Newspaper headlines: Spiralling inflation and refugee host cash plea

"How will millions cope?" asks the front page headline of the Daily Express reflecting on the prediction that inflation in the UK could hit 18% next year.

Financial experts are quoted in the Mirror as saying a "winter of woe is looming" as prices rise.

The projection "heaps more pressure" on the Conservative leadership candidates to address the soaring cost of living, says the Financial Times, and for Conservative Party leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to be more specific about their proposed support measures.

The refugees minister, Lord Harrington, has told the Daily Telegraph he believes monthly payments to families hosting Ukrainian refugees should double. He has asked the Treasury to increase the amount from £350 to £700 because of concerns some households might not be able to carry on helping out because of rising energy bills.

The Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has written in the Daily Mail that he believes the decision of barristers in England and Wales to vote for an all-out strike next month is "needless and indefensible". Members of the Criminal Bar Association have been staging walkouts since June as part of a long-running dispute about pay, funding and jobs.

Mr Raab says ramping up industrial action will cause "untold anguish" to victims of crime. The CBA says the strike is a "last resort" and that delays and backlogs of cases were happening before the pandemic.

The Guardian reports that Liz Truss was responsible for cutting millions of pounds earmarked for tackling water pollution when she was the environment secretary, a role she held between 2014 and 2016.

At the time she defended the move by saying there were ways for the department to make savings. Greenpeace has told the paper that the figures show Ms Truss has "sewage on her hands".

Most of the papers mark the retirement of the England footballer and record goal scorer for the Lionesses, Ellen White.

The Times says the 33-year-old was a "legend of the modern game", while the i newspaper declares it is the end of a "goal-den era".

The Daily Mail says her work rate and her determination never went unnoticed by her coaches and her teammates, and that she was "crucial" to the success of the Lionesses.

She is hanging up her boots at the "zenith of her career" says the Guardian, as her announcement comes weeks after helping England win Euro 2022.

And a new study from Japan that says dogs cry tears of joy when their owners return home features in many of the papers. Researchers selected 22 dogs and tested how many tears they made, discovering they made more in the minutes after being reunited with their owners.

The Daily Telegraph says no other animal is known to be capable of what it terms "happy tears" with the trait likely to be a by-product of the "uniquely close" relationship between humans and dogs.

The Mirror sums up the story with the headline "tear, boy".

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