'Met exposed Hoyle' and 'Iran tempts Trump'

BBC News observes strict reporting restrictions on polling day when elections are held in the UK. We have omitted or cropped some of Thursday's front pages in connection with the Gorton and Denton by-election.

The Daily Mail focuses on Scotland Yard's "extraordinary apology" for inadvertently revealing that the Speaker of the House of Commons told its officers Lord Mandelson was considering leaving the country. Lawyers representing Lord Mandelson say there is "absolutely no truth" to the suggestion he was a flight risk.

The i Paper says the chancellor wants Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to reimburse the public purse if he is found to have misused funds. The paper says Rachel Reeves has made the demand in light of "allegations of profligate spending". Mountbatten-Windsor has previously denied wrongdoing.

The Time says records appear to show that the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women through British airports as late as 2019 - the year he died. It says police are "investigating up to 60 private flights".

The Guardian calls a report into NHS maternity services in England "damning". It says the review found that "hospitals that cause harm and injury to women and babies during child birth often resort to a 'cover up' of their mistakes". The Daily Mirror has spoken to mothers who say staff delayed an emergency C-section due to limited operating theatre capacity, and missed signs of "massive internal bleeding" during a phone assessment.

The Daily Telegraph says the former Conservative health minister, Lord Bethell, has noted that the doubling in the annual amount spent on the NHS over the past 17 years has had "no impact" on the nation's health. The government says it is shifting the focus from sickness to prevention through its ten-year health plan.

The Sun highlights scrutiny of the BBC for failing to edit out an involuntary racial slur shouted by a man with Tourette's syndrome during the Bafta awards. John Davidson, whose story inspired the film I Swear, has questioned why he was seated near a microphone. The BBC has apologised.

The Financial Times focuses on Microsoft's hunt for a fresh London office with the paper saying the tech giant is riding the "Lizzy Line". According to people familiar with the matter, the firm is looking at sites along the Elizabeth Line from Paddington in the west, to Canary Wharf in the east. The paper says finding high quality space in the capital is challenging for big companies which generally want newer buildings with amenities such as "terraces, gyms, juice bars".

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