more than a million pounds.

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