Newspaper headlines: EU rejects UK migrant plan, and dissidents have PSNI data

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By BBC News
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Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Simon Byrne speaking to media on Monday outside the force's Belfast headquarters.

No one story dominates the day's headlines on Tuesday as the Times reports that the European Union has rejected Britain's attempts to reach a new deal for the return of migrants who arrive in the UK via unauthorised routes.

The paper says it has seen official notes of a meeting, suggesting that such a pact is not being entertained by Brussels, which is dealing with its own internal rows over migration.

Rishi Sunak had hoped, says the paper, that such an agreement would help him tackle the small boats crisis. A government spokesman tells the Times that the UK is in regular conversation with the EU on a range of matters relating to asylum and migration.

"Dear France... for £480m can you actually stop the boats?" is the question posed by the Daily Express. Alongside a picture of a dinghy, packed with migrants, the paper carries a warning from Conservative MPs that the French must go "faster and further" to stop migrant small boats after being promised that sum from Britain.

The Guardian leads with the admission by Northern Ireland's Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, that dissident Republicans have data from the Police Service of Northern Ireland leak. The paper says this has "deepened anxiety" that paramilitaries will use the information to threaten to attack officers and to deter police recruitment - especially among Catholics.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the children's commissioner for England is now piling pressure on the Covid inquiry to put young people's views "at the heart" of its investigation. The paper says Dame Rachel de Souza has written to the inquiry's chairwoman, Baroness Hallett, urging her to prioritise examining the impact of the pandemic on children.

The paper says the issue is not expected to be looked at until at least 2025. A spokesman for the inquiry tells the Telegraph that its chairwoman is committed to investigating the impacts on young people including health, well-being and social care.

"Another day, another attack," is the headline in the Daily Mirror. It says a five-year-old girl is "lucky to survive" after being attacked by a "Bully-type" dog on the street in Stockton-on-Tees, in County Durham.

The paper says the latest attack left Farrah-Leigh Nichol with horrific facial injuries and there are growing demands for a change in the law to deal with what the Mirror calls a "killer dogs' crisis".

The Daily Mail highlights a warning from a police leader that parents need to "get a grip on 'TikTok yobs', and stop their children joining dangerous crazes. The new chairwoman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, Donna Jones, has spoken out after several incidents, including what the paper describes as "flash mob-looting" on Oxford Street in London when young people were encouraged, on social media, to steal from shops.

TikTok denies any responsibility for what happened on Oxford Street, saying it's seen no evidence to support the claims.