Newspaper headlines: 'Furious' Covid PPE row and Esther Rantzen signs up for Dignitas

Dame Esther Rantzen told the BBC that she believes MPs should be given a free vote on changing the rules on assisted dying

The Daily Telegraph leads with details of the government's first guidance for teachers on transgender issues. It says schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender. It will also advocate a "parent first approach", which will mean headteachers telling parents if that is something a child wants to do. The paper reports that teachers and other pupils will also not have to use the preferred pronouns of children, and staff won't face sanctions if they choose not to. The guidance, it says, has been promised since 2018 and it quotes a Whitehall source as saying that time has been taken to strike the right balance on what is a "complex and sensitive issue".

The front page of the Guardian reports what it describes as a "furious row" between Baroness Mone and the government after she admitted to the BBC that she had lied about her links to a PPE company that "won lucrative" deals during the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper says that Michelle Mone claims the Cabinet Office, government and NHS "all knew" about her involvement from the very beginning before her husband's firm signed a PPE contract.

"NHS Dentists on the Brink" is the headline in the Daily Mail. It has been looking at the report from the Nuffield Trust which says that NHS dental services are at their "most perilous point" ever and that the days of heavily subsidised NHS dentistry are "gone for good".

The Times reports that Housing Secretary Michael Gove, is expected to tell councils that they will lose their planning powers if they "delay or deny" legitimate housebuilding in their areas. The paper says it is one of a number of reforms from the government which will aim to tackle what it describes as "England's chronic shortage of homes". The Telegraph also carries the story. It says Mr Gove will also tell councils that they will not have to "set aside" protected countryside to meet future population growth as previous guidelines had suggested.

A number of the papers carry a photo on their front pages of Dame Esther Rantzen, who told the BBC's The Today Podcast that she believes MPs should be given a free vote on changing the rules on assisted dying. Dame Esther, who is 83, is undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and has also revealed that she has joined the assisted dying centre Dignitas in Zurich.

The Times reports chimpanzees can recognise friends or relatives not seen for a long time

The Sun carries a photograph of a young Alex Batty - the missing 17-year-old who was found in France last week after he disappeared in 2017 with his mum and grandfather. He has, the paper says, been reunited with his grandmother in Oldham. "Happy To Be Home" is the paper's headline.

A new study shows that chimpanzees can recognise friends or relatives they may not have not seen for 20 years, according to the Times. Scientists at two American universities, it reports, have been testing chimps and bonobos by using eye-tracking technology to record where they looked when they were shown an image of a stranger or another animal they had known from the past. It found, the paper reports, their eyes were drawn to and lingered longer on the images of old acquaintances and they were not distressed by the experience, but at times were "seemingly mesmerised".

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