Newspaper headlines: 'Light of our life' and '£40,000 hit to incomes'
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Elle Edwards worked at a beauty studio in Wirral, Merseyside, was killed on Christmas Eve
Several front pages feature pictures of Elle Edwards who was fatally shot in the head inside a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve.
Her parents' words - describing the 26-year-old as the light of their lives, external - makes the Sun's lead headline.
A photo of Ms Edwards is also on the front of the Daily Express, which leads with a story about the BBC claiming £7m has been splashed out on newly designed logos, external.
The broadcaster told the paper the project was "a complete modernisation of all our services, platforms and channels, over a number of years".
Middle-class families will be up to £40,000 worse off over the next 10 years, external, according to the Times. The paper says this is down to the chancellor's decision to freeze tax thresholds rather than let them increase with inflation.
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Energy companies are hoarding almost £2bn of their customers' cash, says the Daily Telegraph, which claims firms are using it as a cheap source of finance while households struggle.
The paper says gas and electricity suppliers are increasing direct debit payments, external - even for customers who are thousands of pounds in credit.
The i says two-thirds of junior doctors are trying to leave the NHS. The figure comes from a survey of 4,000 doctors, commissioned by the British Medical Association union, external, which is preparing to ballot members for strike action in the new year.
More NHS news in the Daily Mail says "middlemen agency leeches" are draining the health service by nearly half a billion pounds a year, external in order to provide locum nurses and doctors. It claims some recruitment firms boasted of record profits due to a sizeable increase in demand during and since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Finally, the Daily Star leads with the brutally cold weather conditions gripping parts of the US. It says in some areas temperatures are so cold that iguanas are freezing and falling out of trees, external.